US: “No ceasefire”

Also US (Trumpublicans): “No arms for Ukraine either”

Ukraine: “Hey, we’re dying over here, we need ammunition”

The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.

Republicans allegedly want to give those funds to the Border Patrol and to build the Great Wall, not to feed your theoretical homeless woman.

Actually they don’t really care about that either, which is why an additional $14 billion for border security isn’t enough for them.

And, the aid packages promptly failed in both the House and Senate…

Harley is a British de-mining volunteer in Ukraine, organizing, training and equipping others to find, disarm and remove mines and other UXO (unexploded ordinance)

And jeez, there are so many mines to clear.

Ukraine will need about 757 years to be de-mined using conventional techniques.

The dude has XL-sized balls of Ukrainium.

I’m glad he made it to safety alive.

It would be a shame if a few dozen explosive drones were to suddenly show up and blow it to pieces…

There are plenty of crops that have to be tended and harvested by hand: Most green leafy vegetables for example.

This opens those fields to dual use alongside power generation, which might reduce agricultural use of fossil fuels, and provide shade for field workers which is especially dangerous with climate change raising heat levels.

Here’s a link to the actual clip: https://twitter.com/kucukmoskovali/status/1706622934234607737

The part showing Sokolov is very brief, a couple of seconds at the end of the twitter video.

He doesn’t move, his eyes are closed behind his glasses, and he’s propped up against a pillow.

It could be a video of a photo.

Not very convincing that he’s healthy, if not dead.

I am waiting for “Russian artillery shells archaeological site”

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry held a procurement procedure from September 2020 to July 2022 for a company to repair and maintain the S-300 systems.

Only one candidate was admitted, Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern, which is owned by the Russian state. However, it turned out that it did not have the ability to keep the missile systems in working order.

“Unserviceable” in this case doesn’t mean the missile systems aren’t working, but that future maintenance is going to be a problem because Bulgaria doesn’t have the technicians and supplies to keep them in working order up to military standards.

So yes, Ukraine would be getting functional S-300 systems.

Hmm, the link doesn’t go anywhere…

An unconfirmed rumor that these missiles killed Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov

I’m sure all mine clearing equipment has its strengths and weaknesses, and a “massive armored vehicle” with a plow is no different.

What I’m not seeing many of is a small maneuverable vehicle that can go into the treelines and take out the antipersonnel mines and cluster munitions.

There are a few in development like the Iron Caterpillar but not nearly enough to make the treelines safe for civilians.

The “friendly” fire on the infantry was not an accident if the unit was trying to retreat or surrender.

Still, better than using that ammo on AFU troops.

Birds Aren’t Real.

Might as well get more aid through before McConnell kicks the bucket or Trump gets re-elected…

You’re right, it’s kind of impossible to rule over a territory as large, populated by tribes as diverse as Russia, without some kind of iron fisted imperialism.

Chinese history under dynasties of brutal emperors, and now the brutal Chinese Communist Party, is also a testament to that.

I’d personally prefer to have Russia’s internal security, i.e. their internal occupying forces, weakened enough by being trashed in Ukraine for multiple ethnic republics to break off and chart their own path.

Navalny’s like the Emmanuel Goldstein character in 1984: Demonized token opposition who’s just ineffective enough to let live. I know I know, they tried to poison him even…

This is as opposed to Prigozhin, who was immediately assassinated on showing some worthwhile opposition.

That explosive they dropped must have been bigger than it looked, or it managed to trigger some explosives inside the IFV.

Fair point. But we’ll never know.