Do you live in a dormitory all the time? Micro-Living JSTOR issues (Micael T)
This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in one second Science Daily (Kevin W)
Climate/Environment
Record sea temperatures in June plunge world into ‘uncharted’ waters Financial Times
Scientists fear seabird die-off as El Nino approaches: ‘We don’t know how serious this will be’ The Guardian
Plankton decline across the Northeast Atlantic, signaling failure in Ocean Health Ecomagazine
In India’s mountains, climate change is rewriting the map of disease health policy Watch
‘We’re screwed’: People near data centers fear heatwave pollution Politico
Extreme weather impacts AI: Global AI data centers face threat from extreme heat Gelonghui Finance
China?
China’s housing market plummets as buyers wait for lowest price Asia Times
Why the West still can’t decipher China’s rise Arnaud Bertrand, Beijing Review (Chuck L)
China’s second-half outlook: AI supercycle bites into K-shaped economy Citigroup
Exclusive Inside Taiwan’s Nightmare Scenario: Blockade, Earthquake, Sabotage, and Invasion by China Global Banking and Finance
Japan
Traders plan worst-case scenario in case of yen crisis Japan Times
Africa
Third year of conflict in Sudan sees record numbers of people fleeing to neighboring countries Oxfam
Escalating conflict causes record hunger in northern Nigeria Arab News
south of the border
Cubans face endless power outages, collapsing wages and empty storefronts, but they refuse to let go of Skye
Israel shows new moves in Western analysis of Venezuela (Robin K)
‘It was a genocide’: Haitian gangs carry out mass killings across country The Guardian
discord in europe
EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos—TASS ruling. Michael T.: “We must go to war with the patrollers to protect our freedom from criminal prosecution for listening to other news!”
German workers are now banned from taking sick leave without a medical certificate in a tough reform. independent
Not everyone can act like sick Minister Aftonbladet via machine translation. Michael T.: “About sick pay day. If you get sick, a certain percentage is deducted from your pay for one to several days. But not for ministers. Neoliberal rules are being implemented.”
old blighty
Keir Starmer suggests Andy Burnham borrow billions for defense Guardian (Kevin W)
Bank of England to move forward with plans to limit hedge fund leverage Financial Times
Bankers and unions clash over potential mandatory Burnham tax on UK banks The Guardian
Defaults on credit cards and other loans reach highest level since financial crisis as UK households struggle to make ends meet This is Money
Exclusive: British Museum falsely claimed it removed ‘Palestine’ from exhibit Middle East Eye
Britain’s old refrigerators ‘can’t stand the heat’ BBC
balkan peninsula
Albania’s fight against Flamingos, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s resorts openDemocracy (Robin K)
israel vs resistance
🔴Despite the so-called “ceasefire”, the Israeli Defense Forces’ Yellow Line in Gaza has changed again. Since its entry into force, the IDF’s effective control has expanded from 53% of the Gaza Strip to as much as 70%. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been forcibly relocated to less than a third of the territory 🧵 pic.twitter.com/iOUCvHYpvQ
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) July 2, 2026
Karen Kwaitkowski explains the numbers in Gaza. important. A well-documented analysis concludes that “well over a million” Gazans died in Israeli genocide.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American orthopedic surgeon, said he witnessed Israeli soldiers tying the hands of two Palestinian children behind their backs and burying them alive at Nasser Hospital, before their cries fell silent beneath the earth. pic.twitter.com/UZbl4IXzzc
— Rami Abdul | رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) July 1, 2026
Israel exposes war crimes archives (Garst)
CENTCOM says this air defense coordination cell was established in January, but it’s worth noting that the regional organization was already meeting at Fort Campbell by January 2025, not 2026. In fact, this coordinating cell with Arab countries began to form again… https://t.co/2ZiM63p4S9 pic.twitter.com/LaiQFlKC9s
— Barry and NED (@bonzerbarry) July 1, 2026
FIFA faces new calls for Middle East Eye (resilc) action as Palestinian goalkeeper is killed by Israel in Gaza
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⚓️ Something stupid is coming
The USS Boxer finally arrived, transporting another Marine Expeditionary Unit to augment the MEU attached to the USS Tripoli.
Including US Army units in the region, the US now has perhaps 10,000 combat capabilities capable of doing stupid things. https://t.co/VzdXUjiuwO
— Will Shriver (@imetatronink) July 1, 2026
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Grand Bargain Ends Brandon Weichert
How Florida’s Cuban diaspora and the Israel lobby are coming together and falling apart The Intercept (resilc)
Huckabee: Israel is the 436th Congressional District in the US Responsible State Strategy (Kevin W)
Russia and China have secretly taken over the helium market. Then Iran blew them up for others Kevin Walmsley (Ghast)
From Mohamed A-Bukhai @kwnn_yemen on Twitter (Thanks Chuck L). Twitter doesn’t allow embedding of “Visibility is limited: This post may violate X’s rules against violent speech.” Click to see the full tweet.
Final warning message to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia translated from Arabic:
This is our last chance, and we cannot tolerate any delay or hesitation. The people’s patience has reached its limit, and there is no room for this situation to continue as it is.
Saudi Arabia is shirking its peace obligations in Yemen, accusing the United States of being the cause of the obstruction due to our support and posture toward Gaza.
