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NIVEL weekupdate week 7.
Met een verdere toename van de griepepidemie. Wel enige afvlakking in beeld. Met de huidige incidentie van 68 is het de vraag of volgende week het 'matige intensiteit' niveau van 76 gehaald gaat worden. Vorig jaar zaten we vier weken lang daarboven.
#qp2t

This Week in Sports Trivia: March 19, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7128550/2026/03/19/this-week-in-sports-trivia-march-19-2026/

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-epa-plans-loosen-mercury-rules-coal-plants-this-week-nyt-reports-2026-02-18/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p85#a260218p85

NIVEL weekrapportage week 11.
De griepepidemie is voorbij. We kunnen de balans opmaken en zien dat we, ondanks de opkomst van H3N2, toch een minder heftige epidemie hebben gehad dan een jaar geleden.
Volgens NIVEL is er ook sprake van een kortere epidemie, maar dat is m.i. een beetje appels en peren vergelijken, omdat ze de epidemie nu over verklaren o.b.v. een andere indicator dan vorig jaar. Aan onderstaand plaatje kun je dat i.i.g. niet zien.

Metacurity is changing things up with this week's infosec long-reads issue. Full access to our curated infosec long reads moves behind a subscriber paywall, although free subscribers still get highlights.
Check out this week's selection of good reads that cover
--Why Anthropic decided to keep Mythos under wraps,
-- Iran adopted locally resonant narratives to exploit Irish political tensions,
--Sexual deepfakes are the scourge of schools,
--How insider ris…

Best infosec long-reads 4/18: The gap between capability and accountability is widening
Why Anthropic decided to keep Mythos under wraps, Iran adopted locally resonant narratives to exploit Irish political tensions, Sexual deepfakes are the scourge of schools, How insider risk and supply chain compromise afflicted twenty-something billionaires, MSG's owner is obsessed with surveillance

This Week in Sports Trivia: February 19, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7055593/2026/02/19/this-week-in-sports-trivia-february-19-2026/

Week 1:
Monday to Sunday: *four sessions, four big fights, one even bigger storyline wrap-up on Sunday*
Week 2:
Monday: "Phew, good that tonight's session got cancelled. After last week I need some rest."
Tuesday: "I miss roleplaying."
#OnBeingARoleplayer

I think it illustrates the #GOP priorities pretty clearly #sigh
US spending on first week of Iran war raises stark questions about priorities

I think it illustrates the #GOP priorities pretty clearly #sigh
US spending on first week of Iran war raises stark questions about priorities

Watch: Raiders join Nevada Reading Week https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-join-nevada-reading-week

#potd A week ago I was cycling over sandy piste in Senegal, now this. After de-icing the bike cycling to the office worked quite well, because the city of Vienna is very good at removing snow from bike paths and streets. The pavements are in a worse state, because removing the snow there is the job of each house owner.

Been a looong week. At least it's Friday now :3

Each April, during the week of the new moon,
International Dark Sky (IDS) Week invites people to reclaim the experience of wonder
Timed for the darkest nights of the lunar cycle, the observance encourages individuals and communities to turn off unnecessary lighting and reconnect with the stars.
What began as a small grassroots effort has grown into a global movement with profound ecological, cultural, and spiritual implications.
The event traces its origins to 2003, …

Into the Night: International Dark Sky Week Begins
International Dark Sky Week begins as advocates urge a return to darker nights. As light pollution grows, the observance highlights ecological harm, threatened species, and even the spiritual loss of the stars that once shaped human ritual, story, and connection.

This week brought an EF-1 tornado through town—but also some good news: a new house for my youngest son, a successful surgery for Athena, and even a few newly discovered cousins thanks to genealogy research.
A little chaos, a little gratitude.
#blogging #family

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins – Bob Mueller
A week of storms and milestones: an EF-1 tornado hits town, a son buys his first home, a dog recovers from surgery, and new cousins emerge.

The Cowboys lost key depth in free agency last week https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-lost-key-depth-in-free-agency-last-week

Looking forward to all the selfies of people at superspreader events (conferences) who a week later whine about being really sick and not knowing why

Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

About a thousand people in front of me at the library voting early for next week's election. Danish democracy clearly in rude health...

A week from now, I’ll be in Düsseldorf for @… 🎉🤗
Can’t wait to be back in the audience – who will join me there? 👋

I •do• actually expect to see some kind of shift over the next week. I don’t think their “Victory! Now we’re leaving(ish)!” press conference last week was something we can take at face value, but I also don’t think it was just a ruse.
After they murdered Alex Pretti, the writing was on the wall. One killing of a white observer they could try to write off; two is a pattern. They’re losing support they desperately need — from politicians, from the press, from judges, from less-extreme right-wingers — and the longer they continue doing what they’ve been doing, the further they dig themselves in a hole. I’ve been expecting for a while that they would declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and change strategy.

