Colombian cocaine hippo Ben Goldsmith
Decline in the history of deviant experimentation
Please call security! Archederia. “Skateboarders vs. “Smart Cities.” ”
What attracts our attention in the age of algorithms? Statistics that matter in statistical analysis
Thai woman found alive in coffin taken for cremation Associated Press
Climate/Environment
Vietnam deals with devastating and deadly floods
Thailand dispatches aircraft carrier for flood relief amid heavy rains The Straits Times
Heavy rains cause part of West Bank apartheid wall to collapse, forest fires in Syria extinguished New Arab
What the loss of natural forests puts India at risk Carbon copy
‘This is hell for us’: Mumbai families suffer as data centers keep city dependent on coal The Guardian
Chemical pollution causes prostate cancer and reduces sperm count Climate and Capitalism
toxic flaming ship
Toxic LA Port fire burned for hours before emergency alert issued Los Angeles Times
pandemic
Neurological impact of coronavirus and MIS-C on children Bioengineer.org
Why women face worse long-term COVID-19 infections Neuroscience News
toilet
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is accelerating the water crisis Food & Environmental Reporting Network
When the well dries up, the continent
Chunichi line
President Trump and Xi’s phone call reveals priorities for Taiwan, Japan and beyond Channel News Asia
Japan’s Prime Minister confirms close cooperation with President Trump after US-China talks Kyodo News
Are Takaichi’s statements preventing war or encouraging war? Chinese translation
A stable agreement between China and America becomes increasingly important as Japan continues to create risks: Global Times Editorial Global Times
Taiwan plans $52 billion in additional defense spending to counter China The Straits Times
Monopoly China buys at least 10 U.S. soybeans in new deal, sources say Reuters
India
India imports Russian crude oil in November to highest level in five months Reuters
syrakistan
BREAKING: A new United Nations report reveals that Israel’s attack on Gaza, which destroyed health care, education, infrastructure and even the banking system, wiped out 69 years of human development and marked the worst economic collapse in history.
This is not a war. It’s genocide. pic.twitter.com/9fGRlFOdRJ
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur (@FranceskAlbs) November 25, 2025
Child amputee in Gaza uses makeshift prosthetic limb as Israel restricts drop sites for medical supplies
Gaza: Study reveals unprecedented loss of life and life expectancy Max Planck Institute. “…the death toll from the current violence is probably over 100,000.”
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President Trump begins process to designate Muslim Brotherhood New Arabs as ‘terrorists’
UAE and Israel quietly promote ‘peace railway’ amid Gaza massacre: Report the Cradle
old blighty
UK plans atomic reboot as data center demand grows
Examining judge withdraws from Palestine action hearing at last minute over patent stitch-up Jonathan Cook
discord in europe
Rising security costs cast a shadow over Germany’s beloved Christmas markets Devdiscourse
The EU continues to self-destruct its own economy by targeting Chinese investment Thomas Fudge
US sanctions force Serbia’s only refinery to close Intellinews
A new war that’s not so cold war
Leaked phone call brings scrutiny to Witkoff’s pro-Kremlin stance “Diplomacy” by Laura Rosen
Witkov speaks with Putin’s key aides about Ukraine plan: Bloomberg Transcript
Putin’s aides discuss response plan to Trump: Transcript from Bloomberg. Explanation:
The question of how these recordings were made could create a bigger scandal than their contents. Someone took a desperate action. https://t.co/H5esuKRy2s
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) November 25, 2025
By the way, Bloomberg only provided the transcript, no original audio or source. They even somehow managed to obtain a “recording” of a phone call between two Russian envoys, Dmitriev and Ushakov.
Sounds completely legit.
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) November 25, 2025
US special envoy plans to visit Moscow, claims Kremlin “leak” aimed at interfering with communications Anadolu Agency
Relevance ‘Settlement’ carnival reaches climax as Anzi Euro jockey of Simplicius
European Union votes in favor of deepening defense industry ties with Ukraine Associated Press
U.S. Army chief warns Ukraine of impending defeat as initial peace plan advances NBC News
War or peace? ukraine events
(Gust):
Ukraine as a functional state is dead. It’s already over. It has no economy and the demographics are the worst in the entire world. There is no Ukraine beyond this war. It will become a black hole that will endlessly suck up EU money, money the EU doesn’t have, money the EU has…
— Russians with Attitude (@RWApodcast) November 25, 2025
Africa
US forces engage ISIS militants on the ground in Somalia’s Puntland region
south of the border
War with Venezuela won’t solve America’s economic woes: American conservatives
Is a Mexican coup looming? kit clarenberg
Lafaire Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein assisted Alan Dershowitz’s attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s ‘Israel Lobby’ drop site
Trump 2.0
Executive order provides relief for overextended AI companies Moon, Alabama
Deshabille Democratic Party
Democrats’ health care complaints are worse than you think Steven Semler
republican funhouse
Senate committee challenges self-safety mandates that hurt ‘affordability’ WSJ
immigration
Homeland Security immigration chases reduce drug arrests and gun seizures New York Times (resilc)
eternal war
The politicization of US legal and financial wars. Information from all sources.
President Trump says encouraging troops to refuse illegal orders is “incitement.” This Air Force officer once did just that. After-action report
imperial collapse watch
Musk’s AI supercomputer used by the US military secretly relies on Chinese hardware Oligarch Watch
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.” Patrick Lawrence
There is no savior in a multipolar mirage: We live in an inhuman world Fiorella Isabel
Compliance with the dollar to establish a cross-border payment system within BRICS is complex – Russian Finance Minister Siluanov Interfax
What is unlinking?Jason Hickel
accelerationist
What the UAE is doing with other countries in Silicon Valley
police state surveillance
News: Medicaid data now flows to ICE immigration insiders
Trump administration’s immigration force dangerously deploys ‘less-lethal’ weapons, flouts rules and harms protesters ProPublica
A.I.
Slop layer Blood in the Machine
Thanksgiving dinner turns into a tragedy as disastrous AI recipe eats away at internet futurism
antitrust law
Rent is too high: Did President Trump “bless” just by using AI to raise rents? Matt Stoller BIG. oh.
our famous free news agency
Ending three-year strike, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette union aims to rebuild trust and unity with majority scab newspaper’s payday coverage
The Very Big Business of Lying to You, Doomsday Scenarios
One form of American television entertainment is game shows. Why do you often shoot overseas? Los Angeles Times
economy
How the US economy became obsessed with AI spending WSJ
class war
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie Michael W. Green. “How Broken Benchmarks Quietly Destroyed America.” The Poverty Line.
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