We Don’t Have to Anthropomorphize Animals to Care About Them The Revelator
Jobs and Hints of Recession Dollars & Sense
CPI report: Core inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns Yahoo! Finance
Can I Eat Instant Noodles Every Day? Experts Break Down The Health Impact StudyFinds
Why these hairy caterpillars swarm every decade – then vanish without a trace EurekAlert!
Neoliberal Peace-Building: Profiting From Destruction and Reconstruction Green European Journal
Climate/Environment
Military diverting critical materials from renewables The Ecologist
Three killed in European wildfires as heatwave intensifies AFP
Much of the Northern Hemisphere gripped by heat Balanced Weather
Evacuations urged in Juneau as glacial outburst flooding appears imminent Anchorage Daily News
Sea Level Rise in the U.S.A. Open Mind
Coral skeletons show sea-level rise began accelerating earlier than previously thought National University of Singapore
Strategically bringing back beavers could support healthy and climate-resilient watersheds Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Pandemics
Study Shows that Mitochondrial Dysfunctionin Long COVID and ME/CFSis a CONSEQUENCE or EFFECT.and the ROOT CAUSE is at the Vascular Level,which can be transmitted through the blood:https://t.co/hFnRW3HbOUFindings support our statements from years ago:https://t.co/9J0OTs8Ka4 pic.twitter.com/xJxfYfrCqU
— Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang (@Aguirre1Gustavo) August 11, 2025
Work Impairment and Financial Outcomes Among Adults With vs Without Long COVID JAMA Network
Covid outbreak panic: Attorney warns of Covid surge in Florida’s infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigration jailEconomic Times
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JAVMA: Companion Animals and H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Cause for Concern? Avian Flu Diary
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Measles case confirmed on Air Canada flight from Newark to Toronto last month, officials say CBC
The Koreas
N. Korea holds firing drills ahead of planned S. Korea-U.S. joint military exercises Yonhap
India
Sanctions Choke Crude Shipments to Indian Refiner Nayara Bloomberg
In India, Trump’s tariffs spark calls to boycott American goods Reuters
After 5 years of no connectivity, India and China to resume direct flights as early as next month The Economic Times
China?
China’s push to promote its currency accelerates with landmark Fortescue loan South China Morning Post
The collision of Chinese destroyer DDG 164 w Chinese Coast Guard 3104 while chasing the Philippines Coast Guard ship shows that while China produces warships like dumplings, training enough qualified personnel will be a bottleneck pic.twitter.com/Nnu2XzMhWU
— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) August 12, 2025
Old Blighty
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought 404 Media
UK AI boom at risk as Digital Realty warns of power and planning gridlock Capacity
Syraqistan
Israeli Forces Kill 89 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours Antiwar
Time for Israel to take off the gloves Israel Hayom
Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan AP News
Trump signals support for Israel plan, says Hamas ‘can’t stay’ in Gaza New Arab
BIG: Netanyahu told i24 he feels on a “historic and spiritual mission” and strongly identifies with the vision of “Greater Israel,” encompassing land beyond Israel’s current borders, including areas slated for a Palestinian state and parts of Jordan and Egypt.
He framed his… pic.twitter.com/zjNvqsTVoQ
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 12, 2025
US FLEW SPY FLIGHTS FOR UK MONTHS BEFORE MOD ADMITTED IT Declassified UK
Recognizing a Palestinian State Is a Rebuke to Hamas Antony Blinken, WSJ. “But France, Canada and the U.K. are doing it too hastily. The plan won’t work without conditions.”
New Zealand opposition co-leader ejected from parliament for seeking support for bill to sanction Israel Anadolu Agency
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Damascus requests Russian patrols in south Syria to ‘limit’ Israeli incursions: Report The Cradle
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Pezeshkian’s defense of diplomacy, fealty to Khamenei muddies waters in Iran Amwaj
Over 20,000 arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage during war with Israel The Cradle
European Disunion
Far-right AfD overtakes CDU/CSU in latest German poll Turkiye Today
New Not-So-Cold War
The Collapse Begins: Russian Forces Spearhead Largest Single-Day Breakthrough of War Simplicius
Ukraine will not cede land that could be Russian springboard for new war, Zelenskyy says The Guardian
He won’t run away from the light… We reveal the secret calculations: Zelenskiy’s hose leads to the UAE! AydInlIk (machine translation)
On Trump’s Panic: Ukraine’s Forces In Operational Crisis As Pokrovsk Front Crumbles/Why The Trump Putin Alaska Meeting Is A Dead Letter – The War Is Not Over! Mark Sleboda
Foreign Recruits Killed in Ukraine as Missile Hits Camp’s Mess Hall New York Times
“Men who illegally flee abroad damage Ukraine’s image, so we are increasing the number of border patrols and deploying drones and video cameras,” said State Border Guard Service spokesman Demchenko.
