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.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 19, 2025

Volcanic Activity Continues at Iceland’s Fissure Volcano with New Eruption Following Earthquake Swarm

Mexico’s total fertility rate (TFR) in 2023 was 1.60, lower than the U.S. rate of 1.62.

Young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium. Whereas a healthy premium remains for young women.

New York State agency overtime costs increased 10.2% in 2024 for a total of $1.3 billion, while the number of overtime hours increased by 7.8%, or 1.8 million hours higher than the previous year

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 18, 2025

Dead relatives and looted homes: Syria’s Druze reel as dust settles from bloodshed

US Strikes Destroyed Only One Of Three Iranian Nuclear Sites: Intel Assessment

Mysterious wave of explosions, sudden IRGC death disrupt post-ceasefire calm in Iran

Huckabee threatens to declare Israel does not welcome Christians, as visa row blows open

In a departure from his usual role as a de facto PR agent for the State of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has condemned West Bank settlers’ “terrorist” murder of a Florida-born-and-raised American citizen

The yield on 30-year Japanese government bonds surged to a record 3.2% on Tuesday, and the yield on 20-year Japanese government bonds hit their highest level since November 1999.

France’s budget bombshell is a wake-up call for Europe as it veers toward bankruptcy

German birth rate falls to lowest point in almost 20 years

America’s Debt Situation Will Soon Be Worse Than Right After World War II

Injecting Manhood: The Millennial Obsession with Testosterone

Trump Says He’ll Sue Wall Street Journal Over Story on Alleged Epstein Letter

The Fall of Hezbollah

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 17, 2025

While the U.S. and NATO allies are working to provide Ukraine with additional Patriot batteries, there aren’t enough for everyone who ordered them.

After Massacre of Syrian Druze, Netanyahu Tells Al-Sharaa Regime to Demilitarize Area Near Israeli Border

And Just Like That, 16-Year-Olds Can Vote in the Next British General Election.

Going fuzzy: NY drops exams for ‘portrait of a graduate’

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

Witchcraft and spellwork have become an online cottage industry. Faced with economic uncertainty and vapid dating apps, some people are putting their beliefs—and disposable income—into love spells, career charms and spirit cleansers.

Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

Why Is Cutting 0.1% of the $6.75 Trillion Federal Budget So Hard?