7-Eleven to celebrate 98th birthday with free Slurpees, tongue tattoos KTLA
WHO’s ‘3 by 35’ initiative targets tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks Indian Express
Climate/Environment
It’s been moist – but how moist? Balanced Weather
U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week NBC News
Floods and droughts in Texas Moving Day
Abbott says megafloods are “just part of nature.” The fossil fuel industry disagrees. HEATED
How unusual are these moisture levels? Very!
July is a moist month.
But when forecast maximum precipitable water levels over the next two weeks are compared to 85 years of historical data, it shows that much of the United States and southern Canada will experience very… pic.twitter.com/o5ZmF0LCHs
— Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) July 9, 2025
Are we heading for ‘managed retreat’? Everything you need to know about floods The Guardian.
Duration of heat waves accelerating faster than global warming UCLA
Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon European Central Bank. Predicts that a series of extreme climate events could cause euro area GDP to fall by up to 5% by 2030, basically another global financial crisis.
Global data centres face rising climate risks, XDI report warns Data Centre & Network News
Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay New Scientist
Japan
Japan starts deploying Osprey fleet at a new base with an eye on China AP
China?
Myanmar: KIA Clash Risks China’s Rare Earth Imports StratNews Global
MP Materials lands multi-billion Pentagon deal Mining.com
Syraqistan
Israeli Strike on Aid Queue in Deir al-Balah Kills 16, Including 10 Children Telesur
US urges UN and private aid groups to collaborate with GHF’s aid distribution in Gaza TRT
‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones 972 Magazine
As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank Drop Site
The Jewish diaspora must confront what Israel is doing in our name Antony Loewenstein, Middle East Eye
Israel’s Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Zeteo
Instigating Murder Tarilk Cyril Amar. “The US Attack on Francesca Albanese is even worse than meets the eye.”
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War Risk Premiums Surge Amid Renewed Red Sea Attacks Reuters
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🎯 Lucky Shot, or Bullseye?
Before/after satellite photos appear to show that, in Iran’s counterstrike against the US Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, an American radome was nailed dead center by an Iranian missile.
Looks like <5m CEP to me. pic.twitter.com/94XCxVnh8t
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) July 10, 2025
‘Abraham Shield’: Israel’s next big blitzkrieg The Cradle
To Sunni brothers and sisters
Soon there will be a “Sunni Shia” war
Syrian regime with Erdogan and Netanyahu backing will attack #Iraq, (and help of others)
Remember this is not a “Sunni Shia” war, it is a Zionist fitna against all of us, but the resistance in Iraq is…
— Soureh 🇮🇷🇵🇸 (@Soureh_design2) July 10, 2025
Iran hosting and protecting Al Qaeda leadership, says UK The National. Absurd on so many levels.
False Flag Watch
UK faces rising and unpredictable threat from Iran, report warns BBC
Old Blighty
ISRAELI FIGHTER PILOTS TRAINING WITH UK EQUIPMENT Declassified UK
European Disunion
Slovenia’s risky referendum on NATO Politico
Germany a Threshold Nuclear Weapons State, Could Develop Bomb in ‘Matter of Months’ – IAEA Military Watch
UK and France Coordinate the Use of Their Nuclear Weapons TeleSur
Polish president discusses “hanging traitors”, suggests “cleansing” of judiciary necessary Notes From Poland
Concern in Greece as Infamous Neo-Nazis Leave Prison Inkstick
Rearming Europe Phenomenal World. “Political legitimacy through war.”
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine is Burning, Russia Advances Larry Johnson
Rubio says U.S. and Russia have exchanged new ideas for Ukraine peace talks AP
Comedy-Turned-Farce: Trump Pledges a Whole Ten Missiles to Ukraine Simplicius
The U.S. is holding back on giving Patriots to Ukraine — they want a European country to hand over theirs instead.
