Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 5, 2025

Bean-counting

24-country survey: Support for Israel strongest in Kenya and Nigeria, lowest in Turkey

The analysis indicates that the U.S. will dip below the industry-recommended 20% reserve margin this year, with national effective spare capacity projected to decline to an alarming 14% by 2027. Once this margin drops below 15%, the risk of grid reliability issues soars.

The Trump-Musk bromance devolves into a chaotic public breakup

NYC Air Quality Alert Triggered by Smoke from Canadian Wildfires

Dwarkesh on slow AI take-off

Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault

Why is the EU still buying Russian fertilizer?

Finland Uncovers Iranian Spy Operations

Japan’s fertility rate hits record low despite government push

Two Chinese Nationals Accused of Smuggling ‘Potential Agroterrorism’ Fungus into U.S.

‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids

In 8-0 Ruling, Supreme Court Significantly Narrows NEPA Environmental Reviews

A Historic Missed Opportunity

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 3, 2025

Ukraine Strikes At The Heart Of Russia’s Highly Defended Kerch Bridge

Going to an office and pretending to work: A business that’s booming in China. Many citizens who don’t want to explain their employment status pay to rent a position in a fake office, with some even assigning fictitious tasks and organizing supervisory rounds

Italy’s population decline is among the most acute in Europe, after decades of plummeting birth rates. At present, about a quarter of Italy’s 59mn people are over the age of 65, while just 12 per cent of the population are children aged 14 and under. The working age population is forecast to drop by another 5mn people by 2040.

‘Disgusting abomination’: Musk goes nuclear on Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 31, 2025

Iran secretly enriching enough uranium for nine nuclear weapons, IAEA report says

Soaring rice prices are stirring political trouble in Japan

Haiti’s Beleaguered Government Launches Drones Against Gangs

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 30, 2025

Giant Russian Nuke Info Hack

Saudis warned Iran to reach agreement with US or risk war with Israel

Federal Circuit Issues Brief Administrative Stay in Our Tariff Case

Service costs aren’t exploding anymore

Why New York Judges Are Fighting a Major Plan to Fix Court Backlogs

Electroconvulsive therapy’s ‘hard reset’ effect: Brain wave discovery challenges long-held assumption

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 29, 2025

China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine while increasing component shipments to Russia

Ship Losses Hit Historic Low Amid Rising Risks

We Won Our Tariff Case!. Celebration is a little premature—- Trump tariffs back on after appeals court slams brakes on trade court’s ban

Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

Hawaii’s first-in-the-nation climate change tourist tax expected to generate nearly $100M annually

Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV?

California Grid Operator Increasingly Curtailing Solar And Wind-Powered Electricity Generation

Grandson of 10th US President John Tyler, who left the White House 180 years ago, dead at 96

Behind closed blast doors Danish and German journalists uncover detailed blueprints offering an unprecedented look inside Russia’s nuclear weapons silos

Trump confirms he told Netanyahu not to act against Iran in private talks

Brokers are profiting from the massive influx of Filipino labor in the Taiwanese chip sector.

The Gross Fiscal Negligence of the GOP

Record Foreign Demand For Blowout 5Y Treasury Auction

College English majors can’t read

Did you hear about the Visa Account Updater?

Death Zone Drama on K2

Claims Swirl Over Supposed Ukrainian Attack On Putin’s Helicopter

Russia Modifies Iskander Missile to Beat Ukrainian Patriot System

Israel facing dangerous shift in relations with Egypt

Netanyahu-Trump phone call on Iran was marked by heated disagreements

Iran Threatens ‘Decisive Strike’ Against Israel Amid Rising Tensions Following Nuclear Talks With US

The military culture that is German

DOGE’s Unfinished Business

The Coming Democratic Civil War

An Upstate Orchard Is Putting New Farmworker Protections to the Test

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 26, 2025

Spain Boosts Natural Gas Capacity After Renewable Energy’s Failure Led to Historic Blackout

Why Apple can’t just quit China

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Announce New Oil Discovery

Canada has more measles cases right now than any other country in the Americas

Chinese laser cracks spy dream, can read letters size of a sesame seed from a mile away

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 25, 2025

On the night of May 24-25, Russian forces launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles in one of the largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60.

U.S. Urges Israel to Pause ‘Full-Scale’ Operation Against Hamas in Hopes of Facilitating Hostage Talks

I never thought I would see the day that these nations would be arguing that Trump was being to lax on Iran. Senior officials from the E3 countries — the United Kingdom, Germany, and France — warned the Trump administration that Iran is deliberately stalling negotiations over a new nuclear agreement to hinder the ability to impose sanctions

Chinese propaganda as presented to Africans.

According to Zhong, the dominant strain in this wave is the Omicron XDV variant, which is highly transmissible but relatively less virulent. Early symptoms include fever, headaches, fatigue, a burning throat, and severe coughing.

Arguably, without China, Apple would not have had the money to invest or its current valuation so this is a little bit a chicken or an egg type question. Apple’s Investment in China… more than quadruple the Marshall Plan

The semiconductor shortage led to fewer new cars in 2022 and beyond, which in turn translates to fewer used cars today.