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The Media Finally Figures Out That Russia Is In Retreat, 24 Hours After You Read It Here.

Ukraine's military says its forces have retaken over 3,000 sq km (1,158 sq miles) during a rapid counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine.

The remarkable advance, if confirmed, means Kyiv's forces have tripled their stated gains in little over 48 hours.

On Thursday evening, President Zelensky put the figure at 1,000 sq km, and then 2,000 sq km on Saturday evening.

The BBC cannot verify the Ukrainian figures, and journalists have been denied access to the frontlines.

On Saturday, the eastern counter-attack saw Ukrainian troops enter the vital Russian-held supply towns of Izyum and Kupiansk.

But UK defence officials have warned that fighting has continued outside those towns. And officials in Kyiv said Ukrainian forces were still fighting to gain control of a number of settlements around Izyum.

Russia's defence ministry confirmed its forces' retreat from Izyum itself and Kupiansk, which it said would allow its forces "to regroup" in territory held by Moscow-backed separatists.

The Russian ministry also confirmed the withdrawal of troops from a third key town, Balaklyia, in order to "bolster efforts" on the Donetsk front. Ukrainian forces entered the town on Friday.

At the same time, the head of the Russia-installed administration in the Kharkiv region recommended that its people evacuate to Russia "to save lives".

Unverified footage on social media appeared to show long queues of traffic building up at border crossings. The governor of the Belgorod border region in Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said "thousands" of people had crossed into the country.



However, They Think the Death of A Nice Old Lady a Couple of Days Ago is More Important News

Attacking Melanoma (Which is Not Previous Guy's Wife)

European researchers announced Saturday that a new treatment for advanced melanoma was more effective than the leading existing therapy in a Phase 3 clinical trial.

The treatment, which uses a patient’s own immune cells to fight the cancer, has some similarities to another type of treatment that has proven to be highly effective for blood cancers, called CAR-T therapy.

CAR-T therapy involves harvesting a patient’s T cells and modifying them in the lab to turn them into cancer fighters, then infusing the cells back into the patient. The personalized treatment was first shown to be successful a decade ago in certain leukemia patients; it’s now also used for lymphomas as well as multiple myeloma.

And while it’s been explored for solid tumors, which make up the majority of cancers, including melanoma, these tumors present challenges that blood cancers do not. Many blood cancers are homogeneous, meaning their cells are uniform. This gives CAR-T therapy a clear target to latch onto and attack. But solid tumors tend to have a number of different cell types that vary largely between cancer types, said Dr. Vincent Lam, an assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who specializes in immunotherapies.

Vlad, You Got Some 'Splainin to Do

As Russian forces hastily retreated in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday in one of their most embarrassing setbacks of the war, President Vladimir V. Putin was at a park in Moscow, presiding over the grand opening of a Ferris wheel.

“It’s very important for people to be able to relax with friends and family,” Mr. Putin intoned.

The split-screen contrast was stunning, even for some of Mr. Putin’s loudest backers. And it underscored a growing rift between the Kremlin and the invasion’s most fervent cheerleaders. For the cheerleaders, Russia’s retreat appeared to confirm their worst fears: that senior Russian officials were so concerned with maintaining a business-as-usual atmosphere back home that they had failed to commit the necessary equipment and personnel to fight a long war against a determined enemy.

“You’re throwing a billion-ruble party,” one pro-Russian blogger wrote in a widely circulated post on Saturday, referring to the Putin-led celebrations in Moscow commemorating the 875th anniversary of the city’s founding. “What is wrong with you? Not at the time of such a horrible failure.”
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The outrage from Russian hawks on Saturday showed that even as Mr. Putin had succeeded in eliminating just about all of the liberal and pro-democracy opposition in Russia’s domestic politics, he still faced the risk of discontent from the conservative end of the political spectrum. For the moment, there was little indication that these hawks would turn on Mr. Putin as a result of Ukraine’s seemingly successful counteroffensive; but analysts said that their increasing readiness to criticize the military leadership publicly pointed to simmering discontent within the Russian elite.

“Most of these people are in shock and did not think that this could happen,” Dmitri Kuznets, who analyzes the war for the Russian-language news outlet Meduza, said in a phone interview. “Most of them are, I think, genuinely angry.”

