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Forget Greek Yogurt. The Future is… Ant Yogurt ZME Science
‘Gas’-lighted? Durians in Germany cause gas leak reports to firefighters three times in one day Straits Times
How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trick The Conversation
Mount Everest rescue under way after snowstorm traps nearly 1,000 people The Guardian
Climate/Environment
Top right is how far “off the charts” September 2025 sea surface temps are in this area of the North Pacific. >1.6C or ~3F above normal on average over this huge area.
I’d say even more alarming than the actual anomaly is the trend since 2010. In 15 years the anomaly jumped more… pic.twitter.com/ktFEp31rSx— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) October 5, 2025
Not even 1% of humanity in ‘safe and just space’, where people’s rights, food needs are met within planetary boundaries: EAT-Lancet Report Down to Earth
Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South NPK Urban Sustainability
California’s home insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike following January fires Los Angeles Times
World’s Tropical Forests are Getting Younger And That’s Actually a Major Problem for the Climate ZME Science
Pandemics
Tess Finch-Lees: Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures Irish Independent
Why I’m still masking these days M (Is) Living With Long Covid
Japan
How Takaichi won —— and what comes next Observing Japan
What Takaichi means for Japan and the wider world Asia Times
China?
China hawks grow queasy over Trump’s push for deals with Beijing Business Times
Big dreams, shiny projects and regional inequalities in China’s inland cities Straits Times
Powered exoskeleton being tested in China.
The exoskeletons will allow our PLA soldiers to carry more combat load without experiencing much fatigue.
The support structure will also aid in shooting posture and managing recoil. Paving the way for a larger intermediate round to be… pic.twitter.com/QnWrgEak7F
— Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 (@zhao_dashuai) October 4, 2025
China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks Rest of World
India
How Modi outwitted Trump Unherd
Syraqistan
Trumpanyahu’s trap GeoPolitiQ
Trump hails ‘very positive discussions with Hamas’ as delegations prepare to meet in Egypt Anadolu Agency
Ben Gvir to blow up Netanyahu’s coalition if Hamas ‘continues to exist’ after Trump deal The Cradle
What’s there to negotiate? The acceptance of this framework implies that genocide is an acceptable pressure tactic, which can be used to extract concessions from the victim in negotiations to end it.
— The Anti-Genocide Project (@justinpodur) October 5, 2025
Trump told Israel to stop bombing Gaza
Israel continued and even escalated the bombing because it knows he’s firmly under their thumb https://t.co/njk00j1v2M
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 5, 2025
Israel’s Lawyers John Mearsheimer
“Justice and power.” Patrick Lawrence, The Floutist
Greta Thunberg ‘beaten and forced to kiss Israeli flag’, activists say New Arab
💥 If you read one thing today, make it this story by Italian journalist Lorenzo D’Agostino — captured aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla: beaten, blindfolded, mocked with homophobic slurs, and held half-naked in freezing vans and scorching cells.
According to D’Agostino and… pic.twitter.com/EbqCZyNTYh
— Paolo Mossetti (@paolomossetti) October 5, 2025
nearly 30% of the population of Amsterdam, an estimated quarter of a million people, flood the streets of the city wearing red in solidarity with Palestine. pic.twitter.com/0Pjc5bqLdU
— susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) October 5, 2025
A “legal expert” from an NGO that operates as a front for the Mossad predicts Europe will be punished with a wave of terror attacks for recognizing a Palestinian state 🤔 https://t.co/oYH0HR80KM
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 5, 2025
Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals The Grayzone
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Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran Again If It Restarts Nuclear Program, Says He’s ‘Not Going To Wait So Long’ Antiwar
Old Blighty
“Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defends the new powers to restrict protests the government wants to give police based on “cumulative disruption”#BBCLauraK https://t.co/3xvIEMbtLL pic.twitter.com/ivLMORyBHT
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 5, 2025
Loyalist terror gangs in sinister threat to burn Belfast council facilities over Irish language proposals Belfast Telegraph
European Disunion
Next French Government: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss European Conservative
Chartbook 411 The twilight of Macronisme: Jean Pisani-Ferry’s cri de cœur. Adam Tooze
Why von der Leyen will face repeated challenges to her position Politico
Billionaire populist Andrej Babis’ party wins Czech parliamentary election BBC. “Babis also laughed off claims Western allies were worried the Czech Republic would no longer be a reliable partner in the EU and NATO under his administration…”I spoke with Trump five times! I was in the Pentagon. I was in the FBI. I talked to the head of the CIA,” Babis said.”
