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During Holy Week, a priest visited a Ukrainian drone unit near Zaporizhzhia. He prayed with the combatants, then sprinkled holy water on a strike drone before it flew against Russian lines. It was St. Augustine's conundrum in its newest form.
My new piece with Tony Pfaff in @ForeignPolicy on @Pontifex, autonomous weapons, and why just war theory needs a rethink, not retirement. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/14…
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"Mr. Trump was briefed in October 2025 that Ms. Huang had a relationship with Mr. Huang and was presumed to be a spy, but the president chose not to do anything with that intelligence." - NY Times
Hmm, I wonder why...
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The russians have lost more men KIA in Ukraine over the past 5 years than the United States has lost in every war over the last 120 years combined.
I now have the data to reevaluate my previous estimates, so why not?
Until 2024, Mediazona and the leaked Russian death register match almost month by month. From 2025, Mediazona starts falling behind. By late 2025, it has recorded only about a third of the deaths already in the register.
By the end of 2025, the leaked register itself also starts falling behind, as the confirmation lag catches up with it. The names aren't necessarily missing. They're just slow to appear.
So I revised my GSUA ratios to fit the register: from 1:4.5 in 2022–23 down to 1:2 since February 2025.
On the chart, the black line is GSUA adjusted by those ratios, and the dashed line is the register. They track each other closely until the register's recent months start filling in.
At these ratios, Mediazona's list should eventually reach around 607,000 names.
There is still room for refinement. Early Mediazona figures exceed the projected values, while SBS statistics suggest the KIA ratio may fall further in 2026. So I expect the final estimate to land somewhere between 580,000 and 620,000 dead.
Even if the leaked dataset is fake, it's still useful to know what the other side estimates. You are free to disagree with those numbers, but they're worth examining.
And Mr. Trump wants AI companies to "self-regulate."
Weak board, no successor — governance nightmare semafor.com/article/11/09/20…
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That sound you're hearing? George Marshall, Dick Cheney, and Ash Carter rolling over in their graves.
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A new law could remove what has been described as "the last remaining discriminations against Catholics" in Parliament, nearly 200 years after Irishman Daniel O'Connell fought for more rights for Catholics at Westminster bbc.in/4iupq7x
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Yes, this is a sensational story, but put the tabloids aside for a second.
Donald Trump is selling America’s security to our foreign adversaries.
In the spring, Marco Rubio warned senior Trump officials that Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was involved with a woman U.S. intelligence believed was a Chinese spy, recruited to push for American advanced chips to be made available in China — the exact policy that Jensen Huang was lobbying for in Washington.
Meanwhile, Trump has purchased roughly $6 million in Nvidia stock this year, including a $1 million purchase just a week before Trump’s commerce department approved selling Nvidia chips to China.
So the questions are simple. Who in the Trump Administration knew? When did they know it? And knowing it, why did they keep letting Huang make his case?
This is why an ethics bill that only covers Congress does not meet the moment. The conflicts aren’t confined to one branch. They run through the executive, they run through the agencies writing export rules, and they run through anyone with a financial stake in policy outcomes.
For all three branches of government: ban stock trading; ban prediction markets; ban the foreign gifts and investments, while you serve and for two years after. No exceptions.
America’s security and economic future can no longer afford the pay to play rules that Trump’s Washington runs on today.
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RT @MacFarlaneNews: ALERT: Federal judge Ana Reyes appoints former DC federal prosecutor Jessie Liu to investigate whether Trump Admin off…
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"Certains indices laissent penser que les trolls de Moscou se concentrent déjà sur l’élection présidentielle française du printemps prochain, estimant qu’un soutien à la candidate d’extrême droite Marine Le Pen pourrait ébranler le soutien de l’OTAN à l’Ukraine. [...] D’après ce que j’observe actuellement, j’ai l’impression qu’ils se concentrent vraiment sur la France », a déclaré le général Paul M. Nakasone, ancien chef de la NSA et du Cyber Command américain." nytimes.com/2026/11/05/us/po…
Doubling down on what lost the election. Trump is now more dangerous, not less. And especially until the new Congress is seated.
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To gain leverage over China, the U.S. must surrender some leverage over allies.
Self-restraint—via legislative limits on the White House's ability to tariff allies—can turn "allied scale" from concept into policy.
My latest in @ForeignAffairs:
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Kushner, Don Jr., and if the Democrats pass meaningful legislation: Don Veto.
Wow. This is amazing!
The incoming House Oversight Committee chairman @RobertGarcia just outlined the four main investigations that Democrats will be opening when they take back the house in January.
It’s about time!!
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“I'm just I'm disappointed because I was looking forward to that $5,000 check that we were all going to get.”
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has jokes after last nights Blue Wave midterm elections.
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There is one group of Americans who have every right to have lost faith in the American Experiment and the possibility of change through democracy. African Americans have been murdered, tortured, denied equal rights and protection simply for being Americans who wanted to be treated equally and vote.
When they lost elections, they didn't storm the Capitol in a violent attempt to throw out results.
They organized, registered more voters and kept faith with the promise of America.
Yesterday, that faith once again made history.
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Donald Trump's diesel deal with Vladimir Putin falters as tankers divert course away from the US coast - even as American fuel stockpiles hit 20-year low ft.com/content/f66ebf48-6d09… via @ft @alicemhancock
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Sen. Ossoff: Our task is not just to contain one president's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness beneath. This is a moment not for restoration, but for reformation. Because while the wealthy feast on inside information and official favors, America's forgotten families are treated to official indifference, working harder and harder while the treadmill just gets faster and steeper.