And to think, it only cost 10,125 Iowans their lives. #CovidKim

Pradyumna Nathan Old 💀 Elon Musk Building political power (grassroots organizing) in support of arms control/disarmament. Expert-centric approaches alone can’t get the job done. Until members of Congress feel heat to engage, policy will be driven by unelected insiders who think nuclear war can be fought and won.

Women usually are.

The Warren Court.

If Elon Musk is serious about reducing the risk of nuclear war he should spend $5bn in the space in the next 10 years.

There is lots of work to be done.

“Putin plays the egos of big men, gives them a sense that they can play a role. But in reality, they're just direct transmitters of messages from Vladimir Putin.” apple.news/A10zguy8gR9SjI…

Unskilled labor is a capitalist myth

🎙️On Early Warning, Lauren Billet sits down with Allen Hester from FCNL (Quakers). He discusses the Biden Administration’s newly released National Security Strategy and its implications for the long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review.

Listen: ploughshares.org/pressthebutton

Today, my 3rd grader has an active shooter drill. He'll be taught to 'avoid, deny, and defend' — to survive at school as best he can.

He's 8 years old.

Nowhere else in the developed world is this necessary. Our kids are made to fight for their lives because Congress refuses to.

“The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States.”

Using 'woke' and 'social justice warrior' as perjoratives is still the wildest shit to me. Utterly mind-bending that so many have latched onto the idea that 'being aware and sympathetic to the plight of others' is this horrible thing causing the collapse of society or whatever

Imagine thinking we're the naive ones, for believing that living with nuclear weapons is untenable. They put us all at such a high risk, are holding us hostage in a war right now, and we must get rid of them. Believing the world can continue to exist with these weapons is naive.

Regime change is traditionally understood to come through foreign intervention. When the people of a country stand up against their rulers to demand change and replace one system with another, that’s called a revolution.

The difference is simple, it’s called self-determination.

“Through nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining, the US government exposed, and in many cases killed tens of thousands of their own people...It’s now 2022, eighty years later, and these communities are still fighting for justice.” Says Lilly Adams dailyyonder.com/radiation-vict…

No one wants new states/non-state actors to build nuclear weapons, so certain info should stay classified.

But not *all* nuclear data should be secret.

States are unnecessarily keeping critical info from their publics, allies & adversaries. And it's making us all less safe. 🧵

New compelling argument for Global Zero just dropped.