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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 2, 2025

Putin Warns Russia May Hit Ukraine Allies’ Ships If Attacks Last

Headlines I never expected to see: U.S. Deploys Shahed-136 Clones To Middle East As A Warning To Iran. The U.S. possessing long-range one-way attack drones at all is a major development, but deploying them “to flip the script on Iran” is even a bigger deal.

India tells smartphone makers to put state-run cyber safety app on new devices

Since 2013, more than $20 million has been paid in attorney fees alone as a result of environmental law litigation between outside groups, often environmental nonprofits, and the federal government. The highest costs came during the Biden administration. It highlights a troubling arrangement between federal agencies and litigating nonprofits, which are sometimes also federal grantees. Outside groups suing federal agencies not only cost taxpayers millions of dollars, but result in settlements that allow bureaucrats to create new regulations that bypass Congress and public debate. The scheme, known as “sue and settle,” allows nonprofits and bureaucrats to make policy agreements that amount to an end-run around Congress.

Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes

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Russian Oil Tanker Struck In Aerial Attack Hundreds Of Miles From Ukraine

The Continuing Crisis of Command In Ukraine.

The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again

Belgium’s ultimate fear is that if the €140 billion is lent to Ukraine, a single pro-Russian EU country, such as Hungary or Slovakia, could veto the renewal of the EU’s sanctions regime against Moscow. That would require Belgium to immediately return the missing billions to Russia. The Commission’s fix to keep Belgium happy is to prevent individual EU countries from being able to overturn sanctions.

Supreme Court justices expressed numerous concerns today in a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate the accounts of broadband users accused of copyright infringement. Oral arguments were held in the case between cable Internet provider Cox Communications and record labels led by Sony.

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, knocking out radio signals across Australia. But the real story might be in the enormous sunspot region following closely behind this flare.

Future Of Fertility Chronically Overestimated

Thrush is one of the most common infections in the world. It’s caused by the fungi Candida – specifically, the yeast Candida albicans. Although yeast infections are normally treated easily with antifungal drugs, a growing number of Candida species are developing resistance to these drugs – including the species that causes thrush.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2025

A Russian Soyuz launch mishap late last week left the country without a manned space program until vital launch infrastructure can be replaced or repaired.

Trump Confirms Phone Call With Maduro

Health Care Sticker Shock Coming for 450,000 New Yorkers

Renewable Developers Press Hochul to Settle Tax Dispute Before Key Deadline

Campbell Soup at Risk of Being ‘Shut Down’ in Florida After Secret Audio

Engine Teardown Specialist Says Toyota’s Explanation for V6 Failures Doesn’t Make Sense

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 30, 2025

IDF Eliminates Son of Senior Hamas Leader, Who Attacked Troops Across Ceasefire Line. Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad vowed to launch “a second, a third, a fourth” October 7-style massacre until Israel is “annihilated.”

Death In the Street: Aside From the Obvious, There’s a Big Problem In Cuba

Blunderbusses, Pilgrims, and How Art Rewrote History

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 29, 2025

Hezbollah Chief Threatens Israel After Top Commander Killed in Beirut Strike

Vital Khor Mor gas field attacked in Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

Pakistan’s social media has been abuzz for the past two days with conflicting reports about former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

“Intense Solar Radiation” Corrupted A320 Flight Systems, Airbus Rushes Emergency Update

Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus

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Ukrainian anti-corruption agents search home of Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak

Indeed, the available evidence that has emerged since the mutiny suggests that, back in November 1975, only a few minutes may have stood between the Soviet Navy launching a nuclear strike against one of its own vessels. Ultimately, perhaps, Colonel Arkhip Savinkov, as commander of what appears to have been a nuclear-armed Tu-16, might have been the one responsible for preventing what could have been a catastrophe. Ironically, the fact that he didn’t launch his missile, for whatever reason, meant that he would be viewed with suspicion by the Soviet military leadership for the rest of his career.

Airbus grounds 6,000 planes for urgent software update after jet suddenly lost altitude mid-flight

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 24, 2025

Chinese researchers simulate large-scale electronic warfare against Elon Musk’s Starlink. Findings suggest jamming Starlink across area matching Taiwan is technically feasible, but only at huge scale needing 1,000 drones or more.

A story from early this year that I recently came across: ‘I learnt to fire an RPG with YouTube’: How one Sudanese village fought the RSF

Britain’s Plan to Abolish Most Jury Trials

Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago?

Every so often, a scientific claim becomes so widely repeated that it hardens into “fact,” even when the evidence beneath it consists of… well… let’s just call it creative meteorology