Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 23, 2025

Israel Performs Parade-Like Fighter Jet Flyover For Arch Enemy’s Funeral

Who is Friedrich Merz, Germany’s likely next chancellor?

The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

Only fools think Elon is incompetent

The Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth

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

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.

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

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 17, 2025

Europe Debates Sending Troops To Ukraine

I was on a rant about New York creating new property rights to obscure the fact that they were creating new debt but as usual, the Europeans are ahead of us (in this case the Italians). How to torch 220 billion euros

Broadcom, TSMC reportedly exploring deals that would split up Intel

At least 11 dead in ‘historic’ Kentucky flooding. Emergency disaster declared

A mountain lion attack that killed a young California man last year has reignited a debate over how the big cats should be managed

Musk’s bombshell has long been known by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) watchdog, which released an audit in July 2023 showing that 18.9 million people listed as 100 years or older — but not dead — were in the database.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 16, 2025

Russia’s Hidden War Debt

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

After his release from Gaza, Amazon finally says hostage Troufanov was an employee

How von der Leyen blindsided Brussels with her deregulation drive

Turkey is making fake honey on an alarming scale

The United States will import 15,000 tons of eggs from Turkey due to the rapid outbreak of bird flu in the country.

Maternal acetaminophen (paracetamol) use may alter placental gene expression, raising ADHD risk in children

An autistic man (by his own admission if I remember correctly) is not the best person to discuss this. But I do wonder if the underlying data is particular to our culture and time or a reflection of an underlying reality that has always been there. The Typical Man Disgusts the Typical Woman