Jon B. Wolfsthal

I am thrilled to announce that I've joined @paxsapiens.bsky.social as the inaugural US Nuclear Policy Fellow. Pax is doing critical work, and the need for practical steps to reduce the risk of nuclear use is more urgent than it has been for many decades. paxsapiens.org/newsroom/wel...

If Trump thought the US election system was could be manipulated, do you think he would be calling it out to fix it or trying to manipulate it to win? He is attacking it because it IS accurate, and he knows and accurate election will work against him and his extreme policies and enablers. Vote.

I have seen blue wave predictions before. But we know polling has been challenging in this nee era and many people who are Trump voters are not always willing to share that with pollsters. So I am going to wait for results before getting any hopes up.

Thanks to @axios.com and @demarest-colin.bsky.social for including my comments on proposal that Trump, Putin and Xi should meet to address new nuclear arms competition. @paxsapiens.bsky.social By poor, I mean Trump is an 0 for on negotiating nuke deals - Iran, Russia, North Korea and China.

1) Wrong 2) Racist 3) Since when did RFK respect or follow science?

About damn time.

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

Live video of Brewers dugout

WOW

Unless and until Trump and AG are made personally and criminally liable for these abuses, they will continue.

The linked article doesn't name the recipients, but the CBS version seems to suggest they included Jan Schakowsky, Mike Quigley and Bran Schneider - all Democrats.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Judge orders DOJ to reinstate former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey

Wrote that Jews who are against dual loyalty charges should also be against them for El-Sayed in @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8583...

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer breaks its no-endorsements policy to endorse Amy Acton for Governor. www.cleveland.com/open/2026/10...

Harper is not the answer. @yankees.com

NKAWTG

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

Sore losers.

Other than the personnel involved and their superiors, this alarming incident remained largely unknown until Scott Sagan got the Air Force to declassify the relevant documents and wrote about them in his outstanding 1993 book, “The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons.”

What Is the United Nations Good For? @joecirin.bsky.social pens a clear and concise assessment of the often maligned international body that is so essential for our human progress...and even survival. Must-Read joecirincione.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

Top of the table

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

“OpenAI and Anthropic still can’t really tell you what an aligned AI model looks like. But anybody can tell you it doesn’t look like this.”

RIP Viper

How are NGO experts with real world, objective knowledge about managing nuclear weapon issues supposed to engage their intellectual counterparts in the defense industrial complex when they cannot get basic funding and are debating for-profit companies with $millions at their disposal?

Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it..." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

A former director of Florida’s problem gambling hotline was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison after prosecutors said he stole nearly $1.5 million from a previous employer to feed his gambling habit.

A victory for ordinary people & a rebuke of the Trump admin & Elon Musk, the billionaire it put in charge OPM had no business giving DOGE data on tens of millions of people @democracydefendersfund.org, EFF & partners stand w/ AFGE & federal workers. Full statement 👇 -TN

Nothing say leadership like blaming your employees. @yankees.com #Hal #definitionofinsanity

www.mlb.com/video/hal-st... Delusional. The team was not world series calibre. The offense did not let the team down. The leadership was wrong in their assessment of offense from Jazz, Volpe, McMahon and Wells. And the team was sloppy. That comes from the top.

Going to be a great world series. Two teams that don't overspend, developed young talent, and who play hard. Whoever wins, the big losers are the big money clubs who want to impose a salary cap to cover for greedy, dumb owners and their sub par baseman men.

I miss seeing the WTC. Having grown up in the city, I miss seeing that type of design and it is restoring to see echos of it again.

Fascinating

Putin is a lot of things but humanitarian is not among them.

Next Wednesday, JADE Director Daniel Baldwin joins the University of Denver's Jackson-Ho China Forum to discuss the role of U.S.-China partnership in bolstering drug control. October 28, 2026, 12 PM https://crimsonconnect.du.edu/KOR/rsvp_boot?id=2280476

I will never get in a Tesla, let alone buy one.

Breaking News: Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire and the former mayor of New York City, gave Democrats $80 million in a late push to help them take the House in the midterms, his team told The New York Times. nyti.ms/3UcVmnw

The first new C-130J-30 has been delivered to the US Navy, the first phase in the replacement of the current E-6B as the secure nuclear communications link between the National Command Authority and the fleet of strategic ballistic missile submarines. www.dvidshub.net/news/577080/...

In Open Nuclear Network's (ONN) latest Special Monitoring Report, Senior Analyst Tianran Xu examines North Korea's evolving missile capabilities. 🔗 Read the full report: https://opennuclear.org/en/open-nuclear-network/publication/pyongyangs-large-hypersonic-missiles

Let’s Go Brewers 👏👏👏👏👏

Not knowing who is in charge of a country with nuclear weapons is one of the reasons nuclear weapons are a problem.

www.maptap.gg October 20 100🎯 80👏 94🏅 95🏅 91👑 Final score: 926 Not even in the same league as @alonpinkas.bsky.social

Maybe Trump is holding up transfers of weapons to Ukraine until they do him a favor and launch an investigation of the Bidens? Too soon?

At least some of the transfers of Patriot interceptor missiles are from countries friendly to Ukraine that require Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to approve the handoff www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Shameful

Fitch sued to overturn the 2020 election, led the state's case in Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health, and declined to defend the state's vaccination requirements. She's running for Governor of Mississippi in 2027.

They bomb women and steal Ukrainian children.