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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 11, 2025
It is a mistake.

Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout. The Institute for the Study of War disavowed the edit, removed the employee.

Combat Rescue Aircraft, Tankers Arrive In Caribbean As U.S. Military Buildup Accelerates

Median household income in 2024 was $83,730. That means for an average four-person household, the federal government spent $81,896.76, nearly the same amount that family would have earned in pre-tax income.

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public.

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US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,”

China’s Oil Pumping Power Breaks All Records. Even at today’s record production levels, imports still cover roughly 70–75% of China’s crude demand — a structural reliance shaped by refinery design and rising consumption.

EA-18G Growlers Deploying To Puerto Rico An Indicator Of What’s To Come

One Year Since Robert Brooks’s Killing, Prison Chaos Has No End in Sight

There is a certain irony about complaining about about big business buying up farm land to build solar farms that apparently is lost on the people doing the complaining. Young farmer’s crusade to protect vanishing farmland pits her against solar developers in New York

US Natural Gas Output and Demand to Smash Records in 2025

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 5, 2025

Turkey Warns Black Sea Tanker Attacks Are ‘Very Scary’ as War Risks Spread

Pretty crazy to see people try to be movie villains in real life (including have secret hide outs although it sounds like there is some dispute about who really controls them) Assad’s exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia

What the next Mossad chief tells us about Israel’s new elite

China Massing Military Ships Across Region in Show of Maritime Force

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has raised the welfare payments for 2nd, 3rd and 4th wives. This obviously only applies to Muslim families in Britain. It is illegal for native Brits to have more than 1 wife, but bigamy is allowed within the Muslim community provided they married all of their wives in an Islamic country.

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the university.

To let Americans buy smaller cars, Trump had to weaken fuel-efficiency standards. Does that sound crazy? Small cars, of course, have much higher fuel efficiency. Yet this is exactly how the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards work.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 2, 2025

Putin Warns Russia May Hit Ukraine Allies’ Ships If Attacks Last

Headlines I never expected to see: U.S. Deploys Shahed-136 Clones To Middle East As A Warning To Iran. The U.S. possessing long-range one-way attack drones at all is a major development, but deploying them “to flip the script on Iran” is even a bigger deal.

India tells smartphone makers to put state-run cyber safety app on new devices

Since 2013, more than $20 million has been paid in attorney fees alone as a result of environmental law litigation between outside groups, often environmental nonprofits, and the federal government. The highest costs came during the Biden administration. It highlights a troubling arrangement between federal agencies and litigating nonprofits, which are sometimes also federal grantees. Outside groups suing federal agencies not only cost taxpayers millions of dollars, but result in settlements that allow bureaucrats to create new regulations that bypass Congress and public debate. The scheme, known as “sue and settle,” allows nonprofits and bureaucrats to make policy agreements that amount to an end-run around Congress.

Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes