Studies Reveal The Best Ways to Chemically Bond With Your Cat Science Alert
Magical systems thinking Works in Progress
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically Noema
Pandemics
Judge tosses EEOC long COVID lawsuit, finding worker never made disability clear HR Dive
My workplace has random drug and alcohol tests. No tests for infectious diseases, which are considered a nothing burger.
I said I’d only do it outside, because I mask. They said the room is ‘sanitised’ (i.e. there’s hand sanitiser available).
Hilarious. It’ll be outside.
— Henry Madison (@RageSheen) September 16, 2025
Radio waves offer new hope for improving sense of smell News-Medical
Climate/Environment
When the World Stops Smelling Like Itself Atmos
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’ The Guardian
Injury to Buildings and Vegetables N+1
Mega-Dryness Spreads Throughout Northern Hemisphere Countercurrents
Water
Residents in working-class districts of Johannesburg protest after two-week loss of water supply WSWS
China’s Water Future RAND
China?
China bans tech firms from buying Nvidia chips: FT Capital Brief
U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China WSJ. Andreessen Horowitz, Larry Ellison, others. Freedom from malign influence is so close. But…
Trump’s TikTok deal could face hitch over billionaires’ stakes in China parent ByteDance: sources New York Post
China snaps US ‘surveillance’ satellite in rare eye-for-eye move over space assets Interesting Engineering
India
India ‘crosses red line’ by joining Russia-Belarus war games The Times
Trump, Modi Talk in Bid to Calm Tariffs, Russian Oil Dispute Bloomberg
Old Blighty
Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit The Guardian
US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push Wired
Palantir among arms giants snapping up ex-Tory defence ministers Democracy for Sale
O Canada
Freeland quits Carney’s Cabinet to become Ukraine envoy Politico
Syraqistan
Israel says ‘Gaza is burning’ as it launches ground assault Reuters
The ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan: Gentrifying Israel’s genocide The New Arab
Netanyahu says Trump to host him on Sept. 29, issues dire warning to Hamas over hostages Times of Israel
Netanyahu Made a Mockery of Trump in Qatar – and Paid No Price for It Haaretz
This is a threat https://t.co/VTLULL9WEY
— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) September 15, 2025
Israel as ‘Super-Sparta?’ Unpopular Front
Democratic PR Firm to Run Bot Army for Israel Sludge
The circus of the emergency summit of OIC and Arab League GeoPolitiQ
Despite Gaza Carnage, Gaggles of Literary Editors and Agents Visit Tel Aviv Haaretz
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Israeli Airstrikes Hit Yemen’s Hodeidah Port as Yemenis Mourn Journalists Killed by Previous Israeli Attack Antiwar
European Disunion
A Scandal in Romania: Defeated Presidential Candidate Prosecuted European Conservative
EU Commission greenlights German long-term budget despite new debt DPA
One year since the Draghi report, the only progress is on spending on weapons. “The boundary between economy and security is increasingly blurred” Il Fatto Quotidiano (Machine translation)
Between Washington and Beijing: How Europe fits into US-China strategic competition Brookings
EU plans more sanctions on China. Will that be enough for Trump? Politico
New Not-So-Cold War
US military observers attend Russia-Belarus war games exercise European Interest
Zapad-2025 Drills Included Maneuvers with Russian Oreshnik Missiles Telesur
Exclusive: Trump administration clears first Ukraine arms aid paid for by allies, sources say Reuters
Ukraine’s coming financial storm INtellinews
South of the Border
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela Miami Herald
Trump 2.0
Unprecedented personal corruption, secret police seizing people off the streets, a crumbling economy where 80% of people can’t keep pace with inflation, a bizarre trade policy that harms US businesses, a collapsing farm economy, a foreign policy of extrajudicial murder.
