Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 29, 2025

Ukraine Repeatedly Targets Key Rail Line Deep Inside Russia With Drone Strikes

Plague of locusts descends on Ukraine

‘You can’t fake that’: Trump sees ‘real starvation’ in Gaza, says Israel must do more

Israel slams int’l media for misrepresenting Gazan child’s condition as starvation More here: This is a really strange way of saying “We ran a front page blood libel claiming Israel is starving a baby to death, but it’s not true and we actually knew it wasn’t true at the time

Israel’s declining image in the United States poses a strategic threat

China is also Fighting a Trade War with Europe (and Winning)

Toddler in India survives deadly encounter with cobra by biting its head

More interesting then the title suggests. The Future of Immigration Policy in Europe & Africa

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 28, 2025

‘Completely compromised’ Ukrainian and Belarusian hackers claim responsibility for IT outage that disrupted over 100 flights in Russia

What is behind the rise of the ‘Japanese First’ far-right?

The EU-USA trade deal

NYC Shooter Killed Four People, Including NYPD Officer

Ugly, Tailing 5Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand In 3 Years

How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 27, 2025

US ground raid captures Islamic State leader in northern Somalia

Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War

Physicians removing themselves from traditional Medicare has steadily increased over time and remained elevated after the COVID-19 pandemic, partially due to growing administrative burdens and a shift toward larger, consolidated practice settings.

Gov. Hochul’s latest redistricting threat is dangerous and undemocratic

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 26, 2025

Zelensky’s reasons Ukraine’s president claims anti-corruption curbs will counter Russian influence, but a new report alleges he seeks to shield himself and his inner circle

Chinese kindergartens in crisis as enrolments plunge 25% in 4 years

America’s Electricity Demand Just Hit Overdrive

Lumber Prices Up 30% YoY

Kathy Hochul’s Nuclear Vision Faces Big Questions and Bottlenecks. Building nuclear will test whether New York state is still capable of constructing megaprojects as it has done in the past.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 25, 2025

150 THAAD Ballistic Missile Interceptors Fired By U.S. During Iran’s Barrages On Israel. Roughly 25% of all U.S. THAAD interceptors funded to date were reportedly launched in June, and SM-3s. were also expended at a worrisome rate.

Egypt Finally Cleared To Buy AIM-120 AMRAAMs

“States where Democrats would have complete control over any redistricting, such as Illinois and Maryland, are already gerrymandered heavily in their favor. Squeezing more Democratic seats out of those states would be a challenge.”

Will New York follow its climate law, once hailed as one of the most ambitious in the world? That may be up to an Ulster County judge, who on Friday will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by four environmental and climate justice groups over the state’s failure to act on one of the core mandates of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

Nothing noteworthy but it was funny. Democrats Delete Post Showing Grocery Prices Skyrocketed Under Biden

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 24, 2025

Thai F-16 Strikes As Border Dispute With Cambodia Erupts

U.S. Homes Are Not Selling, and Prices Continue to Rise

The law’s first wave of Medicaid cuts takes effect in January, and new SNAP requirements are projected to take effect in March. New York State officials estimate the initial funding loss at a conservative $750 million. But starting April 1, that shortfall will balloon into a recurring, multibillion-dollar hole

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 23, 2025

‘You have lost the trust of society’ — Ukrainians react to Zelensky’s latest evening address

Canada Is Now the New North American Measles Hot Spot. Unable to blame RFK Jr., journalists have turned their attention to the Mennonite population in Ontario. But it turns out the area is also a hotspot for immigration from regions where measles is more prevalent.

AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it ‘made a catastrophic error in judgment’ and ‘destroyed all production data’

U.S. Building Container Vaults To Deploy U.S. Nuclear Bombs To Remote Bases

Coca-Cola Confirms Launch of New Product Line Made With … American Cane Sugar

America’s largest power grid has issued multiple ‘Maximum Generation’ and ‘Load Management’ alerts this summer, as summer heat pushes power demand to the brink with air conditioners running at full blast across the eastern half of the U.S.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 22, 2025

President Trump Announced a 50% Tariff on Copper Imports

Four Months After Guard Strike, Prison Staffing Crisis Persists. This year, the state lowered the minimum age to become a corrections officer from 21 to 18.

In 2014, the Colorado legislature, without any dissenting votes, passed a law to tie the level of criminal mischief for car theft to the value of the car stolen, while lowering the overall penalties. The sliding scale of punishment not only encouraged more theft, but it also encouraged thieves to pick on poor and working-class people, stealing cheaper cars to avoid more severe punishment.

Forces Adverse to Reproduction

Two Michigan cities

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 21, 2025

Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat

Hamas at a Crossroads

What’s next for Japan after far-right election surge?

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 20, 2025

‘He bombs everything all the time’: US said fuming at ‘madman’ Netanyahu after Syria strikes

A word of caution, I have not found a good way to balance the links on this issue. There are a lot of fake and real stories going around that come from this region and it is hard to separate the two. The biggest problem I have with the following link is that it takes as given the the Bedouin forces are the same as Syrian government forces and it is not at all clear that is true. Syrian Regime Accused of Mass Slaughter, Rape in Ongoing Assault on Druze Minority

How China Became the World’s Biggest Shipbuilder

How India became a french fry superpower

The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.