Links 4/27/2026 | naked capitalism

California cities seek to bless polyamorous unions. Lawyers warn it will get messy in court Los Angeles Times

The Kind of Short Stories People Really Want to Read Amateur Criticism

Climate/Environment

🚨BREAKING🚨The most recent RELATIVE Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) forecast shows we could be facing the strongest El Niño in observed history!!

This could lead to dystopian global climate change impacts over the next 1.5 years.

No one is prepared. https://t.co/Ru8jg7uqIR pic.twitter.com/WR9bT2O4AG

— Leon Simons 🌍 (@LeonSimons8) April 26, 2026

War, El Niño, Pestilence, and Famine: The Coming Shock to Global Food SuppliesCraig Tindale

Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78 American Meteorological Society

The Cerros de la Plaza glacier is no more. The planet is quietly losing one of its most powerful cooling systems…its natural reflectivity. As glaciers disappear, so does Earth’s albedo. Less sunlight is reflected back to space, more heat is absorbed, and warming accelerates. pic.twitter.com/QpVxFXMwZD

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) April 24, 2026

Pandemics

I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. The Sick Times

China?

A Chinese-Style Kill Line? Sinification

How China’s young workers are securing their future even as AI disrupts job market, triggers pay cuts Business Times

Southeast Asia

Blackouts in the Philippines as power bills soar Intellinews

The Pentagon Needed Rare Earths—and Found a Supplier in Malaysia WSJ

The Koreas

CIA RAN MK-ULTRA EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS OF WAR IN U.S. CUSTODY, DECLASSIFIED DOCS CONFIRM The Intercept

Syraqistan

Israel accuses Hezbollah of violating “ceasefire”, while Iran takes nuclear file off the table and USrael threatens Nord Stream-like sabotage GeoPolitiQ

Is the US Military Recommending No Further Strikes on Iran? Larry Johnson

Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known NBC News

For five years, Iran built an alternative financial architecture on the explicit theory that cryptocurrency would be sanctions-resistant. Bitcoin mining was legalized in 2019. Subsidized power was redirected to industrial farms. Mined coins were sold to the Central Bank of Iran… pic.twitter.com/2F4RjkMxAw

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) April 26, 2026

Iran offers U.S. deal to reopen strait but postpone nuclear talks Axios. From WH messenger Ravid so a heavy dose of salt recommended.

The Emerging Push to Extend Some US Benefits to IDF Soldiers Military.com

Government Press Release Admits That The U.S. Attacked Iran ‘At The Request’ Of Israel. The Dissident

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Israeli Bulldozers Smash Solar Panels, Olive Trees in Southern Lebanon ‘Infrastructure’ Demolition Antiwar

Displaced Lebanese Pool Money to Buy Satellite Images to See What Remains of their Homes Drop Site

European Disunion

China expresses ‘serious’ concern over EU’s industrial act, vows to safeguard ‘legitimate’ rights Anadolu Agency

Britain and allies could pool weapons funding in ‘defence bank’ The Telegraph

Germany’s AfD hits record 28% support, overtaking ruling CDU/CSU in new poll Polskie Radio

Police believe New IRA may be behind station attack as they launch attempted murder investigation Irish Post

Hidden History: How Mossad Infiltrated Italy Kit Klarenberg

Africa

Mali Targeted by Widespread and Coordinated Armed Attacks All Africa

General Sadio Camara: Mali’s Defense Minister and the Architect of the Russia-Wagner Alliance Modern Ghana. Killed Saturday.

France’s strategic counteroffensive in Africa ended in failure…

Today, the most powerful attempt to oust us from MALI took place. This is a strategically important country for us (and the enemy respectively) in western Africa and one of our main outposts in this part of the… pic.twitter.com/doJc2YkMVU

— 🇷🇺 Yuri Podolyaka (@YuriPodolyaka) April 25, 2026

American Moves In Libya Aim To Sever Russia’s Air Bridge To The Sahelian Alliance Andrew Korybko