— Nikhil Pal Singh (@nikhil_palsingh) September 16, 2025
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Trump Policies Leave US Farmers in Dire Straits Common Dreams
Grocery prices spike to highest level in 3 years in major blow to Trump The Mirror (Resilc)
Travel under Trump 2.0? Don’t cross a U.S. border without a “perfect burner phone” (Advice from an ACLU expert) It Is Happening
“They started to scream when I got into a restaurant, something with Palestine. with that. I’ve asked Pam to look into that because they should be put in jail.” – Donald Trump
RIP free speech.
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 15, 2025
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing 404 Media (Resilc)
(Chuck L):
BREAKING: Trump has ordered the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.
This famous photo is one of them.
Please paste this image everywhere. Don’t let them erase history.
Information at the President’s… pic.twitter.com/7ksOCIeQdq
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 15, 2025
DeSoto County sheriff clears space at jail ahead of National Guard’s deployment to Memphis Memphis Commercial Appeal
Memphis asks Shelby County chancellor to invalidate all agreements with city unions USA Today
Weimar Republic
Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing confessed in a text exchange with his roommate, prosecutor says CBS News. We can’t even get time stamps to corroborate Robinson’s knowledge of arrests and release of other suspects? Lots of commentary on the “convenience” of the exchange. Here are a few:
*****. Convenient that in-lieu of making a simple phone call to his lover, he chose to leave a digital trail providing a confession, intent, means, motive, state-of-mind, and confirming the weapon as his and where he got it from. This whole story reeks to high-hell. *****
— ShibaInubis (@ShibaInubis) September 16, 2025
When Jim Angleton was forging portions of Lee Oswald’s Russia diary, you knew you had a graduate of Yale’s English department doing the work. A guy who had corresponded with Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, e e cummings.
This shit is Praeger U pig slop. How far we’ve fallen as a nation. https://t.co/lOXLZjItwX
— Angleton’s Orchids (@AngletonOrchids) September 16, 2025
There is also supposedly a note:
FBI Director Patel says they have a note as evidence confirming the shooter even though the note doesn’t exist. What? This just keeps getting weirder and worse.pic.twitter.com/XlcAM6Kd0G
— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) September 15, 2025
It gets weirder:
Utah man who falsely claimed to be Charlie Kirk shooter hit with child porn charge after arrest Fox News
Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin Ken Klippenstein. Separate from alleged confession texts. Discord chats that provide some insight into Robinson’s background.
Debunking A False Claim About the Shot that Killed Charlie Kirk Larry Johnson
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Trump Administration Rushes To Kill Free Speech In Response To Kirk Assassination Caitlin Johnstone
California Lawmakers Back Censorship Disguised as Antisemitism Prevention LA Progressive
Accelerationists
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist Gizmodo
AI
Writing by hand!?: Teachers are going old-school in the fight against AI Salon
Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf The Register
Police State Watch
Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops The Register
Economy
US economy: stagflation now more than a whiff Michael Roberts
Imperial Collapse Watch
BRICS & The Failure to Save Gaza: A “New Multipolar World Order” Or Just More Bosses? Fiorella Isabel and Vanessa Beeley (Video with summary)
Sports Desk
The Official Charity Of The Savannah Bananas Has A Hard Time Explaining How Its Money Is Spent Defector
What the World Cup Explains About Our Price Dystopia Boondoggle. Another recent example:
Rich people have gotten so rich, any event with any level of exclusivity prices out 99% of people https://t.co/eqBQxmmN0J
— David 🏹 (@d_gilz) September 7, 2025
Groves of Academe
Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The Nation
Our Famously Free Press
House Arab Bidoun
Class Warfare
Affordable Housing Out of Reach for Half of All U.S. Workers Governing
HOMELESSNESS ON THE RISE IN MIAMI-DADE DESPITE STATEWIDE SLEEPING BAN, NORTH MIAMI-DADE SEES 74% INCREASE Hoodline
When the desert floods: Keeping housing affordable after disaster Working Class Storytelling
R.I.P Robert Redford ~ Three Days Of The Condor (1975) pic.twitter.com/SaisxSA99a
— Samuel J. May (@sjmay92) September 16, 2025
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