Palo Alto scientists caught a giant squid on camera (eventually!) kqed
Climate/environment
Global temperatures are rising sharply while the US’s financial ability to deal with the devastation of accelerated climate change is dwindling rapidly as travel days drops sharply
Is your Ohio homeowner insurance spiked? Denouncing the increase in tornadoes and attacking Columbus dispatch
Climate risk Phoenix Real Estate AZ threatens billions of dollars with big media
Pandemic
Measles costs are accumulated as funding reduces outbreak response CNN
They told me it was difficult to raise a child.
They didn’t say I would manage airborne power transmission, collapsed agencies, and massive delusions before my morning coffee.
Standing for the last parent:
– Jess🇨🇦 (@meetjess) April 15, 2025
China?
Usasa Chinee Firm helps Houthis target American warships
Parliament wants to know if Nvidia Superchips slipped through Singapore to Depseek the register
China’s HBM mapping advances China Tark
Bertrand: Trump’s tariffs in China are the same ascals in Russia, and bne intellinews will fail too
Beijing vs Washington’s Rare Earth – and why the US is losing and how badly they lose Bne’s knowledge
Commentary: Az and China delve into tariffs, this is no longer just trade war channel news Asia
European injustice
Trump, Meloni “full hopes for Euraactiv eu-us trade deal
Meloni from Trump: “We’ve also talked about energy. Italy must increase the imports of Rickeffied gas.”
About 10,000 homeless people in Brussels, up 25% since 2022: Report Anadolu Agency
Old man
Liz Truss makes her own “unlimited” social media platform The Times for lunch
Tata Inks Funds the UK’s largest battery plant economic timeline, with £750 million loan
India
Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba are wrong. India should not give up on the production of Indian Express
Beyond Comparison: India’s strategic calculations within the Chinese military
Sirakistan
Yemen’s ras isa port burns by the continuous US air steaks al mayadeen
Due to its military failure, the US aims to use hunger as a weapon.
This will cause food prices to skyrocket and thousands of children will die of hunger.
In the decade since I tracked the US war in Yemen, this is the most obvious collective punishment for the people of Yemen that I have seen. https://t.co/wq8uxg5nuu
– Eric Sparing🌍 (@eriksperling) April 17, 2025
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Saudi Arabia-Iranian ties will be strengthened on the eve of the next talk between Washington and Tehran Larry Johnson
Iran-Alameni joint drill warning foreign-designed changes in borders cradle
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Israel has secured six months delay in the Hague Court case
Slowly dies under the tiles of Gaza rub
Sky News reports that 15 members of one man’s family (including children) have been locked under a tile ble in Gaza and have called for rescue for three days after the attack. Israel continued to block… pic.twitter.com/y4b9imoedd
– DropsiteNews (@dropsitenews) April 17, 2025
Trump manages social media reviews about Gaza Ken Krippenstein
Zionism, Scott Litter Extra, a human parasitic bee
4chan is hacked. Email from the relevant .gov account. And for the sake of the total, the Israelis have literally posted billions of posts on their sites, more literally than any other country in the world.
Is WTF continuing? pic.twitter.com/ajxfow2tq8
– Duopoly Destroyer (@Realnikohouse) April 17, 2025
The NYT reports that Pete Higges was one of Trump officials opposed to the US, which launched a massive war with Iran on Israel’s behalf
Three Pentagon officials have already been fired for unknown leaks
Israeli lobbyists are now seeking more firing on the leaks that led to this story pic.twitter.com/9pve1uj9oa
-max blucenthal (@maxblumenthal) April 17, 2025
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“Speaking softly” Shara creates a 100-hour list to continue in the cradle as sect genocide continues in Syria.
