ACLU helped defeat plan to seize Russian oligarchs’ funds for Ukraine (Washington Post)

ACLU denounces bill to allow seized Russian oligarch assets to fund Ukraine (The Hill)

The White House is freaked out that Putin’s next big win could be in Paris (Politico)

War won’t derail EU clean energy push, analysts say (Axios)

Boats, helicopters, art: Europe freezes $32 billion of oligarchs’ assets (Reuters) It’s all about the oligarchs.

EU agrees to freeze assets of Sberbank boss, Putin’s daughters  (Reuters) Pillage first, then burn.

Ban European flights and car use in cities to hurt Putin, report urges (The Guardian)

Global Food Prices Explode Higher In March As Ukraine Supply Shock Strikes

Bank Of Russia Eases More Capital Controls, Allowing Euro & USD Withdraws

Europe’s last dictator

NATO Agrees To Provide ‘New & Heavier’ Weapons To Ukraine After Czech Tanks Arrive  This is a great opportunity for all of the nations with obsolete Warsaw Pact hardware on their hands to get rid of it, gain some Cool Kids cred, and update with modern gear at somebody else’s expense.

German Defense Minister: No More Bundeswehr Weapons For Ukraine

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I have always wondered why nobody ever built a graphical programming lanuage (i.e. a language where, rather than coding in words, one dropped symbols on a ‘coding surface’ and connected them with symbols representing what you could do, such as branches and loops). The SQL Server Integration Services design tool does this to a certain degree, but only at a very high level.

Hey, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

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Late last month, Donald Trump filed suit against the conspirators who conceived and propagated the falsehood that he had colluded with the Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Like most of Trump’s ventures, the suit is ambitious, even grandiose. Trump is suing, among others, Hillary Clinton, the DNC, Marc Elias, the international law firm Perkins Cole, Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, ABC, and other yet to be named media corporations. He is suing them for, among other things, injurious falsehood, computer fraud, theft of trade secrets, malicious prosecution, and violation of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) act.

Most people can’t push back effectively when the Woke Mob comes for them because they can’t afford to pursue their formal legal remedeis. Trump, however, has deep pockets and doesn’t take shit from anybody.

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It’s hard to Follow The Science when they’re just making it up.

Hacker News.

I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion on inflation, as a result of an increased supply of money in the system. Some have suggested that the stimulus checks increased the supply of money which may have, in part, led to inflation. I’m curious, if the government instituted a universal basic income, would this lead to inflation?

PhD in econometrics speaking, here’s my handy guide to macro-economics:
– The main variables of interest are (aggregate) real production / income (GDP/GDI), unemployment and inflation (arguably in that order)
– Nobody knows much wrt the causes, effects and future trajectories of any of these. Not professional Ivy League economists who publish in journals like AER, QJE, JPE or Econometrica, nor traders getting paid millions at hedge funds or prop trading desks, nor fringe bloggers, gold/crypto-bugs or neophytes from different fields (traditionally from physics, but probably increasingly from CS/AI/ML). Especially beware when they sound very sure of themselves, often using correct wonky economic jargon or details like the plumbing of money flows. Top academic economist are at least (usually) somewhat honest that they know very very little.
– Even if someone did know anything, 3rd parties like you or I can’t distinguish the Real Truth from quackery.
– The root cause of this knowledge deficiency is the inability to run proper controlled experiments. Pretty much no theory about macro-economics is convincingly testable/falsifiable, except banal trivialities like we can’t make everybody rich by sending everyone a $10M check. This will not change in our lifetime, if ever.
– All the writing on macro-economics is story-telling and catering to their specific audiences. Academics write foremost for other academics to gain a position at a prestigious faculty (and incidentally to influence politics). Crypto-bugs write to sell you crypto-coins. Fringe bloggers like Shadowstats write to get newsletter signups and ad-dollars. Most of them employ the effective mechanism that the reader is initiated to advanced/semi-hidden knowledge, which makes the reader feel better about themselves.
Given this, the answer to your question is: maybe, maybe not, who knows?

The YCombinator Hacker News site often has more than the tech-related stuff you might expect. Highly recommended.

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These tiny satellites uncover daily images of climate change, Chinese labor camps, and hidden government areas – and make them publicly available.

We have the technology.

