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Frank O'Donnell
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Senior Research Adviser, @apln.network
Nonresident Fellow, South Asia Program @stimsoncenter.bsky.social
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“But zoom out and it is repeating the biggest and most catastrophic failure of the Starmer government, which is that its year in office has been an utter disaster for race relations in this country. No other government since 1970 would have suggested that such a direct linkage between “immigration policy” and “the safety of ethnic minorities in the UK” was something we should accept. The two are entirely orthogonal: the Labour government should pursue the border policies it thinks best, not suggest that somehow the failure of those policies creates conditions in which racism is acceptable or in any way explicable.” “But to suggest that this is the case now reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop. That is a far bigger contributor to emboldened racism in the UK than anything the previous Conservative government might have done, or failed to do, on immigration policy.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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After far too long, was great watching @celticsnba.bsky.social take on the LA Aspirations, sorry @laclippers.bsky.social today - although it got way too close at the end!
Court view of Celtics playing the Clippers at TD Garden
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The top of Pakistan’s nuclear operational command structure is also reformed, strengthening Army control and functionally eliminating Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee oversight (as part of abolishing CJCSC position) -
nautilus.org/napsnet/naps...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
“Another change pertains to the appointment of commander of the National Strategic Command says, “The prime minister may, on the recommendation of the chief of the army staff concurrently the chief of the defence forces, appoint the commander of the National Strategic Command, from amongst generals in the Pakistan Army, for a tenure of three years.” The proposed amendment also authorises the prime minister to “reappoint the commander…for additional tenure of three years and/or extend the tenure(s)…up to three years” on the recommendations of the CDF. Under the changes, the appointment, reappointment or extension of the commander of the National Strategic Command, or the “exercise of discretion by the appointing authority in this regard, shall not be called into question before any court on any ground whatsoever”.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Great Doonesbury today -
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Superb @jamellebouie.net today. Gift link -
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“The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands. They also serve to remind us of what ought to be a fundamental maxim of democracy: that there is no singular “people” and there are no permanent majorities.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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One strategic partnership to rule them all - (from www.mfa.gov.sg/Newsroom/Pre...)
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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It is fundamentally unAmerican to think of wars in any other terms than tactics - political and strategic ends to guide operations and tactics are for eggheads. And unlike the defeatists who wrote this article, I for one believe in our US Army 🇺🇸 💪 😤
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“Wang Houbin, who was head of the PLA Rocket Force, which is partly responsible for overseeing China’s nuclear arsenal was also among the removed officers. He had been promoted to lead the force in 2023 after his predecessor and his deputy were themselves purged in an earlier phase of the anti-corruption campaign.”
October 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Productive week of @apln.network nuclear dialogues in China. I’ll especially miss this view.
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Friday!
October 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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This isn’t even original quackery from Thiel. Games Workshop should sue him for plagiarizing 40k lore around rise of the God-Emperor.
www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Beautiful harvest moon tonight in Port Aransas, TX:
October 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Friday!
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Brutal Doonesbury today -
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Friday!
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Friday!
September 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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September 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“But Moscow cut the price of its oil to win back its Indian customers. A now $7 difference between a barrel of Urals and an equivalent grade from Oman is too good for India’s refineries to refuse. New Delhi also gave the green light for the purchases to continue, so flows are returning to normal. The unintended effect of the U.S. crackdown has therefore been to make Russia’s already discounted oil even cheaper for India. As of Friday, a barrel of Urals costs India $1 less than it did before the White House first threatened the higher tariff.”
September 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Today’s Calvin & Hobbes is evergreen -
August 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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@nin.com slayed last night -
August 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Today’s Doonesbury, from 2003:
August 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Friday!
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Successful visit to the vet.
August 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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“With the US government’s help, Anthropic built a tool designed to prevent its AI models from being used to make nuclear weapons. The company announced Thursday that it had worked with the National Nuclear Security Administration over the past year to build a “classifier” that can block “concerning” conversations — like those about building nuclear reactors — on its systems.”
August 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM