This small rural town had 1 veterinarian, a 74-year old veteran who tried finding his replacement for 5 years
Even willing to give away his clinic, truck, and supplies if someone were to move to the town to take over
A young graduate student took the offer pic.twitter.com/sruRTN9bMz
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) October 23, 2025
A radical reimagining of physics puts information at its centre aeon (Chuck L)
“Not Too Sweet” or Too Sweet to Fail? Taste (Randy K)
Women Are Getting on Testosterone and They Say It’s Absolutely Awesome Futurism. Sigh. My endocrinologist >20 years ago said women should be routinely tested for their testosterone level and weren’t. 1/3 of women (as in adults in their prime) have low testosterone. He was convinced that depression among women was significantly due to low testosterone and that many women taking anti-depressants should be taking testosterone instead.
Climate/Environment
Melting glaciers and thermal expansion are driving the ‘acceleration’ of sea level rise to record levels Euronews
Star-studded Malibu is DYING with just four permits granted to rebuild fire-ravaged enclave and property prices tumbling by up to 60% DailyMaill
China?
🚨 BREAKING:U.S. intelligence has confirmed that Larry Ellison’s wife is a Chinese intelligence operative who infiltrated Silicon Valley to obtain strategic tech information.
Authorities are now tracing possible data leaks from Oracle and other major networks.
This is one of… pic.twitter.com/x8Zg6iqQUs
— Larry Arnault (@arnaultwhale) October 24, 2025
China reportedly caught reverse-engineering ASML’s DUV lithography Asia Times (Kevin W)
China’s new home prices fell at the fastest pace in 11 months Reuters
⚠️China’s consumer confidence has rarely been WORSE:
Consumer confidence in China is sitting at near the lowest level in 30 years.
The MOST SEVERE housing bubble burst in modern history, an unstable job market, and elevated youth unemployment have been behind this pic.twitter.com/AcJS4L3vwn
— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) October 22, 2025
Overseas renminbi lending surges as China steps up campaign to de-dollarise Financial Times
There are 2 other key lessons here:– What the US does to China, they might do to others too, they’re publicizing a playbook and capabilities. – It pays to invest in understanding China: once more they saw this coming before anyone else and they were best prepared for the… https://t.co/rnv6kYTKve
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) October 24, 2025
America’s farmers and first responders and love Chinese drones. And that’s about to be a big problem. Kevin Walmsley
Koreas
South Korea grapples with growing number of idle young adults Nikkei
Africa
🛑 Madagascar 🇲🇬 : Former President Andry Rajoelina Loses His Malagasy Nationality
The government declared this Friday, October 24th, that former President Andry Rajoelina had lost his Malagasy nationality.
The decree signed by Prime Minister Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo in… pic.twitter.com/ftxIaZOWPD
— Sy Marcus Herve Traore (@marcus_herve) October 24, 2025
South of the Border
Supercarrier USS Ford Being Pulled From Europe And Ordered To Caribbean War Zone
Inside Marco Rubio’s Push for Regime Change in Venezuela Drop Site
Amid tension between Venezuela and the US, Lula criticizes “foreign interventions in Latin America” Defend Democracy
O Canada
Canadian Snowbirds Left Speechless After U.S. Customs And Border Protection Cites “Standard Procedures” Over New $60 Charge The Travel
European Disunion
Russian Roulette in Brussels Overton via machine translation (Micael T)
ChatControl resistance: How a grassroots campaign scuppered the EU’s plan to suffocate online privacy Diem25 (Robin K)
Old Blighty
Local election wipeout would see off Starmer, MPs say after Caerphilly rout Guardian
Limited Crisis Prep Could Trigger Bailouts: Bank of England FinNews Network
Car production slumps to a 73-year low after JLR cyber-attack Guardian
Today, the medical tribunal (@the_mpts) surrendered to political pressure.
They chose to trample on their own ruling from the 25th of September and allow the @gmcuk to resubmit the same evidence—effectively perverting our British legal system on behalf of the ‘israeli’ jewish… pic.twitter.com/tPXmjE21Gg
— Dr Rahmeh Aladwan (@doctor_rahmeh) October 23, 2025
Israel v. The Resistance
US officials arrive for ‘Bibi-sitting’ as Washington tightens ceasefire oversight of Israel Ynet (resilc)
US exploring ways to deploy international forces to Gaza, possibly under UN mandate: Secretary of state Anadolu Agency
Vance says Knesset votes on annexing West Bank are an ‘insult’ as Netanyahu halts progress Guardian
Trump has threatened to withdraw ‘all US support’ for Israel if it annexes the West Bank.
