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Picks this week include the final Blades of Steel metal festival at Crucible; Steve Fox discusses the new short story collection ‘These Are My People.’ Source: Isthmus.com [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - 6 London Swimming Spots to Plunge Into All Year Long
A dip in one of London’s swimming spots is an opportunity to immerse yourself “in an ordinary hour of a city’s life.” [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Europe Struggles to Respond to Russian Attacks
The Ukrainian team visiting Oslo in late August came armed with a hefty research report—73 packed pages of open-source intelligence and policy proposals designed to help Norway prepare for a confrontation with Russia. The most likely scenario, the paper warned, would be more like the Battle of Britain than Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s 3.8 million-man World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. Moscow is unlikely to send tanks or troops to Norway, the report said. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin knows he can’t win a direct military clash with NATO. More likely would be a combined blitz of drone assaults, sabotage, and cyberattacks—what the paper compiled by the Kyiv-based Sahaidachnyi Security Center and paid for by the Ukrainian drone manufacturer Buntar Aerospace called the “Battle of Norway.” But even the hawkish Ukrainian team was unprepared for what hit Norway just days later on August 24. The day after Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre visited Kyiv, promising continued support and a fourth annual payment of $9.1 billion, a pro-Russia hacker group calling itself Server Killers startled the Nordic nation with social media post. “We declare cyber war” on Norway, the message read—white letters against a fiery background featuring an image of the Kremlin and a Russian flag. Server Killers is an experienced hacking collective with documented Moscow connections and a long rap sheet—attacks in Britain, Canada, Denmark, Spain, and Romania. Over the next three days, it targeted Digdir, the agency overseeing Norway’s cutting-edge digitization of public services, bombarding its servers with so much spam that government websites stopped working for citizens. The “distributed denial of service attack” was the largest in Norway’s history—if not the start of the battle of Norway, certainly an alarming warning. Disruptive as it was for Norwegians, the Server Killer attack hardly made international news—Russia is now launching so many so-called “hybrid” or “gray-zone” assaults on Europe that it can be hard to keep track of them. According to the Sahaidachnyi Center, which maintains one of the best online resources monitoring what it calls the “Everywhere War,” there were nearly two dozen attacks attributed to Russia or pro-Russian groups in the last six weeks alone—and the center’s team says attributed attacks are just the tip of the iceberg. A cyberattack like the one in Norway shut down government websites in Sweden. Russian drones repeatedly violated Moldovan and Romanian airspace. The Polish Air Force… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Bali police investigate after Australian man and children found dead in home
Police were called after the man's wife became concerned and asked neighbours to check on her family. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Will a Wave of “Trump Regret” Lift Democratic Boats This Fall?
I confess to some smug satisfaction when a disciple of Donald Trump turns heretic—especially after some very public humiliation or as just desserts. Take, for instance, the recent case of the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Once an avid and vociferous supporter of President Trump—and of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies in particular—Yiannopoulos was himself detained and deported by ICE for allegedly overstaying his visa. He now says he’s “ashamed” of his support for Trump. Yiannopoulos joins a long line of prominent defectors, including talk show demagogue Tucker Carlson, former ultra-MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, etc. These instances of apostasy have appeal for Trump opponents because they hint of a broader revolt among the MAGA rank and file. Few things are more maddening than the seemingly immovability of Trump’s base, even as Trump’s lawlessness grows more brazen and his behavior increasingly erratic (see, e.g., his unhinged string of “Truths” last weekend). As a new survey by Navigator Research reveals, “Trump regret” is real, and it’s propelled by disillusionment over the president’s failure to lower prices and avoid new wars, as promised during his campaign. But as this research also shows, this regret also has its limits. Democrats shouldn’t assume these Trump “regretters” will be leaping on the Democratic bandwagon. Many likely won’t. For this week’s interview (which you watch on our Substack here), I spoke with Navigator’s Director of Polling and Analytics, Tina Tang. Her research paints a nuanced portrait of Trump regretters and offers more than few surprises and cautions for Democrats seeking to reach this group. Let’s start with the good news: The MAGA base is shrinking, and the Trump coalition is fracturing. Eighteen percent of 2024 Trump voters now regrets their vote, including nearly 1 in 10 MAGA Republicans. Trump is failing to hold the voters that swung toward him in 2024—younger voters, independents, and voters of color. One particularly interesting tidbit is that 22 percent of moms who voted for Trump now regret their vote—an indicator that the vaunted “MAGA-MAHA” alliance was also fleeting. Trump regretters are angry about inflation and the war in Iran—which means Democrats‘ focus on “affordability” is on target. Overwhelmingly, the survey found, Trump regretters feel that the president has broken his promises to bring down prices and keep the country out of wars. Tang says the word that kept recurring in her focus groups of these voters was “duped.” One voter, she… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago - Pennsylvania woman dies of measles complications, Jefferson County Coroner repor...
A 40-year-old woman died on Saturday from complications associated with measles, the coroner reported. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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