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Cheyenne Man Breaks Wyoming State Record With 2,085-Pound Pumpkin Cowboy State Daily
Dead Men Walking – Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World Literary Review (Anthony L)
Your Next Phone Might Come Without a USB Cable Android Authority
Common opioid is not that effective for easing chronic pain, study finds CNN
‘Veggie burgers’ face grilling in EU parliament RTL
Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude Wired. Dept. of Huh? Scientists find what we call autism develops on two different trajectories with different symptom clusters, yet reject the idea of concluding that there is more than one condition?
Climate/Environment
The latest Copernicus data from October 3rd put the planet at a daily surface temperature anomaly of 1.51°C over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline.
And it looks like the anomaly will be heading back over 1.60°C in the next few days. Stay tuned!https://t.co/8RGVXzcsk1 pic.twitter.com/1A43kptCed
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) October 5, 2025
Marine heatwaves disrupt crucial carbon storage processes in the ocean, new study finds Euronews
Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds CNN
Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records Climate Brink
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER ASIA
There has never been anything like this,
records smashed everywhere
MALDIVES Records in ALL ATOLLS
33.2 Kadhdhoo
33.1 Gan
MINS
28.6 Male HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN MALDIVES
28.4 KadhodhooTHAILAND
35.9 Nong PhlubS.KOREA Still summer
31.3 Sogwipo pic.twitter.com/AcdcBzTn58— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) October 7, 2025
Sicily’s warming climate pushes farmers to swap vineyards for exotic fruit Telegraph
Mexico’s aquifers in crisis: overexploitation and scarcity threaten these hidden water reservoirs Noticiasambientales
China?
In silicon wafers, China’s emerging local stars rattle global giants Nikkei
China’s central bank aids gold’s record-setting run with 11-month buying streak South China Morning Post
India
India Inc’s Q2 test begins tomorrow. Will earnings recovery fail its 6th attempt? Economic Times
UK won’t relax visa rules for India, Starmer says BBC
South of the Border
Tomorrow, I, along with @SenTimKaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.
Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war.
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) October 8, 2025
Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026 Mongabay
European Disunion
Live: Outgoing French PM hopes to have a budget by end of 2025, dissolution ‘looks more remote’ France24
France, in political crisis, risks having no budget Le Monde
French National Assembly rejects motion to impeach President Macron Anadolu Agency
* * * US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal Financial Times
Mayor-Elect in Critical Condition After Stabbing in Western Germany New York Times
Old Blighty
Labour’s War on Protest Tribune
China ‘spies’ case was dropped after government failed to provide evidence of Beijing threat Guardian (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
Israel is fractured, isolated after two years of its war on Gaza: Analysts Aljazeera
The US Spent Over $31 Billion Aiding Israel in the Past Two Years Antiwar
* * * Israeli Navy attacks Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessels with around 145 participants in international waters Anadolu Ageny
Live: Israel intercepts several Gaza-bound aid flotilla boats Middle East Eye
* * * 🚨SCOOP: HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE AT ZIKIM BEACH ON OCTOBER 7
“I filmed it all, the army dropped bombs on us”
On May 10 of this year, Sabin Taasa, whose son was killed on October 7 at Zikim Beach, said on Kan 11: “Seems like those murdered (at Zikim Beach) filmed something the IDF… pic.twitter.com/0oMiyijDuK
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) October 7, 2025
Any miscalculation in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Iran’s islands will be met with a “decisive, immediate and crushing” response, Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Pakpour warned in a statement carried by Iranian media on Wednesday.
Pakpour said the IRGC Navy had… pic.twitter.com/7JDC1a5UW8
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 8, 2025
Iran Faces Unprecedented Water Crisis Worsens: 19 Damns On The Verge Of Drying Up WION
New Not-So-Cold War
TG:
Frontline realities of 2025
Small squads are fighting a huge war. A “strongpoint” can be held by a handful — two, three, or four people. The line of contact has been completely transformed. In 2023 our mission was to get a company into a village with ten BMP-3s. That was…
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) October 7, 2025
A Video Update on the West’s Faltering TNT Production and Aerial Attempts to Provoke Russia Larry Johnson
Negotiations with Putin ‘Tougher’ Than Gaza Peace Talks, Trump Admits Kyiv Post
The FSB Thwarted An Attempt To Exploit The Palestinian Cause To Sow Inter-Religious Discord Andrew Korybko
World Bank downgrades forecast for Russia’s GDP growth to 0.9% in 2025 and to 0.8% in 2026 Interfax
Syraqistan
Protests erupted across Iraq’s southern provinces of Maysan and Basra on Monday over unpaid wages and worsening water shortages, with demonstrators staging sit-ins and blocking key roads Shafaq
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices FTC (Robin K). From January, still germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Cult Of Can’t Aurelien. Important. Aurelien gives a very generous shout out at the top, and then proceeds with a favorite topic, that things increasingly don’t work, no one seems to feel obligated to do anything, and the public is just supposed to suck it up as things decay. This is not universal; the New York DMV, its Financial Services Department, and the Alabama Department of Labor still seem to be well run. But when I had to contact them, I recall being very pleasantly surprised….which should not be my reaction. Things working should not be an exceptional event.
