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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20, 2024

Danish Navy Shadows Chinese Cargo Ship After Baltic Sea Cable Damage

ICBM Reentry Vehicle Capability Still Unproven By North Korea

Thousands of British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance

British Defense Cuts Hit All Three Services Hard

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro, who has presidential ambitions, finally weighed in on his party’s efforts to steal a U.S. Senate seat in the Commonwealth.

Dejected Sunny Hostin Reads Legal Note About Matt Gaetz, DOJ Investigation

Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams

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High on the warzone content today because they were covering a number of interesting topics better then other sources in my feed. But if you already follow them, you will not get much out this collection.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 19, 2024

U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missile Strike Inside Russia Have Begun

Putin approves updates to Russia’s nuclear doctrine to allow attacks on non-nuclear ‘proxy’ states

Sabotage Claims Swirl Around Severed Baltic Sea Cable Incidents

Conflicts “Eating Into” Critical Munitions Stockpiles Needed For China Fight Top U.S. Officer In Pacific Warns

Using early-voting data, an emerging crop of number-crunchers predicted Trump’s win long before the pollsters and pundits did.

How America’s Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up

Army Arsenal Seeking Info On Mysterious Drone Flights Over Installation

High-dose IV vitamin C plus chemotherapy found to double survival time in advanced pancreatic cancer

Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 18, 2024

Ukraine Situation Report: Trump’s team is clearly mad about Biden’s move, but Kursk remains a key bargaining chip for Ukraine.

Kursk: Russia Prepares Airfields for the Impact. Unfortunately, given that the permission to strike was leaked and publicly announced, it is likely to limit the potential damage Ukrainian forces can inflict.

Two undersea fiber-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday.

UN says nearly 100 Gaza aid trucks looted, the war’s worst theft ‘in terms of volume’

Eight killed and 17 wounded in second mass attack in China in a week

Jet-Setting Thieves Are Stealing Millions Worth of Cars From Airport Parking Lots Nationwide

PA Supreme Court Orders Counties to Stop Counting Illegal Ballots

World’s Largest Battery Maker Says Elon Musk ‘Doesn’t Know How To Make Batteries’. The 4680 battery was supposed to make EVs cheaper and better, but so far has proven to be more problematic than promising.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 17, 2024

Ukraine Now Allowed To Use Long-Range Missiles Deep Into Russia

Russia pounds Ukraine’s power grid in ‘massive’ air strike

Reports claim Houthis make Red Sea vessel attacks a $2B business

Fetterman to Democrats: Stop ‘Freaking Out’ Over Trump

Customers Met By Empty Rental Desk Simply Abscond With Cars. Hertz employees left their posts hours early, which led to customers grabbing whatever keys were available.

New study shows how salmonella tricks gut defenses to cause infection

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 16, 2024

Why is Trump’s pick for national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, on Ukraine’s unofficial ‘enemies’ database?

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reportedly called on Lebanese Hezbollah to accept a ceasefire agreement that would require Hezbollah to remain north of the Litani River per UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

IDF says dozens of masked settlers carried out arson attack on West Bank village

Democrats confess they’re breaking the law to overturn McCormick’s victory over Casey in Pennsylvania Senate race

Why luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals

Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.

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Forgot to hit publish.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 15, 2024

Israel destroyed active nuclear weapons research facility in Iran

U.S. producer prices picked up in October, lifted by higher costs for services like portfolio management and airline fares, another sign that progress towards lower inflation was stalling.

So, That’s Why Bob Casey Didn’t Concede the PA Senate Race.

They submitted an insurance claim for a bear attack. But the video showed it was allegedly a person in a bear costume.

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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

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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.”

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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.