Newborn calf struggling in deep freeze brought indoors to curl up on couch NBC News. The photos.
Urban expansion in the age of liberalism Works in Progress
Climate/Environment
Historic snowstorm for eastern North Carolina, with localized amounts near 20″ along the coast Balanced Weather
Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate Yale Environment 360
The biomass industry promised these Southern towns prosperity. So why are they still dying? Grist
Pandemics
Hotel experiment suggests air mixing can help curb flu transmission CIDRAP
Japan
Traffic mirrors in Japan Beyond The Frame
China?
XI CALLS FOR CHINA’S RENMINBI TO ATTAIN GLOBAL RESERVE CURRENCY STATUS FT
23 WAYS YOU’RE ALREADY LIVING IN THE CHINESE CENTURY Wired (Resilc)
CK Hutchison faces limited legal options after Panama voids port rights: experts South China Morning Post
Syraqistan
How Netanyahu is sabotaging phase two of the Gaza ceasefire +972 Magazine
Israel wants US to attack Iran, but Trump favours tough diplomacy: report TRT World
Two blasts kill four in southern Iran as IRGC assassination rumour denied Intellinews
Iran to hold joint naval drills with China, Russia amid rising US tensions TRT World
Africa
Kenya’s first chipmaker caught in superpower crossfire The Continent
European Disunion
Analysis-Europe’s $955 billion recovery fund struggles to transform economy Reuters
Just listened to Peter Thiel complain about how hard it is to have mega companies in Europe and how everyone wants to sell and go on vacation. I am glad Europe exists as a counterpoint to the rat race that is the US. I absolutely love how life can be slow here, how money isn’t…
— Elnathan John (@elnathan_john) January 29, 2026
Irish defence minister confirms plans to scrap Irish neutrality The Canary
As Europe rearms, ‘Made in India’ is entering the EU’s defence equation Euractiv
Been spendin’ most their lives livin’ in the free trade paradise China Articles
Italy church restoration probed after Meloni angel lookalike DW
New Not-So-Cold War
Let’s get something straight : Dmitriev is a representative of the oligarchy faction .
Secondly such negotiations should be conducted by FM not some shady oligarch representative.
Thirdly if you see it as a good sign , I see it as the exact opposite.— Dagny Taggart (@DagnyTaggart963) February 1, 2026
Ukraine Suffers Unprecedented Nationwide Blackouts as Grid Teeters on Edge Simplicius
Ukraine faces mounting IMF repayment pressure as February deadline looms Intellinews
More Ukrainian Cowbell From a Delusional British Colonel Larry Johnson
Silicon murder valley Events in Ukraine
Is it time to replace NATO with EATO? Ian Proud
The Great Game
Kazakhstan: Anti-China demonstrators face long prison terms after fiery protest Eurasianet
South of the Border
Venezuela: Delcy Rodríguez Government Surrenders to Trump’s Diktats, but the Chavista Masses Oppose the Destruction of Sovereignty and Will Resist the Corporate Occupation of Venezuela’s Resources – Part 1 Countercurrents
Colombia Faces Its Past as Camilo Torres Reemerges TeleSUR
L’affaire Epstein
Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal The Guardian
Epstein Files Give More Evidence That Jeffrey Epstein Was A Mossad Agent. The Dissident
“Leadership Would Like Your Help”: Indian Billionaire Tapped Jeffrey Epstein Before Modi’s Visits to U.S. and Israel Drop Site
🚨🚨🚨🚨The attached email is the most shocking email I’ve seen yet in the Epstein release and I haven’t seen anyone talking about it.
“We’ve had another serious incident since an American shot the trial judge in our child sex trafficking case here.”
I’m sorry, WTF? An… pic.twitter.com/Xrxr8q5W1G
— ColonelTowner-Watkins (@ColonelTowner) February 1, 2026
The model from Mexico who in 2009, fled from one of Epstein’s parties, screaming “They were eating people!”
No longer seems so crazy. But no one has seen 21-year-old Gabriella Rico Jiménez since then. pic.twitter.com/7b0OzHb0xf
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) February 1, 2026
learning that so many of the victims of Epstein’s reign of sexual terrorism were orphaned and impoverished Eastern European girls is unfortunately demonstrative that it was the Pedophile’s Den unleashed and catalyzed when the USSR was dissolved; the dissolution of the Soviet…
— Tameqqrant (@tizemtmarxism) January 31, 2026
Trump’s Deputy AG Declares Epstein Document Review ‘Over,’ Angering Democrats NOTUS
MAGA Collapse
Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset Texas Tribune
Democrats en déshabillé
House Dem divisions over DHS funding spill out in private call Axios
Police State Watch
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting ProPublica
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE Electronic Frontier Foundation (Resilc)
Private prisons are cashing in on Trump’s ICE crackdown. They’re just getting started Salon
How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps Migrant Insider
St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say MPR. Another crazy video.
Wars Come Home
How western wars turned liberal democracies into police states Middle East Eye
Our Famously Free Press
The Arrest of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort was a test case. Egberto Off The Record
Imperial Collapse Watch
International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds The Guardian
Goodbye dollar dominance, hello global financial anarchy Noah Smith, Asia Times
Healthcare?
The system is unsustainable M (is) Living with Long Covid
Mr. Market
Gold, silver, bitcoin and oil slide as ‘metals meltdown’ rattles markets – business live The Guardian
Why the catastrophe bond market is so hot right now CNBC
Kevin Warsh – Wall Street’s man Michael Roberts
“Liberation Day”
US Container Growth Vanishes With World Trade Flows ‘Moving On’ Bloomberg
Economy
The wealth divide is spreading to inflation:
New Fed data shows that lower income US households now face HIGHER rates of inflation than higher income earners.
The bottom 40% of US households is seeing annual inflation rates of ~3.1%.
Meanwhile, the middle 40% and top 20% see… pic.twitter.com/KIrl0BuMwd
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) February 1, 2026
The Human Cost of the Warsh-Palantir Economic Framework Frame the Globe News
The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom BIG by Matt Stoller
Hard Times in the Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot New York Times
AI
Farmland in the crosshairs: Balancing energy expansion and agriculture Farm Progress
Short on resources, special educators are using AI – with little knowledge of the effects The Conversation
OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen Gary Marcus
The Bezzle
Bitcoin Break Below $80,000 Signals New Crisis of Confidence Bloomberg
Emails Show Even Epstein Thought Crypto Pumps are Unethical Gizmodo
The fruits of anger Aeon
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