It’s extraordinarily revealing to read Stoltenberg’s book on his time as NATO Secretary General.
The Guardian just published a long extract of it (https://t.co/VaozieEKnR)
What it reveals, among other things:
**ZERO strategic thinking and ZERO foresight**
In Stoltenberg’s own… pic.twitter.com/iKInRc8HU4
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) October 6, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin Reveals New Casualty Insights, as Russian Infrastructure Campaign Ravages Ukraine Simplicius
Zelensky Feeling the Heat… Err, No Heat, No Electricity Larry Johnson
Amid deepening drone war with Ukraine, Kremlin imposes severe internet and cellphone shutdowns WSWS
Clown show on steroids:
So Ukraine opened a weapons warehouse and transport hub in Lvov a week ago, which took a year to construct. They publicised this fact.
Russia carried out strikes last night on this facility.
— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) October 5, 2025
“One Shot” at Lithuania East’s Substack
The Caucasus
Georgia PM says protesters tried to overthrow government, vows crackdown Al Jazeera
South of the Border
New Mexican tariffs on China-made cars will kill American brands instead Kevin Walmsley
Trump 2.0
Trump’s Team Hones Message on Economy: Just Wait Until 2026 WSJ
For federal workers, a year of turmoil and uncertainty just got worse Christian Science Monitor
US judge blocks Trump from sending any National Guard troops to Portland for now Reuters
Federal worker-safety commission has zero members as backlog grows Investigate Midwest
Contra Arendt New Left Review
Weimar Republic
SLED investigating fire at Edisto Beach home associated with SC circuit court judge; 3 injured WSAV
Could just be a coincidence…
JFC!
This judge had put blocks against the Trump admin which Trump and Miller screeched about.
Just yesterday Miller’s response to this judge’s decision was claiming that the judiciary is shielding terrorism and that it should be dismantled.
The next day her home blows up in a… https://t.co/aNxA8vto5V pic.twitter.com/nuYF8O6veV
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) October 5, 2025
Woman shot by Border Patrol is charged; Brighton Park residents say feds antagonized the community Chicago Sun-Times
Police State Watch
The judge notes that noncitizens detained after 9/11 weren’t held nearly as long without notice for the legal basis. https://t.co/No1fZCl3UD pic.twitter.com/H2wDySH4zX
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 5, 2025
Welcome to the Era of “Kavanaugh Raids” Doomsday Scenario
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Wired
Was Mossad watching a Free Palestine march in Greenwich Village today? The Komisar Scoop
Imperial Collapse Watch
America Against Itself, redux Warwick Powell
🇺🇸 It is now 18 months since Key Bridge fell in Baltimore.
As of last week, this is the total rebuilding progress so far.
WOW pic.twitter.com/wt3lHoL8zn
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 5, 2025
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: Soy Boy America BIG by Matt Stoller
Immigration
TRUMP’S ICE HAS ARRESTED A PILLAR OF THE DALLAS MUSLIM COMMUNITY. I GREW UP HEARING HIS CALLS FOR COMPASSION. Texas Observer
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech Tom’s Hardware
AI
The incredible arrogance of OpenAI Blood in the Machine
AI could make it easier to create bioweapons that bypass current security protocols TechXplore
The perils of letting AI plan your next trip BBC
How Wall Street’s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots New York Times
“Liberation Day”
The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom Apricitas Economics
Mr. Market Whistles Past the Graveyard
‘All news is good news’: Wall Street shrugs off government shutdown, jobs report delay Yahoo! Finance
Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble The Register
Crapification
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Cory Doctorow, The Guardian
Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames Futurism
Guillotine Watch
Robin McAlpine – The biggest threat we face? The rich Common Weal
Class Warfare
Teachers In Powers, Oregon, Vote To Replace Union With Independent Association South Coast Times. Part of nationwide effort to destroy teachers’ unions.
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs 404 Media
How to Make Housing Affordable (1) Steve Keen
Lessons in Power Working Class Storytelling
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