Ukraine has built wooden imitations of US HIMARS missile launchers, to use as decoys. The Putin forces fire expensive missiles at them.

It was a good hack, but I'm afraid that whoever revealed it has ruined it. What a pity.

The water supply of Jackson, Mississippi, has broken down and is out of service. The immediate cause was flooding that affected the water purification plant.

Mississippi is a Republican-controlled state, and many of the residents of Jackson are black. I suspect that the state has underfunded all civic systems in Jackson for a long time, and that this is the underlying reason for the failure.

* The European Union's power sector is a good example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks the world over.*

An excavation in Norwich, England, found the bodies of 17 Jews murdered in a pogrom in 1190. Antisemitism in medieval Europe often led to murder.

The teachers of Columbus, Ohio, went on strike and gained important victories.