SIGNAL No. 79
‘Russia's rear on rations’
Wednesday · 10 June 2026
Russia’s rear is being run as an interdicted space — Mariupol’s port dark, the Chonhar bridge twice-hit, military cargo reportedly banned from the Rostov–Crimea highway, fuel sales restricted in twenty regions — while a second Flamingo in five weeks went through the same Cheboksary guidance plant; at ILA Berlin, Merz gave…
A man raises his phone as police move into a crowd. The video is shaky, loud, immediate. Within minutes, it is online. Within hours, it is everywhere. This is how accountability works now. Something happens, someone records it, and that footage can show what really happened, sometimes contradicting official accounts. It can empower citizens and create consequences for officials.
But the…
On its surface, Polis III Nona’s installation ceremony bore all the hallmarks of a thriving church. The new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Iraq’s largest Christian denomination, was flanked by clergy, adorned with traditional vestments, marking the transition to a new era for one of the world’s oldest Christian communities. Yet the congregation he inherits has all but vanished since…
President Donald Trump is dodging questions on his humiliating stalemate with Iran.
Speaking to reporters on the tarmac outside Air Force One in Chippewa, Wisconsin, on Friday, Trump kept his remarks about Iran brief.
“We’re doing quite well. The situation with Iran seems to be going quite well,” Trump announced, before turning to leave.
“When was the last time you had discussions?” a reporter…
The House Armed Services Committee passed a measure deepening cooperation between the Israeli and U.S. militaries, ignoring allegations that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its war on Gaza.
Democratic Representative Ro Khanna proposed an amendment to eliminate the provision, known as Section 224, in the National Defense Authorization Act, but it failed by a voice vote.…
AI could soon lead to systems capable of improving their own performance faster than humans can effectively supervise them, reviving concerns about the industry’s longstanding “alignment problem,” ensuring AI systems reliably pursue human goals, senior Anthropic researchers have warned in a new blog post titled “When AI builds itself.”
Anthropic Institute lead Marina Favaro and Anthropic…
Apple has yet to finalize whether its upcoming foldable iPhone will be available in black, according to a questionable new rumor.
The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" commented today that Apple "hasn't even decided yet whether the foldable screen will come in black," adding pointedly: "Do they have a vendetta against the color black?" The remark suggests black is at least under…
Plus, did Americans get bigger tax refunds this year?
Four Republican lawmakers broke party lines Wednesday to pass a resolution curbing Donald Trump’s war powers in his military campaign in Iran.
The four Republicans who joined Democrats were Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Tom Barrett of Michigan, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
The measure to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran passed…
At the beginning of 2025, Jonathan Gavalas seemed like a normal, well-adjusted 36-year-old, working at his father’s consumer debt relief business in Florida. By October, he had taken his own life, directly after attempting a mass casualty attack on Miami International Airport.
Gavalas was not recruited by a terrorist cell, nor was he radicalized on fringe internet forums to carry out a lone-wolf…
Russian drones and missiles pounded Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv and Dnipro early on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 100, authorities said, following days of warnings about Moscow’s plans for a major assault.
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s power supply and infrastructure in a war now more than four years old, while Ukraine has stepped up attacks this year on Russian oil…
Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone later this year. Rumors suggest the "iPhone Ultra" will come in two color options, and a leaker shared an image today that allegedly shows one of them.
Posted on Weibo by the Chinese leaker known as Ice Universe, the image purportedly offers a first glimpse of Apple's foldable in white. The device is believed to have entered early mass…
TWENTY-eight years after the nuclear tests at Chagai, the strategic environment in South Asia has shifted dramatically.
The assumptions that shaped Pakistan’s deterrence posture in 1998, and the paradigm shift from ‘Credible Minimum Deterrence’ to ‘Full-Spectrum Deterrence’, were rooted in visions of a conventional invasion, mass mobilisation and large-scale armoured thrusts across the…
LAHORE: Heavy rain lashed various parts of Lahore on Saturday, with the highest rainfall recorded in Nishtar Town.
According to the data shared by the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), Jail Road recorded 20.5 mm of rain, airport area 40 mm, Gulberg Head Office 20 mm, Lakshmi Chowk 30.5 mm, Upper Mall 29 mm, Mughalpura 30.5 mm, Tajpura 27 mm, Nishtar Town 48.5 mm and Chowk Nakhuda 25…
Louisiana Republicans passed a new congressional map Friday that eliminates the majority-Black district that was at the center of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Voting Rights Act.
