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John Martin Mecklin was an American journalist and diplomat.

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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
A shameful shill for the coal industry that IMO dives way beneath even the degraded standards of today’s WaPo opinion section. Climate change is a real planetary danger, and this pro-fossil fuel bilge is what we get: Down in a Pennsylvania mine, I saw coal’s future
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
Methinks you aren’t thinking enough about nonpublic communication. I would guess that there’s a lot of “want a promotion? Want to keep that cushy job in Honolulu? Tell me who the rats are” happening on the sidelines. This wasn’t come listen to a speech. This was: the hunger games begin today.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 8d
So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.
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Reposted by: John Mecklin, Mark A. Lemley, Will Jennings , and 4 more

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Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
This is someone to watch. He's a comer. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...
I’m running for the U.S. Senate
YouTube video by James Talarico
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
My daughter is on a Report for America fellowship at the Uvalde Leader-News, covering the school district. The bad faith and governance are astonishing. Want to help? Subscribe to the paper, which has been doing a good job but could always use more support. www.uvaldeleadernews.com/subscribe/
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
I laughed. Maybe you will, too.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16d
RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-warns-mistress-that-condoms-cause-autism/
RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
It is a good read. I'm tired of having a SCOTUS that discriminates, unconstitutionally, against me, just because I don't believe in ancient fairy tales.
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Fump Truck @fump-truck.bsky.social · 16d
Here's a good read.
Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS
Justice Todd Eddins blasted SCOTUS for twisting facts, favoring religion, and betraying the First Amendment
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RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-warns-mistress-that-condoms-cause-autism/
RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism
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fump-truck.bsky.social
Here's a good read.
Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS
Justice Todd Eddins blasted SCOTUS for twisting facts, favoring religion, and betraying the First Amendment
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Everything alive is a computer—because the processes that enable life, at its core, are computational. This was a central point in my presentation and conversation with Benjamin Bratton at @longnow.org, where we challenged conventional notions about biological and artificial systems.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
As I remember, however, it did birth some incredibly boring Sunday morning TV shows. At least, that's where the equal-time trash showed up when I was young.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
This is quite brilliant. You should read every word: Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice
www.nytimes.com
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
Can someone tell me why the @nytimes.com app is so fucked up? It randomly makes me sign in when I’ve been signed in forever—and then the the app freezes and when you delete it and download it again, it demands you take out a new subscription, even though you already subscribe.

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AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here's how to fix that.

Read the new article by Ethan Beaty:
AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here’s how to fix that
During disasters, AI-generated misinformation saturates social media and makes people hesitate to trust authentic alerts. Here are six ways to mitigate this growing threat to emergency communications.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
I have answered your questions. There was no equivococation. I know that you don't want to admit that your assertion is simply wrong. But it is. There's not enough evidence to assert, definitively, whether the pandemic began as zoonosis or a leak from a lab studying coronaviruses.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
A is obviously wrong; it is not conspiratorial to believe a lab orgin is possible. B posits an unproven hypothesis--zoonosis--as more likely without scientific basis. There is not enough evidence to have a "balance of evidence" in favor of either of the two main origin hypotheses.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
What you just wrote is untrue, in many dimensions. Anyone who thinks the origins debate is settled in favor of zoonosis on the basis of current evidence is not attending to the evidence.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
I really enjoyed this discussion with Graham Allison. Perhaps you will, also.
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mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social · Sep 4
Noted international relations thinker Graham Allison wonders what Trump will do the 80-80-9 formula (80 years without a world war, 80 without a nuclear war, and 9 nuclear states). @thebulletin.org @meckdevil.bsky.social
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Interview: Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order
A top analyst of international security policy—who has advised or served in the Defense Department, State Department, and the CIA, as well as teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School for more than 40 ye...
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Noted international relations thinker Graham Allison wonders what Trump will do the 80-80-9 formula (80 years without a world war, 80 without a nuclear war, and 9 nuclear states). @thebulletin.org @meckdevil.bsky.social
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Interview: Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order
A top analyst of international security policy—who has advised or served in the Defense Department, State Department, and the CIA, as well as teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School for more than 40 ye...
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
This my friends is a great cover, designed by the brilliant @thomas.gaulk.in. And a great issue is behind it. Take a look; you'll be happy you did, the editor promises.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 4
The role of the United States in global affairs is changing dramatically.

The September 2025 magazine issue of the Bulletin examines different facets of the NEW, new world order that Donald Trump has wrought in his second presidential term: buff.ly/bNVQEE2
Bulletin magazine cover with the title: "The NEW new world order." The photo-illustration shows Donald Trump walking, about to pump his fist and looking like he's dancing, on a chess board surrounded by knocked-over chess pieces.
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The role of the United States in global affairs is changing dramatically.

The September 2025 magazine issue of the Bulletin examines different facets of the NEW, new world order that Donald Trump has wrought in his second presidential term: buff.ly/bNVQEE2
Bulletin magazine cover with the title: "The NEW new world order." The photo-illustration shows Donald Trump walking, about to pump his fist and looking like he's dancing, on a chess board surrounded by knocked-over chess pieces.
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indivisiblecortcty.bsky.social
resistance through art
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"An interview with Ted Koppel on the meaning of The Day After," by @meckdevil.bsky.social.

Koppel had a 25-year run as the anchor and managing editor of news program Nightline, and hosted a panel on "The Day After" including Henry Kissinger, Carl Sagan, Elie Wiesel, Robert McNamara, and others.
An interview with Ted Koppel on the meaning of The Day After
In 1983, Ted Koppel was fairly early in what became a 25-year run as the anchor and managing editor of Nightline, the storied ABC News public affairs
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"The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev," by @meckdevil.bsky.social.

"Meeting Gorbachev" is a documentary Herzog co-directed with André Singer.
The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev
A short conversation with Werner Herzog—a renowned filmmaker with a penchant for the offbeat—about his aims in making the documentary Meeting Gorbachev.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
A clear-eyed look at how RFK Jr is undermining public health.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 25
If US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to reemerge, writes Jennifer Herricks.
The 'strangling angel' returns? RFK Jr.'s policies could foster a resurgence of now-rare diseases
If Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to…
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by John Mecklin — Reposted by: Peter Jacobs

meckdevil.bsky.social
Three top experts, including David Relman, who's on the Bulletin Science and Security Board, have something important to tell you. And the world. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...
Why we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. And why we need to find out.
Five years after COVID-19 emerged, killing millions, costing trillions, and disrupting global life, we still don’t have a definitive answer as to the origins of the pandemic and the virus. This contin...
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"This is no longer just a question of origins—it is a test of whether we, as a global community, are capable of confronting hard problems together." — @guspalpog.bsky.social, Adolfo García-Sastre, and David A. Relman.
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by John Mecklin

meckdevil.bsky.social
A winning Onion trifecta: Former Japanese Internment Camp Used As Immigrant Detention Center — theonion.com/former-japan...
Former Japanese Internment Camp Used As Immigrant Detention Center
The Trump administration opened a massive tent-style immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss, a location once used to intern Japanese people during WWII, raising fresh concerns about militarized immi...
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martinrayner.bsky.social
Heh.
The Devil (as portrayed by South Park) vowing to sue for defamation.
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