I updated macOS last week. The Finder is still a broken piece of garbage.

Catching up on news of the past week... I saw the posts go by about show company AllBirds pivoting to be an #AI company... er... "a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider"... but I hadn't read the story... and now I'm just sitting here smiling and laughing! We live in strange times! 😃

Allbirds Is an AI Company Now… Seriously
The $2.2 billion wool sneaker darling that became a $39 million cautionary tale would now like to talk to you about its GPU infrastructure vision

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #ForeignAffairs
Béton Armé - La Nuit
https://youtu.be/5A4XiwVbK7M
Lai…

European natural gas price just jumped another 27% to 70 €/MWh, after Israel attacked a major Iran/Qatar gas field in the Gulf.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Was out of town all week - so didn't get to enjoy this arriving at home on Monday - until now

Leavitt says Truth Social posts are straight from Trump...a week after his team blamed a staffer for ‘Obama ape’ video | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/leavitt-press-conference-trump-truth-social-obama-b2923163.html

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Wel iets verdere daling deze week, maar:
* het gaat maar om 5 nieuwe dagen in de data (9 t/m 13 maart)
* de daling vlakt wel af tot bijna horizontaal
* het blijft nog even spannend of we echt (zoals vorige week) een laagterecord meemaken want de lage waarden van 7 en 8 maart (vorige week nog record laag) zijn een stuk opgehoogd. Maar het kan nog gebeuren voor 10 maart en daarna: vooralsnog niveau 46 a 47, maar i…

Tom's Hardware has a headline this week summarizing a Financial Times interview with a Microsoft #AI exec that begins thusly:
"Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months".
If you watch the interview, that is not what was said. The statement is a bit more nuanced claim that AI can fully automate tasks of some white collar work.
But I…

Q&A with Josh Sternberg, executive editor at Morning Brew, about leading Morning Brew's editorial strategy, the ever-changing media landscape, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)
https://meredithandthemedia.substack.com/p/an-interview-jos…

An Interview: Josh Sternberg, Morning Brew
This week, I sat down with Josh Sternberg, executive editor at Morning Brew.

Dear people in #Gaza
I know your situation is very bad, but there are many thousands of you.
I can afford to make only three gifts each week, and those will inevitably mostly go to people I already know. So no, I almost certainly cannot support you by sending you money.
If you send me private appeals, I can't share them. I am now receiving so many private appeals that I cannot…

De Belgen doen het beter,
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/245852/belgische-overheid-start-eigen-chatapp-voor-ambtenaren-als-whatsapp-vervanger.html

Belgische overheid start eigen chatapp voor ambtenaren als WhatsApp-vervanger
De Belgische overheid heeft een eigen chatdienst ontwikkeld om diensten als WhatsApp en Signal te vervangen. De dienst heet Beam en wordt sinds vorige week gefaseerd aan ambtenaren verstrekt. Beam is eind-tot-eind versleuteld en ondersteunt veel belangrijke functies, zoals groepsgesprekken en videobellen.

Ranking all NFL teams after first week of free agency, plus QB matchmaker and our NFL March Madness winner

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking

I remember how childish Trek fans raged over S1-2 of TNG & S1-4 of DS9. Then yawned at Voyager & all of Enterprise.
Anyhoo... see you #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy S2!
▶️ Paramount ’s unexpected sci-fi hit officially wraps season 2 very soon [exclusive]

Paramount+’s Unexpected Sci-Fi Hit Officially Wraps Season 2 Very Soon [Exclusive]
Star Trek's unexpected hit, Starfleet Academy, is set to officially wrap filming on Season 2 very soon, according to George Hawkins. Get the details.

Early Birds
Shake off the week with Steve and Alana on Early Birds...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods …

❤️ https://crowdersoup.com/blog/post/padd-some-new-features-1771364186/

PADD: Some new features!
I've been working on PADD publicly for about a week now. Before that I was hacking on the individual parts (indieauth, micropub, etc.) but I was finally able to put them together in a fun UI and re...

Video of the Powell Lecture given in NYC last week by Andrew McGowan of Berkeley and YDS, titled "The Tabernacle and the Streets: Reserving the Eucharist and Feeding the Poor." https://vimeo.com/1164544569

One. Two. Four. One more Java Geek Weekly!
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/124/

This is how you do it. Take an example #Bulgaria
Between 200,000 and 400,000 people are expected to attend this week-end's anti-government protest in Letnš, organizers have announced, with the fickle weather being one of the main variables. Taking place this Saturday between 3 pm and 5 pm, the demonstration wants to draw attention to the illiberal turn and oligarchic tendencies of the cur…

8 minutes in and this is a different game versus the previous meeting last week.
I hope I didn't jinx them...

