We’ve Finally Seen The Skyscraper Tsunami That Shook Earth For 9 Days Science Alert
Nothing Stops Goldman Sachs Racket News
Sinking Giant Concrete Orbs to the Bottom of the Ocean Could Store Massive Amounts of Renewable Energy ZME Science
How Common is Multiple Invention? Construction Physics
Climate/Environment
Holy moly Update! This shows Carbon emissions from Canadian wildfires. Almost on par with 2023 – the absolutely insane fire year.
Ht Aaron Thierry https://t.co/pAHZkg36A7 pic.twitter.com/vogTmQdrdL
— Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD (@ryankatzrosene) June 4, 2025
Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023 Nature
EPA’s new AI tool disagrees with Zeldin on climate change E&E News
How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use The Conversation
Rising cost of homeowners insurance is scaring away millions of Americans USA Today
‘Unfortunately, Altadena is for sale’: Developers are buying up burned lots Los Angeles Times
Pandemics
Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads The Gauntlet
Who’s in Charge? CDC Leadership ‘Crisis’ Apparent Amid New COVID Vaccine Guidance MedPage Today
China?
Xi and Trump have a call, Geneva “truce” looks to be back on Sinocism
Huge..Commerce Secretary Lutnick will be included in “trade” talks…means now US export controls on the table… https://t.co/iYHLocDtd9
— Paul Triolo (@pstAsiatech) June 5, 2025
China’s Hainan offers global internet access to some to boost free-trade port ambitions South China Morning Post. “The programme allows eligible users to bypass the so-called Great Firewall, which blocks access to many of the world’s most-visited websites, such as Google and Wikipedia.”
AI might be answer to China’s labour woes, but could also fuel deflation, report says South China Morning Post
What will it take to revive Forest City, Malaysia’s US$100 billion ‘ghost town’? Channel News Asia
India
Panda-led team returns from West Asia Indian Punchline
U.S. Escalates Pressure on India to Cut Russian Defence Procurements: Why a Su-57 Deal is in the Crosshairs Military Watch
Economics and the Concept of Progress Peoples Democracy
O Canada
Canada hosts pre-NATO rearmament affirmation confab Responsible Statecraft. “At the recent CANSEC, Euros lean into autonomy, greater defense spending, and threat of Russia and China.”
European Disunion
US Pressures NATO to Seal Deal on Ramping up Defense Spending The Defense Post
Trump’s 5 percent defense spending target seemed far-fetched. Now not so much. Politico
Rutte on NATO: “We are more powerful than the Roman Empire, than Napoleon, we are the most powerful defence alliance in world History”
Neither Rome nor Napoleon needed to *say* that they were powerful. Every historian knows that if you have to say it, it’s certainly not true. pic.twitter.com/ep8poENuOe
— Warren Pezé (@WPezeMed) June 5, 2025
In 1948, Costa Rica took a step few nations have dared: it abolished its army. No defense ministry, no military budget. Instead, a symbolic gesture – a hammer striking the walls of the military headquarters – dismantling not just an institution, but a paradigm of thought.
What… pic.twitter.com/FCHNv185TT
— BWA Deutschland (@BWA_Vorstand) June 5, 2025
Germany approves $52B tax cut package for companies Anadolu Agency
Italy Admits Hacking Activists With Israeli Spyware Paragon Haaretz
Arms to Israel: Italy continues to export drones, jets, ammunition and radar. The numbers and the issue of lack of transparency Il Fatto Quotidiano (Machine translation)
Europe doubles weapons purchases from Israel despite growing calls to end Gaza genocide The Cradle
Syraqistan
Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them +972 Magazine
🚨🚨Explosive: Israel’s ex-Defence Minister reveals Netanyahu is arming ISIS-affiliated criminals & drug dealers in Gaza
Those very gangs are the ones looting aid under full IDF protection & carry out surveillance & recon missions on behalf of the IDF
The gangs now established… pic.twitter.com/0UnSopWJNa
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) June 5, 2025
‘Death and hunger’: Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in Gaza aid site shooting CNN
A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza Drop Site
Devastating Report Details an Occupied Palestine on ‘Edge of Erasure’ Common Dreams
Rubio imposes sanctions on four ICC judges for ‘targeting’ US and Israel The Guardian
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Israel Pounds Southern Beirut Following Evacuation Order Antiwar
Iran Orders Material From China for Hundreds of Ballistic Missiles WSJ
Red Sea Shipping Traffic Rises After Houthis Narrowed Targets Reuters
