Monthly Archives: May 2025

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 22, 2025

The troubling case of Lucy Connolly

North Korea’s Warship Launch Ends in Disaster as Kim Jong Un Watches

The House of Representatives passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget reconciliation bill, which now moves to the Senate for its consideration. The bill would add roughly $3 trillion to the debt including interest over the next decade. The bill also includes several policy expirations to artificially lower the deficit impact of its tax cuts and spending increases; making those provisions permanent would lead the bill to adding roughly $5 trillion to the debt, including interest.

Fish & Wildlife has expanded its regulatory rule to every tree in much of the U.S.

Yaron Lischinsky, Sarah Milgrim named as victims of Washington, DC, shooting

The word “see” is a bit of a stretch but still a cool start. Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark

Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 21, 2025

Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering casualties at more than 400,000 per year — enough to pack the house at the world’s four largest stadiums. Can Russian forces sustain similar losses in its ongoing war in Ukraine and rebuild to fight another day? The likely answer is “yes.”

UN retracts aid chief’s claim that 14,000 Gazan babies will die in 48 hours without aid

Rent Seeking for Four Generations

A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s business trip to the Middle East presents a new strategic reality: The American president has, for now, chosen to sideline Israel and its considerations in his foreign policy.

UK, Canada, France Gang Up On Israel, Demand Ending IDF Operation as Hamas Stalls Hostage Talks

80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them

By 2039, approximately 43% of Spain’s workforce — over one in four working-age individuals — will be either first or second-generation immigrants.

A Chinese perspective. Parsing U.S.-China Trade Talks

Trump to House Republicans: ‘Don’t F— Around With Medicaid’

Ray Dalio says the risk to U.S. Treasurys is even greater than what Moody’s is saying

Different cities use different water treatments, and this can affect how filters work on your water.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 19, 2025

IDF Expands Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots,’ Orders Khan Younis Evacuation Ahead of ‘Unprecedented Attack’

Operation Sindoor and the Evolution of India’s Military Strategy Against Pakistan

Operation Sindoor: Understanding Context and Consequences

Iran and Ethiopia have a security deal – here’s why they signed it

Nuclear Plant Shutdown Leaves Taiwan Facing Energy Crunch

House Republicans Advance Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” After Weekend Of Negotiations

Doctors Throw Cold Water on Biden Statement That Doctors Only Found Metastatic Prostate Cancer Last Week

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18, 2025

Lessons for the next India-Pakistan war

Why Europe’s internal barriers are higher than Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Fails in the House Budget Committee

Most of this year’s high school graduating class was born 18 years ago. In 2007 American families welcomed more than 4.3 million new babies. They have been welcoming fewer ever since. Only about 3.6 million were born in 2024, roughly the same as a year earlier, when US births hit a new low. In other words, the Class of 2025 is the largest we are likely to see for the foreseeable future. The US baby bust is well underway, with all the grim social and economic changes that implies.

We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising New Study

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 15, 2025

Trump’s Syria announcement surprised his own sanctions officials

FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials

Why Apple can’t just quit China

In early 2006 I was in charge of creating The Warchiefs, an expansion to Age of Empires 3. A special “strike team” was sent to talk to us. They were ostensibly about localization but in reality their job was to make products worse so they wouldn’t offend anyone

“I Can’t Understand My Professor”

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2025

President Trump meets with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, lifts sanctions on Syria

Donald Trump sends signal to Israel: It’s time to turn page on Syria

Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews

Facing a budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing changes to California’s program to provide free healthcare coverage to low-income undocumented immigrants. The cost of coverage for immigrants has exceeded state estimates by billions of dollars.

Republicans Push to Refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve With $1.3 Billion

Underwater Volcano Off the Oregon Coast Poised to Erupt

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 13, 2025

Ukraine Situation Report

“But the results were not there. The United States had not even established air superiority over the Houthis. Instead, what was emerging after 30 days of a stepped-up campaign against the Yemeni group was another expensive but inconclusive American military engagement in the region.

House Republican Bill: $4 Trillion in Tax Cuts, But Not Enough Spending Cuts

After all, in L.A. County’s unincorporated areas, where more than 12,000 homes, buildings, and parcels were scorched in the fires that started January 7, there have been a grand total of eight permits to rebuild issued so far. Eight.

Arcane Accounting Rule Is Draining Millions From New York Classrooms

Beekeepers across the U.S. see unprecedented honeybee die-offs. Lindsey Moroch, an owner of Kutik’s Everything Bees in Oxford, said they were lucky to not see the same number of die-offs as other beekeepers, but they did scale back their pollination services this year.