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Ukraine war briefing: Storm Shadow missiles ‘hit gunpowder plant in Russia’ Russians confirm attack on Bryansk region home to explosives factory; Trump-Putin talks shelved, US diplomacy ‘going in circles’. What we know on day 1,337 Storm Shadow missiles struck a Russian chemical plant making gunpowder, explosives and rocket fuel in the Bryansk region, Ukraine’s military said late on Tuesday. The French-British missiles are also known as Scalp. “A massive combined missile and airstrike was carried out, including with air-launched Storm Shadow missiles that penetrated Russia’s air defence system,” said Ukraine’s armed forces general staff. Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Bryansk region, said on Tuesday afternoon that Ukraine attacked the region with drones and missiles. The Russian defence ministry also confirmed an attack. Russian strikes on Kyiv killed at least two people, the head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said on Wednesday. The attacks sparked fires and shattered windows in several districts, mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Other city officials reported a large drone attack followed the strikes. Other areas being hit included Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and the city of Izmail, a port on the Danube river. Plans for a summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Budapest have been shelved, Dan Sabbagh reports, after an apparently unproductive phone call between Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov. Their call also led to the cancellation of a meeting planned in Hungary’s capital for this Thursday between Rubio, Donald Trump’s secretary of state, and Lavrov, Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister. A senior European diplomat told Reuters the Russians “haven’t at all changed” their maximalist position of Ukraine giving up the entire Donbas region. “And I assume Lavrov gave the same spiel, and Rubio was like: ‘See you later’.” Another European diplomat thought that “it became evident for the Americans that there will be no deal for Trump in Budapest”. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia “almost automatically became less interested in diplomacy” once US Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine were no longer an immediate prospect. The Ukrainian president continued: “The greater the Ukrainian long-range capability, the greater the Russian willingness to end the war … As soon as the issue of long-range [capability] became a little further away for us – for Ukraine – Russia almost automatically became less interested in diplomacy.” The diplomatic efforts centred around Trump were “going in circles” and felt as if they were being dragged out, a senior Ukrainian official told Agence France-Presse. While varying from day to day, Trump’s most recent stance is that the war should be halted along the current frontline without Ukraine making territorial concessions. European diplomats meanwhile said countries were working with Ukraine on a new proposal for a ceasefire along current battle lines. One told Reuters the proposal included a reference to a peace board that would be chaired by Trump, while another said it would be modelled on the US 20-point plan on Gaza. Some 35 allies of Ukraine will meet on Friday in London for a summit among countries willing to provide long-term support to Kyiv. The European work on a peace proposal seems at least partly calculated to simply keep Washington engaged with helping Ukraine by giving Trump and the US an important role, rather than produce a deal both sides would actually accept. For example, a proposal to siphon off some of Russia’s frozen assets to fund a portion of reparations payments to Ukraine “would be a non-starter for Russia”, one diplomat said. Russian attacks killed four people and left hundreds of thousands without power and many without water in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Tuesday. The energy ministry said the regional capital, Chernihiv city, and the northern part of the province lost all electricity supply after strikes on power facilities. By the afternoon, Reuters reporters in Chernihiv saw that power supply was back in some places. A daytime attack by about 20 Russian kamikaze drones killed four civilians and wounded at least seven more including a 10-year-old child in the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi, local officials said.
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Russia bombs kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine says “These strikes are Russia’s spit in the face of anyone who insists on a peaceful solution,” rages Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy. October 22, 2025 11:49 am CET By Veronika Melkozerova KYIV — Russian forces struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv with killer drones on Wednesday morning, according to top Ukrainian officials. “There was a direct hit on a private kindergarten in the Kholodnoyarkiy district of Kharkiv. A fire started,” Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a statement. Officials added later that one person, an adult male, had died in the kindergarten strike, and all 48 children were distressed — though none were wounded — and had been evacuated from the site. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said seven people were injured in the nursery strike, which triggered a fresh wave of fury at Moscow. “They are receiving medical care. All children have been evacuated and are in shelters. According to preliminary information, many have an acute stress reaction,” Zelenskyy said on social media. “There is and cannot be any justification for a drone strike on a kindergarten. Russia is becoming more impudent. These strikes are Russia’s spit in the face of anyone who insists on a peaceful solution. Bandits and terrorists can only be put in their place by force,” Zelenskyy said. The Russian defense ministry has not yet issued a statements about strikes on Kharkiv.