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The media consensus here in the UK is very much that everyone involved in the event is an extremist. Trying to determine that for oneself is rather hard. For one thing, the opinions of the majority of my parent’s generation would now be considered incredibly extreme, as indeed is anyone who upholds even the mildest version of, say, traditional religious ethics and orthodoxy. What is extreme is shifting every year, and you can join the ranks of extremists just by pausing too long on the path of inexorable progress.

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Where are workers moving to? Away from cities, for starters. A majority (52.5 percent) of the Upwork respondents reported wanting to move somewhere with more affordable housing, and even more (54.7 percent) said they were planning to move “beyond regular commute distances” (more than two hours away).

More recently, the Associated Press reported on a trend of real estate companies “advertising themselves to people on the right, saying they can take them out of liberal bastions such as Seattle and San Francisco and find them homes in places such as rural Idaho.”

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Savage said clients he works with are “simply tired of the tyranny” — soft-on-crime policies, “insane regulations killing small businesses” and immoral public schools — and are “choosing to flee to a state and locale that they see as a bastion for liberty in dark times.”

U.S. seizes superyacht of Russian billionaire close to Putin (Washington Post) All oligarchs, all of the time.

US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin (Associated Press)  All oligarchs, all of the time.

“Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory”: Sergey Karaganov on what Putin wants (The New Statesman)

Ukraine is part of the price we’re paying for Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policies: George Zadigian

Sanctions on Russia are a reminder that shame works on oligarchs (Washington Post) All oligarchs, all the time.

Putin is following the Bosnia playbook

Navy, Marine Leaders See Ukraine Invasion as a Chance to Prepare for China

Finnish Intelligence Officer Explains the Russian Mindset

How many refugees can Eastern Europe take?

Is Putin’s war turning genocidal?

Zelensky Rejected German Security Proposal Before Russian Invasion

Playing pipeline politics

Flag-Switching On Russian Ships Hits Record Amid Sanctions

Romania Issues Potassium Iodide Pills To Citizens As War In Neighboring Ukraine Rages 

Seized Russian Yachts Create Serious Headaches For Marinas As Unpaid Bills Pile Up

Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania

EU Pushes To Break “Energy Taboo” With Proposed Ban On Russian Coal Imports

Washington Blocks Russian Dollar Bond Payments In Latest Attempt To Isolate Moscow

Putin, Xi Open To ‘Direct Talks’ With Zelensky As Pentagon Fails To Confirm Russian Involvement In Bucha Killings

Watch: Zelenksy Lays Out Case On Bucha Mass Killings Before UN Security Council

EU Urgently Readies Energy Sanctions After Kremlin Challenges Bucha Narrative

Our Ukraine Dilemmas

Ukraine cannot win this war

Heated Exchange Between Gaetz & Pentagon Chief On Russia, China: “I’m Embarrassed By Your Leadership!”

NATO: Russia Regrouping To Try To Take Ukraine’s East

Same Russia, Different War Peggy Noonan.

When do we lift the sanctions?

Taylor Lorenz Is a Dangerous Sociopath

Russian Space Head To Halt ISS Cooperation Citing “Illegal Sanctions”

Hungary election: PM Viktor Orban criticises Ukraine’s Zelensky as he wins vote (BBC)

Is Putin banking on an endless war? (CNN)

Will western leaders cut and run as the costs of the Ukraine war mount? (The Guardian)

Stunning images inside Russian grocery store show dire situation

Ret. general warns Putin stalling to distract West from his real objective (CNN)

Fareed’s Take: Ukraine is fighting an anti-imperialist war (CNN)

US using Ukraine as cover to lock us into fossil fuels for years to come (The Hill)

UK prevents use of private jet linked to Russian oligarchs (Reuters) It’s obviously just crawling with oligarch cooties.

The next phase of the Ukraine war

Atrocities in the Ukraine

Pollsters Humiliated As 2 Pro-Putin Parties Win Avalanche Victories In European Elections

Conflict in Ukraine Used to Push Green Agenda

What Ukraine Teaches Us About Scottish & Irish Nationalism

Which Nations Are On Russia’s “Unfriendly” List?

