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Nick Kodama
@nickkodama.bsky.social
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Fellow at MTA | PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
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President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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four images of my cat lying on a shelf with a blank stare. each one zooms in more
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Yeah, don't do that.
At the ancient Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple in the city of Narita, the Japanese authorities said Dr. Kanayama had left oil on pillars that were part of the main gate used to enter the sanctuary. The gate was built in a traditional Japanese architectural style and is itself an object of worship, a temple official said in a declaration filed with the court. The oil had left blackish stains, the official wrote. At the Katori Jingu Shrine in nearby Katori, oily liquid was left on wooden poles on both sides of the front stairs, on the stairs themselves and on the box where worshipers can make donations, a shrine official said in another declaration. The oil left stains, although over time they became almost invisible unless observed up close, the official said.
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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hey
Blurry close up photo of my cats face
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Great movie
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The worst people
Remember when the Fake News melted down over @SecRubio closing USAID and claimed people would die... Turns out assistance is going out more efficiently than ever before! 'State Department touts assistance during Hurricane Melissa without USAID'
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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friendly dog: LGM-118 Peacekeeper Scary wolf thing: SS-18 Satan
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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[Duverger has entered the chat]
- Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it. - at this point it feels more achievable to build something new rather than try to fundamentally change the democratic party
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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cat
C at sleeping on a cat tree bed
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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sup
Cat with her eyes and mouth half open
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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hm
Politics & Policy Nov 4, 2025 Deal to end government shutdown takes shape in Senate Go deeper (1 min. read) Politics & Policy Nov 7, 2025 Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown Go deeper (1 min. read) Politics & Policy Nov 3, 2025 House Dems and GOP float compromise plan to end shutdown Go deeper (1 min. read)
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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MUST WATCH: @SecretaryWright UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE in Athens, Greece! 🇺🇸🇬🇷 President Trump’s priorities of affordable, reliable, and secure energy should be embraced across the globe to secure peace and prosperity for all nations.
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Oh
Raw unfiltered parody account
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Counter For ce
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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L E T H A L I T Y
C for ISR
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Referring to a Taiwan scenario as a "survival-threatening situation" and not just something affecting/influencing Japan's security notably would allow for the use of force under the security legislation (the red box in the chart)

english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...
www.mofa.go.jp/files/000143...
TOKYO - Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that a Taiwan emergency involving the use of military force could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan under the country's security legislation. Her remarks suggested Japan could exercise the right of collective self-defense if such a situation is recognized as "survival-threatening," even under the nation's war-renouncing Constitution, in a move that would provoke China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. She apparently acknowledged her government could, depending on the circumstances, authorize the Self-Defense Forces to take action if China were to impose a maritime blockade on Taiwan or engage in other coercive measures, even if Japan is not directly attacked. Response to an armed attack against Japan (Existing) Response to an armed attack against a foreign country resulting in threatening Japan’s survival (New) →“Use of Force” permitted under the “Three New Conditions”
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I have an idea.
MIRV but its a meatball sub
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Cat sleeping with her face tucked into the side of her cat bed
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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ughhhhhh
Trump knows that deterrence requires more than a good defense. Last year, in Foreign Affairs, I noted that in a second Trump term, the United States could restart nuclear testing for the first time since 1992 to address Russia’s and China’s growing and modernizing nuclear arsenals. This September, China showcased its nuclear forces, including a new intercontinental ballistic missile, during a military parade that Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched from VIP seats. In late October, Putin said that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear torpedo, which is designed to survive a possible U.S. attack and could possibly wipe out U.S. port cities. It should come as no surprise that Trump is not letting this nuclear saber rattling by Russia and China go unanswered. In a post on Truth Social in late October, he wrote that the United States would immediately resume nuclear testing on an “equal basis” with the programs of its adversaries. A tested and proven U.S. nuclear force will cause American adversaries to think twice about threatening or using the ultimate weapon.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The Atlantic @TheAtlantic 02 Aug 22 "North Korea watchers expect the country to conduct its seventh nuclear test any day now," @UriLF writes. "If those predictions bear out, North Korea's next nuclear test would herald what some scholars have dubbed a 'third nuclear age."
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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well that didn't take long

asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...
On Tuesday, South Korea's Dong-A Ilbo newspaper reported signs of disagreement behind the scenes over whether the nuclear-powered submarines would be produced in the U.S. or in the better-equipped shipyards in South Korea. Lee's office said Tuesday afternoon that officials are working on what they called a "joint fact sheet" that would codify the specifics of the agreement. The situation leaves Lee facing the task of partnering with private firms to implement massive investment in a historically troubled U.S. sector. "The shipbuilding industry is still profitable in Korea, so I do not see how private, or even public, investors are going to redirect their investments to America when basically there is no shipbuilding industry left there," Christophe Gaudin, professor of political science at Kookmin University, told Nikkei Asia.
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"I could smell the onions and mustard"
wwi soldiers in the trenches with gas masks
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM