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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine steps up attacks on oil refineries
There is an update on what is now officially the Worst Job in Russia — night watchman at an oil refinery. Salavat is in Bashkortostan and is north of Orenburg, where all the bad flooding took place. The drone that carried out the strike was a converted...
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Nearly a 1,000 miles into Russia in Broad Day Light ..What Air Defense Doing?
But for want of 6 month’s worth of active and intense support from the United States this Russo-Ukrainian War would have a totally different color today. Ukrainian drones are now flying deep into Russia unmolested and tearing up valuable Russian...
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Florida Deputies Enter Wrong Apartment and Kill 23yo Black US Airman
Update: The bodycam footage shown by the Sheriff does show the police announced themselves. It also appears that Roger Fortson did open the door. Roger Fortson, who was Black, was killed in a home invasion. His home was invaded. By the police. Reports...
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Southern Brazil flooding continues to worsen. The imagery is apocalyptic, I am afraid.
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Sleepover
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Heritage Foundation to Project 2025s Critics: ‘Radical leftists are terrified … and they should be’
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Barron Trump is now a Florida delegate to the RNC?
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
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President Biden up in Wisconsin 50 to 44 in Quinnipiac poll
It’s extremely early. I don’t believe that polls are meaningful predictors of the eventual outcome of a presidential election when they are this far out from November. Polls will only potentially be meaningful when we are past Labor Day, especially...
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Can Industries Survive Business Schools?
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Why America Needs to Know about Trump Getting Spanked in Silk Pajamas
The most powerful elected Republican in America declared war on the rule of law yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress, on behalf of wannabee “day one” dictator Donald Trump, is going to use every power available to him and his...
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