The American blockade has limited effectiveness because ships can just travel along the coast into Pakistani and then Indian coastal waters.

The American blockade has limited effectiveness because ships can just travel along the coast into Pakistani and then Indian coastal waters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__UF5R0Dok

Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.

Trump and Patel have moved the FBI relatively more toward politics and optics and away from the criminal justice mission.

FBI agents were pulled away from their work to focus on immigration, despite that ICE got massive funding and a mass of new ICE agents.

FBI agents determined that people were peacefully protesting and that there was nothing to investigate. The Trump administration ordered them to investigate anyways.

Some FBI agents were pushed out or forced to quit on principle. These were trained agents doing their jobs well, now out of the agency.

The way Trump runs the bureaucracy is similar to how many dictators run their bureaucracies. He hires, promotes, and fires based on loyalty, not competency. Overtime, this makes agencies less effective, less principled, less competent, more corrupt, and more loyal to the dictator. This is how many dictators have ineffective governments, and their people suffer as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm7n_74Wh6Y

We’re Running Low on Munitions—Just Seven Weeks Into the War

An army more vulnerable to the flu, in both training and war, is a weaker army compared to one less vulnerable to the flu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQoQdnERus

Texas can require Ten Commandments in classrooms, US appeals court rules

Utter nonsense. Requiring public schools to post the ten commandments in their classrooms is forcing a particular religion down the throat of every child, using taxpayer funds. It is advocating the value of the Bible over other religions or non-religion. If a Muslim majority school district required every classroom to post lines from the Quran, people would be outraged. Unless the class is literally studying religion or that area of history, posting religious texts is advocating that or those religions and is an act of establishing an official religion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-can-require-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-us-appeals-court-rules-231531502.html

Trump administration nears deal to rescue Spirit Airlines, WSJ reports

“The U.S. government will lend Spirit as much as $500 million in exchange for warrants to take a potential stake in the carrier, according to the report.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-administration-nears-deal-rescue-150532605.html

Trump may send Afghan allies who were promised new lives in the U.S. to Congo instead, advocacy group says

“Hundreds of Afghan refugees who helped the United States fight the Taliban may be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo after the Trump administration halted their U.S. resettlement, an advocacy group said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African country where the Afghans have no ties, is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with more than 600,000 refugees there already after decades of armed conflict.

Trump has blocked virtually all paths to the U.S. for Afghan allies, more than 190,000 of whom were resettled in the U.S. from August 2021 until mid-2025. Afghan allies and their family members have been detained by U.S. immigration officials, with one of them dying last month after less than 24 hours in custody. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the death of Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was being investigated.)”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-may-send-afghan-allies-081118731.html

The ‘family tree’ model of ancestry is all wrong | David Reich: Full Interview

History involved many genetic replacements. When countries find ancient bones buried in their lands, it’s usually the case that the people who live there now are not related to those ancient people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0uKLW07Jlg