Jaws at 50: Was the Terrifying Movie Really to Blame for Worldwide Shark Declines? The Revelator
Religious Leaders Who Tried Psilocybin Say It Made Them Better at Their Jobs StudyFinds
Cannibal Crusaders History Today
The heresy of Americanism The Drift
Climate/Environment
Scientists Uncover Flaw in Climate Models: Clouds Are Supercharging Arctic Warming SciTech Daily
Fitch Warns of Rising Mortgage-Bond Risk Due to Extreme Weather Bloomberg
Insurers Retreat as 2025 Wildfire Risk Reaches Dangerous Levels AP
Hunger already an issue in post-Helene Western NC. Signs it could get much worse. Carolina Public Press
Pandemics
It looks like everyone is going to be getting older sooner – see fascinating thread below.
Because while immune response lasts a whole lifetime, the length of our life isn’t the driving factor; it’s how soon our immune response is used up. Because that’s when our lifetime ends. https://t.co/OgB4JbeY7B
— Alan Barnard (@alanbarnard1) June 10, 2025
China?
U.S. and China Agree to Get Geneva Pact Back on Track WSJ
Chinese official says China, US conduct professional, candid talks; meeting lays foundation for predictability of bilateral trade relations: expert Global Times
Don’t think Xi is feeling that much pressure from Trump’s trade war. Exports to the US dipped, but exports to the rest of the world largely offset. The overall monthly goods surplus still topped $100b/ is on track to hit $1.2 trillion (gulp)
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— Brad Setser (@Brad_Setser) June 9, 2025
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Chinese Aircraft Carrier Seen Operating Deeper Into Pacific Bloomberg
Congress Passes Maritime Security and Cargo Preference Bills to Bolster U.S. Ports and Fleet gCaptain
Old Blighty
Unclear Keir will keep stealing money from us for things we don’t want and which make us less safe Ian Proud
This clip is the essence of Starmer, a man who said he doesn’t have a favourite book, and doesn’t dream. Walking aimlessly through a dark, seemingly empty house, rubber-stamping contracts some shady multinational has written for him, trying to project Seriousness and Importance. https://t.co/XZk0Jm29ZC
— Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies (@CeilNoyle) June 9, 2025
Syraqistan
‘BREAKING: Israelis opened fire today at thousands of Palestinian civilians including women, children, elders and youth who were gathering to receive small amounts of food aid, near the American “GHF”—also known as the “food death trap” in the Netzarim axis, in Gaza.’… pic.twitter.com/C6l3BXvc3C
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) June 10, 2025
An extremely vile tactic to delay real action and give Israel more time to fully exterminate the Palestinians–Western governments are Zionist whores https://t.co/rfHXBpxSbt
— Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) June 10, 2025
Israel Is Putting More Women on the Front Line to Help Fix Its Manpower Problem WSJ
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IAEA an ‘instrument for Israel,’ secret documents seized by Iran reveal The Cradle. “…several top Iranian nuclear scientists ended up getting assassinated due to their names being disclosed by the IAEA.”
UN’s Nuclear Watchdog Poised to Declare Iran in Violation of Nonproliferation Treaty Haaretz
Israel Making Preparations for Iran Strike as Trump Tells Netanyahu to Forego an Offensive Haaretz
New Not-So-Cold War
Yes, Russia is Escalating the War with Ukraine Larry Johnson
Break Down of Russia’s Most Powerful Strikes In SMO: Advances In Dnepro, Sumy, Donetsk/Reason Moscow’s Dnepro Entry Spells Doom For Ukraine- Higher Loses, Russia New Regions The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda (Video)
Operation Spiderweb fails to ‘Trump-proof’ the Ukraine war M.K. Bhadrakumar, New Indian Express
WAITING FOR TRUMPO John Helmer
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‘Israel’ confirms Patriot missile transfer to Ukraine Al Mayadeen
Israel denies ambassador’s claim of Patriot missile transfer to Ukraine Ynet
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Realism Is Not Enough: Russia, Realism, and Historical Constructivism Gordon Hahn
New Evidence Exposes The Maidan Massacre False Flag. The Dissident
Hockey legend Ovechkin placed on Ukrainian ‘kill list’ RT
South of the Border
US troops deploy to Panama for canal exercises amid sovereignty protests Intellinews
Spook Country
U.S. Agencies Tracked Foreigners Traveling to See Musk WSJ
“Liberation Day”
Bancor Michael Roberts blog
90 Trade Deals In 90 Days Tracker:
Day 64: Still Zero.
