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Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled an enemy assault near Prudyanka in the Kharkiv direction. The enemy also unsuccessfully tried to conduct assault operations near Mazanivka in the Slavyansk direction. This is stated in the operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion as of 6:00 a.m. on July 3 on Facebook, Censor.NET reports. Thus, the one hundred and thirtieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian nation to the Russian military invasion began. No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions. According to...

Local people of Lisichansk celebrate Russian forces rescuing them from ukronazi/bandera savages

The conservative supermajority has weaponized this harmful judicial philosophy as a way to embrace a racist, patriarchal narrowing of political rights. Even as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court was sworn in Thursday, the slate of rulings from the newly empowered, right-wing and originalist court majority this term has made it clearer than ever that the court is motivated by a reliance on the white supremacist patriarchy of the Constitution’s framers. With Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade last week, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the...

As crime continues to roil economic and social life in post-George Floyd, post-COVID Chicago, getting policing and criminal justice right are crucial. City officials are failing at that task.We’re already seen anemic rates of arrest and prosecutions in Chicago, accompanied by finger-pointing between politicians over crime and the court system. And years of no support from city leadership, anti-policing legislation and the damaging rhetoric of the “defund” movement have taken a toll on Chicago police morale and manpower.All that has spread the police force so thin that, in 2021, one of law enforcement’s most basic functions, responding to high-priority emergency...

Nearly 9 out of 10 recent student debt borrowers say Joe Biden's campaign pledge to cancel at least $10,000 of college debt affected their decision-making. And a big majority think he'll do more than that. The survey results come as Biden is reportedly considering $10,000 cancellations for federal college borrowers earning under $150,000 a year.At the same time, Biden faces a decision over whether to allow student debt repayments to resume after several pandemic-era pauses, but at a time when surging inflation gives postponement advocates more ammo. Absent signing off on his fifth extension, borrowers would resume payments after August...

Prominent Wall Street economists like Mark Zandi, investing luminaries like ARK Invest's Cathie Wood and executives like JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon can make recession predictions until they're blue in the face, but their guidance will remain just that — an economic forecast. That's because, in the United States, the economy isn't broadly and officially considered to be in a recession until a relatively unknown group of eight economists says so. The economists, who serve together as the Business Cycle Dating Committee, are hand-selected by and work under the umbrella of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a...

Welcome to The Bicycle Thread. A monthly PING List for bicycle enthusiasts to share experiences, information and ideas.

How to get your baggage to come out first at the luggage carousel Of course, this will never be a perfect science, but according to airport ramp worker and gate agent Thomas Lo Sciuto, there is one way to increase your odds of bag coming out first. He writes, “your best option is to be one of the last passengers to check your bags. Bags will always be loaded front to back on the bag carts, so if you check in last your bags will be in the last bag cart, which will make them the last on the aircraft,...

Two weeks ago, a NATO blockade of Kaliningrad, an outpost of Russia, was triggered when Lithuania blocked the transport of goods through Suwalki corridor. According to the Lithuanian justification they were following through on NATO sanctions against Russian goods. However, the escalation was very provocative toward Russia and discussions between Russia and NATO countries were tense. Apparently, Germany was increasingly concerned the blockade was creating a scenario where Russian military were going to escort the transport of railroad goods to Kaliningrad, and that would lead to escalated military conflict with Russia.

Veteran character actor Joseph "Joe" Turkel has passed away. The actor is best known for his key roles in genre classics Blade Runner and The Shining, but had an immense body of work stretched across five decades. Per Variety, Joe Turkel passed away at ​​St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., survived by his two sons Craig and Robert, and his brother David. While his cause of death is not currently public knowledge, the actor was 94 years old. Though he had not actively been in films or television since the late 1990s, his impact on popular culture was enormous.

DC is looking to change up its signature style and focus more on the horror elements. Recently they have touched on the more horrific side of things with DC vs Vampires and some of the stories released on the black label. The newest title to push the boundaries of the horror label is DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock Vs The Army of the Dead. While the title alone is a hook, the coolest part comes in the form of who is writing this six-issue miniseries. That is none other than horror icon Bruce Campbell himself. Star of the Evil Dead...

