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 of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at @notredame.bsky.social.

One under discussed aspect of lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is the effect on mil-intel cooperation with foreign partners.

If I was still in the US government & a foreign partner started lawlessly killing people like this, I'd definitely raise a red flag w/r/t intel sharing, arms sales, etc.

So… did anyone else finish A House of Dynamite and think, “Wait, how close are we to that actually happening?” 😬
Spoiler: closer than you think.
In 101 days, the last treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons expires — and no one’s talking about it.
We’re fixing that.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Military lawyers have warned that President Trump's strikes on two drug boats might not have been legal, possibly raising risks for the service members involved, "but believe they are being ignored or deliberately sidelined."

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The words of a former Navy JAG who used to work CT issues.

OUR TOP TAKEAWAYS from the SASC-PASSED NDAA, a 🧵:
Bottom line: full speed ahead on Golden Dome, SLCM-N and pit production, major funding for the Sentinel and huge plus-ups for missile defense like THAAD (1/5)
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Trump has ordered armed National Guard troops into Washington, D.C. and seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

This is not about public safety — it’s a power grab, using our military and law enforcement as political weapons against our own communities.

80 years ago this week, two cities — Hiroshima and Nagasaki — were engulfed in nuclear fire. Hundreds of thousands were killed or sickened, their families forever scarred.
As a new nuclear arms race looms, their stories are our warning — and our call to act.

Unprecedented and illegal: Russ Vought refuses to release White House budget as required by law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

80 years ago this week, the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon. The Trinity Test created the first nuclear explosion, and with it the first victims of these apocalyptic weapons. Communities downwind of the test suffered from the radiation the test unleashed, and still do today. 🧵

It’s… TIIIIMMMEEE for Congress’s annual ritual of handing the Pentagon more money than it needs, wants, or can keep track of and directing it to do a bunch of things that, by and large, make us all less safe.

A 🧵 on yesterday's #FY26NDAA House Armed Services Committee markup process:

CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.

NEW: @elfaroenglish.bsky.social identified a SECOND man sent to El Salvador and imprisoned who is married to a US citizen.

Jesús Ríos entered the US at a port of entry in 2023 seeking asylum. His wife started the green card process in January.

Like most sent to CECOT, he has no criminal record.

Today’s Trump-Bukele White House meeting was two authoritarians trading lies and gloating over abducting and attempting to permanently disappear people.

Trump’s assault on our basic rights won’t let up until Congress, the courts, and all of us stand up and end it. /🧵

🚨 via @ucsusa.bsky.social March 27th Public Comment Training: Holding Los Alamos National Laboratory Accountable for Expansion Risks secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-3-27-...

Incredible timing. I spent all afternoon in Congress playing out a war game (table top exercise) of what would happen if Trump bombed Mexico with a Reaper drone. I was on Team Cartel (along with a former analyst from a 3-letter agency). I think we beat Team Trump & Team Sheinbaum pretty decisively.

Pro-Trump tech billionaires want Greenland...here's why: