🇷🇺✈️ With planes breaking down and repair hubs facing insolvency, the Russian military is navigating a full-blown airlift crisis. It needs to move materiel, but its own aircraft increasingly cannot. The solution? Civilian aviation.

https://dallas-analytics.com/russias-shadow-airlift/

#russia

So, everytime you create one of my pattern kits https://www.dressdeveloper.com/pattern-kits/ with a new configuration, this configuration (not the measurements) get saved with a code, which allows you to recreate or share this specific pattern.

Right now there are 11.526 different configurations saved in the database.

Which basically means we created 11k of different #sewing patterns between me and you.

Somehow this brings me joy 😆

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

🇷🇺 Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has disclosed the structure of the Russian holding “Shvabe,” identifying dozens of enterprises involved in the production of components for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles despite formally presenting themselves as medical manufacturers.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-conceals-missile-supply-chain-via-medical-firms-to-dodge-sanctions-ukraine-says-17925

#russia

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts?

- October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied
- February-November 2025: 75% denied
December 2025: 84%
- January 2026: 91%
- February 2026: 95%

https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/asylum/