Washington Post now reporting the Navy told Congress it will be months to clear “20 or so” mines laid by Iran, and that not until war is over. You simply cannot clear mines in an active war zone.
NEW: The Kremlin continues to use long-standing false narratives that the Ukrainian government is oppressing religious liberties as moral justification for its protracted war.
Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 22, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar042226
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What the heck? This runs against most fundamental human rights principles.
🥺🇺🇦 A court in 🇮🇹Italy has allowed the adoption of a Ukrainian child evacuated in 2022 by a foreign family, even though her mother is alive and her father is missing, - Ukrainian Ombudsman Lubinets
Court in Lecce approved the adoption despite a moratorium on intercountry adoptions during the war.
He pulled it from last year's BBB, but he's brought it back now that the new budget bill is being laid out on the table.
June 16, 2025
250 million acres’ worth of roadless forests, wilderness study areas, watersheds and other public lands eligible for sale in the updated budget rec bill
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Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi wants answers from the Justice Department about internal communications regarding a possible pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.
This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.
But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased.
We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.
Is there anything more quintessentially Donald Trump than “I would have won the war I was too afraid to go to”?
The Iran war has hit Asia especially hard but the spillover won't stop there or end anytime soon. A global catastrophe in the making that was entirely preventable.
Nah. Next year is when we get worsened democratic backsliding via even more explicit rejection of the legislature's constitutional authority, and probably more of the judiciary's too, with defiance of subpoenas and oversight, and greater usurpation of Art. 1 powers.
The coup attempt is for 2028-29.
New piece "Russia’s war against Ukraine is no longer a foreign policy question for Europeans. It has become a domestic political battleground. This security–collaboration divide structures public opinion, reshapes party competition, and increasingly decides elections. In our research...
Not particularly surprised, to be honest. This was always a huge long shot of a law; states generally have little to no authority to regulate federal behavior.
"It would be really bad if they don't work out this Hormuz thing, so they'll figure it out some way" is still the prevailing attitude.
Can see it in markets, media, politicians, public.
Bad can't happen, people in charge know what they're doing, it's all content anyway.
I find it... unsettling.
About 40 Israeli civilians crossed the border fence into Syria.
The Israeli army brought them back and detained them.
4 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, a substantial body of evidence has accumulated showing that external observers often have limited and distorted understanding of repressive reality in today’s Russia. Yet a clear grasp of true scale of these repressions is essential
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A cri du coeur from me and a colleague about the big cuts in foreign languages at Syracuse Univ, published in our student paper. This is not what a major research university should be doing. I find the cuts in Russian particularly painful (the program is more than 80 years old).
The oil refinery in Tuapse has been burning for days now, and in the meantime, the local prosecutor's office has decided that the city needs "greening." Great timing. That will certainly improve the situation.
I fear he is not meant to be long for this world.
🇫🇷🇬🇷 Macron will visit Greece on Friday, where he will propose to the government to exchange all 43 Mirage 2000 fighter jets for an equivalent number of Rafale aircraft at a reduced price.
🇺🇦 Ukraine will likely be the recipient of the Mirage 2000s.
A US supplied Tempest surface-to-air missile system intercepted a Russian Gerbera drone over Kyiv during daytime. #Ukraine
Global #OffshoreWind is accelerating despite US hitting the brakes. Policy volatility and political pushback have stalled projects, even as capacity worldwide keeps growing fast. A stark divergence in the #EnergyTransition.
#ClimateAction #Decarbonization 🌐🌍🧪🌊
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A paper in Nature Energy introduces PROLONG, a probabilistic model for projecting global wind and solar power deployment. It shows expansion consistent with 2 °C pathways and faster than current policy scenarios, but the 1.5 °C pathway lies beyond the 95th percentile of projections. 🧪
Meme. Part of Wencelaus Hollar's 1647 city view map of London, showing the Thames and the bank at Queenhythe. In the middle of the image are two ships, at anchor in the Thames, labeled "the Eel Ships." The main color of the map is beige, and the artwork is done is black line drawing. The spaces between the houses in the city are dark, and full of unknowns. The murky offspring of your sinister imagination are hiding in those shadows. Pickpockets? Muggers? Tiger-bat hybrids? Slick-talking confidence men selling fake eels? Probably. The Todal?* OH YES. It is far better to stick to the bright and open Thames, where you can be sure of real eels, from real Dutch eel salesmen. Meme text reads: "I'm just talkin' about Shaft (eels)" * Per Thurber: "The Todal looks like a blob of glup. It makes a sound like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. It's made of lip. It feels as if it had been dead at least a dozen days, but it moves about like monkeys and like shadows." It is also sent by the devil to punish evildoers for doing less evil than they could. Honestly, it's not a thing you'd want to meet in even the most well-lit grocery store aisle, let alone in a dark London alleyway.
Medieval English laws categorized eels by size. The most common types were:
Pimper (small)
Shaft (medium)
Stub (big)
There were also "red eels" which were likely diseased. Customs officers threw them out. Which is weird, 'cause we'd think that the shaft eels were bad mother...
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Whistleblower alleges Finnish startup’s vaunted solid-state battery isn’t what it claims | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Blatant censorship by an administration that refuses to acknowledge the benefits of COVID vaccination. 🧪
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"After four years of war, there is no one who can stand up to the security establishment, and President Vladimir Putin is increasingly passive." Tatiana Stanovaya on tensions within the Russian regime.
Clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz could take up to six months, the Pentagon told Congress.
The estimate was shared in a classified briefing to the House Armed Services Committee.
Source: WaPo
One of the most frequent causes of Charlie Kirk related cancellation was accurately representing his views, or even quoting them verbatim.
She expressed grief about Kirk's murder, and the only hateful thing in the comments came from Kirk himself.