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Ukraine unveils upgraded sea drone it says can strike anywhere in the Black Sea The Associated Press October 22, 2025, 5:35 AM KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s state security service has unveiled an upgraded sea drone it says can now operate anywhere in the Black Sea, carry heavier weapons and use artificial intelligence for targeting. Ukraine has used the unmanned naval drones to target Russian shipping and infrastructure in the Black Sea. The Security Service of Ukraine, known by its Ukrainian acronym SBU, has credited strikes by the unmanned vessel known as the “ Sea Baby” with forcing a strategic shift in Russia’s naval operations. The range of the Sea Baby was expanded from 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to 1,500 kilometers (930 miles), SBU said. It can carry up to 2,000 kilograms (about 4,400 pounds) of payload, SBU officials said. At a demonstration attended by The Associated Press, variants included vessels fitted with a multiple-rocket launcher and another with a stabilized machine-gun turret. SBU Brig. Gen. Ivan Lukashevych said the new vessels also feature AI-assisted friend-or-foe targeting systems and can launch small aerial attack drones and multilayered self-destruct systems to prevent capture. Developing a new kind of naval warfare Drone strikes have been used in successful attacks against 11 Russian vessels, including frigates and missile carriers, SBU said, prompting the Russian navy to relocate its main base from Sevastopol in Crimea to Novorossiysk on Russia’s Black Sea coast. “The SBU became the first in the world to pioneer this new kind of naval warfare — and we continue to advance it,” Lukashevych said, adding that the Sea Baby has evolved from a single-use strike craft into a reusable, multipurpose platform that expands Ukraine’s offensive options. Authorities asked that the time and location of the demonstration not be made public for security reasons. The craft are operated remotely from a mobile control center inside a van, where operators use a bank of screens and controls. “Cohesion of the crew members is probably the most important thing. We are constantly working on that,” said one operator who was identified only by his call sign, “Scout,” per Ukrainian military protocol. Ukrainian sea drones helped push back Russia’s navy The SBU also said sea drones helped carry out other high-profile strikes, including repeated attacks on the Crimean Bridge, most recently targeting its underwater supports in a bid to to render it unusable for heavy military transport. The Sea Baby program is partially funded by public donations through a state-run initiative and is coordinated with Ukraine’s military and political leadership. The evolution from expendable strike boats to reusable, networked drones marks an important advance in asymmetric naval warfare, Lukashevych said. “On this new product, we have installed rocket weaponry that will allow us to work from a large distance outside of the attack range of enemy fire. We can use such platforms to carry heavy weaponry,” he said. “Here we can show Ukrainians the most effective use of the money they have donated to us.” ___ Associated Press journalists Alex Babenko, Yehor Konovalov and Volodymyr Yurchuk contributed to this report.
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I think Joe Bleymaier might be a good addition to the staff.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
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Can't tell if this is english - none of these words make any sense. I didn't learn any of them in 5th grade english class and they weren't on my SAT.
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Poland arrests eight under suspicion of preparing for acts of sabotage Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed that Polish security services detained eight people suspected of preparing to carry out acts of sabotage in various regions on Tuesday. “ABW (the internal security agency), in cooperation with other services, detained eight people in various parts of the country in recent days, suspected of preparing acts of sabotage,” the Polish leader wrote on X/Twitter. “Further operational activities are continuing," he added. On X, the minister responsible for special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, said, “The matters ... concern reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure elements, the preparation of means to carry out acts of sabotage, and the direct execution of attacks.” Officials have reported being attacked with the use of arson and cyberattacks as part of a “hybrid war” waged by Russia to affect nations supporting Ukraine. Russia has denied the accusations.