Greece is known today for its herbs that are used in teas and homeopathic remedies. But did you know that there are many herbs that the ancient Greeks used that are still popular in Greece today? The five herbs below were gathered for their vast range of medicinal, superstitious, and culinary attributes thousands of years ago in ancient Greece, and they are still used today. Herbs can be found growing wild all across Greece, with their scents perfuming the air, and they are particularly well-suited to the country’s mountain slopes and green fields. Ancient Greek herbs used today Oregano (Rigani)...

The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, who lived 2,500 years ago, applied his genius to music as well throughout his brilliant career, creating the Pythagorean comma as part of music theory, and his brilliance is still recognized to this day. The Pythagorean Theorem remains one of the fundamental concepts in the realm of mathematics and is still taught in schools across the world. The influence of the Ancient Greek thinker, who was born on the island of Samos in the year 570 BC, remains strong today in many realms—but, unfortunately, so do the mysteries surrounding the great Greek philosopher. Pythagoras’...

In yet another blow to the radical left’s attempts to mangle the language of Cervantes, the capital of one of South America’s largest countries has said schools can no longer teach bastardized, woke Spanish. Buenos Aires City Hall recently announced it was banning the use of so-called inclusive Spanish in the city’s schools. According to the city’s mayor, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, using e, x, and @, in written Spanish will no longer be acceptable. “Teachers have to respect the rules of the Spanish language because children have to master the language as it is,” said Larreta, as reported by the...

Woke Weirdness: This Girl Says She's a Non-Binary Bird

The long-running children’s program Sesame Street and its most iconic character Elmo have once again been conscripted into promoting the social priorities of the federal government, this time with a social media clip about the furry red Muppet receiving a COVID-19 vaccine to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.“You were super duper today, getting your COVID vaccine Elmo,” Elmo’s father says in the clip, meant to promote the recently-authorized doses of the Pfizer and Moderna jabs for children as young as six months. “I had a lot of questions about Elmo getting the COVID vaccine. Was it safe? Was it...

At 10:34 a.m. on June 27, police responded to the 8200 block of Sous Vide Way to an Amazon Delivery station after a report of threats. An officer spoke with multiple people there who said the suspect, identified as Aceves, was planning a mass shooting at the business. Detectives were notified and the comments were taken as a “legitimate potential mass shooting threat.” Aceves was located and contacted by detectives. During the investigation “credible information to support the threat was developed,” and an AR-15 was seized from Aceves’ location.

Watchdog group American Transparency is not pleased with how the government is monkeying around with taxpayer dollars. In a review of federal discretionary spending over the past two years, the group discovered a number of federally funded projects such as studies on zombified cats, toilet cameras, and gambling pigeons. Here is a look at some of its most striking findings from the group's annual Where’s The Pork report. $477,121 on transgender monkeys A grant from the National Institutes of Health funded research that involved injecting male monkeys with hormones intended to transform them into female monkeys. The goal of the...

CERN is set for a series of events starting on July 3, 2022, with the first celebrations of the ten-year anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. On July 5, 2022, there will be collisions at unprecedented energy levels at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC, which is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is at the center of conspiracy theories surrounding CERN. Scientists have posited that we can use gravity to test for the possibility that other dimensions exist, and the LHC has been critically looked at for this reason. "One way of seeing...

U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Tuesday sentenced the former president of a local postal workers union to five years of probation and six months of house arrest for embezzling $80,000. Scott E. Rodgers, 51, was also ordered to repay the money. Rodgers embezzled a total of $80,756. From 2016, when he became president of Postal Mail Handlers Local 314, to April 2020, Rodgers made four unauthorized ATM withdrawals from the union account and used the union debit card for personal purchases including meals, fuel, transportation, shopping, and travel. . . . . . The union’s former treasurer, Yvette...