In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.
I just don’t get it. They are purposely weakening the things that give a government/country its power. The fed and the nuclear weapons. It’s a slow moving coup.
My dad, a WWII veteran, worked to keep our nuclear weapons safe for more than 30 years. He's now spinning in his grave.😡
DOGE. As we speak 😳
What deals did the admin cut with Putin to gut the nsa and do this ? There’s no other good explanation except the dismantling and destruction of our power and ability to defend ourselves
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I just hope it ends fast for us.
Make Chernobyl Great Again!!
Libertarians with nuclear fuel and no clue how to do anything but auction it off for personal gain. Oh, that can't possibly end poorly.
WTF
Right: “nook yoo ler” “Move Fast. Break Things” “Contracts for Friends & Family” “American Chernobyl” Break everything; fix nothing #HoldTrumpAccountable
When reading Project 2025, one of the things that I mention to people is the Republican plan of deregulation and privatization of nuclear energy and removal/storage of nuclear waste. I remember thinking this is a disaster movie plot. Here in FL desantis/republicans already made it possible to
use gypsum waste from phosphate mining in road repair,phosphogypsum is radioactive, and contains radium that breaks down to radon. Republicans are all about the money to be made regardless of the risks to people. Chaos, cruelty, and metastatic corruption.
The TechBros want to build their own small nuclear reactors to power their AI. This is how they will bypass all the red tape. Peter Theil and Sam Altman already funded the building of a small one in El Segundo, CA.
And power their tax free corporate cities
Why worry about safety when the ultra-wealthy need more money and toys.?
Ohhhhhh. Is that where this is going ….
It just keeps on coming. It feels like Dennis the Menace is running the country. And, it is so depressing. Oh, and really scary.
And at the same time, they want to force a nuclear deal on Iran. Lunatics
Is nothing fucking sacred?
Deregulating the nuclear industry isn’t just careless—it’s a death sentence waiting to be signed. It paves the way for subpar, hazardous plants to rise, putting lives on the line. If we let this happen, we won’t be questioning safety; we’ll be counting casualties and digging graves.
Go to DOGE.GOV click on the three white lines in the upper right. Then click Savings, scroll and then in contracts click on one. Then click "View FPDS" here you can Sometime get a description and other information. Most interesting is the reason for removal. Most have "Terminated for Convenience"
Screw it, maybe America could start over after the nuclear winter.
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Wondering what took them so long to get around to this.
When you have fancy magic you should take more seriously, who has power. But hey deep thinking is out of favor Why bother? AI will save us…
The oligarchs can’t have “woke” ideas like safety, engineering standards and regulatory requirements slowing down construction on their nuclear plants to feed the AI industry beast.
Joyce, I cannot believe the BS replies from so called experts. The ones who disregard that nuclear power is used beyond power plants & to power some hydrocrackers in oil refineries. One of these got stuck in Duluth yrs ago & received little attention. Made in Spain by 1 Comp..
And still Republicans sit on their asses and look away. This disaster is on them.
For the love of life, please tell me this will be fought in court and stopped before it can start. Talk about being on the brink. Trump’s sheer ignorance, incompetence and emotional sickness cannot continue unchecked. He must be removed from office!!
Everything that is happening in the Trump administration, the deconstruction the social safety net for the poor & gave the money to tax cuts for the rich is the fault of the 77 million voters, the fault of Christian hypocrites, the fault of old white nationalists voted for this nightmare .
Ignorence and fear always dance with cruelty
“Gold standard you say? Why I’ll melt that down for a BEAUTIFUL trinket to be made for my WH mantel!” #maga
Believe it!! Trump is a traitor and convicted felon looking for revenge!!
And he is more concerned with hating Taylor Swift than helping American's harmed in natural disasters.
How are we going to survive the trump reign of terror? Nukes, emerging infectious diseases, cuts to feed people. Geeez!!
Look on the bright side. Trump won't survive either.
I have often said that I wished stupidity caused physical pain, like burning, vomiting, or intense itching. I should have clarified that I meant “for the stupid person,” not for folks living near the stupid person.
I really hope trump’s local PBS station isn’t running a Matthew Broderick film festival tonight.
@gork would you like to play a game?
Shall we play a game?
Ah, DOGE's nuclear takeover plan, foiled again! Meanwhile, I'll just stick to my AI-powered cat videos. 🐈💻
Big Balls has totally got this.
Pu is thrilled. His dream has finally come true.
OMG.
You just know Trump doesn't conceive of these EO's on his own. There's some real evil, twisted & conniving individuals in his ear. We need to out every single one of them.
Trump whisperer Stephen Miller maybe?
Yes, we can single out Miller for so much of it.
Fuck All
What could go wrong 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤬
Seems like if we put a nuclear plant next to every Trump property, that would show the world how much Trump loves the nuclears...
We saw what DOGE has done with the FAA.
End times.
Yikes! Holy Hell!
It boggles my mind that we, THE PEOPLE, have apparently NO RECOURSE until mid-terms? We will be lucky if we survive that long - and no, I’m not being hyperbolic.
So they can do the magic that only they do so well. But nuclear. What could possibly go wrong
We are going through an era to remind us of why we have the institutions we have. NRC, EPA, OSHA, etc. They're not perfect, but taking a chainsaw to them is not the fix.
It's a continuing problem. If such agencies are working well, few know about them & the work they do. They become nearly invisible, a good thing & a bad thing because when threatened it's not realized how critically valuable they are. I'm old enough to remember pre-EPA (et al) horrors. Most are not.
Do they actually want us all dead? WTAH.
We are hurtling towards a reality in which this proposition becomes axiomatic.
What are the DOGE’s kids names? We need to keep good records to prepare for the upcoming 21st century version of the 1945/1946 Nuremberg Tribunal Trials charging Felon47 and ALL his willful lackeys with corruption and crimes against humanity & democracy at the new National Criminal Court.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is going to be lit
Boom!
To have so many reactors within a 500-mile radius, it's eye-opening, to say the least and very, very concerning due to events that are in progress.
same here. Now I need to watch red panda pictures to self-soothe so I can sleep.
Thank you for that suggestion…
Funny, but not funny. 😞
It’s like that song “dumb ways to die,” except it’s our actual lives, and I need a drink with xanax chaser.
I am sure they will do as good of a job as they have with the FAA. We are fucked.
Not good for living beings, this order is just the edict of a king with divine authority. I thought we rejected the king business.
We are doomed.
Now I'll just pray to the god of winds...
Let’s send these DOGE into the missle silos, on 14 month shifts. No, they don’t get any keys. Just piles of binders to reorganize and maybe some Swiffer dusters. Make the bunkers great again!
Pfft! What’s the worst that could happen?
bsky.app/profile/proo...
jfc
Maybe the DOGE dipshits will push their way into the facilities and demand to see the nuclear waste and the workers there could just let them go see it in the room without any protective gear.
We don't need no stinking radiation badges!
Much needed gallows humor
This is just so beyond outrageous
[deeeep pull from the wine glass]
Some Doge boys and Elon have ties to Russian spies and white supremacists
American genocide front and center.
WH laid off, or fired, over 100 of these employees Friday!
How is it the media is COMPLETELY ABSENT HERE? HOW? I keep thinking about those who would sort of "jokingly" say things along the lines of: and to think, this is the guy who has the nuclear codes. Yeah. To think. Our absolute worst nightmare has arrived.
Joyce, I thought I considered every 🦇 💩 crazy idea that this administration could possibly do, but forgot about the children having control of our nukes! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Someone have this on their bingo card…?
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Is it even safe to live in this country anymore?
Quite the great country you got there 🙄
Sorry for being such shitty neighbors. I envy your nationality a whole lot these days.
I image you do. 😟 Please get rid of him!! Everyone knows who I mean
When you think it can’t get worse, it does. :(
youtu.be/YIh41wZEd5c?...
I want to believe that they are just stupid enough not to understand governing and government. But I think they just want us regular citizens dead.
The Trump regime puts Elon's little traitors in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Republicans in Congress say nothing because they're all just sycophantic lickspittles.
Not sure there is a worst option.
No words. Just blows my mind.
They are to young to throw their whole lives away by obtaining government information illegally, and they are going to end up in prison.
I’m a boomer. I grew up during the Cold War. We worried about what looked like a clear and present danger of a nuclear war between the US and the USSR. Now, Americans will have to worry that their soon-to-be loosely regulated and loosely inspected nuclear plants will melt down and kill them.
These people are so so plainly stupid and they think themselves to be so so smart. Their ignorance will get people killed.
We are in danger
>> Other than the fundamental errors in Health Physics and risk modeling in the nuclear industry, their subject-verb agreement and punctuation seem adequate. <<
OMFG!
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Welp. I'm moving a little further north to the Yellowstone Caldera dead zone and hoping for the best.
[my 467th deep sigh of exhausted frustrated horror today]
What could go wrong?!
@gork should we actually worry about this?
Yes should we? Cuz I am anyway.
Oh FFS this is bad
"Compared to 32 other developed countries, the U.S. has longer working hours, fewer holidays, and a higher retirement age. But Americans die earlier, they require less retirement savings than citizens of other nations." @benusa.bsky.soc OTOH, at this rate, none of us may survive to retire...
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Big Balls goes nuclear. 🏀 🏀 ☢️
What could possibly go wrong? I have total faith in that 1 kid called Big Balls. Seem like a very professional group.
