🧑‍🎓 🇺🇸 📊 Texas guarantees UT Austin admission to the top 5% of every high school class, by grades alone. This seems race neutral but top 5% at a black school isn’t top 5% at a white/Asian one.

Among its own auto-admits entering in 2008 (tell them to publish new data) the mean SAT was 1277 for asians, 1267 for whites, 1111 for hispanics, and 1068 for blacks.

2025 Texas SAT score averages: 1202 for asians, 1054 for whites, 904 for hispanics, and 887 for blacks.

Model with 2025 SAT scores and the Texas class would be 42% Asian, 37% white, 12.5% Hispanic, and 2.6% black.

📎 Smirkley

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🚷 Texas Republicans are being replaced demographically.

From imported voters to changing political priorities, the future of Texas is being shaped right now. Are we paying attention?

https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/truetexasproject

📎 True Texas Project

🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️ — Western diplomatic sources told Al-Sharqiya that Iraq has received warnings it could be designated a state sponsor of terrorism over repeated attacks and threats launched from its territory against neighboring countries.

The warnings followed drone attacks on Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline traced to Iraq’s Maysan Governorate.

Baghdad was told it must identify and prosecute those responsible for attacks launched from Iraqi territory or risk the designation.

🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 As fighting with the Saudi-led coalition continues on the western front of Lahij Province and southern Taiz Province, the Yemeni Armed Forces have cleared several strategic heights overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Kahbub mountain range.

✍️ According to the latest reports from the southwestern Yemeni front, Yemeni forces have succeeded in clearing the heights of San Sanfah, Sanfah, Al-Jarubah, and Al-Hamra in western Lahj Province.

Concurrently with these advances, Yemen’s missile and drone forces carried out several precision operations targeting concentrations of Al-Amaliqah forces and armed members of the Al-Subayhah tribes, who are backed by Saudi Arabia. The attacks reportedly involved ballistic missiles and Rajum hexacopters, killing at least ten personnel and wounding several others.

✈️💥 Saudi fighter jets have also carried out more than 12 airstrikes against this axis, but so far these strikes have failed to halt the Yemeni advances.

✍️ The aforementioned positions in the Kahbub mountains play an important role in consolidating advances in southwestern Yemen and securing the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Ansarullah’s movement along this axis is not aimed at entering Aden; rather, it is intended to prevent counterattacks by Saudi-led coalition forces, allowing the Yemeni forces to establish long-term control and security over the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

🔗 IWN

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany wants to share the personal information of Ukrainian immigrants with the Ukrainian government to help the latter draft Ukrainian men residing in Germany

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the German government could assist Ukraine in locating citizens eligible for military service. “We know who lives here: who receives social benefits, who is registered here, who holds a residence permit,” he said. Sharing this data, he argued, would allow the Ukrainian government to send draft summonses directly to eligible men residing in Germany.

The minister insisted any return would have to be voluntary, without direct coercion from Berlin. He noted that “the overwhelming majority of the German population supports our policy on Ukraine.”

Recall that Zelensky's chancellor, Kyrylo Budanov, stated that Ukraine needed to mobilized 30k men/month to maintain the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to compensate for casualties and the ever increasing number of deserters

🔗 https://novayagazeta.eu/en/articles/2026/09/09/germany-could-share-data-on-draft-age-ukrainian-men-with-kyiv-foreign-minister-suggests-en-news

🇩🇪 Germany can't find any volunteers for its brigade deployed in Lithuania

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (66, SPD) ordered that conscripts be sent to serve with the brigade deployed in Lithuania. According to exclusive BILD information, the first conscripts are to start in the autumn, up to 1000 soldiers could be deployed.

By the end of 2027, 4.800 German soldiers are to be permanently stationed on the NATO eastern flank in Lithuania. But the battle for volunteers has been slow for months. Already in August, BILD had reported that only around 60% of the necessary service posts could be filled with volunteers. Pistorius had long set out to fill the brigade entirely with volunteers. However, he had already openly admitted in June that he expects commitments in parts, and estimated the figure in BILD at “under 1000".

There is a lack of IT specialists, logistics specialists, chefs and team members. According to BILD information, up to 20 percent of the entire brigade would currently be affected by the compulsory obligation. However, the Bundeswehr hopes to push the gap to 10 percent. The process was confirmed by BILD from several independent sources.

🔗 https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/litauen-brigade-pistorius-zwingt-soldaten-an-die-nato-ostflanke-6aa7b9251e576e6f7a14c9fb

🇺🇦 Ukraine is exploring the possibility of storing food products in warehouses abroad, according to Taras Vysotsky, the Minister of Agriculture of the country.

"The possibility of storing food products outside of Ukraine, but near the border, is being considered, so that if necessary, the required quantities can be quickly delivered to places of consumption," he said.

According to him, it is currently being analyzed whether changes to the legislation of Ukraine, the EU, or Moldova are required for this. "The Ukrainian embassies have been tasked with studying the available opportunities and establishing contacts with the owners of warehouse facilities in the respective countries," Vysotsky added.

Previously, it was reported that empty shelves in supermarkets in Kiev, Lvov, and a number of other Ukrainian cities were a result of a serious disruption in the trade and logistics system.

🔗 https://t.me/vzglyad_ru/150733