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On 60minutes on Sunday, Zelensky said his goal was to bring the effects of war to the day to day lives of the average Russian. So what you stated makes sense.
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If true, that’s good news for Ukraine. If Russia also refuses trilateral talks, that might be enough for Trump to reverse course again and provide more support to Ukraine. I still don’t think that means tomahawks but it should mean ATACMS and jets.
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Trump tells Ukraine: Accept Putin’s demands ‘or be destroyed’ US president, shouting and swearing, pressures Zelensky to surrender the Donetsk region Memphis Barker Senior Foreign Correspondent 19 October 2025 9:01pm BST Donald Trump demanded that Ukraine submit to Vladimir Putin’s peace terms or face destruction in an angry meeting at the White House last week, it has emerged. The US president, who spoke with his Russian counterpart shortly before hosting Volodymyr Zelensky, warned that Putin would “destroy” Ukraine unless a peace deal was in place. Shouting and swearing, Mr Trump threw aside Ukrainian maps of the battlefield and pressured Mr Zelensky to surrender the Donetsk region to Russia. Putin is demanding the withdrawal of Ukraine’s army from the crucial eastern territory as a precondition for peace. However, the surrender of Donetsk is a red line for Ukraine, which has long refused to cede the territory, which Russia has failed to capture despite fighting since 2014. Kyiv still holds about a quarter of Donetsk province. The land makes up part of the so-called “fortress belt”, a string of heavily defended towns that blocks Russia from making rapid westward advances towards the capital. In the White House meeting, Mr Trump echoed Putin’s talking points, despite them contradicting his own recent assessment that Moscow was a “paper tiger”, European officials briefed on the meeting told the Financial Times. Mr Trump is said to have echoed Vladimir Putin's talking points during the meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky Mr Trump is said to have echoed Vladimir Putin’s talking points during the meeting with Mr Zelensky Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The US president told Mr Zelensky he was losing the war and said: “If [Putin] wants, he will destroy you.” Mr Trump is keen to secure another peace deal following the success of his intervention in the war between Israel and Hamas. In recent months, he has swung between Russian and Ukrainian positions, often cooling on sanctions or further military pressure on Moscow after phone calls with Putin. At the White House, Mr Zelensky held his ground and refused to cut a deal that would leave Ukraine badly exposed. But the Ukrainian president left in a bitter mood, dashed in his hopes that Mr Trump would authorise deliveries of long-range Tomahawk missiles. On Saturday, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, said the visit “had not gone as Zelensky hoped”. On Sunday, Mr Zelensky told NBC News that “I don’t know the dialogue between President [Trump] and Putin,” adding only that he believed Tomahawks could pressurise Moscow into serious peace negotiations. Asked whether Mr Trump needed to get tougher on Putin, following his decision to turn the screws on Israel and Hamas, Mr Zelensky said: “Yes… because Putin is something similar but more strong than Hamas. It’s more bigger war and he is the second [largest] army in the world.” He denied that Russia was winning the war and said that Putin was after more than just a further tranche of territory, in remarks that appeared to reflect his discussion with Mr Trump. ‘This is not about territory for Putin’ Russia’s “army now [is] in a weak position,” he said, having lost 1.3 million men to capture just 1 per cent of Ukrainian land since near the start of the war. “And really I don’t understand why the leader of the country which has the biggest territory in the world needs some more kilometres – that’s why I think that this war is not about the land and not about territory for him. It’s about our sovereignty and about our independence.” Mr Trump is set to meet Putin in Budapest within the next fortnight in an attempt to make progress on a peace deal. During their phone call, Putin told Mr Trump he was willing to cede small parts of the southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions under Russia’s control in exchange for the rest of the Donbas. Moscow has struggled to control the territory and made almost no progress on the southern frontline since 2022. A European diplomat told the Washington Post that Ukraine would never accept such a deal. “It’s like selling them [Russia] their own leg in exchange for nothing,” they said. On Sunday, Mr Zelensky said he told Mr Trump he was ready and willing to attend the Budapest summit, but cast doubt on whether Putin was seriously prepared to make peace.
