Monthly Archives: February 2025

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 26, 2025

The U.S. and Ukraine have finalized a natural resources deal. Here are its key terms.

Iran’s stock of near-bomb-grade uranium grows sharply, IAEA reports show

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has proposed charging up to $1.5 million for Chinese-built vessels entering U.S. ports as part of its investigation into China’s growing domination of the global shipbuilding, maritime and logistics sectors.

US East and Gulf Coast Dockworkers Ratify New Six-Year Contract

Bill to Make Right-to-Repair a Federal Law Reintroduced by Bipartisan Coalition

Appeals Court: Parents Have No Right To Be Told When Their Child ‘Socially Transitions’ Sex In School

Trump Wants Lower Natural Gas Prices for New Yorkers

WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2025

Ukraine agrees to minerals deal with U.S. after Trump administration ‘drops toughest demands’

Limpet Mines Eyed as Likely Cause of Blasts on Two Tankers in Mediterranean Sea

Foreclosure of Armenian Patriarchate properties threatens Christians in the Holy Land

Trump’s Missile Defense Initiative’s Name Changed From Iron Dome To Golden Dome

Wild West 2025: Audacious Train Robberies Reported in Mojave Desert

House Passes GOP Budget Despite Mid-Day Revolt

Joann To Close All 800 Stores After Second Bankruptcy In 10 Months

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 24, 2025

Ukraine Situation Report: Massive geopolitical shifts have resulted in great uncertainty but also hope for an end to the nightmare.

How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history

Natural Gas Prices Surged 160%—And They’re Not Coming Down Soon

Lessons from the Earmark Moratorium for the DOGE Era

Hochul Administration Stalls on All-Electric Building Code

Green Gamble Goes Bust

Friendship in America is in steep decline: We’re more disconnected from each other than ever, and the gulf between us is only growing.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 22, 2025

A newly leaked database contains details about 166,000 wounded Russian soldiers. Here’s what it reveals.

“Hamas murdered the Bibas kids and attempted to conceal the evidence of the murders by making the bodies look as if they had been bombed by the IDF.”

The main thing of note about this is that it is from Politico. Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.

Senate Republicans Again Show They Aren’t Serious About Cutting Spending

With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.

Doctors find worms squirming through teen’s neck. There are two charming categories of hookworms to keep in mind.

Why Ice Delays Recovery

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 21, 2025

U.S.-Ukrainian Mineral Deal Getting Close To Fruition

A Timeline of Suspected Underwater Sabotage Incidents in the Baltic Sea

China’s Sudden Live Fire Naval Drills Off Australia Rattle Canberra

Is It Time to Rethink the Culling of Poultry in Response to Bird Flu?

By Blocking Federal Funding Freeze, Judge Kept Millions Flowing to a Non-Profit He Headed

The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 20, 2025

Trump may keep pursuing Ukrainian minerals deal, seeking ‘simplified’ agreement first and details later

Ecuador Says Will Ask Allied Countries for Special Forces to Fight Drug Gangs

70 Christians Decapitated in Church in Democratic Republic of Congo

NY prison ‘riot’ erupts, all visits canceled at 42 state prisons as union strikes rage

The Biggest Issue Behind the New York Prison Guard Strike

LA Tow Truck Crime Ring That Held Crashed Cars Hostage Busted by Police

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

The Civil Service’s Partisanship Problem

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 19, 2025

War Of Words Erupts Between Trump And Zelensky

This Is What A Peacekeeping Air Policing Mission Over Ukraine Could Look Like

Oil Tankers Carrying Russia Oil Blowing Up.

Profiles of foreign commanders in the new Syrian army

New York Prison Guards Are Walking Off the Job. Wildcat strikes have spread to over half of the state’s prisons.

Democrats are praising the judges, Republicans are criticizing them. But where do judicial injunctions come from? Why do they exist? Why is this moment “downright hallucinatory?” It turns out that this story isn’t straightforwardly about checks and balances. And at least one Democratic legal expert thinks judges are overreaching. Bagley is an expert in administrative law who served as special counsel and chief legal counsel to Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Trump admin. fires USDA staff working on bird flu, immediately backpedals