Africa
New left review of World War I in Sudan
Not so cold new war
Ukraine situation report: Russia launches new South attacks war zone
EU/UK Paris Summit Planning Kyiv Victory, Odessa Deployment denies us. Russia’s advance in all aspects Alexander Mercaris
France evokes “positive process” as Europe, US discusses Ukraine ceasefire France 24
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The 10-year-olds in Ukraine are ready to fight in combat in secret military style boot camps to prepare them if the war with Russia is dragged over for years. pic.twitter.com/ba9wgitshi
-DW News (@dwnews) April 16, 2025
German anti-Russian propaganda resumes Nazi Bella levels Talic Cyril Amal
South of the border
Colombia will provide asylum to Ecuadorian opposition leaders following Novoa’s Blacklistree Qualinoco Tribune
Playing cards 2.0
The Trump team’s eyes have politically linked startups to overhaul the $700 billion government payments programme. To a startup supported by Peter Thiel.
When they first stopped the proven tables from being published, they had to backtrack. What are your plans now? https://t.co/em3eyw0ip
– David Daien (@ddayen) April 17, 2025
Can the government still be able to directly file death?
Chartbook 376 Trump is passing through the Fed chair, but legal wars are furious with American administrative states. Is America approaching stage 4? Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Trade War Fallout: Cancellation of Chinese freighter starts when bookings plummet cnbc
I wonder if many truck drivers I’ve spoken to have their container volumes collapsed very quickly.
From May, port cargo from California will be almost eliminated.
It becomes Dray’s blood, followed by Intermodal, followed by the collapse of the I-20 and I-40 tracks. https://t.co/q0jfzg2lbr
-Craig Fuller April 18, 2025
Immigrants
Senator meets a Maryland man being held at El Salvador prison axios
Gantz
FSU shooting: 2 deaths; six injured aides say after police fired by Campus Sta Rahasey Democrats
Police State Watch
US citizen release from prison after arrest under Florida New Immigration Act Florida Phoenix
Just as Trump says he’ll send American citizens, Peter Thiel’s spy company goes into bed on ice.
Academy’s grove
The State Department relied on mikalacting Columbia University’s protests to arrest Mohsen Mahdawi’s drop site
ai
This “university protector” is not the real thing. This is an AI-driven masked bot for wired police officers
The latest viral chat trends are “reverse location search” from photos TechCrunch
Obama’s Legacy
Barack Obama Keith Norton’s pathetic, slow movement down, hill
Maha
The FDA plans to enter daily food safety tests, sources say CBS News
US Consumer Safety Agency stops collecting data after CDC cuts Reuters
Wisconsin’s congenital syphilis cases are up 1,450% in the first congenital syphilis cases since 2019, the state’s Department of Health Services reported.
This is the prime minister of the country #std Lab is closed with catastrophic cuts #CDC.
What’s not going well? … pic.twitter.com/7oq0siqjhs
– Helen Branwell🇨🇦 (@helenbranswell) April 17, 2025
RFK Jr. says people with autism “never pay taxes, have a job, go to the date.”
Our Famous Free Press
Shuttering Trump Administration Our Office Countering Foreign Obstacles Guardian
Comcast outlets have spent days misleading the American public. Abrego Garcia is merely a law enriching American citizens, implying that he is just a regular “Maryland man.”
When the truth comes out, they ignore it.
Comcast knows there are federal law requirements… https://t.co/0sgzhqvp5r
– Brendan Carr (@brendancarfcc) April 16, 2025
Destruction: In an astonishing moment, Trump propagandist Sebastian Gorka tries to frame the argument that if you support them, you help them and help them to help criminals. This is dangerous, the fascists say. pic.twitter.com/m2tomtjpcx
– Really American 🇺🇸 (@reallyamerican1) April 17, 2025
Failed to rise to a constitutional just crisis
Anti-Trust
Google has discovered the Big Big crime by Matt Stoller again
Lean In: The work and will of the witnesses monopolize Big Technology in court. goal.
Google, Apple and Snap Aren’s are pleased with the inadequate slides of Meta’s red work
Imperial Collapse Watch
The dangerous context of Trump’s policy and international relations
America’s unilateral diplomacy era
Trump will center around the attacked world order – but in the chaos there is a chance alastair crooke
Class battle
Patriotism traps how things work
A place of confusion
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