Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2025

The F-15E Strike Eagle crews attempted to take down long-range kamikaze drones with a Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) precision-guided bomb after running out of missiles in the frantic midst of an all-out Iranian barrage aimed at Israel.

Italy’s Refusal to Recognize Palestinian State Sparks Violent Riots. “Milan right now looks like a literal war zone. A coalition of far-left activists and Muslim migrant gangs is currently rioting and destroying the city. … Total chaos.”

Denmark Says Drone Incursions Were A Deliberate “Attack”

Secret Service Foils Telecom Attack Near U.N. Meeting. “This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.”

This is the official press release for the above: U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area

YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 22, 2025

Copenhagen airport shut after sighting of ‘unidentified drones’

Genoa Dockers Walk Out as Italian Unions Protest Against Israel

Not the best news from Argentina…

PA Gov Shapiro Demands PJM Reform As Mid-Atlantic Democrats Face Power Bill Crisis

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2025

Unmerrie England

Who in the US has been lobbying for this base? Left, right or center I don’t understand what anyone would want it for and the stated reason is too stupid for words (a base that is an hour from China is a base that China can flatten anytime they want especially when it is in hostile territory where they can easily sponsor others to take pot shots at for little cost). Yet somehow Trump is on campaign to get it back. Taliban rejects US attempt to return to Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base

UK, Canada and Australia Formally Recognize ‘Palestinian State’

She’s 94 and dresses in ancient clothes. Now she’s become a tourist attraction

About a third of total financing outlays by the Bank in 2023-2024 went to projects tagged as having some climate component. The data suggests that the World Bank continues to use its financial and advisory leverage to mislead low-income countries into incurring debts to disproportionately finance mitigation projects, rather than climate adaptation and investments in reliable and affordable energy access.

Milei Admits “The Market Is In Panic Mode” As Argentine Capital Exodus Accelerates

The abuse of residents is a long standing issue. On the other paw, the extra money to pay residents has to come from somewhere I don’t know that people all cheering for this really want to pay more for health care. Why are the hospitals only paying $55k if the role is so important?

AI Music Artist Lands Multi-Million Dollar Record Deal

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 20, 2025

First time I can recall hearing about the Noahide. What do the Third Temple movement and Noahide laws have in common?

Four Theories of Meta

Trump Adds $100k Surcharge to H-1B Visa Cost To Protect American High Tech Workers

XPath Scraping with FreshRSS

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 19, 2025

Russian MiG-31s Busting Estonian Airspace Has Eastern Europe On Edge

What’s Happening to Wholesale Electricity Prices? On average wholesale electricity costs have nearly doubled since 2020.

The California state legislature has produced a package of six bills to help control those prices, including measures to encourage oil drilling, connect California’s electric grid to its neighbors, and extend the state’s trading program for greenhouse gases.

A ‘Twilight Consciousness’ May Exist in Dying Patients

Chunk Ducks, Blatherskites, Butterballs, and Slug-toots. These used to be folk names for American birds. Where did they all go?

Clinical trial finds aspirin reduces colon cancer recurrence by half

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 18, 2025

Russia gasoline sales hit 2-year low amid Ukrainian drone strikes and harvest-season demand

When Africa’s internet breaks, this ship answers the call

Electric bills in New York haven’t been this high for a decade, and they’re about to rise even more.

California Issues Advisory for New World Screwworm

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 17, 2025

How a corruption scandal and power struggle in the Z-blogosphere could paralyze the Russian military’s grassroots funding pipeline

I have a paper with Cailin Slattery and Will Nober studying transportation construction in California. We assemble data on the individual engineers involved in transportation projects. What we found shifted my views about the basic issues that drive up costs. First, we found that when an extra 1% of state engineers retire, costs go up by 4.5%, which is a big effect. If you increase the quality of engineers working for the state from the 25th to the 75th percentile, that results in huge cost savings. The savings are three times the amount it costs to hire one of these engineers.

This research suggests that an increase in administrator pay is a more likely cause of the negative correlation with student achievement.

GM’s facility building the GMC Canyon, Chevy Colorado, and GM cargo vans, will be idling for three weeks thanks to a break in the supply chain.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 16, 2025

‘I should never have just hoped for the best’

Reciprocal attacks between Houthis and Israel continue

Trump Says Another Drug Running Boat Has Been Destroyed

House again votes to surrender tariff powers to Trump

“A Dirty Little Secret”

For decades, beekeepers have fought a tiny parasite called Varroa destructor, which has devastated honey-bee colonies around the world. But an even deadlier mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae – or “tropi” – is on the march.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 15, 2025

Europe sees surge in electronic warfare incidents

Military Conducted Second Strike on ‘Narcoterrorists’ From Venezuela

Historic Shuttered Navy Base Back In Action For Caribbean Counter-Drug Mission

Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

Gov. Kathy Hochul Endorses Zohran Mamdani for New York City Mayor

What if Your Refrigerator Was Twice As Efficient and Completely Silent?