The fun side of going to India for a week for work is that my home rhythm is being up and about at 0630, doing things like hooking up cert manager to Hetzner for DNS01

The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first…

The Claim I Filed in 2006 | David Boles, Blogs
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and …

Ik heb zojuist een hotelovernachting geboekt in een hotel in Bergen(NH) met diner en ontbijt. We gaan dan voorafgaand aan dat diner naar het museum daar. Dat is heel sjiek, maar als we dit op één dag zouden doen, dan is dat voor H geen uitje, maar een beproeving waar ze een week van moet herstellen. En ja, het gaat boven verwachting goeed met haar herstel maar ook geheel volgens verwachting godverdomde langzaam. Dit is het eerste meerdaagse uitje Sinds 31 January 2025.

Kennt ihr eigentlich die Fernsehserie „Halt and Catch Fire“? Falls nein: unbedingte Empfehlung, insbesondere auch für Menschen, die sich für Computer- und Hackergeschichte interessieren: https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire

TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
This piece contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire. Halt and Catch Fire is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. During quarantine, I binged all four seasons in a week and was immediately struck by its themes of human connection — the desire for it, the difficulty that inevitably comes wi

👨‍🚀 Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
#space

Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.

I was reading the most recent @… WIP Wednesday and saw:
There are 2 release blockers for v1.1 currently, down by 2 from last week.
If I read those two release bl…

Friday Links 26-13
I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.
I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/friday-links-26-13.html

Tomorrow, Friday, February 20, 2026:
There will be no new episode of Frieren Season 2.
The series will return next week. In its place, episodes 21, 24, 25, and 26 of Season 1 will be rebroadcast.
#frieren #anime

Raiders Mailbag: Answering Your Questions After Week 1 of Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/las-vegas-mailbag-answering-your-questions-week-1-free-agency-john-spytek

Managed to perfect pizza making in my tiny kitchen setup.
Preheating my cast iron pan and using that as a pizza-steel really helps getting a crispy pizza.
Somewhat related, there is about a week worth of dough ripening in my fridge

We go back to the 60s this week for a bit of bluesy rock as our spotlight falls on a track from Python Lee Jackson.
As always we invite you to give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
Don't forget to follow us for more from our weekly showcase, exploring great tracks from across the universe of #rock and

Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

#FotoDerWoche mit schwarzer Katze.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/photo-of-the-week-nox-thru-the-window/

Photo of the week: Nox thru the window
Unsere Katze Nox bringt - wie wohl alle Katzen - einige Eigenheiten mit. Eine davon ist die, dass sie ihre höchstprivate Katzenklappe nur im Notfall verwenden mag, um das Haus zu verlassen, und eigentlich nie, um das Haus zu betreten. Statt dessen wartet sie mehr oder weniger geduldig (und zunehmend

I've gone back to a paper diary. I switched away from the app I loved and had used for years as it was getting dodgy. I tried Fossify Calendar but just couldn't settle with the display to the point that I started forgetting upcoming appts, so I have delightedly gone back to paper. As the Queen of Admin it suits me very well. I'm keeping the new calendar app just for push reminders of a few bits, but my mental map of the week comes from my diary. I can feel myself relax, daft old …

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PANIC IN MOSCOW: MOBILE INTERNET DOWN FOR A WEEK Vlog 1346: War in #Ukraine
Mobile #internet has been shut down in

No kidding! Right now it is rare that a bus isn't cancelled on one of the three days I commute.
https://flip.it/nR4NZY

Doctors and parents are concerned that kids might try to use brake fluid as a recreational drug, but manufacturers say it’s OK because they can stop at any time.
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.
https://openfisttheatre.my.salesforce-site…

The Open Fist Theatre Company

I've already read the future news for next week. Hint: mostly involves AI and other dumb stuff
So enjoy today's :3

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins
An EF-1 tornado tears through town, but the bigger story this week might be closer to home—family milestones, new beginnings, and a surprising discovery of more cousins branching out on the family tree.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/storms-ne

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins – Bob Mueller
A week of storms and milestones: an EF-1 tornado hits town, a son buys his first home, a dog recovers from surgery, and new cousins emerge.