In a state where one in three residents are Black, the new map redraws the state’s 6th congressional district, which is currently represented by Black Democratic Representative Cleo Fields. Republicans are…
A North Carolina Republican is suddenly walking back his support for an anti-abortion bill that could cost patients and health care providers their lives.
State Representative Ben Moss removed his name from House Bill 1232, which, if passed, would let North Carolinians vote to change the state constitution’s definition of “life” to beginning at the moment of conception or fertilization, a…
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Thursday announced that a new maximum temperature record had been set in Sindh’s Dadu, with a sizzling 51.5 Celsius on record.
Last week, the PM forecast hot to very hot weather across the country during Eidul Azha, with temperatures expected to remain 5C to 7C above normal levels.
According to PMD data, today’s readings in Dadu surpassed the…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin doubled down on his idiotic threat to stop processing international flights at airports in sanctuary cities.
Speaking on Fox News’s _Hannity_ Tuesday, Mullin complained that local law enforcement had allowed a chaotic protest outside of New Jersey’s Delaney Hall, a privately operated immigration detention facility under federal jurisdiction. The…
ISLAMABAD: Mehmood Khan Achakzai, opposition Leader in the National Assembly and leader of the Tehreek Tahaffuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), on Monday hinted that the opposition alliance might quit the assemblies if the government did not change its attitude towards former prime minister Imran Khan.
Speaking on _Dawn News_ programme “Doosra Rukh”, he said: “I fear that if the current attitude…
Minnesota State Senator John Marty was furious with the nonprofit National Council on Problem Gambling, so much so that he couldn’t wait until morning to fire off an angry email. “I am deeply disappointed to see this!” he wrote to an NCPG staffer one night in April 2025, after a Senate colleague shared the draft of an op-ed by Keith Whyte, NCPG’s longtime executive director and one of America’s…
Every now and again, a billionaire doesn’t get what he wants. On Monday, Elon Musk was handed a rare loss when a federal jury in San Francisco unanimously threw out his lawsuit against OpenAI’s top leaders, including CEO Sam Altman. Musk had alleged that Altman illegally enriched himself when converting OpenAI—the nonprofit both men helped co-found—into a for-profit company. The jury, however,…
Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault.
The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase in submissions that don’t demonstrate real security impact…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday took exception to the Indian army chief’s recent provocative remarks and cautioned New Delhi against pushing South Asia towards another conflict with “devastating” consequences for the region.
“Indian COAS gave a provocative statement during a recent interview that ‘Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history’,”…
FEMA is not all right. As the United States faces another summer of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change, the Federal Emergency Management Agency—which coordinates federal disaster response, relief, and preparedness—continues to shuffle through leadership a roster of mostly unqualified Trump loyalists.
This week, Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the agency, which has not…
Flydubai has suspended its flight operations from and to Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar till October 26 due to “operational reasons”, the airline’s flight inquiry in Pakistan said.
However, flight operations from and to Karachi will continue as usual, the airline confirmed.
Flydubai, a low-cost airline based in the United Arab Emirates, launched its operations in Islamabad and Lahore in July…
Democratic congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg is unveiling a national proposal on Sunday to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for HIV prevention drugs while accusing his cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of dismantling federal HIV prevention efforts.
The 33-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy, running in one of the most closely watched Democratic congressional…
After a gunman allegedly attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month, Senator John Fetterman seized on the moment to accuse his fellow Democrats of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Fetterman tweeted: “Drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.”
In saying this, Fetterman gestured at a certain theory of our…
In an interview with _The_ _New York Times_ last week, Tucker Carlson, once a Trump stalwart, called President Trump’s war with Iran “the single most foolish thing any American president has ever done.” The conservative podcaster no doubt was being intentionally hyperbolic, as his followers expect; it’s hard to argue that this military misadventure already qualifies as a more foolish decision…
Shadi Hamid is a strange advocate for American hegemony. The _Washington Post_ columnist is a liberal, a Muslim, and a vocal critic of the US-Israel alliance. And yet his latest book, The Case for American Power, is an attempt to explain why the Republic is “the last best hope of the earth.” However well-intentioned Hamid is, it is perhaps unsurprising that his case is not wholly…