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New tool in fight against Great Lakes invasive species: muskrats Bridge Michigan
Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered The Guardian
‘Very mean squirrel’ seeking food sends at least 2 people to the ER in California NBC Bay Area
Why Warm Countries Are Poorer Unchartered Territories
HOW TO MEASURE NOTHING BETTER IEEE Spectrum
Climate/Environment
The real cost of climate change: Global warming could make the average person 24% poorer by 2100, scientists warn Daily Mail
Pacific ‘blob’ heat wave now spans an area the size of the US SFGate
Pandemics
What COVID-19 Does to the Body (9th Edition, September 2025) Pandemic Accountability Index
The Koreas
Why U.S.’s Trade Pact With South Korea Has Gotten Messier WSJ
China?
Unpacking China’s New Headline Climate Targets Asia Society
An Update on the Outlaw US Empire’s Shipping War with China: “Last year, the United States had less than 10 ships, and China had more than 1,000 ships! Karl Sanchez
India
‘Bloodiest day’: How Gen-Z protest wave hit India’s Ladakh, killing four Al Jazeera
Syraqistan
Israel Bombs Yemen as IDF Rolls Through Gaza City, Displacing Hundreds of Thousands Common Dreams
Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel Lord’s Press
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé +972 Magazine
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Iranian Air Force Receives First New Russian Fighters in Over 30 Years: How Capable Are Its MiG-29s? Military Watch
Douglas Macgregor: “War is Inevitable” Glenn Diesen
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Visions of Mustaqbālna Edward Ongweso Jr.
European Disunion
Fingerprints and a €20 fee – the new rules for visiting Europe explained The Telegraph
Marching to the right, Trump-style German Foreign Policy
Polish opposition calls for Antifa to be designated terrorist organisation Notes from Poland
Germany’s new deregulation chief vows to be more subtle than Elon Musk FT
European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance Reuters
Three in four European companies are hooked on US tech The Register
Sarkozy says he will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after conviction The Guardian
New Not-So-Cold War
Kyiv called in to help Brussels build ‘drone wall’ along eastern flank Euractiv
Poland Envisages Indirectly Expanding The EU’s “Drone Wall” Into Ukraine Andrew Korybko
Europeans Privately Tell Russia They’re Ready to Shoot Down Jets Bloomberg
Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal’s Final Meal Ticket Simplicius
European officials fear Trump’s new stance on Ukraine war is ‘start of a blame game’ FT
Zelensky ready to step down when war ends Baltic News Network
Despite Trump’s rhetoric on Ukraine, Russia believes he’s still committed to diplomatic solution Anadolu Agency
Russia awaiting US response to Putin’s initiative on New START treaty — Kremlin TASS
Turkiye
Trump signals to Erdoğan that US could lift ban on F-35 sales to NATO ally Turkey Euronews
Trump lavishes praise on Erdogan in White House meeting and suggests Turkey stop buying Russian oil and gas Intellinews
US welcomes deal to reopen Iraq-Türkiye pipeline Anadolu Agency
Our Famously Free Press
Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion CNBC
Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America Wired
“Liberation Day”
Trump announces tariffs on pharmaceuticals, furniture and heavy trucks beginning Oct. 1 The Hill
Trump 2.0
James Comey indicted on federal obstruction, perjury charges The Hill
LISA COOK V. DONALD TRUMP IS AT THE SUPREME COURT. WHAT NOW? Notes on the Crises
Cook warns Supreme Court that siding with Trump on Fed firing risks ‘chaos and disruption’ for markets Yahoo! Finance
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TEXAS DOMESTIC WORKERS FACE TRUMP ATTACK ON MINIMUM WAGE Texas Observer
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Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian ‘Incites Violence and Terrorism’ Common Dreams
DOJ Appears to Have Violated Luigi Mangione’s Right to a Fair Trial, Judge Says Truthout
Permitted Trump-Epstein statue smashed and removed without notice Boing Boing
DOGE
DOGE put your Social Security Number on a cloud server with up to a 65% risk of getting hacked: Senate report Fast Company
Elon Musk’s Grok AI to be used by US government at a price of 42 cents per agency — Trump admin joining Meta, OpenAI in recent trend of AI govt contracts Tom’s Hardware
Police State Watch
Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones MIT Technology Review
As immigration raids step up, US citizens predicted at risk for detainment Ohio Capital Journal
How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump 404 Media
Imperial Collapse Watch
Secretary of War Hegseth Summons All US Military Brass to Quantico Larry Johnson
New Pentagon strategy to focus on homeland, Western Hemisphere Defense News
What is Liberalism, What is Post-Liberalism, and Why Has the World Lost its Mind? Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue
Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Palestine ZZ’s Blog
Wounded Knee Medal of Honor Soldiers Will Keep Them Says Defense Secretary Hegseth Last Real Indians
Accelerationists
Silicon Valley’s latest argument against regulating AI: that would literally be the Antichrist The Verge
AI
And probably the worst is the waste of human resources. You’re really going to get some of the smartest people in the world (like this guy 👇) to do stuff like that?https://t.co/xQYu4nHVkC
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 26, 2025
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies 404 Media
Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts TechCrunch
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral MIT Technology Review
What if the Post Office had its own A.I. model? Read Max
Groves of Academe
Felony charges after South Carolina high school filled with “fart spray”… for weeks Ars Technica
Supply Chain
800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics more expensive The Register
Economy
The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’ Fortune
The Bezzle
Amazon Will Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Suit That Alleged ‘Dark Patterns’ in Prime Sign-Ups Wired
Mr. Market
‘ChatGPT, What Stocks Should I Buy?’ AI Fuels Boom in Robo-Advisory Market Reuters
Class Warfare
Amid strike, Boeing taking rare step of hiring permanent replacements for union workers Breaking Defense
UPS worker killed in Richmond, California—co-workers ordered to resume jobs as victim’s body lay in trailer WSWS
OSHA Proposes Revisions to Workplace Safety Regulations National Law Review
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