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

In the six days that followed the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran on 28 February,
$11.3 billion was spent on American taxpayer-funded bombs that hit the country and caused hundreds of deaths,
the Pentagon has told lawmakers.
This figure does not capture the full cost of the conflict,
such as deployment of forces,
and will now be far higher given the ongoing nature of the war.
But even the limited snapshot of the financial cost of the war has undersco…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nyeusi Loe (65) Ritchie (60) Pissrot (47) Massacred (41) Traveling Wilburys (37). #myweekcounted 924 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

First strong direct observational evidence that AMOC has already been weakening for the past 20 years. The bad news keeps coming. Need I add that we should reduce emissions asap?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pall-gunnar

Today I feel afraid. Two AMOC papers published in the last week have, in my mind, crossed a threshold I wasn't sure we would cross this decade. Xing et al. (Science Advances, 8 April) used four… | Páll Gunnarsson | 15 comments
Today I feel afraid. Two AMOC papers published in the last week have, in my mind, crossed a threshold I wasn't sure we would cross this decade. Xing et al. (Science Advances, 8 April) used four independent mooring arrays in the North Atlantic to show a consistent decline in western boundary overturning over the past two decades. This is the first strong direct observational evidence of AMOC weakening beyond natural variability — not inferred from fingerprints or proxies, but measured. Port…

NFL Free Agency: Run on WRs entering week 2 but strong talent remains https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/17/nfl-free-agency-run-on-wrs-entering-week-2-but-strong-ta…

FBI seizes pro-Iranian hacking group’s websites after destructive Stryker hack
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/fbi-seizes-pro-iranian-hacking-groups-websites-after-destructive-stryker-hack/

FBI seizes pro-Iranian hacking group's websites after destructive Stryker hack | TechCrunch
The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week hacked medical tech giant Stryker.

RIVM varianten update.
Het schommelt nogal de laatste weken en de belangrijkste oorzaak is dat er sprake is van extreem weinig samples.
Dat BA3.2 dus in week 9 net boven de 50% zat is dus min of meer toevallig (4 van de 7, in week 10 is het 1 van de 4).
Kortom eigenlijk kun je er weinig conclusies uit trekken, behalve dat er momenteel extreem weinig Sars-Cov-2 lijkt rond te gaan. Maar het is dus vooralsnog niet voorspelbaar door welke variant de volgende golf getriggerd gaat w…

JD Vance's Very Bad Week (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/opinion/hungary-election-orban-loses-trump-maga.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p15#a260418p15

7 Dallas Cowboys Rumors With One Week Until 2026 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/7-dallas-cowboys-rumors-with-one-week-until-2026-nfl-draft

Sources: former Google executive Matt Brittin is expected to be named the BBC's next director general as soon as next week; Brittin spent 18 years at Google (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-matt-brittin-director-general-1236759459/…

BBC Close To Hiring Ex-Google Chief Matt Brittin As Next Director General
The BBC is edging closer to appointing Matt Brittin, Google's former EMEA president, as its next director general. Tim Davie steps down next month.

Meta Ads: Under The Hood
Each week Megan breaks down the mechanics of meta ads, unpacks real campaigns, and shares how she uses ads to drive results - and how you can do the same...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ecommerce-out-…

Some #Cloudflare status reporting appears to have gotten stuck in a loop last week. e.g.,
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/rw60tbgxvl52

ORD (Chicago) on 2026-04-16
Cloudflare's Status Page - ORD (Chicago) on 2026-04-16.

I have no inspiration for introducing the Java Geek Weekly today. Just get it and enjoy.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/128/

Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business…

Binance and Bitget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow
Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.

Trump suggested this week that news organizations could be charged with treason for,
as he baselessly sees it,
spreading false information and thus helping America’s enemies.
He’s getting plenty of help from his top loyalists.
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission,
Brendan Carr, threatened that media companies could lose their licenses if they didn’t get in line.
Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host who is now the secretary of defense, is dem…

This Week in Sports Trivia: April 16, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7198771/2026/04/16/this-week-in-sports-trivia-april-16-2026/

Peru’s voters cast ballots for their ninth president in ten years on Sunday; and now with their next president, after this one, they can look forward to getting a free medium latte.
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.
https://openfisttheatre.my.salesforce-

The Open Fist Theatre Company

#ThursDeath this week is this absolute BANGER of a sophomore record Whittier, California deathgrind freaks CASKET MUSH just put out, 'Evocation of Paranoia'. This fucker grinds and churns and smashes at your skull in the best ways. HUGE contender for me this year. Gonna be listening to this one a lot.

