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Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger — who famously saved 155 passengers by landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009 — has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. "I recently found out I have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. It is early stage," Sullenberger, 75, announced in a statement on his website Tuesday. "For now, this means a name may not come easily to me, I forget a story I have recently told, or I don't sleep as well, but I am in the beginning of this long journey," he said.

@hey_itsmyturn Just happened to me

X acting strange for you too? Replies opening without showing the main post and such

@FLYNAVYBuzzy Correct me if I’m wrong, but this looks like an old video

I had to get up in 15 anyway. No soft knocks today makes our mental health watch us really really close like they're looking into our very souls.

On July 16 at 2 p.m. ET, meet the scientists and engineers behind NASA's first flying science laboratory for another world. 🚁 Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Dragonfly's progress and live Q&A with mission experts. 📺: youtube.com/watch?v=nQeXWo…

RIP B1069 :(

@AnimarchyYT I’m assuming you saw the amphibious UGV landing yesterday?

Robot Wars got an upgrade.

Que puñetera barbaridad las imágenes del inicio del desfile aéreo en París.

paint me like one of your french girls

/RANT ON You know, if someone told me in 2022 the fastest path to 500K followers on Twitter was copypasta from Telegram, vagueposting, not retweeting and taking other people's work, and just grabbing the analysis of others, changing a few words, and making it our own, I wouldn't have built relationships, hired journalists, bought satellite images, and spent countless hours with people smarter than me and the team, for 33.6K followers doing real journalism. Ya - I'm salty this afternoon - again. Why? Because a lot of what we assessed, through discussion, arguments, research, and analysis from different sources, is coming to fruition. Our 2022 prediction that Russia wouldn't be able to kick-start its civil aviation industry and Putin's goal of 1,100 aircraft by 2028 was delusional Our end-of June 2022 analysis that Russia's combat potential had reached a culmination point after the Luhansk Oblast offensive, and the only effective fighting force left in the Summer of 2022 was the Wagner Group that was fighting for control of the Svitlodarsk Bulge at the time Our analysis of the situation in southern Kharkiv from June to September 2022, and our repeated assessment to watch the western flank because Ukraine was actively setting conditions for something major - one day, when the Russia-Ukraine War ends, we'll finally be able to share why we had so much insight in the Izyum region and how much more we knew versus what we shared Our October 2022 analysis that Yevgeny Prigozhin and Sergei Shoigu were on a political collision course of wills that would inevitably end with one of them being thrown under the bus by Putin - we just didn't see the Prigozhin Insurrection coming and the decision to stop it less than 48 hours after it started Our 2023 economic analysis and prediction that the Russian economy would hit a brick wall by the end of 2025 if the Russia-Ukraine War did not end, and not wavering from that analysis Fighting August-October 2023 accusations that Zabrina Zabrinsky was a "Russian agent" and we were so stupid that we hired a known Russian, and protecting Zabrina from the false accusations so she could focus on her work Our February 2024 analysis that Ocheretyne was the key to Pokrovsk, and our in-depth report on what would happen if Russia gained control of the settlement, including the directions of attack, the order of when key defensive points would fall, and where Russian forces would get bogged down after a series of relatively rapid advances Our 2024 analysis that Russia's use of VBIEDs and the development of FrankenIFVs was not a sign of innovation, but the first signs of a decline Our October 2024 analysis that Ukraine's operational goal in Kursk was political, and not military - to prove that attacking Russian soil would not lead to the use of CBRN weapons, in the hope that Ukraine's allies would allow deep strikes into Russia Our November 2024 analysis that Oreshnik was just a lightly modified RS-26 Rubezh and the later analysis when more information became available that the kinetic warheads had the equivalent destructive power of Russia's 240mm mortar with even less accuracy Our Christmas Day 2024 analysis of Ukraine's published casualty figures against leaked information from Russia, with credit given to Mediazona/Meduza/BBC for part of our analysis, that Ukraine's daily casualty figures are shockingly accurate Our early 2025 analysis that the combat potential of the individual Russian soldier had peaked and was now in a long-term decline Our dismissal of Russia's repeated 2025 claims that all of the Kursk Oblast to the 1991 border had been liberated - it still hasn't - yes that's pedantic, but it's true Our early 2026 analysis that Ukraine's SEAD/DEAD in southern Ukraine and occupied Crimea was part of a larger operational plan, and not just random strikes on poorly operated air defense systems Our March 2026 analysis that Russia had reached an "inflection point" of national decline because everything has come together to drag the country down Our early May 2026 analysis that Russia's fuel crisis would be much worse than 2025 - if anything, that analysis was too conservative Our analysis from 2 days ago that Ukraine was not attacking the Crimean Bridge because the operational goal is for the Russians to start using it to go home And we stand by our assessment of Kostiantynivka. Russian forces will consolidate gains in 75% to 80% of the city by the end of the summer, and then be stuck for months trying to capture the remaining 20% to 25%. And as we wrote a few days ago, due to Moscow's false capture claim, even that may be too optimistic for Russia. We also stand by our assessment that if you're waiting for a 1917-style economic and political collapse in Russia, you're going to wait forever. And when we get things wrong, we admit our mistakes. For example, in August 2024 when Russian forces first entered the eastern edges of Toretsk and consolidated their gains, we called for Ukraine to withdraw from the city. Our argument, Ukraine couldn't afford another attritional urban war like in Bakhmut, and there was defensible territory at the city's outskirts. That assessment aged like warm milk on a summer day. We admitted we got Russia's loss of Starlink wrong, declaring it would only cause short-term problems and that Russia would adapt within 8 weeks. We admitted that our initial assessment that Ukraine's localized offensive in the Pokrovske AO was tactical in nature had understated Ukraine's operational goals, and did a further analysis. In other news, Ukraine has unraveled one year of Russian advances, almost to the day, in 5.5 months with significantly fewer resources. Our initial assessment that by advancing on the northern flank of the Huliaipole AO, Russia's offensive would slow, was partially correct. The loss of Starlink and Russia's fuel and logistical crisis have also contributed to the fighting west and southwest of Huliaipole becoming positional. And some of our assessment will be left for historians to decide. We maintain that as costly as the defense of Bakhmut was, it was the right decision. We strongly disagree with how that defense was conducted. Had Ukraine withdrawn to Chasiv Yar in February 2023, Russian forces might very well be fighting for control of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk today. Yes, we know this is a very controversial take. When we've made mistakes in our SITREP, we have called it out with an Errors and Omissions section. Some people would be very surprised if they ever saw our client list and the consumers of our reports. Long nights and days wondering if key contacts that went dark had died. Sobbing when my wife walked into my office on April 1, 2022, looked at me and asked what's wrong, just minutes after we finished our analysis of photos, videos, and satellite images from Bucha. Screaming for joy and sobbing privately after a key contact who hadn't communicated with us since May 2022 escaped the occupied territories in December 2022 through Soledar. Through SOLEDAR - in December 2022. Not to mention the repeated near heart attacks Zarina gave me in Kherson. But on Twitter? I guess that isn't good enough. Because although the truth matters, most of the time the truth is really boring. I hate writing sensational headlines for Google News and Newsbreak, but that's what gets the clicks. If you want to support independent journalism, a team with a track record of getting a lot more right than wrong, that does its own analysis, and an organization that practices ethical journalism by retweeting instead of copypasta, and providing credit when we use OSINT and public sources to feed our analysis, give us a follow. The team doesn't think that's a lot to ask for. /RANT OFF