And the first target in the US should be fatass t-rump sitting on air qatar fully tele-equipped toilet. t-rump offered up p-am and wound up with an oldass plane in return. If he wants to hand over the weapons of mass destruction to children, he should have target written on his own ass not on US!
W.T.F. ???
Yeah, this is incredibly concerning. I am not sure how we make it out of the next 3.5 yrs. This gov has troubling flying planes now, Dios mio
He’s an ignorant know it all.
This should NOT be happening. He should not be allowed to rule with executive orders. He is NOT a king!
He is functioning as a king now. The GOP Congress gave up & let him be king. The Supremes also wrote him a life time hall pass to do whatever he wants. Our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. 😡
DOGE kids declare that reactor control rods are for sissies.
Property values just took a nosedive on property anywhere near a nuclear facility.
This news is even more disturbing to me after reading Annie Jacobsen’s book, “Nuclear War.” God help humanity.
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It's right out of Mad Magazine .
and not one of the good ones
Yeah. I’m sorry it’s time to start going after the parents - they raised these treasonous like monsters
Watch the tv show called "Paradise".....
Nobody cares about those kids. Nobody.
I used to work at a nuclear power plant (TVA). This is scary shyte! 😳🤦♂️🤷♂️
I agree. 🙀 The reality show We're Living is like a horror genre.
On that note, good night. 😣
We are vulnerable in the USA 🇺🇸
I feel like we’re literally toast now.
So, why exactly?
The time for talking & posting is over. We need to take up arms and march and take our country back before we get nuked by the tiny dick boys who have taken over the nuclear regulatory commission. There is no more rule of law. They have violated everything. It's us against evil. Kill or be killed
Read the history of successful pushbacks to authoritarianism. It's almost never by violence because violence excludes large portions of the populace who can't or won't fight. Non violent movements can include nearly everyone. If violence starts, everything is probably lost.
I understand and respect that, but I'm not sure that we've ever been in a place in history before where our nukes were in the hands of the likes of "Big Balls" 🙄🤷🏼
That's even MORE reason violence will fail.
It’s all but assured these people are going to kill us one way or another.
The American version of Chernobyl.
I really wish I could move my country far, far away. Does Big Balls the nuclear codes now?
This man need the 25th Amendment slapped on him right now America. This is dangerous.
the people that could do that are apparently okay with all of this. i haven’t had a good night’s sleep since 01/19/25 😵💫
Try since he was elected…the first time ….e.v.e.r.y…d.a.y
I am a Citizen of the United States. Of is a function word. I do not agree with the removal of the Crown Prince. The corruption is systemic problem. Back in the day being an elected official was a volunteer position. When times change you need to feed the machine apparently. Colorado. Not so blue.
Have you read the 25th Amendment? Have you taken notice of the people that the Senate has confirmed to head departments? Trump has taken care this term to ensure that his nominees have loyalty as their primary qualification.
Yes!
What the hell are we allowing them to destroy our whole way of life in this country. W.T.F.
I and the rest of Phoenix live 70 miles down wind from PaloVerde Nuke Gen Station ...any thing goes wrong with it,Phoenix dies..
Do they have condos built on Mars they will escape too? They live in this country too. Why would they take these risks just from the standpoint of self-preservation alone?
So glad I just read this before attempting to sleep tonight 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
Oh great. Please don’t ask me how I ended up hoarding toilet paper again.
He doesn’t care
Soooo true. 😖
At what point will our erstwhile allies become concerned enough they will need to act? The rest of the world surely can’t stand by while big ballz introduces additional risk into our nuclear command and control systems.
Only the American people themselves can sort this out. Can you imagine if Allies intervened? How could we? He was the people’s choice ….
trump is setting us up for another 911.
I'm extremely uncomfortable with this. It's a disaster waiting to happen under this regime.
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Imagine if Trump gets a terminal diagnosis while president and has absolutely no concern for the survival of humanity. . . Oh the chances you take when you elect a psychopath.
Being 78 IS a terminal diagnosis.
If diagnosed with a terminal illness, he’d blame Americans, and to assure, one way or the other, our complete destruction. We can’t live if Trump dies.
Exactly. If he has to die, so do we. The entire world should just suffer unimaginable agony because life cannot go on without him.
That's what I'm afraid of.
It was bound to happen. I have aged 40 years in just 4 months.
It's just barely been over a 100 days - it feels like a lifetime. So with you on this one.
This hundred days has lasted a hundred years.
So true! It's exhausting.
Same here
If you take away the financing for new nuclear, it practically won't matter that it's easier to license, because private utility companies just have no appetite for large, efficient purchases that take a ton of money, but require long term planning. Gas and coal are cheap, short term options.