Christian nationalism’s godless heart Unherd
Emmanuel Todd – ‘The Defeat Of The West’ In Its Current Phase Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Trump 2.0
Federal workers erupt over latest White House threat to withhold their pay Axios
Five takeaways from Pam Bondi’s tense, partisan Senate hearing BBC (Kevin W)
We told them. We screamed it from the top of our lungs. Thousands of letters were sent to Congress. They ignored every single one of them.
“If you don’t stop the pentagon from breaking the law, and you allow an allegiance to anti-constitutional ideologies be the deciding factor… pic.twitter.com/0DDZz9fkMx
— Shoe (@samosaur) October 5, 2025
“Hegseth Hostage Speaks Out” — MRFF Senior Active Duty Client Ordered to Hegseth’s Quantico Confab Paints a Grim Picture of our Military’s Readiness MRFF (Chuck L)
Social Media Provocateurs Charged with Threatening to Harm Federal Agent and His Wife US Attorney’s Office
Tariffs
China and Brazil are bankrupting American cotton farmers. Bailouts coming. YouTube (resilc)
Democrat Death Wish
‘These Mothaf*ckas Are Crazy!’ Kamala Harris Blasts Trump Admin as Book Tour Rolls On Mediaite
L’affaire Epstein
NEW
The Epstein flight network just got a lot bigger.
A new analysis by Zalingo Data Refinery uncovered 2,348 additional connections to Epstein’s island across 5,253 flight records (1995–2007) — bringing the total to nearly 5,000 flights linked to that island.
That’s not a… pic.twitter.com/OSsm2JXhKC
— Amber Speaks Up (@AmberWoods100) October 7, 2025
Charlie Kirk. This is still not going away…
Candace stands her ground that this was an INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY type operation with multiple ACTORS for distractions.
-Was Lance “Twiggs” one of the other people than we seen at UVU on the day of the shooting?
– George Zinn had to receive medical attention the day of the… pic.twitter.com/A2nJjAVgRD
— The SCIF (@TheIntelSCIF) October 7, 2025
Charlie Kirk leaked text confirms he was livid about ‘bullying’ Jewish donors: ‘I’m leaving pro-Israel cause’ Daily Mail (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Drop Site
CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’ Guardian (resilc)
Economy
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says Fortune
Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid…
My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflationhttps://t.co/Lp4qfNXDfP pic.twitter.com/PB0r2H9VST
— Chris Giles (@ChrisGiles_) October 7, 2025
Borrowers head back to riskier mortgages, looking for any potential savings CNBC
Mr. Market is Moody
Gold Rally Points to Eroding Faith in Central Banks Worldwide Wall Street Journal
AI
SpongeBob SquarePants Cooking Meth and Fake JFK Speeches: How the Sora 2 Launch Went Sideways Rolling Stone (Kevin W)
Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web 404 Media
Spotify is Joining Forces with ChatGPT to Generate Recommendations Because We Live in an A.I. Generated Hellscape Metal Sucks (Micael T)
Deloitte to partially refund Australia for report with apparent AI-generated errors ABC Australia (Kevin W)
Cops: Accused Vandal Confessed To ChatGPT The Smoking Gun (resilc)
AI is already upending the US job market as predictions of a ‘jobs apocalypse’ multiply Le Monde
Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It. New York Times (resilc)
Class Warfare
CEO of FPL defends company seeking highest shareholder profit in nation Tampa Bay Times
Antidote du jour (via):
A bonus:
— love aniamals (@loveanimal111) October 6, 2025
A second bonus:
Belgian malinois dogs are like super dogs pic.twitter.com/lhnW3yuGwP
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 7, 2025
A different sort of bonus:
11 and 8-year old sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me on the violin in Rome airport
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 8, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
