Kevin Rothrock

A real CNN field report from Finland (“Santa’s hometown”) explains how fewer Russians hunting Finland's wolves (many are likely to have “Russian DNA”!!) is helping to wipe out Finland's reindeer herds, ie How Putin Killed Christmas.

swing and a miss

Things at CBS News under Bari Weiss are going exactly as you'd expect.

’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Venezuelans Deported by Trump Administration, Drawing Criticism

Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.

Always interesting to read about Russia’s rumored, hypothetical scorched-space weapons, but once again the sourcing is an anon "intel finding" that experts can't square with reality. I guess even a remote chance that it's real, however, is worth worrying about.

AP News

Starlink in the crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk's conquering of space

NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites.

Every time somebody claims a bygone-era artist for one nationality, my mind turns to these cartoons.

bit of an edgy tweet here for Dmitirev, given all the Trump bootlicking

Watching The Blue Brothers with the kids (my millionth viewing, their dozenth), and I'm struck as always by the insane quality of the stunt work and car chases. And then the movie went and featured some of the best musical performances in cinema history.

It's odd that technological advances have homogenized so much global language, but spacefaring nations generally can't agree on what to call the "nauts" who fly up inside tin cans to float around and orbit the planet.

"EU taxpayers will have to pay €3 billion per year in borrowing costs as part of a plan to raise common debt to finance Ukraine’s defense against Russia"

EU to pay €3B a year in interest for Ukraine loan  – POLITICO

The reasons the EU's loan to Ukraine falls short of what Ukraine needed are frustratingly political, despite Kyiv getting the money it wanted.

Bloomberg.com

Seizing Russian Funds Was a Test That Europe Failed

In the end, it didn’t take one of the European Union’s "three shirt" marathon summit extensions to resolve the question of how Europe will cont...