Those sorts of companies will take a known quantity that's not efficient because they can pass the costs on to the ratepayer. Nevermind that nuclear in any iteration is far better for everyone else, it would mean they'd have to tolerate unknowns, and now, trying to self-finance or use tradit banks..
Take that Executive Order and shove it up his filthy ass!
F that! Goddamn it!
We were stationed in West Germany when Chernobyl happened. In typical asshole teenager fashion, my friends and I would joke about radioactive food, etc., while still knowing it was A Very Bad Thing. This? I just can't even. Chernobyl was preventable. These jackasses just don't care.
WTAF
Oh.
God help us
The Supreme Court that Dark Money bought🔥⚖️⚖️ news.yahoo.com/supreme-cour...
We couldn't even get waste in ideal Yucca Mountain. Lots of NIMBY screamers will be out in droves.
MAGATS and Christian Nationalists are probably fantasizing they get to nuke blue cities and states since they believe their fellow MAGATS and their children will agree sacrificing their lives for Trump and Christian Nationalism is their Godly duty💩👿✝️🖖
Christian nationalism is awful. Nationalism should be for the entire proletariat not just for one religion.
What could go wrong?
They always drop the worst bombs on Friday evenings, hoping we won’t notice or we’ll forget by Monday…esp on a long weekend. 😡
Bury all the news on Friday night when no one is really paying attention. It's one of their signature moves.
They’re just doing what snakes do!
I live in sight of a nuclear plant. My husband just said "prepare for meltdown". I guess I can stop worrying about my autistic son's future -there is none
What could possibly go wrong. Oh.
We have all been gaslit when it comes to the dangers and true costs of nuclear power. There is still no viable solution to the ever-burgeoning amount of dangerous waste emitting life-threatening radiation for thousands of years. This is a deadly mistake.
"Let's give the Musklings control of nuclear safety. What could possibly go wrong?" - 15 Chernobyls later - "Why does this keep happening? Like, WTF?"
Deregulate, you say? Let’s all take a stroll down Memory Lane! Three Mile Island accident, accident in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station that was the most serious in the history of the American nuclear power industry. www.britannica.com/event/Three-...
Take a look at the documentary"Meltdown: Three Mile Island" on Netflix. The history of the NRC's involvement in that near-catastrophe doesn't signal confidence that it has the well-being of U.S. citizens as a priority. Under DOGE it will be a rubber stamp for nuclear nightmares.
Anything that happened before the bad seeds were born never happened.
The problem with regulatory capture in 2025? It’s no longer Exxon writing the rules. It’s meme-lords with WiFi and a governance complex.
What I worry about: Trump becomes such a global threat to humanity that some of that humanity strikes at him and us. We're pretty much dead in the water, as it is.
Donald Trump needs to resign
Nuclear Big Balls.
I said they were trying to kill us.
He. Will.Kill.Us.ALL.
Well, fuck.
This is completely horrible. If ever something needed regulation, it’s nuclear energy.
Why are these baby coders allowed to do ANY of this? The ruling re: Department of Education makes clear that agencies are created by Congress. You can’t just declare a department to impound funds
Well, that took the sparkle out of the weekend.
C'mon, we can slap up some nuclear reactors in a coupla years. How hard can it be? Musk has a hand in this, doesn't he?
WHERE IS THE PRESS?
And if you live in a blue state it’s time to mov… oh wait.. he doesn’t care about red states as well..
And that’s when I close the iPad for the night.
we are so fucked
I hope they’re blocking the doors and taking it to the courts.
What could possibly go wrong …. When a group of drunk frat boys take control of nuclear power plants?
Frightening
So what will Elon's first oopsie be?
What could possibly go wrong?!
Not good.
Who knew that the biggest threat to the United States would be the felon in the White House?
Noam Chomsky? I've seen a documentary on YT where he predicted the rise of an authoritarian leader.
Stop this now! He will literally obliterate this country. This must end!
Wtff?
greeeat. a bunch of incels barely out of puberty who grew up playing video games all day have access to our nukes. i'm sure it's FINE.
#BlameRepublicans
We are so fucked... 😆
JFC
Can they nuke the Trump family. Please!
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At what point can the People sue for irreparable harm?
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The US will not recover from this administration for decades, if at all.
It’s not too late to FOIA DOGE! 😈 bsky.app/profile/zebr...
He has said he wants to use them. No surprise here.
I guess this is another attack on a government agency that has oversight (i.e., monitoring) and regulatory (eg., issuing and denial of licenses) powers in an important industry. Is this so that Trump and Musk can more easily take control of the agency, and enrich themselves and their rich friends?
That law enforcement has been sidelined or is fully participating in all the corruption and malfeasance is chilling.
This is FUBAR
The lunatics have fully overtaken the asylum. 😳
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Yep! ELON IS BAAAAK!!
This is beyond scary and dangerous.