Water Tornadoes? Flamingos Use This Clever Trick To Trap Prey SciTech Daily
Middle America’s indie perfume boom Dirt
Letting Kids Be Kids Zvi Mowshowitz
Climate/Environment
Canada facing nearly 100 out of control wildfires triggering evacuations, emergency declarations Wildfire Today
Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in Midwest and Plains NBC News
When Air Quality’s Bad, Which Mask Should I Wear for Wildfire Smoke? KQED
Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation causes the historical North Atlantic Warming Hole Communications Earth & Environment
Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV? Construction Physics
The bad science behind expensive nuclear Works in Progress
Water
Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness The Marginalian
Pandemics
Rising excess deaths, Summer waves, Laying blame, Banning mask bans, and more The Covid-Is-Not-Over Newsletter
Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates NBER. Estimates that the removal of school mask mandates following the CDC rescinding guidance recommending masking in schools contributed to 21,800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year.
Sick Kids Are Actually Healthier Than Healthy Kids, Says Study Made Up By AI pic.twitter.com/IILaTKnQsM
— The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) May 29, 2025
China?
Hegseth Says US Ready to ‘Fight and Win’ a War With China Over Taiwan Antiwar
Treasury Secy Bessent: China holding back products essential for industrial supply chains Seeking Alpha
The Cold War History of Export Controls China Talk
BYD is deploying ships now? The Battery Chronicle
Old Blighty
Britain to build a dozen nuclear submarines as forces arm for war The Times
How to Solve a Problem Like Productivity Tribune
US anti‑abortion cash floods UK free speech frontlines Democracy for Sale
European Disunion
PiS-backed Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election Intellinews
Patrick Lawrence: War in Our Time Scheerpost
Google Maps falsely told drivers in Germany that roads across the country were closed Engagdet
DIANA JOHNSTONE: Serbia’s Organized Chaos Consortium News. Missed this last week, but Johnstone is always worth a read.
Eurovision: NATO Psychological Warfare Tool Kit Klarenberg
The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part I: Competitiveness Corporate Europe Observatory
Syraqistan
Nearly 230 killed or wounded as Israel carries out largest massacre since new aid mechanism was enforced in Gaza Euro-Med Monitor
Israeli Army Chief Orders Expansion of Gaza Offensive, Establishment of More Aid Centers Haaretz
Israel blocks entry of over 3,000 medical aid trucks into Gaza: Health Ministry Anadolu Agency
Siege Starvation: A War Crime of Societal Torture Chicago Journal of International Law
Hope Greta and her friends can swim!https://t.co/Noab4QyJtV
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 1, 2025
Hamas Seeks U.S. Guarantees War Won’t Resume as Trump Pushes for Gaza Deal Haaretz
Witkoff Says Hamas’s Response To Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Is ‘Totally Unacceptable’ Antiwar
How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination +972 Magazine
New Not-So-Cold War
Lavrov and Rubio discuss Ukrainian attacks on Russia RT
Inside Operation Spider’s Web: Ukraine ‘destroys 40 Russian bombers’ The Times
Ukrainian strike on Russian airfields: What we know so far RT.
Yves also has a rundown in yesterday’s post, but here are more takes:
ATTENTION!
So, it appears Zelenskyy gave the go ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear capable bombers without informing @realDonaldTrump (if true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol. It’s a geopolitical insult and a warning… pic.twitter.com/L976NhwFy6
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) June 1, 2025
Ukraine Launches Terrorist Offensive with Western Assistance on Eve of Negotiations in Istanbul Larry Johnson, Sonar21. Johnson believes Western intel and NATO were necessary for drone activation and navigation. Andrei Martyanov agrees.
Ukraine’s ‘Unprecedented’ Operation Spiderweb: Russia’s ‘Pearl Harbor’? Or Just More Soggy Silk? Simplicius
Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strike on Russia offers glimpse into the future of war Semafor
From a Ukraine cheerleader account, but wouldn’t be surprising, and helps provide a glimpse of what this type of warfare might do to the future of trade:
Problems with logistics have begun in the #Russian Federation; all trucks on the roads are being checked for drones. Traffic is paralyzed. pic.twitter.com/U6mNKdwd6A
— Olena_Wave🇺🇦 (@OlenaWave) June 1, 2025
Spook Country
Chinese Students Do Pose Security Threat, Former Top CIA Counterspy Says Spy Talk
Trump 2.0
Obscure provision in House bill threatens enforcement of court rulings on Trump USA Today
The House Bill is Neither Big Nor Beautiful Stephanie Kelton
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse pic.twitter.com/aElIudNmZG
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 31, 2025
See Saturday’s Links for Ernst’s original comments.
The Federalist Society claims it’s just a debating club Programmable Mutter
DOGE
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama New York Times. “…his drug use was more intense than previously known.”
A Message of Hope: “We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood, but Against Crackheads in High Places” Dougald Lamont’s Substack
Immigration
Probably just a matter of time before one of these turns really ugly:
Heavily armed ICE agents in tactical gear were confronted by restaurant customers and neighborhood residents as they conducted a worksite raid at a popular restaurant in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. pic.twitter.com/61PBJZ4kAx
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) May 31, 2025
Wars Come Home
Suspect used a flamethrower and yelled ‘Free Palestine’ in Colorado attack, FBI says CNN
Suspect in Boulder terror attack determined to be Egyptian man in US illegally: FBI Fox News
Imperial Collapse Watch
Shareholder Payouts, Underinvestment and the Productivity Slowdown Policy Tensor
America’s Braudelian Autumn Phenomenal World
Millions of US children have parents with substance use disorder, and the consequences are staggering − new research The Conversation
Police State Watch
MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech NBC News
Former Hannity guest turned DOJ employee confirms he’s working on a government response to an American student’s commencement speech critical of a foreign country. pic.twitter.com/ilk031XOqI
— a newsman (@a_newsman) May 31, 2025
‘Shadow’ police force removing homeless from downtown Nashville, state trooper says WSMV4
Noor Abdalla’s First Month of Motherhood New York Magazine
Groves of Academe
Resurrecting the Academy Anti-Empire Project
AI
AI, indulgences, and the false promise of salvation Edward Ongweso Jr
‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI The Guardian
MAHA
What MAHA and Public Health Experts Actually Agree On HEALTH CARE un-covered
Loan plan in Republican bill could worsen doctor shortage, experts warn The Guardian
Tech
The Reenchanted World Harper’s
In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Rest of World
Technology Does Not Solve Political Problems How Things Work
The Bezzle
Czech justice minister resigns over $45M Bitcoin gift from convict Coin Telegraph. One of the best uses of crypto remains political corruption.
Santa Monica residents’ battle against Waymo beeping escalates KTLA
Class Warfare
American says it’s crazy campgrounds are now as expensive as staying in hotels
– Historically, 80% of campgrounds involved small “mom-and-pop” operators, but by 2022, 80% OF BUYERS were outside investors, private equity firms– Private equity firms have shifted to purchasing RV… pic.twitter.com/DxlvmC8drc
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 31, 2025
A great big beautiful tomorrow Internal Exile
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