We say it clearly: our options are open and we will not sit idly by if Washington and Riyadh continue this maneuver.
To all of you who are taking measures to restrict the lives of the people, the equation of bank for bank, airport for airport, port for port has not been resolved, this game will not continue, the people will not succumb to economic blackmail, and will confront and thwart all conspiracies.
We impose the equation of an eye for an eye and a siege for a siege.
And the airport is an airport
Warning: Saudi airspace is nearing complete closure 🔥
A new war that’s not so cold war
John Mearsheimer: The End of Russia’s Restraint and America’s New Grand Strategy Glenn Diesen, YouTube
John Helmer: Ukraine is becoming a shooting range without people Dialogue Works, YouTube
NY Times lies about Russian and Ukrainian casualties Sonar 21 (Kevin W)
Georgia’s only refinery announced Wednesday that it plans to stop processing Russian crude by the end of this summer to avoid the impact of European sanctions.
imperial collapse watch
Text – S.4367 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act Library of Congress (resilc)
Trump’s $1 Billion Crypto Fortune, Vance-Trump Rift and Tucker Creates His Own Party — w/Robert Burns YouTube. Mr. Burns: “The most corrupt person in American history.” Vikas S.: “Everyone plugged in knows it, but the details are damning.”
New poll: Almost half of Americans don’t know America’s 250th anniversary is a celebration of Cato. resilc: “Isn’t it Amazon Prime week??”
We are now British in the late 18th century. What now? Responsible national strategy (resilc)
How many people have lived in America?Davis Fetts (resilc)
The Pitfalls of a “Middle Way” Strategy Daniel Larison
Trump 2.0
President Trump refuses to renew the US-Canada-Mexico trade deal he once supported The Guardian
Air Force major arrested for calling for impeachment of Trump in front of the Capitol (resilc)
US Olympic canoeist David Hahn charged with damaging Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool NBC (Kevin W)
Federal Atomic Energy Agency to ease radiation exposure regulations The Washington Post
Our press is no longer free
Public opinion: cornered by the many, ruled by the Finnish few Andrin (Michael T.)
economy
The world is suffering from one economic crisis after another. What should we expect from our government? Guardian
Global monetary tightening and the vulnerabilities behind it ODI Global
U.S. added just 57,000 new jobs in June, and wage growth remains slow, a worrying sign NBC
Mr. Market needs a therapist
Another “quant shock” hits systematic investors Financial Times
Concerns about an AI bubble grow as top economist Michael Varley sounds the alarm
AI debt flood makes credit markets look safer while hiding risks Bloomberg
AI hopes and fears dominate global bank meetings Reuters
Retail rush buying has reached historic extremes.
The average daily stock purchases by individual investors on S&P 500 index decline days is nearly 3.5 times the daily average since 2020, an all-time high.
This is +56% higher than during the 2021 meme stock mania. pic.twitter.com/4Mj6406C6F
— Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 2, 2026
A.I.
In the AI race, no one can win on foreign affairs. Robin K: “Towards the end, when the discussion turns to corporate governance, bubbles, inflation, and central banks, things look volatile.”
Learn more about AI than any institution will teach you in this full 18-minute interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp. pic.twitter.com/DuaI1yYSXI
— ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ (@hamptonism) July 1, 2026
Programmer “Productivity”: Today’s Chart Brad DeLong. Important information about how the “latest VW Electric MicroBus replaces a 22-year-old Subaru” and how difficult it is to drive.
Claude helped hacker find a way to issue tickets to almost every music festival in the US Wired (resilc)
Ambani Trump Jr. investigation hits Google AI surprise ProPublica. “Google, owner of the world’s leading investigative tools, has deployed an AI overview that can indiscriminately ingest fake material and regurgitate it authoritatively as real.” (Kevin W.)
basil
SpaceX is junk. What the bond market is saying Bloomberg
S2 Capital liquidates $400 million first fund with ‘no return of capital’ TheRealDeal (albrt)
Private credit continues to lock up $14 billion in bid to weather storm Bloomberg
What is private credit and why are investors so worried about it? The New York Times (resilc)
guillotine watch
Police search for Ukrainian woman in Monaco bombing case: Agence France-Presse
Mr. Musk demanded proof that people were dying from USAID cuts. He got it and lost it. Judd Legum
class war
Inside the Luddite festival that capitalized on Gen Z’s anger against Big Tech Wired (resilc)
Lack of entertainment is real, and it’s making America miserable Bloomberg
We analyzed the data: America is experiencing a food price emergency New York Times (resilc)
The average price of a new car has hit an all-time high of $51,974, but people are still rushing to buy Jalopnik (resilc)
This is killing the deal… YouTube (resilc)
Temporary Antidote (Tracy H):
And bonus (Chuck L):
A man was rock climbing when a mountain goat casually pulled up next to him. Honestly, it’s insane that these animals live like this. pic.twitter.com/UBblWGGhLi
— Guys posting their Ws (@DudespostingWs) June 30, 2026
Second bonus:
He was so flashy for no reason 😂 pic.twitter.com/pMRAP6zmuO
— Nature Unedited (@NatureUnedited) June 30, 2026
And third:
❤️🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/nsf8YKJEhc
— TheFigen (@TheFigen_) July 1, 2026
See yesterday’s link and antidote here