Ukraine Shows Hating Israel Isn’t About the Palestinians

Niall Ferguson: Seven Worst-Case Scenarios From The War In Ukraine

Rabobank: Anyone Thinking Zelenskiy Is About To Sign A Peace Deal Making Territorial Concessions Is Delusional

EU Preps New Russia Sanctions After Bucha Massacre Which Kremlin Calls Staged “Provocation”

US Will Ask To Suspend Russia From UN Human Rights Council

Russia Threatens To Limit Vital Exports Of Agriculture Products To “Friendly” Countries Only

Biden Vows More Russia Sanctions, Urging ‘War Crimes Trial’ For Putin

Russia’s war crimes in Bucha are just the beginning

Putin Driving Up Oil Prices Is An “Outrageous Lie”: USF Geology Professor Dr. Marc Defant

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ‘eyes back’ on land warfare: Army acquisition chief

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David Horowitz authored this essay on the progressive mind. Too many conservatives fail to appreciate the radical evil that lies at the heart of progressivism by, e.g., giving progressives credit for good intentions and assuming that the disasters caused by their policies are inadvertent. David disagrees.

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National Conservatism, if people have heard of it at all, is regarded by many in the English-speaking press as an extremist ideology. In 2020, when the first conference was held in Rome, Daniel Kawczynski MP was furiously criticised by the press for appearing at a conference that also included Victor Orban. Resentment at the hostility of the Anglo-American media still lingered, and I heard from multiple people who felt their movement had been cynically misrepresented by a journalistic establishment that is ideologically hostile to nationalism, even when nationalism is wedded (as many speakers suggested) to civil liberties, democracy, and anti-racism.

Big enough to drive a truck through.

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Memorization means purposely learning something so that you remember it with muscle memory; that is, you know the information without needing to look it up.

Every educator knows that memorization is passé in today’s day and age. Facts are so effortlessly accessible with modern technology and the internet that it’s understanding how to analyze them that’s important. Names, places, dates, and other kinds of trivia don’t matter, so much as the ability to logically reason about them. Today anything can be easily looked up.

But as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to understand that memorization is important, much more than we give it credit for. Knowledge is at our fingertips and we can look anything up, but it’s knowing what knowledge is available and how to integrate it into our existing knowledge base that’s important.

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The blight that is wheat took root 10,000 years ago, when Triticum aestivum, or bread wheat, was domesticated from wild grasses in the “Fertile Crescent” of the Middle East. Initially, the local Neolithics cultivated wheat alongside traditional hunter-gathering and incipient pastoralism (livestock farming). But wheat is a slave-master, demanding in its specific and daily needs, not least the endless — or so it seems to us who have ever grown the stuff — weeding. Wheat locked us into a seasonal cycle of planting, weeding and harvesting from which we have been unable to escape ever since. It also made us more sedentary, both in terms of chaining us to static settlements, and becoming less active. Guarding a wheat field from wild boar requires less energy than hunting wild boar; the lineal ancestor of the couch potato was the campfire bun.

“Carbs! Carbs will kill ya, kid! Stay away from carbs! You’ll thank me.”

How Russian oligarchs are finding safe havens outside the West (Washington Post)  All oligarchs, all ghd gimd.

Who is Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich? (Washington Post) All oligarchs, all the time.

Has the Ukraine war saved Orbán?

The Frozen Russian Superyachts (And Those That Got Away)  All oligarchs, all the time.

The war in Ukraine may have only just begun

Troll Farms Aren’t Actually as Strategic of a Weapon as the Kremlin and New York Times Assumed

Behind the Ukraine war  Lefty SF writer Charlie Stross has some thoughts.

IMF Warns That Sanctions Against Russia Threaten To Weaken The Dominance Of The Dollar

Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe Via Critical Pipeline

Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them (The Atlantic)

Roman Abramovich’s $1 Billion Five-Yacht Fleet Exposed  All oligarchs, all the time.

Ukraine Announces Million Dollars Reward Per Russian Helicopter, Fighter Jet, Warship

Putin’s Game Ends

China Accused Of Massive Ukraine Cyberattack Days Before Russian Invasion  We’ll get by with a little help from our friends….

Pope Frances For 1st Time Denounces Putin As “Potentate” Fomenting “Savage War” – Mulls Ukraine Trip

Google Threatens To Demonetize Publishers Over Ukraine Views

Foreign Threats Demand a Muscular Domestic Response

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There is a famous Wizard of Id cartoon in which the king is sitting on his throne when a messenger rushes in to say ‘The moat monsters are starving!” The next panel shows the king and the duke looking down into the moat from the top of a wall when another messenger rushes in to say “The peasants are revolting!” The king turns to the duke and says something on the order of “I think this could work out.”

