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Ukraine’s National Development Institution has selected the first banks that will implement a preferential leasing program for defense industry enterprises, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has reported. The list includes Ukreximbank, PUMB, and MTB Bank. The program provides financing for the development, manufacture, repair, modernization, and disposal of weapons, militaryContinue Reading

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Flames have swallowed a transformer feeding one of Russia’s biggest frontline arsenals. The pro-Ukrainian partisan movement ATESH reported disabling a substation in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast. The move is disrupting supplies to Russian forces operating on the Kharkiv axis. ATESH partisans have conducted sabotage and intelligence operations inside Russia since the first daysContinue Reading

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Freepoint Eco-Systems seeks to become a major player in so-called “chemical recycling.” Some residents and environmental advocates are fighting back. By James Bruggers Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even larger “chemical recycling” factory planned for Arizona by theContinue Reading

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Former President Rumen Radev wins big in Bulgaria’s eighth election on an ‘anti-corruption’ ticket., Bulgaria’s eighth parliamentary election in five years has concluded with former president Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party emerging as the clear winner. Radev will be the next prime minister. While pollsters predicted a win for RadevContinue Reading

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If you’ve spent any time poking around the self-hosting world, you’ve likely come across containers. They let you run software in isolated environments that carry their own dependencies, keeping things clean and predictable without the extra weight of a full virtual machine. That’s made them a staple for everything fromContinue Reading

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American writer Barbara Tuchman remarked that “war is the unfolding of miscalculations.” As part of those calculations, the value of each of the lives lost to war should not be measured any differently, and yet in reality the lives and deaths of some in the world continue to be countedContinue Reading

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In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I’ve joined countless protests and vigils outside the court. In 2018, I was even arrested and held in detention for praying on itsContinue Reading

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Presidencies birth their own rhetorical shorthand. Bill Clinton is remembered for the definition of “is.” TV pitch man Traitor 47 has given us numerous options, including the current frontrunner, “The cruelty is the point.” Years from now, though, I suspect this administration’s lasting phrasal monument will be, “Everyone is 12Continue Reading

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FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic Monday, after a sweeping report detailing his excessive drinking and unexplained absences. In a 19-page filing, lawyers for Patel alleged that The Atlantic had published an “article replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroyContinue Reading