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https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/2029022173055135832 John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·50mThat's assuming they can get all them underway at once.They usually can't deploy more than one third.British Miss@CleansedTweets·12hI am blown away that this is the size of the UK's navy in 2026. Shocked. I had no clue it had been reduced to this tiny flotilla. 😭

Deep in the Taurus Mountains, an unexcavated ancient city still waits. Selge: hidden, silent, and far older than Rome itself. This is its story. Selge: The Unexcavated Ancient City Hidden Above the Canyon | 21:44 Rumiseus -- Lost Civilizations | 426 subscribers | 392 views | March 1, 2026

Qatar's Foreign Ministry said Iran's attacks have crossed "every red line" and condemned the strikes which targeted civilian areas and facilities. Iran did not just target military facilities but all of Qatari territory including Doha airport and gas facilities, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry told reporters on Tuesday. Qatar also shot down two Iranian fighters jets who entered its airspace on Monday. "Red lines have already been crossed," Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, told reporters. "The attack on our sovereignty, the blatant attack on our people, on the security and safety of our nation has already crossed every...

Today, the most important developments come from the Huliaipole direction. Here, north of the main stronghold, Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian positions and are expanding their advance. Russian defenses began to fall apart more quickly than anticipated, allowing even deeper penetration by Ukrainian forces. Recently, the Ukrainian command reported restoring control over more than 400 square kilometers through counterattacks, while daily combat intensity in the direction has reached roughly fifty engagements per day. As Ukrainian forces regain control over key terrain, they improve their ability to observe Russian movement, making it harder for Russian forces to reposition without being...

Ukraine is offering to share its hard-won battlefield lessons on Iranian drones with allies now confronting the same threat it has for years, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warning that no country can assume it’s fully protected from the kind of drone barrages Russia unleashes nightly. “Everyone can now see that Ukraine’s experience in defense is, in many respects, irreplaceable,” Zelensky said in a post to X Monday urging deeper cooperation with partners. “We are ready to share this experience and help those nations that helped Ukraine this winter and throughout this war. We are ready to work on developing...

The modern international order rests on a foundational promise: states must resolve disputes peacefully, and force may be used only as a last resort and only within the bounds of law. The US helped build this system after World War II, embedding these principles in the UN Charter and in its own Constitution. Yet the US military operations in Venezuela in January 2026 and in Iran on February 28, 2026 represent a sharp break from these commitments. Both actions were undertaken without United Nations authorization and without congressional approval, raising profound questions about legality, constitutional governance, and the erosion of...

A Portland council meeting was shocked into silence after a member asked the first Latino councilman to repeat what he said in English, despite him speaking the language perfectly. Councilor Juan Carlos González had responded to a question posed by fellow member Mary Nolan about an agenda item dealing with the city's Supportive Housing Services The Oregonian first reported. Nolan, who goes by they/them pronouns, had asked the bill's sponsors, which includes González, to define what they meant by regionalism in the policy. 'My concern and worry is that in the definition of regionalism, you're moving forward, or that you...

ollowing an obvious terror attack in Austin, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott is sounding the alarm on the threat of Iranian sleeper cells and other “lone wolf” Islamist actors: ‘Exactly what happened here in Austin, Texas, and you oftentimes see when there’s a war breaking out like this, where the United States may be going against a country like Iran, that you could have either sleeper cells or lone wolfs [sic] acting,’ Abbott continued. The threat is not new, and it’s not surprising. Just last year, the Institute for Economics and Peace released a report on new data from the Global...

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More than four out of every five dead black vultures examined by University of Georgia researchers tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The actual toll of the virus on the integral species is likely exponentially higher, though, the researchers warned. These birds may “represent tens or hundreds of thousands of black vultures,” said Dr. Nicole Nemeth, lead author of the study and head of UGA’s Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study’s research and diagnostic service. Nemeth is also an associate professor in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Black vultures’ indiscriminate...

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Sir Keir Starmer's unpopularity crisis deepened last night as a bombshell national poll put the Greens second – ahead of Labour. Zack Polanski's party has also leapfrogged the Tories following last week's by-election humiliation for the Prime Minister. It prompted warnings that Labour will be forced to form a 'scary coalition of the Left' with Mr Polanski, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SNP at the next election. Support for the Greens is now at 21 per cent, up by four points in the week since their victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, according to the YouGov voting...

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Scientists think they may have discovered an ancient Roman board game with a little help from artificial intelligence. Did AI Just Solve an Ancient Roman Mystery? | 14:14Dig It With Raven | 76.7K subscribers | 12,122 views | March 1, 2026

BREAKING: NY AG Letitia James has issued a letter to NYU Langone ORDERING them to resume the genital and chemical castration of CHILDREN after the hospital shut down its transgender youth program. This is how desperate Democrats are to mutilate your kids.

WINDHAM, N.H. — The son of superstar singer Cher and Greg Allman is in jail in New Hampshire after he was arrested for a second time this weekend. Elijah Blue Allman was arrested Sunday in Windham and is accused of breaking into a house on Ministerial Road through the back door. According to an affidavit, a woman inside the home called 911 while hiding in a closet. When police arrived, they found that a glass pane in the back door had been shattered, and Allman was sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette. Police said he told officers the homeowner...

The “Life in Venice” housing development, a multibillion-dollar replica of the Italian city on the Chinese coast, stands silent. But in recent years the remote, partially abandoned complex has drawn unlikely new residents like Sasa Chen, a burned-out young Chinese woman who until recently worked a high-earning finance job in Shanghai, China’s bustling commerce hub. The appeal? Chen pays just 1200 RMB, or $168, a month for her apartment in faux Venice in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. It’s so cheap that it's allowed Chen to retire at the tender age of 28. Experts say Chen is part of...

MAGA Texas Attorney General is expected to win the Texas Republican Senate primary today according to the Polymarket Poll. Paxton, a staunch conservative and MAGA favorite is leading in the Polymarket Poll over RINO John Cornyn by 60 Points! Paxton is well known for fighting election fraud in the state of Texas. Ken Paxton also filed the lawsuit in 2020 contesting the election in four states where Biden reportedly defeated President Trump with mysterious late-night ballot drops. 126 US representatives supported Paxton’s case. 23 states joined Paxton and Texas in the lawsuit.

“Washington and Erbil, Iraq — The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN. The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said. Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect....

According to WalletHub’s 2026 “Best States to Live In” study, New Mexico ranks dead last in the nation — a sobering distinction that underscores years of troubling trends in education, health, and public safety. The annual analysis compares all 50 states across 51 separate indicators, including affordability, economic performance, education and health outcomes, quality of life, and safety. While some states perform strongly in certain categories and poorly in others, New Mexico’s overall placement at No. 50 signals broad, structural weaknesses that continue to drag down the state’s standing nationwide. WalletHub assigns New Mexico an overall score of 39.68, the...