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Do you have access to this one @PTINS? https://www.qcintel.com/article/ukraine-strikes-russian-gas-plant-refinery-in-weekend-attacks-50963.html
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Need more detail. I think it could be lots of things from cancer to priapism to just being nervous that something serious is going on (like concerned you might have alzheimers or Lou Gehrigs). For a young female it could be an eating disorder. For a man or woman it could be depression/suicide. So really just about anything and everything is possible.
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arch’s turnaround will happen about the same time we average over 4yrds per carry with the offensive line also providing adequate pass protection. New qbs don’t show much progress when the game is sped up and windows are tighter. Or perhaps a better way to say it is young qbs can’t progress when teams can stop the run and get pressure with 3-4 down linemen.
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Great how we keep letting ourselves get gashed after putting them in second and long
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I didn't picture you as a JD Vance fan.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Still better than what @NowThis has in him
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I picture it like I’m duck hunting with my absent minded brother. He stands up to shoot and starts following the birds and I hide in the blind so he can’t shoot me.
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Saw this in JAMA today: Microplastics and Human Health Summarize Plastics production and use reached 435 million tons in 2020 (up from 234 million tons in 2000) and by 2040 is expected to further increase by 70%. Plastics are synthetic materials composed of polymers, such as polyester, polyethylene, copolymers of polypropylene, and polyurethane, that vary in chemical composition and often contain additives. Although more than 13 000 chemicals are associated with plastics, 10 groups of chemicals are identified as being of major concern due to their high toxicity and potential to migrate or be released from plastics. These include specific flame retardants, certain UV stabilizers, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), phthalates, bisphenols, alkylphenols and alkylphenol ethoxylates, biocides, certain metals and metalloids, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Microplastics Plastics smaller than 5 mm are termed microplastics, which enter the body primarily through inhalation or ingestion after plastic litter in the environment degrades into smaller plastic fragments. Inhaled particles that have a diameter of 2.5 μm or smaller can enter the alveoli of the lungs and the bloodstream and accumulate widely in the tissues.1 Many foods, beverages, and drinking water sources contain microplastics, which can enter the body upon ingestion. A 2020 study performed in Mexico evaluated microplastic contamination in 57 common beverages (soft drinks, beer, cold tea, and energy drinks). Of the beverages evaluated, 48 samples showed detectable microplastics, 36 samples contained less than 5 microplastic particles/L, 9 samples had 5 to 10 microplastic particles/L, and 3 samples contained 11 to 30 microplastic particles/L, with the highest abundance of microplastics (mean [SD], 28 [5.29] particles/L) recorded in a beer sample.2 Many clothing pieces, cosmetics, and other personal use products contain microplastics and use of these products may lead to increased exposure through accidental ingestion or aerosolized inhalation. A 2024 review of 38 studies investigating 2379 cosmetic and personal care products reported 16.4% (n = 390) contained microplastics. Face scrub was the most commonly tested product (46.8% of total products tested) and 26.5% of the face scrubs tested contained microplastics. Microplastics’ unique surface area, defined by coarse shapes and heterogeneous material, enables them to act as a vehicle for various contaminants. Specifically, microplastics act as sorbents that adsorb or absorb various pollutants on their surface primarily through hydrophobic or electrostatic means and by pore filling (physically accumulating environmental contaminants, such as microbes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals, and encasing them in micro or nanopores) interactions.3 In vitro studies using human cell lines, organoids (3-dimensional, miniature organ structures grown in the laboratory that mimic the structure and function of real organs), and animal studies have shown that microplastic exposure increases oxidative stress, production of reactive oxygen species, cell membrane organelle damage, immune response, and DNA damage.4 Liver organoid exposure to polystyrene microplastics induced hepatotoxicity with increased alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in the supernatant (liquid above a solid phase) and compromised antioxidant balance, suggesting oxidative stress and an increase in inflammatory response observed via elevated interleukin-6 levels, even at the lowest dosage