Old Blighty

King’s visit to ‘revitalise’ relationship with US, says UK ambassador BBC

The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officialsThe Nerve

Major fire erupts at UK base used for US bombers (VIDEOS) RT

New Not-So-Cold War

UK rejects suggestion British jets downed Russian drones UK Defence Journal

Multiple explosions erupt at one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in a long-range attack London Loves Business

ZOG destruction? Events in Ukraine

Russia under construction? Julian MacFarlane

South of the Border

This gold comes from a Colombian drug cartel mine. It should never end up at the U.S. Mint. But it does. New York Times (Robin)

(Another) Trump Assassination Attempt

The alleged shooter:

Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto New York Post

Assassin Wasn’t on FBI’s Radar, Sources Say Ken Klippenstein

Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from California who supposedly attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was seen wearing an Israeli regime’s IDF sweatshirt in a photo posted on his Instagram account before the profile was removed. pic.twitter.com/5yhd9tHHFC

— Tasnim News Agency (@Tasnimnews_EN) April 26, 2026

🇺🇸 The WHCD shooting is getting SUPER WEIRD

The shooter is called Cole Allen, and an X account for Henry Martinez posted “Cole Allen” on Dec 22, 2023.

That’s the account’s ONLY post, and get this, the header image for Henry’s account is from a website called TIME MACHINE!!… https://t.co/21Ut8p2KPI pic.twitter.com/FexTdbdYRc

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 26, 2026

Is it really? Readers?

This technique is well known:

1) create an account2) set the profile to private with hidden posts3) write posts with names or events (e.g. the date of the Pope’s death)4) if the event happens, you delete everything else and leave only the matching one5) make the profile… https://t.co/h8XYW5frEX pic.twitter.com/3Q3kgcM20I

— David Puente (@DavidPuente) April 26, 2026

The aftermath:

TRUMP: I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody

O’DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you? pic.twitter.com/JXmtB6kUdJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2026

President Trump says tonight’s shooting at the WHCD is a clear example of why we need a need a new ballroom for The White House pic.twitter.com/a6dzeH9nyB

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2026

Pres. Trump, under prodding from Fox News, exploits White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to push for Congress to approve FISA domestic spying program: “It’s really needed for national security…”

He reiterates that he’s willing to give up his liberties for safety. pic.twitter.com/tmcepp0Wgn

— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) April 26, 2026

And prior to the shooting:

Before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Karoline Leavitt said to tune in because Trump would bring the heat.

“There will be shots fired.”

She said that.

Tonight there were.

What did she know? pic.twitter.com/Dwg1E8tFDd

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) April 26, 2026

🚨 HOLY SH*T: Fox News just cut one of their reporters off as they seemed to indicate the shooting was a pre-planned false flag. pic.twitter.com/t59EMGPQcM

— Micah Erfan (@micah_erfan) April 26, 2026

ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed The Intercept

Trump 2.0

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body Science

Imperial Collapse Watch

Chartbook 443 Hard-working hegemon? Why 21st-century America is not like Edwardian Britain. Adam Tooze

Data Centers Reveal America’s Economic Development Brain Rot Boondoggle

The US imports 82% of its large power transformers. How it got there, and what it will take to rebuild the capability. Frontier Map

Monopoly Round-Up: How a Chinese Finger Trap Explains America’s Political Dilemma Matt Stoller

Police State Watch

New Mexico Becomes the Latest State to End Cooperation With ICE Under New Law Truthout (robin K)

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

Mike Johnson’s Crusade to Renew Warrantless NSA Spying on Americans Culminates This Week Glenn Greenwald

Every new car in the U.S. will be required by law to have tech that puts constant surveillance on the driver by 2027.

AI in your car will determine if you’re sober and fit to drive, automatically turning off the vehicle if it determines you’re a danger on the road. pic.twitter.com/7SDbAJ2GyC

— Pubity (@pubity) April 25, 2026

HR 8250 builds a total ID system that would allow the govt. to cross-reference verified users with NSPM-7 “domestic terrorism” lists, turning private devices into tethered ID cards where “unacceptable” speech may trigger mandatory lockouts from your devices pic.twitter.com/kvpyaBOHvB

— Silicon Valley Fodder (@Playerinthgame) April 22, 2026

The Accelerationists