Rubio stressed that the Patriot system won’t save Ukraine from Russian drones:
“There are certain things Ukraine needs, like Patriot batteries. They are available.… pic.twitter.com/K1xr7U676u
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) July 10, 2025
Germany, Norway to supply more Patriot systems to Ukraine Defence Blog
EU Sends Ukraine Another $1.2B Backed by Russian Assets Kyiv Post
Conference commits over 10 billion euros to Ukraine rebuilding, Italy says Reuters
Amid all the sound and fury coming out of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome was this from Meloni:
“We will continue to support Ukraine, as Italy has always been on the right side of history,” said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. pic.twitter.com/Eaw2TPxo6f
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) July 10, 2025
The Caucasus
Meeting in Abu Dhabi: how close are Azerbaijan and Armenia to peace without Russia’s involvement? JAM News
South of the Border
Latin America: A Lost Century for Catch-up Growth Conversable Economist
Technolatinas Phenomenal World. “Big tech and the global technological oligopoly.”
“Liberation Day”
Trump threatening 35% tariffs on Canadian goods across the board CBC
U.S. Container Imports Set to Fall as Trump Tariffs Loom, NRF Warns gCaptain
Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy Dollars & Sense
Trump 2.0
Pentagon budget tops $1 trillion. Now what? Stephen Semler
White House accuses Powell of mismanaging Federal Reserve, citing headquarters renovation CNBC
Federal lawsuit attacks pro-animal law already approved by voters and upheld by Supreme Court Humane World for Animals
DHS Head Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Texas Floods Truthout
The Uneasy Oligarchy The Baffler
RussiaGate
Brennan, MSNBC Can’t Stop Lying About Trump and Russia Matt Taibbi
Democrats en déshabillé
The Anti-Labor Forces Pushing the Abundance Movement In These Times
Mamdani
New York’s Financial Crowd Rushes to Build Anti-Mamdani War Chest WSJ
Collaborators Like Al Sharpton Can’t Assist Zohran Mamdani with Circumventing Pigmentation Politics and the Black Misleadership Class…But Principled Black Radical Organizing Can Black Agenda Report
Realignment and Legitimacy
Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party New York Times
Speed Up the Breakdown Quinn Slobodian, New York Review. From February, but a useful summary of Yarvin’s “thinking” (sounds like he also provides consulting services for the current uniparty):
Right-wing accelerationists imagine existing sovereignty shattering into what Yarvin, writing under the pen name Mencius Moldbug, calls a “patchwork” of private entities, ideally governed by what one might call technomonarchies. Existing autocratic polities like Dubai serve as rough prototypes for how nations could be dismantled into “a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions.” These would be decentralized archipelagoes: fortified nodes in a circuitry still linked by finance, trade, and communication. Think of the year 1000 in Middle Europe but with vertical take-off and landing taxis and Starlink internet. Yarvin expressed the essence of the worldview recently when he enthused over Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and rebuild it as a US-backed colony securitized as an asset and sold to investors—as he called it, “the first charter city backed by US legitimacy: Gaza, Inc. Stock symbol: GAZA.”
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Swedish bodyguards reveal PM’s location on fitness app Politico
Watching your trash: Local city using AI-equipped trucks to scan recycling Dayton Daily News
Immigration
This is the Trump administration scraping the barrel to follow through on the promise to deport hordes of criminal immigrants who don’t exist in sufficient numbers. In 97, Madeline Allbright said letting Megahey stay would help “a lasting, overall settlement in Northern Ireland.”
— Megan K. Stack (@Megankstack) July 10, 2025
AI
BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think Gary Marcus
Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early Programmable Mutter
I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in order to align with that, on a fresh Grok 4 chat with no custom instructions.https://t.co/NgeMpGWBOB https://t.co/MEcrtY3ltR pic.twitter.com/QTWzjtYuxR
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) July 10, 2025
Police State Watch
TIGER TEAMS TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS: ICE AND ITS CONNECTIONS TO ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE MintPress News
Imperial Collapse Watch
Is This ‘What They Signed Up For?’ New Military Missions Ignite Interest in Conscientious Objectors The War Horse
Pentagon Just Made A Massive, Long Overdue Shift To Arm Its Troops With Thousands Of Drones The War Zone.
If Trump gets a Nobel, the director of this should get an Oscar:
Those drones are literally a wrapper on Chinese drone components.
Except now you pay 50% tariff and charge a premium to American tax payers. That’s a good grift! pic.twitter.com/xkgZAOkjze
— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) July 10, 2025
Groves of Academe
US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology Truthout
Sports Desk
Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice. New York Times
The Bezzle
Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why 404 Media
Class Warfare
Video game actors end 11-month strike with new AI protections SAN
Extreme heat is killing American workers. What will Trump do about it? USA Today
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