Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 14, 2024

North Korean Long-Range Self-Propelled Artillery Appears In Russia

Trump’s picks so far: Here’s who will be advising the new president

New OSHA Emergency Response Standards Could Shutter 80% of Volunteer Fire Departments

RV Sales To Be Banned Across Six States As California Climate Rules Take Effect

There’s a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be ‘useless’ in adulthood. A retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as experts once thought. Maybe related: Our Innate Immune System May Fuel Cancer Development

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 13, 2024

U.S. says North Korean troops already fighting alongside Russian troops in Kursk region

Remember that these are not inflation adjusted figures which means the comparisons are always going to look a little worse then they would in real terms. But even if you account for that this is still a big deal (or should be if people cared about what was most likely to impact their lives). US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record

House Republicans Keep Majority, Hitting 218 Seats

Yes, inflation made the median voter poorer

Fired FEMA Staffer Says Avoiding Homes in Relief Aid Isn’t Uncommon

Pennsylvania Senate Race Headed to Mandated Recount

Seeking favor with Musk and Trump, advertisers plot return to X

“it’s important to keep in mind that there are a lot of “draft executive orders” floating around right now, most of which are written by people who don’t have influence and most of which won’t be signed by Trump.”

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 12, 2024

Kyiv’s backers take comfort in Trump’s Cabinet picks

Days After Israel Evacuates Soccer Fans, Migrant Gangs Continue Anti-Jewish Rioting in Amsterdam

I had to read this twice just to make sure I was correctly understanding the reason for the recall. This country has truly gone insane. Nearly 80,000 Pounds of Butter Sold at Costco Were Just Recalled I think how the media is reporting this story bothers me more then even the facts of the matter although the facts are bad enough.

Will Hochul Fight Trump’s Plan for ‘Mass Deportations’?

First time I have seen a really positive study of CPR. Most of them are pretty negative but maybe that is because they are mostly about CPR in hospitals where the people are already really bad off. Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates

The big three record labels notched another court victory against a broadband provider last month, but the music publishing firms aren’t happy that an appeals court only awarded per-album damages instead of damages for each song.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 11, 2024. ISW is revising its previous assessment that Russian forces would not likely be able to take advantage of the seizure of Vuhledar for further offensive operations in western Donetsk Oblast. That assessment was incorrect.

Russia’s 50,000-Soldier-Strong Push To Kick Ukraine Out Of Kursk Has Begun

‘Cancer Jews’: Trams set alight, violence erupts in Amsterdam in second wave of violence. Pro-Palestine protestors had clashed with riot police earlier in the day at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square.

Montreal Port Locks Out Dockworkers, Adding To Canada’s Supply-Chain Woes

FBI brass ‘stunned’ and ‘shell-shocked’ over Trump reelection

California Gas Prices Set to Increase After CARB Vote

Quarter of U.S. Gulf Oil Production Remains Offline After Rafael

I Raised $50 Million for the Democrats. This Week, I Voted for Trump.

How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 10, 2024

A prankster sent a letter to schools in the Voronezh region of Russia under the guise of a demand from the ruling ‘United Russia’ party to make and wear tinfoil hats to protect against NATO satellite radiation. 7 schools complied with the demand, 2 of them involved children in creating the tinfoil hats.

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In Vermont, where almost everyone has insurance, many can’t find or afford care. “Vermont is seen as the most progressive state, so how is health care here so screwed up?”

Reverse-Discrimination and DEI Now Part of NY State Constitution as Proposition 1 Passes

43 Monkeys Escape from a South Carolina Medical Research Laboratory

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 9, 2024

U.S. Contractors Will Be Allowed To Fix F-16s, Patriots In Ukraine

The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

FEMA Fires Official Who Told Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Homes

Discord terrorist known as “Rabid” gets 30 years for preying on kids

The Very Large Colony has one major rival supercolony – the Lake Hodges colony – which is separated by several freeways. In 2004 researchers realized that 30 million ants a year were being killed on the borders between the two colonies, ants fighting over the bodies of their dead. Along with this… Some notes on Antwarfare. and

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 8, 2024

Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam

The Australian government has pledged to legislate an age limit of 16 years for social media access, with penalties for online platforms that do not comply. Keep in mind this move, if applied consistently, would eliminate anonymous postings.

FEMA is admitting this happened. FEMA Official Told Workers to ‘Avoid’ Homes With Trump Signs in Florida

Rasmussen Reports Completely Vindicated by 2024 Election Results

Ezra Klein has a reminder which seems written for an audience of dejected Democrats but which is probably something Republicans should think about as well.

How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion

Kamala Harris campaign’s election-eve concerts said to cost up to $20M — as staff, vendors fear they won’t be paid

US charges man in alleged Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump

Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz?

Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training. Research reveals academic training in pre-K and K has long-term damaging effects on children’s social, emotional, intellectual, and academic development.