The Feral Cats of Disneyland Who Officially Keep the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ Free of Unwanted Pests Laughing Squid
Researchers are investing in a record-breaking collection of urine on Walpurgis Day Goteborgs-Posten via machine translation. Micael T: “At least when I was a young student some 30 years ago, you couldn’t find one single sober student this day. All of them were out in the parks getting drunk.”
A toilet designed for proper pooping posture pic.twitter.com/bkm6Cl62O9
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) April 28, 2025
Scientists Found The ‘Lid’ Keeping The Yellowstone Supervolcano From Erupting ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Scientists Bioprint Living Tissues That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Treatment SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
Rattlesnake venom evolves and adapts to specific prey, study finds Guardian (resilc)
Scientists just added chicken to the ever-growing list of foods that will kill you BoingBoing
Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased? LessWrong (Micael T)
#COVID-19/Pandemics
BREAKING (new pre-print):⁰Florida adults who received initial 2 doses of Pfizer BNT162b2 had significantly higher risk of 12-month all-cause, cardiovascular, COVID-19, and non-COVID-19 mortality compared to carefully matched Moderna mRNA-1273 recipients.⁰Matched cohort… pic.twitter.com/LMrQMfYUpO
— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) April 29, 2025
Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally Lancet Regional Health
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Trump weighed in on the recent measles outbreak, recommending families get vaccinated against the disease. #Trump100TheInterviewhttps://t.co/aNKpiqosDS pic.twitter.com/DhrMb75cbw
— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) April 30, 2025
Climate/Economy
Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows for the First Time in Decades SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
Blair says current net zero policies ‘doomed to fail’ BBC (Kevin W)
This is not Yemen, it’s KAZAKHSTAN
Yes,the steppe, the highlands ,where it should still be near freezing at night but there are tropical nights and maxes up to 39C ! Air-con at 1500m asl .Out of any logic.
90%+ of the country pulverized all records and it ‘ll get worse. pic.twitter.com/Sl3iuXu4ye
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) April 28, 2025
EXTREME HEAT IN INDIA AND PAKISTANRecord after record every single day of the month.Today🇵🇰47.5 Khairpur46.4 Turbat 44.4 Dera Ismail Khan 44.0 Nokkundi🇮🇳46.2 Jaisalmer46.2 Rajkotetc all heat records for April
Next days Pakistan will approach 50C and May will be worse pic.twitter.com/4qgaJaBKAk
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) April 28, 2025
Ice all but disappeared from this Alaskan island. It changed everything. Washington Post
China?
China manufacturing PMI shrinks more than expected in April as US trade war bites Investing
LNG companies say they cannot comply with Trump rules on Chinese ships Financial Times
Koreas
‘A national crisis’: Suicide deaths rising among middle-aged Korean men amid economic woes. Korea JoongAng Daily“Korea is facing a surge in suicides among men in their 30s to 50s, driven by worsening economic hardship, social isolation and high-profile celebrity deaths, highlighting urgent calls for stronger national suicide prevention measures.”
India-Pakistan
Pakistan warns of possible Indian strike within next 24-36 hours, citing ‘credible intelligence’ Anadolu Agency
Panic in Pakistan as India vows to cut off water supply over Kashmir Reuters
Why a Pakistan-India war would be a Chinese vs Western arms proving ground South China Morning Post
O Canada
Canada’s Liberals Win in a Repudiation of Trump Daniel Larison. Trump achieved the seemingly impossible task of rescuing the Liberals from the jaws of defeat.
Mark Carney’s house of cards UnHerd
South of the Border
The US Water War With Mexico Is Just Starting Bloomberg
Argentina publishes files on notorious Nazi fugitives RT (Robin K)
European Disunion
When Wadephul comes, we will sorely miss Baerbock Anti-Spiegel via machine translation (Micael T)
No train will come: new Wendlingen-Ulm line is simply too steep Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
Old Blighty
Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers Guardian (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
“Batons. Guns. A fire extinguisher. A hose.” These are some of the tools the IOF uses to rape Palestinian hostages by forcing them into their rectums and then discharging their contents inside. Beyond harrowing. pic.twitter.com/QHoqTC5XfN
— Dr Rahmeh 🇵🇸 (@doctor_rahmeh) April 30, 2025
‘It would be easier to die in an airstrike than die of hunger’: Gazans face famine as UN runs out of food Mondoweiss (guurst)
Smotrich: Israel Will Stop Fighting Once ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Palestinians Are Removed from Gaza Antiwar (Kevin W)
Interesting that Smotrich was so easily baited:
⚡️🇺🇸JUST IN:
Israeli minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir today at the U.S. Capitol was confronted and completely lost it.
