Canes mortui sunt

 

Russia hits Ukraine with the largest drone-and-missile attack of the war so far, killing at least 12

 

 

... The scale of the onslaught was stunning — Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, making this the largest single aerial attack of the more than three-years-long war, according to Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force.

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.

 

 

Ukraine gets pummeled hard overnight by Russia but he who boasted over and over that he would stop it in 24hrs is impotent

 

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.

 

Only an ignoramus like Donald Trump could end up supporting the very people he should not in Syria

 

British Conservatives aren't

 

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:

Peru 6,945

Brazil 3,396

Mexico 2,654

Panama 2,089

Bolivia 1,974

Guatemala 1,222

Honduras 1,165

El Salvador 652.

 

Exposure to fresh air and full spectrum sunlight with its infrared and ultraviolet radiation has been shown to speed recovery 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? 🤷

2 Cheers for Passing Tax Bill. Too Bad Spending's Still Out of Control

NY Post

 

... 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. ...

 

I refuse to round up

 

Get ready to round up: Treasury set to halt penny production

 

 

 

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

 

House Republican tax bill passes ‘SALT’ deduction cap of $40,000. Here’s who benefits 

 

... Enacted via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA, of 2017, there’s currently a $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction, and raising that cap has been a priority for certain House lawmakers in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey and California. Filers must itemize deductions to claim the tax break for SALT.

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:

 

 

 

 

 

The No Taxes On Tips gimmick is unfair to janitors, teachers, and fast food workers

 

When core pce inflation was above 2.5% year over year for 27 straight years, we had 10Y yields well above 5 and 30-year mortgages well above 7.5 to go with it

 1967-1993, inclusive.

 

 

US20Y auction average yield 5.047 vs. 4.81 previously lol

This is the sort of stuff which makes me think America is finished

 

Musk has been Yezhoved

 

HHS Poverty Guidelines for 2025

 The current average Social Security check is $1,999.97, minus $185 for the Medicare premium, equals $1,814.97 monthly, times 12 equals $21,779.64 annually.

 

Democrat US House math suffers another blow: Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) succumbs to cancer at age 75

 CNBC reported here.

House Democrats will now have three vacancies and a caucus of 212 vs. 220 for the GOP. 

Representatives Turner (TX-18) and Grijalva (AZ-7) died in March.