Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 28, 2026

Destroyer, Electronic Surveillance Jet Joins U.S. Forces Massing In Middle East

Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only. The regime is testing a two-tier internet where access becomes a vetted privilege.

Loose Rules Let State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 27, 2026

Residents of world’s largest Arctic city left without heat as sub-zero temperatures persist in northern Russia

Iran’s Currency Falls to Record Low as Intel Says Regime at Its ‘Weakest Point’ Since 1979

MSNBC uses edited photo of man shot by ICE that makes him appear more masculine I would say they just tried to make him look more handsome but whatever. To a certain extent there is a little bit of whataboutsim in this post because the liberals have been making hay about a trump official retweeting an AI generated photo to support his narrative and so now constatives are pointing out the liberals are doing it as well. But I do think there is a little bit of a difference between some trump official mouthing off and a media outlet that supposedly fact checks doing it. I guess it just a sign about how few people care about the truth and just want to embrace everything that builds their team up.

Massive Potomac River Sewage Spill Exposes D.C. Water’s Cracked Priorities

We tend to think that things just work and complain about them failing when they do. But a lot people don’t realize what goes on to keep things from failing on a more regular basis. At a place I used to work I can remember when were told to go on generator or get off of natural gas to help keep things functioning for others. The Energy Department also waived emissions rules so fossil-fuel plants could run at maximum capacity. Early Sunday morning, coal accounted for some 40% of power in the Midwest’s MISO grid, 24% in the eastern PJM Interconnection, and 18% in Texas, with most of the rest coming from natural gas and nuclear. Power plants in New England burned oil, which accounted for 40% of electricity at peak demand

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 26, 2026

Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Has Arrived In CENTCOM’s Area Of Responsibility. Assets continue to pour into the Middle East, including high-end air defenses, but there still hasn’t been a large migration of airpower.

The demise of Zhang Youxia hits different

On immigration warrants

Hard on the heels of the lawsuit targeting Ziploc bags comes a report linking microplastic exposure to coffee consumption.

Do Commodities Get Cheaper Over Time?

I was taught as fact that this came from Europe and honestly I had no reason to doubt it. To get an idea of how sensitive this is to the politically correct read the religious invocation against getting canceled at the end of the article. Ancient DNA pushes back record of treponemal disease-causing bacteria by 3,000 years

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 25, 2026

Iran may have slaughtered 30,000 protesters in 48-hour intense crackdown. If the estimates are true, the only comparable massacre in history databases would be the murder of 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar massacre during the Holocaust outside of Kyiv in 1941. They are talking about killing people by gun shot and it is very arguable in terms of historical comparisons but it is still a lot.

Israel Destroys Hezbollah Weapons Factory Amid Terrorist Buildup in South Lebanon

China’s Xi Places His Top General Under Investigation as Military Purges Heat Up

For what it is worth, I think it was a bad shoot by current legal standards although I think it was a result of poor communication and not malice afore thought. But I think the same thing about the lady who got shot at the capital. But nobody cares about consistency anymore and depending on what media you consume you have a completely different understanding of what happened. Few conservative sites show the video or talk about the facts that make people think it is a bad shoot. And liberal sites don’t talk about what leads up the shooting or the background of what people are doing over there.The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know This About Alex Pretti, the Man the Border Patrol Shot

Ukraine War, 24 January 2026: The Russian Killer Strike

China’s rural banks struggle to sell seized properties despite hefty discounts

It bothers me that all sorts of smart people are “learning” that you can have a conventional war between nuclear powers like it is some kind of scientific fact. During Operation Sindoor, India learned that it can carry out “calibrated retaliation” without igniting a nuclear crisis between the two countries. Indian strategists such as Adm. Arun Prakash, have since reflected that the war “further expanded the space for conventional operations below the nuclear threshold.”

A weird, itchy rash is linked to the keto diet—but no one knows why

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 23, 2026

Safe Passage Deal For Kurds In Syria Will Help Protect U.S. Forces There

It might be too early to say, but it does appear like that ‘four-days-cease-fire’ between the Syrian government and the PKK/SDF didn’t really hold even for minutes.

Historic Graphite Mine in New York Marks Start of Made‑in‑America Battery Supply Chain

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2026

Russia is filling its ranks with foreign fighters and treating them as ‘disposable soldiers’

Military Buildup In The Middle East Continues, Including What Trump Describes As A “Big Flotilla”

As a reminder, this a Chinse English language mouthpiece. Read it it with that understanding. Is Trump About to “Abandon” Taiwan, Too?

China is beating the United States in the race to control the Gulf’s driverless car market. The latest win came in October 2025 when Chinese company WeRide secured an exclusive deal with Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates, to build its entire transport system around driverless cars. The sleepy emirate — preparing to become the Gulf’s Las Vegas — is betting on Chinese technology instead of traditional metros and buses.

Shadow Fleet Tanker Seizure Operations Expand In The Face Of Russian Warnings

In Upstate New York, for example, thousands of solar panels are covered in ice, snow, and sleet during winter, only generating five to 10% of their potential power. In the summer, they fare slightly better. They produce an annual average of 15-17% of total power. As the House of Green Substack explains, they survive and continue to be built in New York due to the state’s Renewable Energy Certificates, where the state pays developers for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated, independent of the actual sale of the electricity. The solar developer earns two to three times more from the certificate than from selling the power generated from the solar facility.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 21, 2026

Trump Considers “Decisive” Options Against Iran as U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Fighter Jets Head to Middle East

Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns. “The screwworm is dangerously close,” Miller said at the time. “It nearly wiped out our cattle industry before; we need to act forcefully now.”

Japanese Yields Soar To All Time High After PM Takaichi Calls Snap Election Seeking More Spending, Less Taxes

Trump Now Says He Won’t Use Force To Acquire Greenland

U.S. Geological Survey Report Shows Massive Untapped Oil, Gas Reserves in Texas

Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 20, 2026

U.S. Military Buildup In The Middle East Grinds On

Japan’s 40-year yield hits 4% as Takaichi’s tax plan sinks bonds

If markets have not been watching Japan, now is the moment. The relentless surge in long-dated JGB yields signals that one of the world’s most reliable liquidity backstops is fading, with consequences that extend well beyond Tokyo.

Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776, the year the United States declared independence.

Women on both the Left and the Right were 14% to 20% more likely than men to believe the political assassination of high-profile figures could be justified

Scientists Discover the Body’s Natural “Off Switch” for Inflammation

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 19, 2026

How Russia’s winter attack campaign threatens to fracture Ukraine’s power grid

Record snowfall in Russia’s Far East has paralyzed the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Snow cover in the city has reached 170 centimeters (5 feet 7 inches), with some neighborhoods buried under more than 2.5 meters (over 8 feet). On social media, residents have reported snowbanks as high as five meters (about 16 and a half feet).

Kataib Hezbollah threatens US bases in the Middle East if US strikes Iran

Qatari, Turkish presence on Trump’s Gaza board could push Israel toward major reserve call-ups

How the Clothes-Hanger Wars Escalated in Italy