Stephen Jones provides key insight before NFL Draft next week https://insidethestar.com/stephen-jones-provides-key-insight-before-nfl-draft-next-week

CBS News 24/7's 60-person unionized staff begins a 24-hour walkout with support from WGAE, a week after delivering a strike pledge to management (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/labor-unions/cbs-news-24-7-wa…

CBS News 24/7 Staffers Begin Bicoastal Walkouts, With Full Support From WGAE
The 60-person unionized staff behind CBS News 24/7 began their 24-hour walkout on Tuesday morning a week after the unit delivered a strike pledge to management.

CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool to manage staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Each week, Metacurity is proud to offer our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID,
--Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency,
--Bot swarms threaten democracy,
--Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech,
-…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/7/26
Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID, Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency, Bot swarms threaten democracy, Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech, Promptware attacks could pose Stuxnet-scale cyber threats.

In-Your-Face DOJ Aide Rides Prosecutors for 'Chief Client' Trump (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/in-your-face-doj-aide-rides-prosecutors-for-chief-client-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p29#a260219p29

Trump acknowledged this week that “most” NATO members have said they’ll stay out of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
So far, the only NATO members that have come out in support of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran are the Czech Republic, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Others, including Denmark, Finland and Luxembourg, have remained neutral in their opinions of the strikes, while issuing broad criticisms of the Iranian regime.

Trump's Only NATO Support On Iran Comes From These 6 Smaller Countries
Trump has raged at NATO for refusing his demands to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, making veiled threats of retaliation against the coalition of longtime U.S. allies.

One week out from the NFL Draft: Intel, rumors and what we're hearing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/one-week-out-from-the-nfl-draft-intel-rumors-and-what-…

#ThursDeath this week is a classic. This is 'Ritual of Infinity', the only full length released by Middletown, New York's MORPHEUS DESCENDS, in 1992.
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.co

Congratulations, you survived another week!

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices (The Record)
https://therecord.media/texas-sues-tp-link-china-allegations

Texas sues TP-Link, alleging it allows China to hack into routers
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit on Monday and said it is the first of several that will be filed this week against companies affiliated with China's government.

Don't be surprised if Dillon Thieneman is a Dallas Cowboy next week https://insidethestar.com/dont-be-surprised-if-dillon-thieneman-is-a-dallas-cowboy-next-week

The Senate defeated legislation aimed at halting the U.S. military campaign against Iran,
-- the second unsuccessful attempt to rein in Donald Trump as the conflict nears the three-week mark.
The 47-53 vote Wednesday on the Democratic-led bid to require congressional approval to continue the military campaign is identical to a vote that failed earlier this month.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has tangled with the administration on Iran and other foreign interventions, was th…

Raiders’ remaining needs after 1st week of NFL free agency https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-remaining-needs-after-1st-week-of-nfl-free-agency-3725333/

Mythos is the cover story at The Economist this week.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/

On the heels of news reports that
more than 40,000 files were either withheld or taken down from the Department of Justice’s site
with documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case,
the DOJ late last week released documents including FBI memos related to accusations against Donald Trump.
But MS NOW has found that the released files still appear to be incomplete,
missing FBI notes and memos reflecting interviews with women alleging abuse by other prominent men.

DOJ site still missing documents with accusations against Epstein associates
A woman who alleged that Epstein sexually abused her for years also told federal law enforcement about incidents with then-bank executive Jes Staley and billionaire Leon Black.

Titans QB Ward on track to throw at minicamp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48504522/cam-ward-track-recovery-week-18-shoulder-injury

The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for the second time this year,
a widely expected move amid turmoil in the Middle East and rising energy prices.
Fed officials faced a confluence of issues to consider in their meeting this week:
soaring oil and gas prices,
fluctuating inflation that still remains above the Fed’s target of 2%,
and a weakened job market that unexpectedly saw 92,000 losses last month.
All but one of the 12 voting members of th…

UFL odds, picks: Expert makes Week 4 best bets for Dallas vs. Columbus. St. Louis vs. D.C. and more

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Approximately 2,500 U.S. Marines are being deployed to the Middle East.

They are part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is based in Japan.
Estimated Arrival
The USS Tripoli, leading the deployment, was seen transiting the Singapore Strait on March 17, 2026.

Given the distance from Singapore to the Middle East, the arrival is expected to take about a week.
Conclusion
The Marines are likely to die in the Middle East around late March 202…

The Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday
passed a new version of the SAVE Act,
a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans.
The House passage of the new bill, now called the SAVE America Act, comes roughly a week after President Trump called on Republicans to
“nationalize the voting” and
…

The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

One week to go before the NFL Draft: Bold predictions, a mock draft fans will hate and teams under pressure

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We reviewed the first week of NFL free agency: Additions, subtractions and questions for all 32 teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48227150/2026-nfl-free-agency-key-roster-additions-subtractions-goals-buzz-questions

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