Colombia’s Cocaine Hippos Ben Goldsmith
The Decline of Deviance Experimental History
Call Security! Archedelia. ‘Skateboarders versus the “Smart City.”’
What Captures Our Attention in an Algorithmic Age? A Statistical Analysis Stat Significant
Thai woman found alive in coffin after being brought in for cremation AP
Climate/Environment
Vietnam dealing with catastrophic, deadly flooding Balanced Weather
Thailand to send aircraft carrier for flood relief as rain intensifies Straits Times
Heavy rain sees part of West Bank apartheid wall collapse and Syrian forest fires extinguished New Arab
WHAT INDIA RISKS AS ITS NATURAL FORESTS DISAPPEAR Carbon Copy
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal The Guardian
Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts Climate & Capitalism
Toxic Flaming Ships
Toxic L.A. port fire burned for hours before emergency alerts were sent Los Angeles Times
Pandemics
Neurological Impacts of COVID and MIS-C in Children Bioengineer.org
Why Women Face Worse Long COVID Neuroscience News
Water
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis Food & Environment Reporting Network
When the well runs dry The Continent
China-Japan Row
What the Trump-Xi call reveals about their priorities on Taiwan, Japan and beyond Channel News Asia
Japan PM affirms close cooperation with Trump after U.S.-China talks Kyodo News
Is Takaichi detering war or encouraging war with her comments? China Translated
A steady China-US consensus becomes ever more crucial as Japan keeps creating risks: Global Times editorial Global Times
Taiwan plans extra $52b in defence spending to counter China Straits Times
Exclusive-China buys at least 10 US soybean cargoes in new deals, sources say Reuters
India
India’s November Russian oil imports set to hit five-month high Reuters
Syraqistan
BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza – with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system – has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.This is not war: it is genocide. pic.twitter.com/9fGRlFOdRJ
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) November 25, 2025
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies Drop Site
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy Max-Planck Institute. “…current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.”
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Trump starts process designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘terrorist’ New Arab
UAE, Israel quietly advanced ‘Peace Railway’ amid Gaza genocide: Report The Cradle
Old Blighty
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges The Register
Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up Jonathan Cook
European Disunion
Rising Security Costs Cast Shadow Over Germany’s Beloved Christmas Markets Devdiscourse
The EU continues to self-sabotage its economy by targeting Chinese investment Thomas Fazi
US sanctions push Serbia’s only refinery toward shutdown Intellinews
New Not-So-Cold War
Leaked phone calls throw scrutiny on Witkoff’s pro-Kremlin positions Diplomatic, by Laura Rozen
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript Bloomberg
Putin Advisers Discuss Plans for Dealing With Trump: Transcript Bloomberg. Commentary:
The question of how these recordings came about might generate a greater scandal than their content. Somebody made a desperate move. https://t.co/H5esuKRy2s
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) November 25, 2025
By the way Bloomberg just provided a transcript, without original audio or a source. They even somehow managed to get a phone call “recording” between two Russian envoys Dmitriev and Ushakov.
Sounds totally legit.
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) November 25, 2025
US envoy set for Moscow visit as Kremlin says ‘leaks’ aim to disrupt contacts Anadolu Agency
‘Settlement’ Carnival Reaches Fever Pitch as Antsy Euros Jockey for Relevancy Simplicius
The European Union votes to deepen defense industry ties with Ukraine AP
U.S. Army secretary warned Ukraine of imminent defeat while pushing initial peace plan NBC News
War or peace? Events in Ukraine
(Guurst):
As a functional state, Ukraine is dead. It’s already over. It has no economy and the worst demographics in the entire world. Beyond this war, there is no Ukraine – it would be a black hole sucking infinite amounts of EU money, money that the EU doesn’t have, money that the EU can…
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) November 25, 2025
Africa
US Troops Fight ISIS Militants on the Ground in Somalia’s Puntland Region Antiwar
South of the Border
War with Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Economic Woes American Conservative
A Looming Mexican Coup? Kit Klarenberg
L’affaire Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby” Drop Site
Trump 2.0
Executive Order Provides For Bailout Of Overextended AI Companies Moon of Alabama
Democrats en déshabillé
Democrats caving on health care is worse than you think Stephen Semler
GOP Funhouse
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’ WSJ
Immigration
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration New York Times (resilc)
Forever Wars
The politicization of U.S. legal and financial warfare All-Source Intelligence
Trump Says Urging Troops to Refuse Illegal Orders Is “Sedition.” This Air Force Officer Once Did Just That. The After-Action Report
Imperial Collapse Watch
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware Oligarch Watch
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.” Patrick Lawrence
No Saviors In The Multipolar Mirage: We’re Living In An Inhuman World Fiorella Isabel
Adherence to dollar complicates establishing cross-border settlement system within BRICS – Russian Finance Minister Siluanov Interfax
What is delinking? Jason Hickel
Accelerationists
What the UAE is doing in Silicon Valley Rest of World
Police State Watch
NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE Migrant Insider
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters ProPublica
AI
The slop layer Blood in the Machine
Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet Futurism
Antitrust
The Rent Is Too Damn High: Did Trump Just ‘Bless’ Using AI to Jack Up Rents? BIG by Matt Stoller. Wow.
Our Famously Free Press
Ending Three-Year Strike, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Union Seeks to Rebuild Trust & Unity with Majority Scab Newspaper Payday Report
The Very Big Business of Lying To You Doomsday Scenario
One of America’s TV pastimes is the game show. Why are so many filming overseas? Los Angeles Times
Economy
How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending WSJ
Class Warfare
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie Michael W. Green. “How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America.” The poverty line.
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