When Tiger Conservation Overlooks Human Lives Sapiens
Feds slate purge of ‘checkerboard’ wild horses despite court ruling, sparking new lawsuit Laramie Boomerang
Climate/Environment
How insurance pricing obscures the real cost of climate change Moving Day
Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates, new study finds Phys.org
A ‘Roomba for the forest’ could be SoCal’s next wildfire weapon LA Times
Beavers return to the forest landscape, reviving its natural environment Eurekalert!
Pandemics
Retinal Microvascular Changes Associated with Covid-19: A Retrospective Case Series
🔥Chinees retrospective cross-sectional study( 3666 outpatients, 2022-2023)
YOUR EYES!
➡️”COVID- 19- associated retinal microvasculopathy likely represents a PERSISTENT complication of… pic.twitter.com/Gic7xqhuov
— Harry Spoelstra (@HarrySpoelstra) September 7, 2025
Do I Have to Go Abroad for a COVID Booster? MedPage Today
Japan
Ishiba “Gives Away The Store” to Trump Japan Economy Watch
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Announces He will Step Down Yomiuri Shimbun
India
Henry Tillman: Russia-China-India Nuclear Partnership Glenn Diesen
China?
Breakneck, the big parade, and mirrors in mirrors China Translated
Parades and charades at Tiananmen Asia Times. “China’s military parade day statements suggest it no longer believes reconciliation with US is possible – nor necessarily desirable.”
US to draw back from Asia in new defence policy concept Intellinews
China paves way for renminbi fundraising by Russian energy giants FT
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Dandan Zhang: China’s factory workers go gig The East Is Read
Old Blighty
890 arrested at London protest in support of Palestine Action, say police Anadolu Agency
🚨 BREAKING | 1,339 people have now been arrested on “terrorism” charges in 2025, with almost all of them busted for holding signs at pro-Palestine protests.
This is more than any year on record, by far.
(Source: Home Office) pic.twitter.com/c7Al12DYHa
— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) September 7, 2025
Penny just dropped mate? pic.twitter.com/l0S58V5VIR
— Frank.Riot 🍉 (@RiotFrank) September 7, 2025
Will Corbyn allow Zionists to sabotage him again? Asa Winstanley
Syraqistan
Israel Destroys Another High-Rise Building as It Escalates Offensive in Gaza City Antiwar
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡🇵🇸 Trump threatens Hamas with “consequences” unless it accepts his ceasefire plan, claiming Israel already agreed.
But according to Israeli media, the plan wasn’t crafted in DC. It was made in Israel, sent to Trump “nicely by phone,” and now he’s stamping it Made in USA. pic.twitter.com/urqoOeMBkq
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) September 7, 2025
Trump’s Hostage Deal Plan Won’t End the Gaza War – and That’s the Whole Point Haaretz
Where are the peacekeepers for Gaza? Maike Gosche
Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for drone attack on Israeli airport Al Jazeera
French arms sales to Israel hit record high in 2024: Report The Cradle
Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Middle East NBC News
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Israel backs off talk of annexing West Bank after UAE warning WaPo
Ben-Gvir storms West Bank city as Israel forces carry out arrest campaign New Arab
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Around 200,000 demonstrators marched today in Brussels, demanding an immediate ceasefire and more humanitarian aid for Palestinians facing genocide in Gaza.
The protest comes as famine in the strip worsens, with the UN warning of catastrophic conditions pic.twitter.com/mwhlG8UrlQ
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 7, 2025
How it started How it ended
Holocaust Museum LA gave in to the Zionists pressure
Never again is only for them pic.twitter.com/yGR1v67DYT
— Abier (@abierkhatib) September 6, 2025
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Iran turns to China, Russia to bolster air defenses as it preps for next Israel war Al Monitor
European Disunion
Expensive ‘green’ hydrogen jeopardises German industrial energy transition FT
Former German Foreign Minister Baerbock starts UN job DW
“Feminist foreign policy” is when you support genocide but wear stilettos while doing it
— Lily Lynch (@lilyslynch) September 5, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Russian attack this night with reported 805 drones & 13 missiles was largest in this war. 2 civilians are reported killed. Strike hit primarily industrial plants, critical infrastructure & undisclosed targets in Kyiv, Kremenchuk, Odesa. Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia & other… https://t.co/S55W25EyIj pic.twitter.com/KJKupiifed
— Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) September 7, 2025
Trump signals tougher Russia sanctions, India oil trade may face heat India Today
Treasury secretary says U.S. and European Union must partner to ‘collapse’ Russian economy NBC News
The ‘Fortress Russia’ economy has adapted well to pressure. But stagflation presents an opportunity for the West Chatham House. Just a few more years, and they’ll have ’em right where they want ‘em.
This is bollocks and wishful thinking.