So I see this article and think of the Amazon workers in New York who just voted to join a union. “I think this could work out.”

Can’t say he’s wrong.

Russian oil tankers are vanishing off the map

Gazprom shuts down pipeline, suspends gas exports to China

Russia says it’s building a new “democratic world order” with China

Second European country refusing to sanction Russia — a challenge to democracy

Ukraine has split the far-Right  There is no Right but the Far-Right.

Putin’s brutal war shows why we still need NATO

Lavrov: Russia, China Moving Towards Multipolar ‘Fair World Order’

Half Of Russia’s 20 Richest Men Haven’t Been Targeted By Western Sanctions  C’mon, let’s get with the program.

Will We See Drone Dogfights?

Biden’s Gaffe About Putin Could Have Serious Consequences for Ukraine

“Nuclear Catastrophe”: Ukraine Calls On UN To Force Russia Away From Chernobyl

INFORMATION WARFARE: Psyops In Ukraine

Putin Just Revealed Democracy’s Superpower

The Media Is The Number One Cause Of War Since 1898

India Mulls Russian Offer Of SWIFT Alternative For Ruble Payments As Lavrov Visits

Samsung Changes Name Of Smartphones After Ukraine Called For Letter ‘Z’ To Be “Criminalized”

Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global wheat crop

 I’ve Never Heard So Many Lies

As Putin’s New Iron Curtain Falls, Here’s How US Can Help Part It

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On Wednesday a top CNN legal analyst (not Jeffrey Toobin) said there is a realistic chance Biden could be indicted by the US government. Now the question we should be asking ourselves is: what if Hunter Biden actually gets indicted? Could Joe Biden’s presidency survive it? If history is any guide, then the answer is no.

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It is now apparent that the oligarchy has authorized the truth about Hunter Biden, and hence “the Big Guy”, to come out. One can see the end game: no re-election campaign for sure, but resignation a real possibility.

The key is timing. Is there any reason why the MSM acknowledgement of the truth that they buried could not remain buried? They still haven’t done an expose on the Russia hoax and various other slanders. Even the Durham investigation isn’t stampeding them. So it doesn’t seem that the timing is designed to get out in front of something momentous. It just seems that somebody has a plan that has been put into effect.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Regime-ology is a new field of study so the practitioners are still working out the tools and methods for interpreting regime activity. Unlike Kremlinology, on which regime-ology is modeled, the focus is not on a hierarchical structure. The Soviet empire was run by a vertical organization that operated like a corporation. The American empire is a horizontal organization modeled on the Mafia. It is a collection of elite gangster organizations jostling for power within the elite.

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Psychedelics catalyze the invention of better forms of life, imaginary and real. That was not just the hope of the 1960s counterculture but also of the scientists and activists who have paved the way for the current renaissance of hallucinogen research. But what counts as a better form of life?

Today, the classmate who gave me my first LSD trip for my eighteenth birthday does what he can to limit social inclusion of immigrants in Germany. He came to represent the far-right populist party Alternative für Deutschland in the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Consciousness expansion and rightist thought have never been mutually exclusive and they are currently reconnecting.

All You Need To Know About The Starstreak Missiles Now In The Hands Of Ukrainian Troops

Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Chief Says “Total Guerrilla Warfare” Coming Next

Chinese drone-maker DJI denies aiding Russia’s Ukraine invasion

“Going Dark” Is How Russian Ships Evade Sanctions   As an old Gunnery Sergeant once explained to me, ‘If they can’t find you, they can’t hurt you’.

Nuclear War Survival Skills

Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC

Biden Reveals The US Is Training Ukrainian Troops In Poland

So Why Is it Called “The Ukraine”?

Kremlin Warns Biden’s ‘Emotional’ Rhetoric Could Lead To “Something Irreparable & Dangerous” For Whole World

As Sanctions Bite, Average Russians Turn To Gold

Ukraine’s Inescapable Trade-Offs?

Taiwan Will Defend Differently Than Ukraine In Event Of Chinese Invasion: Expert

Letters of Marque and Reprisal  Emphasis on the ‘reprisal’.