What actually damages Ukraine’s image is violent mobilization, when men are… pic.twitter.com/0srGnS55s2
— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) August 12, 2025
Ukraine plotting new provocation to sabotage Putin-Trump meeting – MOD RT
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Telegram channels are becoming increasingly more convinced that Ukraine may soon attempt an armoured incursion into the Russian Bryansk region, similar to what occurred in Kursk last year.
This belief is supported by troop and equipment movements in Ukraines… pic.twitter.com/amYFZ46me7
— Heyman_101 (@SU_57R) August 11, 2025
White House is already downplaying expectation for Trump-Putin meeting painting it as only a step toward peace The Independent
Everything we know as Trump meets with European leaders and Zelensky for emergency virtual summit The Independent
Europe overtakes US as main supplier of military aid to Ukraine Intellinews
From mistranslation to military gospel: the strange life of the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ Brian McDonald
Caucasus
Russia State Duma proposes ban on imports of goods from Azerbaijan News.am
Kremlin propagandist Solovyov threatens ‘special military operation’ against Azerbaijan OC Media
Armenia’s Pashinyan, Azerbaijan’s Aliyev are now his ‘good friends,’ Trump says News.am. A Kissinger quote comes to mind.
Iran’s president to visit Armenia next week amid Zangezur dispute – media Iran International
Spook Country
The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus Wired
“Liberation Day”
Tariffs wiping out American farmers on all sides, and farm equipment manufacturers are laying off Kevin Walmsley
Trump 2.0
Trump Administration Threatens Retaliation Against Countries Backing Shipping’s Net Zero Emissions Plan Reuters
White House to conduct review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions to ensure they fit with Trump’s view of American history ABC News
Police State Watch
Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest WaPo
Judge orders ICE to stop forcing detainees to sleep on dirty concrete floors Politico
“Unheard of and ominous”: Trump’s D.C. homelessness crackdown perplexes advocates Axios
Oh, they want to Gaza everything now. https://t.co/07nYixiRkM
— Laurie Kilmartin (@anylaurie16) August 13, 2025
Democrats en déshabillé
Nearly two years of unspeakable crimes against humanity and this is the best the Democratic party has to offer pic.twitter.com/Ia0tu2Upoj
— Rob (@robrousseau) August 10, 2025
Re: national guard on patrol in WashingtonAdams and Hochul sent the national guard into the NYC subway system. You can see them at the major hubs either looking bored or on their phones. Washington, BTW with a falling crime rate, will be the same.
— Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) August 11, 2025
Weimar Republic
Texas Republicans and Democrats, locked in redistricting battle, weaponize flood response Texas Tribune
L’affaire Epstein
Judge rejects Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell case ABC News
RussiaGate
Classified Leaks Back in Focus in Russiagate Investigation Matt Taibbi
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System New York Times
lol nytimes congratulates itself for timing this leak of alleged “partial Russian” hacks with the Trump-Putin summit.
No better way to distract from the Times’ daily Gaza journalistic malpractice than to revive the ol’ Russiagate glory https://t.co/04vPHKyvQX pic.twitter.com/5XloocoRaJ
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) August 12, 2025
Brave New World
China unveils bionic antelope robot to observe endangered Tibetan species Interesting Engineering
MAHA
Firm Tied to Trump Jr. Debuts Direct Sales Product for Pharma Bloomberg
NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology STAT
Abortion
Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims Houston Chronicle
AI
A new gold rush? How AI is transforming San Francisco Los Angeles Times
Members of Congress Increasingly Take Jobs as AI Lobbyists Lee Fang
Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking Ars Technica
Sam Altman and Elon Musk Trade Barbs Over Who Is More Full of Shit Gizmodo
Eliza-pilled Internal exile
Groves of Academe
After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli academia 972 Magazine
Our Famously Free Press
The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists Jonathan Cook
How Western Media Laid The Groundwork For A Holocaust Do Not Panic!
THREAD. Today’s orders by Trump federalizing D.C. police and deploying National Guard in D.C. in response to “out of control” crime are authoritarian. But I want to comment on something subtle lurking beneath the surface.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) August 11, 2025
Are Bellingcat and the OCCRP ‘Independent’ Media? The Realist Review
Supply Chain
Lithium price jump exposes China’s chokehold on supply Asia Times
AI data centers to worsen copper shortage – BNEF Mining
Healthcare?
Why more doctors can’t make ends meet Axios
Antitrust
America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ ProPublica
Class Warfare
When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans Nonsite
Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry Sapiens
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