New Not-So-Cold War
Trump’s Escalation Against Russia through Kiev Regime’s Operation Spider Web Presents Us with New Cuban Missile Crisis Moment The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda (Video)
Scoop: Trump admired Ukraine’s “badass” attack, but worries what’s next Axios
Iskander and the “Iskanderization” [i] Black Mountain Analysis
Secure the perimeter? Russia’s strategy beyond the Ukraine front Timofey Bordachev
Russia is in No Rush to Retaliate Larry Johnson
SITREP 6/5/25: Another PR Stunt Dies Down as Russia Tightens Vise on Sumy Simplicius
‘Russia Is Not Winning’: Key US Senator Urges ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Putin Kyiv Post
Overthrowing Fate: Barbarossa Revisted Big Serge Thought
“Liberation Day”
INCANTATIONS OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY: THE U.S. COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE PROVIDES CRUCIAL HISTORICAL CONTEXT Notes on the Crises
How big trade deficit drop as tariffs hit imports is playing out inside U.S. supply chain and economy CNBC
Trump 2.0
Billions wiped from Tesla as share prices plummet after Elon Musk explosively links Trump to Epstein files Daily Mail
‘He’s gotta go’: The MAGA right cheers Musk-Trump rift Semafor
Elon Musk’s job has already been automated Blood in the Machine
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White House proposes largest warhead spending increase since Reagan Los Alamos Study Group . “Runaway U.S. warhead spending now vastly greater than in the Cold War.”
How much does Trump’s Golden Dome actually cost? Stephen Semler
Trump, Merz discuss trade, NATO spending and Russia’s war on Ukraine Al Jazeera
German Chancellor: “May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary.”
Trump: “Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day.”
German Chancellor: “This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship.” pic.twitter.com/SYIalF8EQx
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 5, 2025
Warner, Top Democrat on Intel Panel, Calls for Gabbard Resignation Spy Talk
The Iran War Is Already Happening – for Now, It’s Mostly in the GOP Haaretz. Team Blue is, of course, on board.
Democrats en déshabillé
Democrats eye a villain-to-ally arc for Elon Musk Politico
A long thread worth reading for the repetitive awfulness:
Lakshya Jain: “The voter you’re trying to win over is a soccer mom, who isn’t really as concerned with the election on Tuesday as she is with her kids soccer semifinal on Saturday.” pic.twitter.com/eoFDw9iyQH
— Alex Bronzini-Vender (@alexbronzini) June 4, 2025
Or here’s the short version:
I can’t wait to express my opposition to this administration’s pro-wall street, pro-war, anti-union policies by voting for their opponents, the party that is criticizing it for not being pro-wall street, pro-war, and anti-union enough https://t.co/Aih3W45oiv
— Sean Padraig McCarthy (@SeanMcCarthyCom) June 4, 2025
What Is Centrism? How Things Work
The Nazis Weren’t Socialists — They Were Hypercapitalists Jacobin
The Last True Fascist Unpopular Front
Immigration
ICE raid at New Orleans construction site raises questions on key city flooding project Nola
Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization. ProPublica
The Supremes
Supreme Court rules for straight woman who claims she was subjected to reverse discrimination SCOTUS Blog
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Phone unlocking firm Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing startup Corellium for $170M Tech Crunch
Wyze Says ‘Screw It’ and Shoves a Camera Into Its Latest Smart Bulb Gizmodo
Imperial Collapse Watch
Defending U.S. Military Bases Against Drones? A Recent Tabletop Exercise Explores How RAND
Police State Watch
Google-affiliated military AI expo cracks down on journalists amid Code Pink disruptions All-Source Intelligence
Mahmoud Khalil describes pain of missing son’s birth in latest court filing The Guardian
Abortion
Prosecutor warns of potential charges against women who miscarry in West Virginia WVNS
AI
The cursed world of AI kiss and hug apps The Verge
Our Famously Free Press
Zen And The Art Of New York Times Headline Writing Caitlin Johnstone
Class Warfare
Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good. The Intercept. “This devil’s bargain with big business has devastated our own community’s ability to be good allies to those suffering from corporate abuses.”
Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages The Verge
The Corporate Fear Campaign to Keep Workers Locked Into Their Jobs Boondoggle
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