The Times of Israel reports that, as a result of Trump’s threat, it is “highly unlikely” that a Knesset bill which formalizes annexation will become law.
We’re now seeing ironclad proof… pic.twitter.com/mzDzn9sQEH
— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) October 24, 2025
Israeli strikes kill four in new Lebanon ceasefire breach Aljazeera
Donald Trump Just Admitted It, The U.S. Was Involved in the Pager Attack on Lebanon, the Killing of Hezbollah Leaders, and the Overthrow of Bashar al-Assad
In a recent interview, United States president Donald Trump openly acknowledged that the series of Israeli attacks in… pic.twitter.com/s1UIjGerqQ
— Ibrahim Majed (@ibrahimtmajed) October 23, 2025
One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide +972
This could see the end of the Olympic movement
Malaysia and several other countries including: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Pakistan and Qatar all deny Israel passports entry
That’s a big chunk of humanity, that might go the same way https://t.co/rSezjOEwGB
— Jerry’s Take on China (@JerrysTakeChina) October 23, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Western Analysts Continue to Push Delusions About Russia Larry Johnson
EU Commission Plan Of ‘Russian Assets’ Loan To Ukraine Ends In Defeat Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦 “We’re only concerned with Ukraine and don’t think about anything other than sending them more money. With all due respect, this isn’t the Ukrainian Union”
— Slovak Member of EU Parliament, Milan Uhrik pic.twitter.com/3JjYcuWpea
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 24, 2025
IIRC, Mark Milley did urge seeking a peace deal in November 2022 and was ferociously slapped down:
A piece of backwards-facing analysis on my post from last night:⬇️
After reading through my summary of the course of the war and the decline of relative Ukrainian combat power compared to Russia, something occurred to me. Obviously in 20/20 hindsight the best time for Ukraine… https://t.co/m0PWkRzmwV pic.twitter.com/ERsMWcdo8Y
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) October 23, 2025
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
How Amazon Turned Your Neighborhood Into a Police Database Reclaim the Net
Imperial Collapse Watch
Silicon Valley’s War Profiteers Jacobin (resilc)
Massive Cuts Incoming At NASA As America Just Gives Up Ian Welsh (Micael T)
Trump 2.0
Trump Is Actually Failing Fast—and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It New Republic (resilc)
On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants Responsible Statecraft
‘No Kings’ Protesters Reject Political Violence, Survey Shows Scientific American. resilc: “Wait until an ICE four dead in Ohio moment………”
“Dangerously stupid”: Musk reignites feud with Trump administration Oligarch Watch
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? The Register (Chuck L)
Will Trump End Worldwide Democracy Shams? CounterPunch
MAHA
Shutdown
US Senate fails to pass bill to pay federal essential workers and troops through shutdown Guardian
a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown” rel=”nofollow”>Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members CNN
SNAP Benefits: Trump Admin Rejects Use of Emergency Funding Amid Shutdown Newsweek
SNAP emerges as flash point in shutdown fight The Hill
The Abdication of Congress New York Times (resilc)
>Data Driven Out In the Public Interest
Democrat Death Wish
The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win New York Times (resilc). Editorial.
Campaign 2026: As Maine Goes Washington Monthly
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— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) October 22, 2025
Mamdani
Mamdani calls out NYC election foes for ‘racist, baseless’ attacks Gothamist
Jeffries endorses Mamdani in New York City mayor’s race The Hill
Health Care
Private Medicare, Medicaid Plans Exaggerate In-Network Mental Health Options MedPage
Obamacare premiums to rise 30% on average in 2026 Seeking Alpha (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Newspapers closing, news deserts growing for beleaguered news industry Associated Press (Robin K)
Economy
Competition for Natural Gas Sends U.S. Prices Skyward OilPrice (resilc)
We Are About To Have Another Year Of Not-Great U.S. Auto Sales Jalopnik (resilc)
Mr. Market is Moody
Another US lender tumbles as credit jitters accelerate City AM
AI
A Short Seller’s AI Exercise Paints a Dire Picture of Private Equity Institutional Investor (resilc)
Offshoring automation: Filipino tech workers power global AI jobs Rest of World (resilc)
The Bezzle
We’ve Confused the Receipt With the Result Corbin Trent and America’s Undoing
The Enshitification Of Everything As Seen In Common Automotive Tools YouTube (resilc)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
Mama cat didn’t need to say a word 😾 pic.twitter.com/d9DLbqd2Ln
— Antidepressant Content (@depressionlesss) October 24, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
