Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Paramount Skydance will begin a major round of layoffs with about 1,000 job cuts on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/3Lfm8GS

Hey Siri, what’s the precedent for not paying the army

The controversy about saturated fat comes from research showing that reducing saturated fat intake can actually be harmful if you replace it with the wrong thing (processed carbs, sugars.) But researchers agree that replacing saturated fats with plant based fats, like olive oil, is good for health.

A recent study has found that while 95% of respondents are confident about their ability to recover from a ransomware attack using their backups, only 15% of those who were attacked managed to do so investors.opentext.com/press-releas...

The dazzling aerial photos honored by the 2025 Siena awards offer "new ways of seeing familiar places," as one judge puts it. n.pr/3JgKWhi

Georgia arrests three Chinese nationals for trying to buy uranium illegally, local media reports reut.rs/4qwXkdO

Congratulations to Trump and the GOP Congress - they now own the two longest government shutdowns in history.

New submitted member works! Check them out at: milwritersguild.substack.com/p/member-sub...

Polish PM Donald Tusk confirms the Internal Security Agency detained 8 suspects in coordinated raids for planning sabotage across regions, targeting military sites and attack prep. Part of escalating hybrid war concerns linked to Russia. Investigations ongoing. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Japan's parliament elects Sanae Takaichi as the nation's first female prime minister. -AP

The IDF announces that it has begun a wave of airstrikes against Hamas targets in the southern Gaza Strip, in response to the attack on troops earlier today. A military source says that one of the targets is a tunnel system that was used by Hamas to previously hold Israeli hostages.-ToI

Russian FSB-controlled state messenger MAX likely hacked, 46.2 million data rows stolen, hacker posted sample rows from database on dark web.

They should have shown this at the generals' all hands meeting before Trump spoke, it really would've cemented the civil-military bonds

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to a complete ceasefire agreement, mediated by Qatar and Turkey in Doha.

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.

Great Civil War sleighing done by MWG member Kurt Luther: www.militaryimagesmagazine-digital.com/2025/02/26/a... #MilitaryWritersGuild #history #AmericanCivilWar

Bubble, bubble, bubble... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Tp...

#Ukrainian medics from the 3rd Army Corps, while on leave in the UK, saved a man who was involved in a traffic accident. The medics with the call signs "Sofiia," "Mivina," and "Rebecka" had arrived in London for the presentation of a biographical film as part of the VARTA project.

Air Advisors are a frequent target in an Air Force that undervalues activities that are hard to quantify. What better way to advance the idea of burden sharing than to build professional, interoperable, and reliable allies and partners? irregularwarfare.org/articles/fai...

A Thanksgiving tradition. (Happy Thanksgiving, Canadians!)

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

I’m writing to let you know that today (Oct 11th) our team will release a major report. It covers nearly a decade of tank production across various variants. This document-based report will uncover Russian plans to expand and modernize its tank fleet. I hope you’ll have a chance to read and share it

I welcome the new, inflatable overlords.

He was 87 years old. They could have killed him in his bed and said he died in his sleep. The reason they put out obviously false stories like this is as a display of power. It says, not only can we have you killed, but we can just lie with impunity and everyone has to accept it.

Russian authorities claimed that Pravda publisher Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

update: "video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her" chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

I find this site mesmerizing. It is silent though - the winds outside are not. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

If Hamas says no to Trump by his Sunday deadline: Israel will urge 200K residents remaining in Gaza City to leave. Anyone who stays will be see as a terrorist & targeted for elimination. City will be cut off from electricity, water, and food. IDF will use its full firepower. -N12 News

Kill marks for intercepted cruise and ballistic missiles on the launcher body of a Ukrainian Air Force air defense system, according to reports.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Great opportunity for students looking to pick up some free books, useful for modules, dissertations or just to be better-informed! 📚

-Routers abused to send SMS spam -CISA reveals new collaboration model for state govts -2/3 of CISA workers could be furloughed -South Korea raises cyber threat level after data center fire -Tile devices leak their location Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS485/

Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after finishing in second place three previous years.

79. American citizen.

Oath to a person or the Constitution?

According to reports the US is both asking Turkish major defence firm Bayraktar to set up drone manufacturing in US and simultaneously blocking the engines for Türkiye's KAAN fighter. What's the US strategy and likely outcomes?

War-ravaged Portland

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Day 304 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. A large crowd gathers on the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi. 🇬🇪 🎥 Mo Se

ROK Again showing us how Democracies behave. The Ministry of Defense will award commendations to soldiers who did not carry out illegal or unjust orders during the December 3 Emergency Martial Law designating them as "individuals who protected constitutional values." www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Everyone apparently missed the ‘war ravaged’ memo

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.