Erik English
@erik-english.bsky.social
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This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power
The firm's history of overpromising and underdelivery raises a question: Is this who we should trust with the future of nuclear energy?
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November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
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This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...
How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power
The firm's history of overpromising and underdelivery raises a question: Is this who we should trust with the future of nuclear energy?
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
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🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it
Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky
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November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
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Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
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The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
Assuming that the missile in 'A House of Dynamite' carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago's Loop, what would follow?
@patriciajaworek.bsky.social and Isabelle Williams of @nti.org explain. ⬇️
@patriciajaworek.bsky.social and Isabelle Williams of @nti.org explain. ⬇️
The “House of Dynamite” sequel you didn’t know you needed
Assuming that the missile in "A House of Dynamite" carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago’s Loop, what would ensue in the seconds, minutes, days, and…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.
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Just your regular reminder that misinformed and confusing rants can have real consequences.
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just your regular reminder that misinformed and confusing rants can have real consequences.
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🚨 JUST IN: Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's "Zapad" strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it appears, write @gabrielairosa.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social.
#nuclearweapons
#nuclearweapons
The 'Zapad' exercise and how Lukashenko learned to love the Bomb
Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's Zapad strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 JUST IN: Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's "Zapad" strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it appears, write @gabrielairosa.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social.
#nuclearweapons
#nuclearweapons
Happy #Godzilla day!
If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.
If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.
Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month
The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face daily.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy #Godzilla day!
If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.
If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.
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This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.
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Allison Stanger talks about the similarities the US-tech company alliance has with the old, dark days of British colonialism. @erik-english.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
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Video: How Big Tech is reviving colonialism
Allison Stanger explains how Big Tech CEOs became more powerful than some elected heads of state, and why citizens should be concerned about Big Tech’s ability to influence government policy.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Allison Stanger talks about the similarities the US-tech company alliance has with the old, dark days of British colonialism. @erik-english.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
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this is really bad
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
this is really bad
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Seems like an appropriate time for this
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Seems like an appropriate time for this
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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🚨 JUST IN: To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner, @jackkennedy.ie writes in his first piece for @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky
Washington's neglect of South Korea’s security concerns is a proliferation problem
To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 JUST IN: To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner, @jackkennedy.ie writes in his first piece for @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky
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🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary.
#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky
#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky
President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety
If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—t...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary.
#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky
#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky
This is a great interview with Daniel Immerwahr that's currently free in @thebulletin.org
"If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."
"If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take
How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab may...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is a great interview with Daniel Immerwahr that's currently free in @thebulletin.org
"If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."
"If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."
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Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”
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October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.
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"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️
A House of Dynamite: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger
Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️