Andrew Facini
@andrewfacini.com
Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43
Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
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Andrew Facini
@andrewfacini.com
· Jan 24
In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.
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The world is drifting away from the norms that kept nuclear use unthinkable for decades. @andrewfacini.com and @nktpnd.bsky.social sit down to discuss what happens when restraint starts to unravel.
Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The world is drifting away from the norms that kept nuclear use unthinkable for decades. @andrewfacini.com and @nktpnd.bsky.social sit down to discuss what happens when restraint starts to unravel.
Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
Every time I have too much of anything
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Every time I have too much of anything
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New post on the history of Soviet and Russian hydronuclear tests axesandatoms.substack.com/p/the-questi...
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New post on the history of Soviet and Russian hydronuclear tests axesandatoms.substack.com/p/the-questi...
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
Do we think he saw One Battle After Another and was like, yeah, that's what I should look like
NEW: Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tells agents in LA, "It’s our f–king city" in newly released video. blockclubchi.co/4oU0lTF
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Do we think he saw One Battle After Another and was like, yeah, that's what I should look like
Not a savvy timing move for her. I'm still libbing out so much from Tuesday I might just give to Hochul
Stefanik poised to announce bid for New York governor on Friday
Stefanik poised to announce bid for New York governor on Friday
New York Republicans have been shut out of statewide office for decades.
dlvr.it
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Not a savvy timing move for her. I'm still libbing out so much from Tuesday I might just give to Hochul
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By interpersonal politics or professional norms, it’s unbearably difficult, but by effort alone, public health has the easiest job in the world right now: there is literally nothing left to do, and nowhere else to start the work, than telling the truth about why so many of us are sick or starving
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
By interpersonal politics or professional norms, it’s unbearably difficult, but by effort alone, public health has the easiest job in the world right now: there is literally nothing left to do, and nowhere else to start the work, than telling the truth about why so many of us are sick or starving
The font they used for this decal is "English 111" -- designed in the 80s by the foundry Bitstream, which was acquired by @bymonotype.bsky.social in 2014.
Presuming the contractor actually bought it, the standard license does not include "commercial / large-scale print environments"
Presuming the contractor actually bought it, the standard license does not include "commercial / large-scale print environments"
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The font they used for this decal is "English 111" -- designed in the 80s by the foundry Bitstream, which was acquired by @bymonotype.bsky.social in 2014.
Presuming the contractor actually bought it, the standard license does not include "commercial / large-scale print environments"
Presuming the contractor actually bought it, the standard license does not include "commercial / large-scale print environments"
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Stovetouching is back on the menu
ok now we are cooking. tell us how you feel folks let it all out
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Stovetouching is back on the menu
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"i fight for you and i fight for democracy" is essentially what the DPK ran on post-Yoon coup
it's a good message!
it's a good message!
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"i fight for you and i fight for democracy" is essentially what the DPK ran on post-Yoon coup
it's a good message!
it's a good message!
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Today we learned that for his whole life Dick Cheney could see 12 hours into the future.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today we learned that for his whole life Dick Cheney could see 12 hours into the future.
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
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38% of scanners and gap is back to 95k. So it’s not closing with the initial EDay counts coming in. This is probably cooker. Hizzoner will be Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 12:01a
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
38% of scanners and gap is back to 95k. So it’s not closing with the initial EDay counts coming in. This is probably cooker. Hizzoner will be Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 12:01a
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THE UNION FOREVER!!
HURRAH BOYS, HURRAH!!
HURRAH BOYS, HURRAH!!
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
THE UNION FOREVER!!
HURRAH BOYS, HURRAH!!
HURRAH BOYS, HURRAH!!
DEMS BRACING FOR FALLOUT IN BROOKLYN
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
DEMS BRACING FOR FALLOUT IN BROOKLYN
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good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign
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lmfao
so the thing we've done for decades
your baseline assumption should always be that grandpa just says things
so the thing we've done for decades
your baseline assumption should always be that grandpa just says things
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that the tests "are not nuclear explosions," but are "non-critical explosions."
Nuclear Testing Update: Energy Secretary Clarifies Trump’s Comments
www.newsweek.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
lmfao
so the thing we've done for decades
your baseline assumption should always be that grandpa just says things
so the thing we've done for decades
your baseline assumption should always be that grandpa just says things
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This is amazing y’all.
White dwarf pulls He from neighbor star causing dwarf-surrounding explosion…
…causing inward traveling shockwave that compresses dwarf star’s core & results in supernova.
Many a nuclear weapons designer was an astrophysicist b/c that’s a closest analogue to a NUDET.
White dwarf pulls He from neighbor star causing dwarf-surrounding explosion…
…causing inward traveling shockwave that compresses dwarf star’s core & results in supernova.
Many a nuclear weapons designer was an astrophysicist b/c that’s a closest analogue to a NUDET.
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is amazing y’all.
White dwarf pulls He from neighbor star causing dwarf-surrounding explosion…
…causing inward traveling shockwave that compresses dwarf star’s core & results in supernova.
Many a nuclear weapons designer was an astrophysicist b/c that’s a closest analogue to a NUDET.
White dwarf pulls He from neighbor star causing dwarf-surrounding explosion…
…causing inward traveling shockwave that compresses dwarf star’s core & results in supernova.
Many a nuclear weapons designer was an astrophysicist b/c that’s a closest analogue to a NUDET.
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Very funny for her to be like “the Heritage Foundation is done because of their bigotry” but then also know she has to end her post with bigotry so people know it’s not a thing where she’s against bigotry in general
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Very funny for her to be like “the Heritage Foundation is done because of their bigotry” but then also know she has to end her post with bigotry so people know it’s not a thing where she’s against bigotry in general
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Recording now available! Listen in to catch up on last week's conversation with @andrewfacini.com, Lily Boland, and @elianajjohns.bsky.social.
📼 Event video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkyr...
📑 Full report: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/10/23/t...
📼 Event video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkyr...
📑 Full report: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/10/23/t...
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Recording now available! Listen in to catch up on last week's conversation with @andrewfacini.com, Lily Boland, and @elianajjohns.bsky.social.
📼 Event video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkyr...
📑 Full report: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/10/23/t...
📼 Event video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkyr...
📑 Full report: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/10/23/t...
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