Students build Randy Lobo grouse at Jackson Hole Airport and use prop to save birds WyoFile
Elon-headed robot dog discovered in San Francisco SFist
What is “America’s Affliction Amount” and what does Mickey Mouse have to do with it? far out
Climate/Environment
Shinraku becomes a super typhoon with winds of 180 mph, posing a significant risk to the Northern Mariana Islands Balanced Weather
Massive wildfires have dealt another blow to Nebraska ranchers. Climate change could make them more common. flat water free press
Using TROPOMI satellite observations to estimate methane growth from 2019 to 2024 Science Advances
pandemic
“Ring Strategy” against avian influenza MedPage Today
China?
China offers incentives to Taiwan following opposition leader’s visit Channel News Asia
Lei Xiaoyan: Education and technology competition has arrived in China The East Is Read
Southeast Asia
3 weeks of fuel for 170 million people: Inside Bangladesh’s worsening fuel shortage RT
syrakistan
Reports say US and Israel may resume bombing campaign against Iran
Yemen, US and Israel vow military escalation if war against Iran resumes Press TV
Is Holmes still open? Is Holmes still open?
Masterful 5D Stroke: Trump’s Blockade Pretense Detracts from Ceasefire Failure Simplicius
Will President Trump’s order to close Iranian ports really work? larry johnson
Pakistan may support US blockade of Straits Andrew Koribko
BLA targets patrol boat on Arabian Sea Financial Express, kills three Pakistani coastguards
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Israeli airstrike kills girl during father’s funeral in southern Lebanon Al-Monitor
Trump’s Peace Council faces funding problems, causing Gaza plan to stall, sources say Reuters
Africa
U.S. demand for mining rights in exchange for health funding sparks backlash Capital & Main
US launches three airstrikes in Somalia, bombing campaign continues with virtually no media coverage Anti-war
Libya approves first unified budget in over 10 years Al Jazeera
Or Canada
The speech was not about difficult times, but about who would decide on a quiet conquest.
old blighty
British pride and hatred of foreigners are killing us Ian Proud
Leak: UK exports GCHQ’s Dark Art Kit Clarenberg overseas
Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja among 500 people arrested over Palestinian action, Guardian
The UK could introduce single market rules without a vote from MPs as part of UK-EU restructuring The Guardian
discord in europe
Von der Leyen waits just 17 minutes to celebrate Orban defeat Politico
Analysis: Did MAGA hug Orbán too much? Euractic
Magyars defeat Orbán in Battle of Hungary: What happens next? RT
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The TAL oil pipeline connecting Italy, Austria and Germany was sabotaged.
While the world’s attention remains focused on high-stakes negotiations starting in the Strait of Hormuz and Islamabad, Europe’s vital energy artery is crippled.
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— Francesco Sassi (@Frank_Stones) April 11, 2026
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Fuel protests: €505 million package ‘not enough’, demonstrators say, leading to some motorway blockades Irish Times
🚨📍Shannon Airport
This afternoon, protesters breached the airside perimeter of Shannon Airport and damaged a US Air Force C-130 with a hammer.
Still waiting for details to emerge
Gardaí, Shannon Airport Fire Station and the Defense Force are understood to be responding… pic.twitter.com/22spCNga7R
— Shauns_Aviation🇮🇪✈️ (@Shauns_Aviation) April 11, 2026
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French lawmaker to push forward with bill to criminalize speech against Israel ‘Middle East Eye’
A new war that’s not so cold war
John Coltrane Through a Russian Prism, Parts 1-3 (Full Version) Gordon Hearn
Violence as Service Roman Kimić
Ukraine as Western imperialist private military company al-Mayadeen
imperial collapse watch
Middle Earth and the Logic of Empire: A Materialist Interpretation of The Lord of the Rings: The Dialectic of Destruction
What did we learn?Syncretica
Savage Mind of the Cannibal Empire
south of the border
US military kills 5 people in new Pacific airstrike on suspected drug smuggling ship Al Mayadeen
Lafaire Epstein
Amanda Ungaro: From a night out with the Trumps to being deported by ICE El Pais
First friends: How the first couple’s consigliere went from modeling mogul to envoy’s no-holds-barred hangouts. In August, a full-scale investigation into Ungaro’s ex-husband, Paolo Zampoli, began.
Trump 2.0
President Trump slams Pope over Iran war, immigration criticism Bloomberg
President Trump’s 2027 budget, its breakdown Steven Semler
Democrats are the worst
Top Democrats ramp up impeachment of Trump and call for an end to the truth
Eric Swalwell suspends California gubernatorial campaign over sexual assault allegations California gubernatorial race
our famous free news agency
A Redditor criticized ICE. Trump is trying to drag the companies into a secret grand jury to expose their true identities. intercept
mamdani
New York City Grocery Store Opens in East Harlem, Mamdani Announces 4 New York
accelerationist
European money flows into Palantir: More than 100 asset managers and banks expand investment in controversial technology company El Pais
A.I.
The Trump administration may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model TechCrunch
Can AI become a “child of God”? Anthropic meeting with Christian leaders. Wapo
AI companies and their relationship with the U.S. military, “The entire civilization will die tonight” edition Blood in the Machine
AI is the boss of this retail store. What could go wrong? NBC News
economy
The truth is that the US and Israel’s war against Iran is exacerbating all the problems of global capitalism.
Kharg, the Orphan Pearl: A History of War, Extraction, and Spectrum in Conflict with Modernity
zeitgeist watch
Culture war with Jack Hanson: Phantom heresy has no choice but to lose
supply chain
The future of graphene and copper markets Warwick Powell
China moves to ban exports of sulfuric acid as supplies hit by Iran war Business Times
Iran conflict disrupts helium supplies, raising concerns about medical care: Becker’s Hospital Review
Taiwan’s helium imports shift from Qatar to the US: pic.twitter.com/qpbM83SZ45
— Chips and Wafers (@ChipsandWafers) April 12, 2026
antitrust law
Emergency Pricing: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market by Matt Stoller
Nation Casino
Judge bars Arizona from regulating prediction market operators, suspends prosecution of Calci AP
Mr. Market is broken
From Panic to Pricing: Despite Soaring Oil Prices, Has the Market Passed the “Peak of Fear and Selling”? CNBC
guillotine watch
Sam Altman’s home becomes the target of a second attack. Two suspects arrested San Francisco Standard
Someone has to be happy. Why not Lauren Sanchez Bezos? The New York Times. “As one half of an immensely powerful couple, Mrs. Sanchez-Bezos appears to have influenced the super-rich to stop apologizing and have fun.”
Organic intellectuals and undiplomatic toilet paper fires
class war
Democracy is not about the ballot box: it’s about controlling what we produce and who owns it William Murphy
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