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— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) June 10, 2025
Trump 2.0
THE “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT” ELIMINATES THE OFFICE OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH—THREATENING THE STABILITY OF THE TREASURY MARKET Notes on the Crises
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Hegseth aide upended Pentagon leak inquiry with false wiretap claims The Guardian
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States, sheriffs puzzle over Trump’s error-filled list of immigration sanctuaries Ohio Capital Journal
Chartbook 390 Beyond LA: Logics of escalation from Black Lives Matter (2020) to “No Kings” (June 14 2025) Adam Tooze
The Big Beautiful Bill Will Bring ICE Raids to Your City David Dayen, The American Prospect
DOGE
Musk’s administration allies become targets Semafor
The DOGE 100: Musk Is Out, but More Than 100 of His Followers Remain to Implement Trump’s Blueprint ProPublica
Can Anyone Replace Elon Musk? New York Times. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia and investment banker Anthony Armstrong are expected to be part of a new leadership team.
Trump Just Quietly Teed Up $20 Billion In Starlink Contracts The Lever
Hegseth Says DOGE Found $6 Billion in Pentagon Budget Cuts Bloomberg. Out of a trillion.
MAHA
Trump’s First Surgeon General: RFK Jr. Purging the CDC Advisory Committee Will Put Lives at Risk Jerome Adams, TIME
F.D.A. Looks to A.I. to Enhance Efficiency New York Times. The deck: “With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.”
Democrats en déshabillé
“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged Bolts
Police State Watch
Nationwide protests erupt in the US over ICE raids as Trump deploys troops, plans military parade The Economic Times
Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies WaPo
A leading immigrant rights group says several hundred people in LA have been detained in recent ICE raids LAist
Overnight curfew declared for downtown LA after ICE protests bring looting and vandalism LAist
Trump endorses arrest of Gavin Newsom KTLA
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Martial Flaw in LA Ken Klippenstein
No one made any plans for the NG beyond sending them to LA, including what they’d eat and where they’d sleep. pic.twitter.com/z3bYTKrH1J
— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric) June 10, 2025
How Do You Measure Corporate Power? Count the Marines in LA America’s Undoing
‘Whose National Guard?’ by Ben Page from New Masses. Vol. 14 No. 11. March 12, 1935. Revolution’s Newsstand
The weaponization of Waymo Blood in the Machine. “How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations.”
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NYCLU Slams Mayor Adams Order Adopting IHRA Antisemitism Definition NYCLU
Panel: Public can’t know cost, details of ‘critical’ security project at Michigan Capitol Bridge Michigan
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Border Patrol arrested a Detroit student on a field trip. He now faces deportation. Detroit Free Press
The NYPD and ICE ‘mistakenly’ arrest a Chilean woman on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter (who was with her) on the street alone. pic.twitter.com/HZkxbQ5lOz
— EssenViews (@essenviews) June 9, 2025
Groves of Academe
University of Michigan drops private security after reports of surveillance Bridge Michigan
Wars Come Home
Hexagons aren’t always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/tMsUAbIeL4
— John Wiseman (@lemonodor) June 9, 2025
Imperial boomerang: when tactics of colonial rule exported abroad are imported back home pic.twitter.com/EGbGFBhqkZ
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) June 10, 2025
Obama Legacy
A lot of our present discontent is downstream from the fact that Obama broke a lot of people’s hearts. He promised hope and change, didn’t deliver all that much of it, then retreated to a quiet life of opulence and golfing. Ever since we’ve had a politics dominated by cynicism. https://t.co/yjhZ8szbCo
— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) June 8, 2025
Our Famously Free Press
CNN is claiming that these small objects are being thrown by protesters and explode, scaring police. Those are rubber bullets fired by police at civilians, they do not explode when thrown. CNN is doing agitprop for LAPD.
clip from @CinemarxismBret pic.twitter.com/9DM6waFRg4
— Austin MacNamara – Gremloe (@gremloe) June 10, 2025
The Friendly Skies
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS 404 Media
Look for These 7 New Technologies at the Airport IEEE Spectrum
UNITED AIRLINES SHUTS DOWN STARLINK WIFI SERVICE ON ITS PLANES AFTER THE ANTENNAES CAUSED PROBLEMS WITH ITS JETS’ EQUIPMENT Futurism
AI
NEWS: Opposition to AI moratorium grows. Sens Ron Johnson and Rick Scott said they oppose restricting states regulating AI
Them plus Hawley and Blackburn that’s 4 who oppose it. House conservatives also oppose it. And several GOP Sens have also rejected endorsing the move
— Diego Areas Munhoz (@Dareasmunhoz) June 10, 2025
The Storm Clouds Looming Past the State Moratorium: Weak Regulation is as Bad as None Tech Policy Press
Antitrust
Deere must face FTC’s antitrust lawsuit over repair costs, US judge rules Reuters
The Bezzle
You will have shitcoin ETFs in your retirement account and you will be happy https://t.co/jknZ7brAQZ
— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) June 10, 2025
Class Warfare
Guest Post: Head Start is Helping Whole Families Working Class Storytelling
The contradictions of capitalism explained Class Consciousness Project
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