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1. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like to do… and then you put a unique number next to each item. Now it’s an ordered list.
2. Prioritization(2): Only doing the top item on the list. You already have a giant todo list. Which thing are you actually going to finish?

ZMan.

Broadly speaking, a crisis comes in two forms. There is the internal crisis driven by irreconcilable contradictions. Then there is the external crisis that is driven by some unusual occurrence like a natural disaster. The latter tests mostly the ability of the system to weather the storm and recover. The former tests the ability of the system to radically alter itself in order to address the contradiction. This is the most dangerous crisis and the one that few systems survive.

Of course, the internal crisis can be papered over for a long time until some external crisis comes along and makes that impossible. The external crisis puts pressure on the system, forcing it to respond under duress. The internal problems are then made obvious as the system responds poorly. Efforts to quickly resolve those issues in order to address the immediate problems just create new problems. This was the process that led to the French Revolution.

The Antiplanner peeks behind the curtain.

Now that the war in Ukraine has revealed that Europe is even more dependent on foreign oil than the United States, Americans can smugly sit back and say, “If only those Europeans acted more like, you know, Europeans, they wouldn’t be in this fix.” Because, as everyone knows, Europeans travel mostly by electric public transit and high-speed trains, so they aren’t dependent on oil to get around by car or airplane.

Russia is dying out

Will Chechnya’s gamble in Ukraine backfire?

The number that puts Vladimir Putin at risk (CNN)

Could Vladimir Putin Be Overthrown? (Newsweek)

New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate An End To US Deadly Sanctions?

All Stocks On Moscow Exchange To Trade Monday 

Ukraine: where are we?

Stop the Russian Invasion of America

Stockman: Washington Is Delirious With War Fever (For No Reason To Do With Homeland Security)

LOGISTICS: Starved Of Mobility and Protection

Greenwald: Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore Dangers Of US Using Ukraine For Proxy War

Russian tank manufacturer shuts down production

Ukraine using Clearview AI to identify slain Russian soldiers

Hunting with Drones

Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails

Ukraine Says Russia Seeking To Split Country “Like North & South Korea”

China APT group using Russia invasion, COVID-19 in phishing attacks

WP: Ukraine War Helps with “Communicating the Need for [Climate] Sacrifice”

The Antiplanner makes an obvious suggestion.

The recent earthquake off the coast of Japan derailed a high-speed train and forced East Japan Railway to shut down the rail line. Fixing the line, the company admitted, may take “a considerable amount of time.”

The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown  (The New Yorker)

Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait Reopens After Suspected Naval Mine “Neutralized”

Dirty bomb ingredients go missing from Chornobyl monitoring lab

Russia, Ukraine Conduct First Soldier-For-Soldier Prisoner Swap Of War

Velshi Wonders if Ukrainians Benefit From Being White Christians

CBS Compared Ukraine’s Independence to Kid Running Away From Home

Daily Mail Drops Hunter Biden Emails Linking Him To Ukraine Biolab Funding

Dubai’s Economy Booms As Wealthy Russians Seek Refuge In Local Property Market

Regime Change In Russia

War shakes Europe path to energy independence, climate goals (Associated Press)

No more dithering over Ukraine

PEACE TIME: Trusting Russia Does Not Pay

Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think

A Manufactured World Crisis?

Leader Of Lugansk People’s Republic Hints At Referendum To Join Russia “In Near Future”

Will Russian mercenaries conquer the world?

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

“Listen, Viktor!”: Hungary Berated by the Deep State for War Hesitancy

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Traditional weights and measures emerged organically as responses to the requirements of human life. Just as scientific hypotheses are proposed to answer intellectual questions, so too are forms of life developed to answer the needs of life. In a reverse Gresham’s law, the good drive out the bad.

The foot, the mile and the pint are all human measures, emerging either from a human reference or for an understood human need. Unlike decimal systems, which can only be divided by 2 & 5, the old shilling — being 12 pennies — could be divided by 2, 3, 4 or 6. Such measures exist at the scale of daily life, and in a world increasingly alienated and atomised they help to bind us to the notion of place and dwelling. The pint is not simply an abstraction of fluid quantity: it’s a social activity, an anticipation and a pleasure.

One of the joys of being an American is that you don’t need to use the fucking metric system unless you choose to do so.

