Monday, May 26, 2025
Putin pummels Kyiv for a third consecutive record night, makes a fool of Trump and his naive peace overtures and Friedrich Merz's promise of cruise missiles if elected in Germany
... The Russian bombardment on Sunday night included 355 drones, Yuriy Ihnat, head of the Ukrainian air force’s communications department, told The Associated Press.
The previous night, Russia fired 298 drones and 69 missiles of various types at Ukraine in what Ukrainians said was the largest combined aerial assault during the conflict. From Friday to Sunday, Russia launched around 900 drones at Ukraine, officials said. ...
Russia has this month broken its record for aerial bombardments of Ukraine three times. ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson's spending bill is in big trouble with the US Senate's Ron Johnson
Canes mortui sunt
In all, Russia used 69 missiles of various types and 298 drones, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones, he told The Associated Press. ...
Ivan Fedorenko, 80, said he regrets letting their two dogs into the house after the air raid siren went off. “They burned to death,” he said. “I want to bury them, but I’m not allowed yet.” ...
Nearly 50,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in 2023 according to the CDC, and ABC News thinks 300 a week is a headline in 2025
Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from COVID every week?
The 350 a week rate from April is the equivalent of 18,200 annually.
Slow news day.
Wastewater analysis shows infection levels near their all-time lows.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
The Trump Energy Department's Chris Wright saves 1,450 megawatts of electric generating capacity by stopping closure of Michigan coal plant operated by Consumers Energy
... The plant was originally set to close on May 31, which would have been 15 years before its lifespan was scheduled to end.
More.
The green lunatic running the Michigan Public Service Commission is furious. Common sense people from the area are no doubt relieved.
Friday, May 23, 2025
If ivermectin ever made a difference to COVID-19 outcomes in Africa, it sure didn't in Latin and South America
Wide distribution of ivermectin in Africa to combat river blindness does not appear to have had anything to do whatsoever with low death rates from COVID-19 in places like Angola (62 deaths per million of population), Kenya (120), and Nigeria (16).
It turns out that ivermectin was widely distributed in eight Latin and South American countries from June, August, and December 2020, but all of them had steeply higher death rates from the disease:
Secular real return from stocks since investing at the August 2000 high compared with investing at the September 1929 high, twenty-four years out
August 2000-August 2024 and September 1929-September 1953 both fall far short of 8.74% per annum real return September 1953-August 2000.
Real per annum return from January 1871-September 1929 was 8.34%.
The complaisance is amazing, we are the French
Yes mon ami, there are Muslim-controlled no-go zones in gay Paris, but what can we do? 🤷
... Federal outlays are up more than $2 trillion a year over the prepandemic level, from $4.4 trillion in 2019 to $6.8 trillion in 2024. ...
Yet the Republicans blinked at rolling back practically any of it, let alone all. ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Paper tiger Donald Trump March 2018: I will never sign another bill like this again
He's signed them ever since lol. Nothing's changed.
Trump signs $1.3 trillion spending bill into law despite being ‘unhappy’ about it
... Trump slammed the rushed process to pass the more than 2,200-page bill released only Wednesday. Standing near the pile of documents, the president said he was “disappointed” in the legislation and would “never sign another bill like this again.” ...
House GOP votes for tax breaks for rich Democrats from Blue states like New York, New Jersey, and California lol
If the House provision is enacted, the SALT cap would rise to $40,000, up from $30,000 in the previous plan, and phases out over $500,000, according to revised language released by the House Rules Committee. The provision would go into effect in 2025. ...
“Any changes to lift the cap would primarily benefit higher earners,” Garrett Watson, director of policy analysis at the Tax Foundation, wrote in an analysis on Tuesday.
With an income phaseout over $400,000, the top 20% of taxpayers “would be the only group to meaningfully benefit,” Watson wrote. ...
So-called fiscal hawks of the House GOP totally cave and narrowly pass Trump's omnibus tax and spending bill 215-214: Massie of Kentucky and Davidson of Ohio were the sole Nay votes
The House Freedom Caucus is a joke, along with the rest of them: At least $20 trillion in new debt over ten years, increases the SALT cap for itemized deductions important in high tax Blue states, Green New Deal spending still in there, ratifies federal support for Medicaid's backdoor vehicle as insurance under Obamacare, etc.
The Chair of the House Freedom Caucus:


