The Kremlin, as usual, tried to minimize the setbacks. The defense ministry described the retreat as a decision “to regroup” its troops, even though the ministry said a day earlier that it was moving to reinforce its defensive positions in the region. The authorities in Moscow carried on with their festive weekend, with fireworks and state television showing hundreds lined up to ride the new, 460-foot-tall Ferris wheel.

Is It True That Miller Insisted He Will Only Come Testify After the Sun Sets?

The Department of Justice has reportedly subpoenaed former President Donald Trump’s senior White House advisor Stephen Miller in a probe looking at a super PAC from the former president, The New York Times reported.

Miller, along with ex-White House political director Brian Jack, is reportedly among a group of more than a dozen people linked to Trump that received federal grand jury subpoenas this week.

Several “junior and mid-level” aides who worked for Trump in the White House and for his presidential bid also received subpoenas, The Times reported earlier this week.

The subpoenas derive from a federal grand jury inquiry into Trump’s Save America PAC – formed shortly after the 2020 election – and whether or not the group defrauded contributors of their money by using false claims about the election, a source with knowledge of the subpoenas told CNN.

The Save America PAC has reportedly raised over $103 million, according to OpenSecrets.org, a nonprofit that tracks political contributions and spending.

The subpoenas are also looking for information on the alleged plan for electors to be sent to swing states to overturn the results of the election, the Times noted.

Some subpoenas asked for information provided to the Jan. 6 committee related to “communications recipients may have had” with people who attempted to overturn the election such as Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing, CNN found.

Who Lost the Week?


Kristina Karamo, MAGA/religious nominee for Secretary of State in Michigan, responded to her ex-husband's request for a divorce by threatening to kill him and their children, in a court filing

Kiwi Farms, an internet message board and epicenter of vicious, anti-trans harassment campaigns, DDOS protection service Cloudflare terminated its services essentially driving the platform off the mainstream internet

State assembly candidate Peter Schmidt (R-WI), a conservative with anti-gay views, under fire with the Christian right after a video of him in a sexual encounter was revealed

French tennis coach Pierre Bouteyre, facing a civil lawsuit from a woman (ranked #39 in the world) he used to coach, claiming rape and sexual assault, with the French Tennis Federation standing by her

Dinesh D’Souza, claiming his book version of his widely-mocked film “2,000 Mules” would prove the 2020 election was “stolen” … now having right-wing publisher Regnery delaying publication, citing "publishing error"

New Mexico county commissioner Couy Griffin, as a judge ruled he is disqualified to continue serving due to Jan. 6th ... the first one since 1869 removed for participating in an insurrection

The Russian army, forced to withdraw from the Kharkiv region as Ukraine pushes a strong counteroffensive

Several Georgia GOP officials, caught on surveillance video as breaching access to election equipment (to copy software and data), with two consultants under investigation for separate alleged breaches of voting machines in Michigan

Steve Bannon, arrested on New York state charges that he laundered money by diverting funds donated to the We Build the Wall organization

Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs, forced to pay $440m to settle with 33 states over the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping

Abbott Labs, facing a class-action lawsuit over its defective baby formulas (causing severe illness), with the firm using scorched-earth legal tactics and secret settlements, then blaming parents for delays in the past

Johanna Garcia, a self-styled “Mother Theresa”, bringing financing to firms that promised high returns to her 15,400 investors … now arrested for actually running a $196 million Ponzi scheme in Fort Lauderdale

County administrator Robert Telles (D-Las Vegas), who lost his primary re-election bid in a primary, arrested on charges of murdering an investigative journalist who had angered him, with his DNA located at the crime scene

Isabella Pollok, pleading guilty to conspiring to launder money in support of Larry Ray, the father of a former Sarah Lawrence College student reputed to have started a sex “cult” on campus

Daniel “Hatchet” Speed, a petty officer in the Naval Reserves, arrested in Virginia after unwittingly detailing to an undercover agent how he stormed the Capitol on January 6th with friends from the Proud Boys

Hundreds of Oath Keeper members, revealed by the Anti-Defamation League as being active-duty police, military, and political figures

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, as a judge rejected his request to fire his lawyers three weeks out from trial on seditious conspiracy charges and that the trial date remains

County GOP leaders in Michigan, as a leaked Zoom training conference showed them telling election workers to break rules (barring cell phones, notepads and pens) and “to do it secretly”