I think he was right the first time.

After crippling rounds of sanctions, these are the oligarchs who are (and aren’t) speaking out against Russia’s war (CNN) All oligarchs, all the time.

The Purges in Putin’s Shrinking Inner Circle (The New Yorker)

That was then, this is now, again Russia/Ukraine edition

Russian Superyachts ‘Go Dark’ To Avoid Tracking

NATO Doubles Battlegroups In ‘Eastern Flank’ States: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania & Slovakia

US DoJ reveals Russian supply chain attack targeting energy sector

Visualizing The EU’s Energy Dependency

Russia’s Top Space Official Says No More Launching European Satellites

Oil Prices Tumble After EU Fails To Agree On Russian Import Ban

Russia Signals It Will Limit Scope To “Complete Liberation Of Donbas” – Says “No Progress” In Talks

Stinger, Javelin production can be increased, with congressional support: Army official

That was then, this is now: Russia/Ukraine edition

10 Unintended Consequences Of A Protracted Russia/Ukraine War According To JPMorgan

Ukraine: Fighting in Nemishaeve?

Joel Kotkin.

Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World War—Americans have been heading further from the urban core, seeking affordable and safe communities with good schools, parks, and a generally more tranquil lifestyle. We keep pushing out despite the contrary desires of planners, academic experts, and some real estate interests. In 1950, the core cities accounted for nearly 24 percent of the U.S. population; today, the share is under 15 percent, according to demographer Wendell Cox. Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2.0 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million.

This is less a growth in “bedroom suburbs,” supplying workers to the urban core, but one that serves multiple employment centers and commercial development. The latest edition of Commuting in America estimates that almost 70 percent of metropolitan-area workers now live and work in the suburbs; trips within suburbs or suburb-to-suburb commutes constitute more than double the commutes with a central business district as the final destination.

Freeberg nails it.

Obama said the question of when life begins, is above His pay grade.

Judge Jackson said she can’t define the word “woman” because she’s “not a biologist.”

Weird that liberals know so much that the rest of us don’t know, until a question emerges with some clear practical ramifications to it. Then suddenly, they can’t answer the basics.

Putin’s Holy Man Pushed for the ‘Eradication’ of Ukraine (Daily Beast)

Alisher Usmanov: Oligarch says he ditched mansions before sanctions (BBC) All oligarchs!All the time!

Russia chokes major oil pipeline in further threat to global supplies (Financial Times)

‘Breaks my heart’: Actress reacts to famous dad’s remarks at pro-war rally (CNN)

The hunt for superyachts of sanctioned Russian oligarchs (BBC)

Olympic champion Evgeny Rylov loses Speedo deal after attending Putin rally

“Gas Stations Will Run Dry”: Catastrophic Scenario For Diesel Emerging According To World’s Biggest Energy Traders

NATO To Draft Statement Warning China Against Aiding Moscow

Inside Ukraine’s Tinder war

Russia will never want peace

The Cost of Stalemate

The Zelensky Meme

What Counts as ‘Russian Disinformation’?

Pope Francis Expresses Support for Zelensky

Russian IT pros fleeing the country, says local tech industry lobby

US & NATO See Signs Belarus To “Soon” Join War In Ukraine

#YachtWatch: What Next For The Floating Palaces?

Russian Mercenary Wagner Group “Active” Inside Ukraine, Pentagon Officials Say

Pentagon Blasts Putin Spokesman’s Nuclear Use Remarks To CNN As “Dangerous”

Russia To Demand “Hostile States” Pay In Rubles For Gas

As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans

Russia Sees First High Level Official Resign & Exit Country Over Putin’s War

NATO Chief Warns Putin: “Russia Can Never Win A Nuclear War”

How will the battlefield stalemate end in Ukraine?

Ukraine Blocks Trans Women Refugees: “They Are Men, Must Go Back & Fight”

Russia Says NATO Peacekeepers Inside Ukraine Will Ensure “Direct Clash”

Never Start a Land War in Europe

Ukrainian Official Pleads With Chinese Drone Maker To Stop Use By Russian Military

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Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an unusual way to think about writing notes: Most people take only transient notes. That’s because these practices aren’t about writing notes; they’re about effectively developing insight: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”. When done well, these notes can be quite valuable: Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work.