The russian central bank just brought out its medium term outlook, which is closely watched and usually highly accurate.
So the economy is not doing well at the moment, but it’s not doing that badly either. It’ll have a hard year this… https://t.co/keMB6W4xXO
— BenAris (@bneeditor) September 7, 2025
The Baltic Sea as an Arena of Undeclared Hybrid War Kommersant (machine translation)
‘Someone’ might have to blow up prospective Russia-China pipeline – Fox News host RT
The Neo-Nazi Who Knew Too Much? Kit Klarenberg
UKRAINIAN NEOFASCISM – War Time Developments: Part 1 AZOV and Part 2 ‘Right Sector’ Gordon Hahn Considering Russia and Eurasia
South of the Border
I think this thread tells you everything you need to know about JD Vance and the way he views law and order.
Pathetic. He should be impeached for this tweet. https://t.co/nHzMeRTLDx pic.twitter.com/210AJLznov
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 6, 2025
The Venezuelan boat and crew destroyed in an extrajudicial drone execution under Rubio-Trump orders was not heading to the US
The boat was a Panga with a range of ~100 miles and 4 outboard motors that get about 5-7 miles per gallon
Reaching Florida would have been impossible https://t.co/I6hMj8spnp
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 7, 2025
Three points:⬇️
1. The Chinese, Russians, and Iranians now have every incentive to push as much war materiel into Venezuela as possible. I’m sure they’d love to see Miami eating ballistics.
2. This operation was obviously cobbled together on very short notice. Nobody was even… https://t.co/5mjzl3qJ4W pic.twitter.com/9NHYFRHUHv
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) September 7, 2025
Trump 2.0
Trump Pivots to the ‘Homeland’: Neocon Deathblow? Or Simply Imperialism Repackaged? Simplicius
West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’ The Guardian
“Liberation Day”
Per the FT, manufacturing is in the worst economic position of any sector of the economy atm. The US has lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs so far in 2025.
Those tariffs sure are working great. pic.twitter.com/J1aQxw0RQs
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) September 7, 2025
White House promises better economy by year’s end Regular Order by Jamie Dupree
The Dismal Science
Ideas Have Consequences The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Police State Watch
🚨BREAKING: Masked agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE in Chicago and shoved them into an unmarked van.
“Who are you? You’re kidnapping them!” witnesses screamed.
ICE says they detained 3 protesters – and released them without charges. WTF.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 7, 2025
Democrats en déshabillé
The Elephants in the Room: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Love Abundance Liberty and Power
Anyone with illusions in the Democratic Party should listen to this crazed, Russia and China-hating war-mongering speech by former CIA agent and now Michigan senator, Elissa Slotkin. She calls for a new “Manhattan Project” to prepare for “the wars of the future.” https://t.co/NGoCT7SlSj
— David North (@DavidNorthWSWS) September 6, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Chartbook 407: Polycrisis revisited: Are we beyond Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome? Adam Tooze
You don’t have to believe in their supremacy Anti-Empire Project
Accelerationists
The Hot Mic and the Monsters Notes from the Circus
The Benefit of the Doubt What We Lost
The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life WSJ
Immigration
Human Trafficking at Hyundai Concerns Raised Following ICE’s Raid & Detention of 300 Korean Workers in Georgia Payday Report
2/ The language in local media is visceral.
Chosun Ilbo: “Built tens of trillions [KRW] factories for America… to then get slapped as illegal immigrants.”
News1: “Told us to invest, then treated us as illegal immigrants.” This isn’t about law, it’s about perceived duplicity. pic.twitter.com/UalB9mNuIs
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) September 6, 2025
Trump shows S Korea who’s boss with Hyundai plant raid Asia Times
AI
AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies Apollo Academy
What if the AI stockmarket blows up? The Economist
Sports Desk
A pro wrestler, an MMA fighter and the staged fight that turned into a bloody battle LA Times
Groves of Academe
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption” of AI in academia Blood in the Machine
Larry Ellison Is Spending Billions to Reshape Oxford and His Own Legacy WSJ. Commentary:
So 4m ago Sir John Bell goes on BBC R4 to laud this new apparently philanthropic Ellison Institute that he is leading. Three months later Bell is deposed, the Institute is actually Ellison Inc, for profit, and Oxbridge scientists are being bought out en masse, with a pub to… https://t.co/rplpEfJAB7
— Anthony Costello (@globalhlthtwit) September 7, 2025
Healthcare?
Employer-sponsored health insurance costs could see highest increase since 2010, report finds KSAT
Cigna’s $3.5 Billion Bet Tightens Its Grip on Specialty Drugs HEALTH CARE un-covered
Class Warfare
Michigan’s capital plans new approach to homelessness: A pod city Bridge Michigan
Why do we collect things? Cazadora
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