“You’re supposed to be at the Hague! You’re a racist war criminal!” pic.twitter.com/QO8icb2UV0
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) April 28, 2025
$60 Million US Navy Jet Falls Off Aircraft Carrier/LT Col Daniel Davis YouTube
Evasive Maneuvers William Schreyer
US aircraft carrier to leave after intense Yemeni strikes: Report PressTV
UK launches Yemen airstrikes, joining intense US campaign against Houthi rebels Guardian
Report: Major explosion at defense facility in Iran IsraelHayom (Kevin W)
Is the Purpose of Israel to Destroy International Law? San Husseini
New Not-So-Cold War
Britain’s coalition of the willing decides that it’s unwilling Ian Proud
New entirely Russian-made airliner makes successful test flight RT (Robin K)
Imperial Collapse Watch
War is the Health of the State (1918) Randolph Bourne (DLG)
Global military spending hits record $2.7 trillion in 2024, sharpest rise since Cold War France24
Anti-Imperialists Really Need to Start Paying Attention to Ibrahim Traoré BettBeat
As global players focus on the Arctic, US icebreakers are scarce Asia Times (Kevin W)
Trump 2.0
DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets NPR
Trump executive order: Truck drivers must speak English Overdrive
Trump is on his way to losing Iowa Art Cullen (Robin K)
Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’ New York Times (Robin K)
Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future Guardian (Kevin W)
The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum Guardian (resilc)
Hegseth ‘proud’ to end Women, Peace and Security program The Hill
Tariffs
BREAKING: In a bizarre moment, Karoline Leavitt is told Amazon will begin to show consumers the tariff cost next to the price, and she says, “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.”
The White House thinks informing consumers is “hostile.” Wow. pic.twitter.com/Zj0ZZ5SYgl
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) April 29, 2025
Mind you, it would be hard to for Amazon this accurately given that many products would be subject to multiple tariffs across their manufacturing process (as in not cheap to do it in a way that would not be subject to criticism), so I doubt this was more than an idle thought. But I wonder if this was a Trump messaging gambit to discourage manufacturers and retailers with narrower product lines to provide this information:
BREAKING: Fox News reports Donald Trump called Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about Amazon’s plan to show the cost of his tariffs alongside product prices. Hours later, Amazon said the plan “is not going to happen.”
Pathetic pic.twitter.com/r0Aw7Aeeme
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 29, 2025
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now The Verge (Kevin W)
Trump to Grant Carmakers Some Relief From His Punishing Tariffs New York Times
Only Teslas Exempt from New Auto Tariffs Thanks to 85% Domestic Content Rule Fuel Arc. Paul R:
Several Tesla models are above 85%, nearest competitor is Ford Mustang GT AT at 80%. “You probably can’t tell, but I have an eyebrow raised over here, it’s been stuck that way since these exemptions were announced. While domestic content rules sound neutral on paper, the real-world effect of this policy is to carve out an exemption that only Tesla benefits from today.”
DOGE
UPS cutting 20,000 jobs, closing 73 buildings in 2025 Des Moines Register (Robin K)
DOGE aide dismantling CFPB owns stock in companies that could benefit from cuts ProPublica
Democrat Death Wish
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’: Ranking Dems in Trump’s First 100 Days Zeteo
Our No Longer Free Press
Lawsuit over newspaper’s 2024 presidential poll moves to federal court Iowa Capital Dispatch (Robin K)
Antitrust
House GOP Proposes Eliminating Key Antitrust Law Matt Stoller
AI
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here 404Media
The Bezzle
Private Credit’s Cracks Widened Before Turmoil Bloomberg
Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit that wants to become an addiction The Register (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
Starbucks boss plans more baristas and less tech BBC
Bribe takers sorted by “income” Kommersant via machine translation (Micael T)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
When Your Cat Forgot How to Cat pic.twitter.com/TRKbW0chCm
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) April 28, 2025
A second bonus:
When you think you’ve seen it all, you find there is a thing to see. pic.twitter.com/FaMfaTDDEC
— Hakan Kapucu (@1hakankapucu) April 28, 2025
A third bonus (Robin K):
They are so cute 🥺🥰 pic.twitter.com/GIWCY2HyFN
— why you should have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) April 23, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