@bayraktar_1love If they sank it near Novorossiysk, that means it’s probably a new surface or underwater drone that took this out.

🔥⚓️BREAKING: Ukraine’s Navy sank the Russian FSB border guard ship Izumrud near Novorossiysk with a Sargan-3000 unmanned combat system. The ship was a 2nd-rank border patrol vessel with a helipad, launched in 2014, measuring 62.5 meters long and displacing around 630 to 750 tons. The sinking of Izumrud is highly symbolic for Ukraine: the ship took part in Russia’s attack on Ukrainian Navy vessels in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018.

@AidanSimardone Man, the last time they wanted Africans, it did NOT go well

Europeans want African minerals, African oil, African cocoa, African coffee, African labor, but they don't want Africans

@Hush_Kit I dunno, explicitly choosing against stealth on The Stealth Jet ™️ should be beast mode.

‘Beast mode’ is some of the best marketing spin for slow & not stealthy

Lindsey Graham’s corpse strapped to a comically large bomb flying towards Tehran (as was requested in his will).

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@tosweetdelight @jmgwritten Dumbledore as a character is very solidly written. But it’s a bit strange that absolutely no one else in Wizarding society thought that trying to actually kill Death Eaters consistently was a good idea. Not everyone could just dance through them all like Dumbledore.

Dumbledore not killing is part of his thing, and if you'd read the books, you'd know. Voldemort taunts him in the Ministry for not attempting to kill him (after throwing multiple death curses at Dumbledore), and Dumbledore's response is, 'There are things worse than death.' Meanwhile, Dumbledore proceeds to out-duel Voldemort (the chapter is called 'The Only One He Ever Feared' - it's a bit different from the film version, as in the book Dumbledore is effortlessly holding Voldemort back - he knows he can't kill Voldemort because the horcruxes would only keep him alive) Dumbledore is, hands down, the greatest wizard in the series, with Voldemort, another male, being either a close 2nd or tied. But Dumbledore uses magic multiple times to subdue death eaters (gasp! violence!) - they are so far beneath him on a skill level that he doesn't need to lower himself to throwing death curses. It's also a kids' series, so idk - weird angle to critique the books from.

This is a peak example of Women Writing Men. Some authors oppose violence so much they make the heroes pacifists Harry Potter is the worst offender. Voldemort is killing people all over, but at no point do any Good Men kill any Death Eaters. It's absurd. If a man wrote those books Voldemort's regime would have faced Aurors runing Viet Cong style Apparation ambushes 24/7. They'd be making people's pens and doorknobs into Port-Keys that dropped you into an active volcano, or a dragon's lair. But instead the good guys just stand around being grave and sad until the final battle. It's very silly

"Que aburrido un Mundial con 64 países" El partido más tranquilo del Mundial 2030 entre El Salvador vs Pisos Picados:

@jaysun_1 @hamwagon69 @FaytuksNetwork Oh 100%. I feel like if they could, they would, but imo the mystery partner is more likely the Saudis or Emeratis.

@AtomF11 @hamwagon69 @FaytuksNetwork They could fly over the Don region and down the Caspian. But yeah, it would have to be a large amount of drones to be helpful. Like I said, I don't think it's them either, but they do have a bone to pick with Iran. Their Shaheds have killed a lot of Ukrainians

President Zelensky also announced he and President Trump have reached a deal for Ukraine to receive licenses to produce Patriot systems.

@jaysun_1 @hamwagon69 @FaytuksNetwork True, but those drones usually have a payload between 25 and 50kg of explosives. The price of long range. That’s a love tap compared to even the smaller American JDAMs, and they’d have to overfly Turkey in order to get there.

@AtomF11 @hamwagon69 @FaytuksNetwork I don't think it's Ukraine that he is referencing, more likely the UK. They just classified the IRGC as a terrorist organization this morning. Basically pre justification. But Ukraine has been hitting oil refineries in Siberia, 2500km out. Iran is in range for their drones.