What is going on with all of these Roman sculpture pfps discovering 12th century Christian fan fiction?

Awkward situation at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today

As the US envoy for Sudan testified on how little attention Sudan gets, senators cycled out due to conflicting schedules, leaving for long periods only 1 senator in the hearing room (and 20 empty seats)

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Wagner Group - according to their version of events.

Every Senator attending this hearing emphasized concern about the external arms support being provided to the warring parties in #Sudan , and the UAE was the actor most often mentioned. Many also pushed for more sanctions on the RSF.

It took the Russian military nearly a year to advance 6km from the ravaged city of Bakhmut to Chasiv Yar.

But recent advances have been much faster, with units further south pushing forward 7km in less than two weeks, ⁦Fabrice Deprez⁩ reports on.ft.com/4bjIIWA

NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner, who has cited the alleged presence of anarchists and other outside agitators as a reason for NYPD action at Columbia, is also a professor at Columbia | SIPA.

I reached out to SIPA this morning to ask if…

With water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas, Georgian police have brutally cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, marking a significant deterioration of civil rights and a pro-Russia pivot in the EU candidate country.

Anastasia Stognei in Tbilisi: ft.com/content/f2867c…

The Assyrian bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who was attacked with a knife in church recently has a YouTube channel. This is the thumbnail for his video about losing an eye in that attack. Absolutely wild. youtu.be/dYLyBel88F0

Another addition to my library of mercenary history that I’m really enjoying digging into. Great work by Илья Барабанов and Denis Korotkov (and the Meduza crew) backed by loads of leaked documentation.

I’ll share some insights from their work in the days to come.

I wrote on the most recent Baltic GPS jamming. Thanks to Markus Jonsson for sharing their data, which triangulates the jammers’ location to near St Petersburg. Other sources say there is evidence of Russian jamming there. Most likely force protection. economist.com/the-economist-…

Russia using a missile with cluster munitions in the heart of Odesa. Five people were killed, many more maimed. A war crime as clear as it gets.

The other issue is that, for a junta desperate for revenue, kicking out Barrick Gold would be a big blow that no Russian operator would be able to fill in any reasonable space of time. Of course, there may be other reasons to do it, but that's why I remain skeptical.

I would add to this just a small thing, that part of the reason for support on both sides is because Russian thinking itself is split between those who value UAE over Egypt and vice versa

The GPS-jammer affecting aircrafts around Estonia is located in Russia, about halfway to St Petersburg from Narva, Estonia.

This is shown by plotting the highest density of intersecting radio horizons of jammed aircrafts on a map.

Further, a drone-based method supports it.🧵

Participants in the NIH study were told by CIA they had to participate if they and their families wanted to receive medical care. NIH was also sharing HIPPA protected information with the CIA. There is now a medical ethics review under way.

'No, 130 #Wagner contractors did not land in Chad' 👇

The road from Mongo to Abéché, Chad

The Burkina Faso military summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages on February 25, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. To date one of the worst war crimes ever conducted in the country. hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…