used in this study (0.25 μg/mL; mean [SD], 102 [7] items/mL).5 Methods of Detecting Microplastics Current detection methods for microplastics, such as microscopy, spectroscopy (analysis of the spectrum of light that a substance emits or absorbs), and thermal analysis are being used, and most studies focus on detecting polystyrene particles.6 Many techniques have been validated, standardized, and published; however, methodological limitations include difficulty of isolation from complex environmental or biological samples and identification of each microplastic type. More robust and standardized methodologies for detecting and quantitating microplastics are being studied. Presence of Microplastics in Human Tissues Studies have reported the presence of microplastics in many human tissues and organs, including the lungs, brain, blood, liver, kidneys, heart and circulatory system, spleen, colon, testes, ovarian follicular fluid, and placenta as well as in human breast milk and infants’ first stools. Longitudinal studies suggest increased microplastic concentrations in biological tissues over the past several decades. Levels of microplastics were statistically higher among 24 individuals in 2024 compared with 28 individuals in 2016 in postmortem human brain tissue (median, 4917 μg g−1 vs 3345 μg g−1) and liver tissue (103.7 μg g−1 vs 432.9 μg g−1).7 A study using spectroscopy reported a substantial increase in the frequency and concentration of microplastics in human placentas in Hawaiʻi from 2006 to 2021.8 Based on examination of 10 placental samples in each time frame, microplastics were detected in 60% in 2006, 90% in 2013, and 100% in 2021. Average microplastic particles per 50 g of placental tissue increased from 4.1 in 2006 to 7.1 in 2013 to 15.5 in 2021. The increase in the number of microplastics per 50 g of placenta tissue from 2021 reached statistical significance in comparison with 2006 samples (P < .001) and 2013 samples (P < .05).8 Known and Potential Health Effects Associated With Microplastics Observational studies have shown an association of microplastics with adverse health effects, although this does not prove causation. In a study of 257 patients with asymptomatic carotid artery disease, microplastics (polyethylene) were found in the excised carotid artery plaque of 58.4% of patients (n = 150; mean [SD] level, 21.7 [24.5] μg/mg of plaque) and 12.1% (n = 31) also had measurable amounts of polyvinyl chloride (mean [SD] level, 5.2 [2.4] μg/mg of plaque).9 Patients with detectable microplastics in excised carotid artery plaque had a 4.5 times higher risk (20.0%; 30/150 patients) of a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death from any cause at 34 months of follow-up than those in whom microplastics were not detected (7.5%; 8/107 patients).9 A postmortem study reported that brain tissue obtained from 12 patients with dementia had higher levels of microplastics than those obtained from 52 individuals without dementia (26 076 μg g−1 vs 4131 μg g−1; P < .001).7Further research into potential mechanisms of organ dysfunction and disease associated with microplastics is ongoing. Policies to Reduce Plastic Pollution Although many local and national policies exist to limit plastic pollution, few comprehensive international agreements are currently in place to decrease plastic pollution. Agreements that have been reached include the 2019 Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments, which control transboundary movements of plastic waste into countries with limited recycling options (such as insufficient recycling plants or lack of technical expertise to recycle in an environmentally sound manner), and the MARPOL Annex V, a legally binding agreement signed by more than 150 countries that prohibits ships from dumping plastic waste into the ocean. The United Nations Global Plastics Treaty has been in negotiation since March 2022 after a resolution was adopted to develop an international, legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, with a goal of addressing “the full life cycle of plastics, including their production, design, and disposal.” Conclusions Microplastics have been detected in human tissues at increasing rates and are associated with known and potential adverse health effects, raising concerns over the high levels of plastic pollutants in the air, water, and soil. International cooperation to limit plastic pollution and to find environmentally safe plastic alternatives is needed. Corresponding Author: David C. Christiani, MD, MPH, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Bldg I, Room 1401, Boston, MA 02115 (dchris@hsph.harvard.edu).
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Were any of the female hostages returned alive in the last week?
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There was also a hospital that was hit overnight
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Maybe that’s a good thing, but I saw no evidence that Gandalf was much of a pussy slayer in his old age so being like him seems to have some downfall? Maybe chicks just don’t like magicians.
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