2026 Snowstorm Recap: Record Snow Totals and Hurricane Winds WBUR
A species of parasitic ant in which all individuals are queens discovered in Japan The Independent
New handbook offers solutions to stop private equity takeover of child care industry Open Market Institute
Climate/Environment
Millennium peat carbon gassed by large humic lakes in the Congo Basin Nature Geoscience
Preliminary data from Climate Reanalyzer shows that global ocean temperatures are rising significantly as La Niña fades. This is well above 2023 levels, and as El Niño takes hold, we could see another year of record heat. pic.twitter.com/mo65auy6MB
— Global Warmer 🔥🌏 🔥 (@TheGlobalWarmer) February 24, 2026
pandemic
US vaccine adviser raises concerns about polio resurgence when asked about childhood immunizations The Guardian
RFK Jr.’s Billionaire Vice Presidential Candidate Makes Comedy About Pandemic Politico
The convenient lie amplified by the media that “children are okay” was fabricated in Sweden based on fraudulent research by Jonas Ludwigsson, a Swedish pediatrician who signed the Great Barrington Declaration. No one in history has trusted so many lives to their own conscience.
🧵 https://t.co/Bpfnu6Lp0X pic.twitter.com/RNCcm8OVmw
— Joanna Teglund🕊️✊😷🍉Human life is sacred (@JoannaTeglund) February 19, 2026
Japan
Japan strengthens ties with island nations to counter China’s expanding influence in the Pacific Yomiuri Shimbun
China?
Outlook for global imbalances beyond 2026: Another China shock? Peterson Institute for International Economics
What is Chinese vibe coding? China Talk
CK Hutchison threatens to prosecute employees in Panama over port takeover dispute Reuters
Southeast Asia
Diplomats searching for Cambodia’s forgotten prophet
India
Venezuela expands preparations for oil cargo exports targeting India Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling likely allows India to continue purchasing Russian crude CNBC
syrakistan
Donald Trump’s “peace committee” considers Gaza FT stablecoin
US Embassy in Israel provides consular services to settlers in occupied West Bank Middle East Eye
Israel’s arms sales are skyrocketing. So why are arms exhibitions smaller than ever? +972 Magazine
US congressman introduces bill to ban US weapons in Gaza, occupied West Bank TRT world. Of course, a list of exceptions.
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⚡️ Video: Iran is building a wall on its western border in preparation for future war with the US
✍️ This measure is taken to prevent the Kurdish terrorist organization (see photo), which carried out terrorist attacks during the January 2026 uprising, from acting as US/Israeli foot soldiers in the coming war. pic.twitter.com/Khbvr2yJYw
— 𝐄𝐡𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐝🟩☫🟥 (@Safarnejad_IR) February 24, 2026
Turkmen leader’s visit to US remains shrouded in mystery Eurasianet
Iranian student protests spread to Tehran university for fourth day in a row Intellinews
NED leader’s speech cut off in parliament after boasting he would “deploy” 200 Starlink units to violent Iran
Exclusive: Iran approaches deal to buy supersonic anti-ship missiles from China Reuters
Understanding why General Kaine cannot guarantee success if the United States attacks Iran Larry Johnson
Dan Cain Suddenly Realizes He’s the Fall Guy Forever Wars of the Iran War
US reasserts 2025 airstrikes ‘annihilated’ Iran’s nuclear program Al Jazeera
Africa
America-European love pact reignites colonial twists
old blighty
“Mr. Mandelson is the political scandal of this century” democracy sale
‘Tinderbox’: UK food riots may be just a few days away, says expert in The Guardian
discord in europe
Prime Minister von der Leyen says Ukraine loan will happen ‘in any case’ as President Orbán vetoes Euronews
Polish presidential aide claims suspension of oil shipments from Russia to Hungary is due to Brussels-Kyiv agreement Daily News Hungary
US ambassador to France calms diplomatic standoff with Paris over murder of AP student
Hospital ship USNS Mercy leaves Alabama with unclear mission in Greenland
A new war that’s not so cold war
Simplicius’ fight continues as Russia’s SMO enters its fifth year
Plan to supply nuclear bombs to Kiev violates international law — Kremlin TASS News Agency
Russia’s Medvedev warns of nuclear response if Western countries provide Ukraine with nuclear weapons
Andrei Lankov, a South Korean researcher and Russia’s leading expert on North Korea, was detained in Latvia before he was scheduled to give a lecture. I used to teach in Canberra and Seoul and write for Bloomberg. Hopefully he gets deported… pic.twitter.com/aN1q13Kdgd
— Russians with Attitude (@RWApodcast) February 24, 2026
south of the border
ExxonMobil seeks $1 billion in damages from Cuba, goes to Supreme Court Reuters
Bolivia revives anti-drug alliance with US Al Jazeera after 18 years
Bolivia expels DEA to reduce drug trafficking: Interview with Kawsachun News. From 2021, it will still be in German.
Lafaire Epstein
Justice Department withholds and deletes some Epstein files related to President Trump NPR
Trump 2.0
President Trump turns the longest State of the Union address in history into an awards ceremony to offer Americans a flimsy gift The Independent
Affordable President!
Trump is finally listening to your complaints that prices are too high and is working for you! Remember last year when he was selling that ridiculously cheap watch for like $100,000? Well, the affordable president has worked his magic… pic.twitter.com/fmm9NspQCd
— BonkDaCarnivore (@BonkDaCarnivore) February 24, 2026
republican funhouse
“This is going too far,” said Texas lawmaker. ABC7 appears to be tracking dead staff member with explicit text messages
Democrats are the worst
Top Democrats seek to block President Trump’s record-breaking vote on Iran’s war capital and empire
Democratic response to Trump pic.twitter.com/9yO1R4UigY
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 25, 2026
police state surveillance
Cuban man’s death at El Paso tent camp was the result of a ‘spontaneous use of force,’ ICE tells Texas Tribune
Witness who saw friend shot dead by immigration officer in Texas last year dies in car crash Associated Press
High school student protesting against ICE remains jailed days after Pennsylvania state police attack WSWS
A.I.
Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to rescind AI safeguards Axios
Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach agreement to use Grok on classified system Axios
Agents of Chaos arXiv. Explanation:
The “Agents of Chaos” paper is important, but not for the reasons many people are responding to.
What the researchers have demonstrated is not that AI agents are secretly conscious or covet power in the human sense. What they show is that if you embed a language model inside an autonomous language model…
— iPilota 🛩️ (@OmniAeronautica) February 24, 2026
imperial collapse watch
A new technocratic world order of predatory elites and the dissolution of the state Vanessa Beeley and Fiorella Isabel
House rejects bill that would have required aircraft locating systems to prevent mid-air collisions like last year’s Associated Press
worldwide piracy
US chase ends in Indian Ocean with captain of sanctioned tanker ‘Vasa’ boarding
academy glove
This is a truly amazing claim:
Students in Mississippi and Louisiana scored higher on reading tests than students in California and New York, despite spending much less per student and having higher rates of child poverty.
I decided to double check the data. If that’s true, this… https://t.co/TPfcozCBbW pic.twitter.com/DLgvSEKrRh
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) February 24, 2026
antitrust law
Amazon exposed for economy-wide price gouging scheme Matt Stoller
big brother is watching you
Trump administration considers citizenship requirements for bank account holders Semaphore
This app will alert you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby 404 Media
guillotine watch
2025: Major insurance companies’ $1.7 trillion annual health care plan revealed
basil
Data center outlook: Half of 2026 pipeline may never materialize Siteline Climate
class war
Shopping is not a strategy Labor politics
They haven’t even started spending money yet Hamilton Nolan
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