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Ryan Dahn @ryandahn.com · 7d

Great opportunity—one I wish had been available when I was on the job market!

Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 7d

After a long hiatus, AIP's postdoc position for historians of the physical sciences is back!

3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci

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A green space with bushes and trees and a helix sculpture next to a beige building.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7d

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · 7d

A good move in the AI world, harking back to the days when cutting edge scientific work was supported in industry
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Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · 12d

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hegseth Summoning Military Leaders to Virginia Without Saying Why

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Sep 8

Worth pondering. We are in an authoritarian phase, with Democrats lising power day by day. Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 23

50th Anniversary of Born to Run album. Just amazing. Here's a Springsteen tour of the Jersey Shore. Just in time for our visit. Gift article.
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50 Years After ‘Born to Run,’ We Took a Trip to Springsteen Country

Few albums capture a time and place the way Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ evokes 1970s New Jersey. A pair of superfans hit the road to see how much of that world remains.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 20

A must read on science, technology, and international affairs, with linkages to Trump's personal fortune.🧪 Brilliant article by Guy Laron.
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Trump’s Road to Riyadh: The Geopolitics of AI and Energy Infrastructure - American Affairs Journal

In the end, Trump listened to Altman not out of loyalty but utility. Altman didn’t need to donate, because he designed the game. He didn’t work for the state; he just rerouted it. And in doing so, he ...

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is now a police state methodically planned and carried out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Imagine: Jackie Kennedy invited Pablo Casals to the WH for a performance in Nov. 1961. Now, MMA.

Jackie Kennedy welcomes Pablo Casals. Guests clap.

Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 12

A commentary on the destruction this regime has brought to science. (Gift article)

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Opinion | How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Aug 11

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 6

As we remember August 6, 1945. 🙏 (Gift article)

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Opinion | Eighty Years of Nuclear Weapons Is Enough

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Tiffany Nichols, JD, PhD @tiffanynichols.bsky.social · Aug 5

Check out Kathy's post raising issues around science in the USA and current policy climate. She reached out for comment on my thoughts on the LIGO array, which is spread across two sites that work together as a single broadband gravitational wave detector. #physics #sciencepolicy

Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks to Donald Salisbury for the invitation to write a piece on the crisis in American science for the APS FHPP Newsletter. This time I interviewed four colleagues on their areas of expertise. My heartfelt thanks to all.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks to Donald Salisbury for the invitation to write a piece on the crisis in American science for the APS FHPP Newsletter. This time I interviewed four colleagues on their areas of expertise. My heartfelt thanks to all.

higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/APS/fc77d112...

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks for trying, but we are in a position now where the courts have backed him on many key issues. We're just in a sad state all around. And while I have your attention, I hope you run for president in 2028. 🙏👏

Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 31

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July 30, 2025

On July 2, 2024, just about a year ago, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts told the listeners of Steve Bannon’s War Room webcast: “[W]e are going to win.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 29

They should begin to read the bible, especially the New Testament, to see how far they've deviated from it. Start with the Sermon on the Mount, which begins with the Beatitudes.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Judge who did his job also subject to DOJ accusations. We now have a fully weaponized legal system that will target those who defend the law or the most basic constitutional principles.
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · Jul 29

Breaking story here from @ryanknappy.bsky.social

DOJ files misconduct complaint against chief DC Judge James Boasberg

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 28

This memorandum, just issued today, clearly violates the separation of church and state. It includes the “right” of a federal employee to argue to another employee that their religious belief is the “correct” one.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 28

The CIA Book Club then and the banning of Orwell’s 1984 now in red states. (Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Opinion | ‘1984’ Hasn’t Changed, but America Has

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 24

Remember who else was trauned under Roy Cohn: Joseph McCarthy.

Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 24

Everything he does is a protection racket. Trade, for instance. It’s the only form of engagement he knows. Consider his training under Roy Cohn, as well as the former Mafia culture of NYC.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is a tragedy. The end of the Keeling Curve. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 19

The regime is itching to impose the Insurrection Act. Jonathan Winer identifies the triggers tRump is looking for and explains how many recent developments are pieces of the puzzle enabling that act.

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Searching for the Trigger | Washington Spectator

Trump has begun planning to invoke the Insurrection Act. Here’s how he could turn America’s military into a new domestic nationwide policing force. On June 7, 2025, President Donald J.

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jul 15

The variety of tools the US uses to control things around the world. Co-authored by Georgetown colleague Abe Newman
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The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

www.wired.com

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