Links 5/5/2026 | naked capitalism

Buried electrical pathways across the US reveal new clues about Earth’s interior and power grid risks Phys.org

Darkness Can Move Faster Than Light Without Breaking the Laws of Physics ZME Science

Climate/Environment

To get a bit more signal and a bit less noise, here are the global sea-surface temperatures, averaged by decade since the decade 1980-1989.

What do you think the 2030s will look like? The 2040s? pic.twitter.com/S5cHu4wyHt

— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) May 4, 2026

Dr Freezelove LRB

Climate-driven depopulation and adaptation realities in America’s coastal ground zero Nature

Earth in 2050: A stark vision of environmental decline Climate & Capitalism

Emergency brakes: How to limit temperatures long before the last resort of geoengineering Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Pandemics

🛳️CRUISE SHIP OUTBREAK REPORT RELEASED—New crazy timeline data on cruise ship passengers who got sick and died of hantavirus (and 3 more sickened, including 1 critical). According to latest WHO report, index patient died within 5 days of symptoms. Crazier is that close contact #2… pic.twitter.com/ztCo8o8wEi

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 5, 2026

China?

China’s Slowdown and the Myth of the Middle-Income Trap Japan Economy Watch

An Equilibrium Model of Counter-Base War in the Western Pacific Policy Tensor

Southeast Asia

Fuel shortages hit Indonesia’s Riau, triggering long lines at gas stations The Star

India

The Price India Paid for Abandoning Iran The Wire

Syraqistan

Rebuilding Gaza: No progress amid mounting costs, Israeli curbs, say experts Anadolu Agency

Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza as Relentless Attacks Continue Antiwar

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All Indicators Signal that Trump Will Restart the War Against Iran This Week Larry Johnson

US strike in Strait of Hormuz killed 5 civilians, Iran says TRT World

US military behind UAE oil zone strike: IRIB Al Mayadeen

US official says China is ‘funding’ Iran, urges Beijing to help open Hormuz Al Jazeera

IRGC touts capture, reverse engineering of advanced US military gear Amwaj

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Israelis with dual nationality behind ‘large-scale’ acquisition of Syrian agricultural lands: Report The Cradle

Pakistani Nationals Allege Arbitrary Detention and Deportation From the UAE New Lines Magazine. And freezing their life savings.

European Disunion

Brussels bars Chinese-made ‘brains’ of solar panels from EU funding Euractiv

US to announce Norway’s inclusion in Pax Silica group with aim to counter China Semafor

Africa

80% of Africa’s fertiliser is imported: How food systems can adapt to Iran shock Down to Earth

Old Blighty

Starmer adviser’s secret meetings with US Big Tech The Canary

How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy The Conversation

New Not-So-Cold War

New CSIS Report Highlights Major Russian Drone and AI Restructuring Simplicius

Assassination threats or coup: Why has the Kremlin tightened security around Putin? Firstpost. All based on anonymous European intelligence officials, so proceed with caution.

the Zelensky Family Events in Ukraine

Russian Ministry of Defence:

“Should the Kiev regime attempt to carry out its criminal designs with the aim of disrupting the celebration of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will deliver a retaliatory, massive…

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) May 4, 2026

Russia sentences 2 hypersonic researchers to 12.5 years in prison on treason charges, Kommersant reports Meduza

Imperial Collapse Watch

US Imperialism Enters a New Stage: The Left Needs to Take a Close Look at It Venezuelanalysis

Easy to Join, Easy to Leave LRB

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Have any lessons been learned from US failures in the Iran war? Asia Times

US quest for superweapons runs into reality Responsible Statecraft

BRICS

Is Russia Quietly Blocking the Development of the Middle Corridor? Intellinews

South of the Border

US Navy kills two more civilians in illegal boat strike in Caribbean Al Mayadeen

Trump 2.0

Trump administration sues Minnesota over attempts to rein in fossil fuel producers Minnesota Reformer

How the Executive Branch Is Reshaping AI Federalism Lawfare

“Trump’s sanity, Trump’s trap.” The Floutist

War Without Peace – The U.S. Strategy Has Little to Do with Trump Peter Hanseler

Democrats Suck

Scoop: Dems’ foreign policy group prepping for ’28 Axios. Yuck.

Why the Working Class has Given Up on the Liberal Establishment Les Leopold

Obama Legacy

Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump New Yorker. Hasn’t Obomba already played his role?

Police State Watch

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers WaPo

Trump Administration Closes Watchdog Office For Immigration Detention Abuses Huff Post

Groves of Academe

How a University’s Censorship Conference Got Censored 404 Media

So the University of Michigan has apologized for these comments being made, promised a review of their processes so it doesn’t happen again. No, seriously. pic.twitter.com/BX63yE9qu6

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 4, 2026

The Accelerationists

Palantir Q1 revenue jumps 85% on booming US business yahoo! Finance

Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level Futurism

AI

The growing AI backlash Gary Marcus

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat Wired

AI’s Hottest Private Companies Have Booming Crypto Shadow Market Bloomberg

Our Famously Free Press

NATO accused of courting professional writers in ‘propaganda workshops’ The Canary

Economy

California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach Los Angeles Times

The world has plenty of oil, but a different shortage is emerging Business Insider

Abortion

US Supreme Court issues temporary stay preserving nationwide abortion drug access States Newsroom

Agriculture

CSA boxes get people buying fresh from farms, but will customer convenience hurt the mission? Harvest Public Media

Class Warfare

Tax on big business for housing has been a huge success 48 Hills

“It turns out voters really, really care about their nursing homes” Working Class Stories

There’s a method? The Fundamentals of Organizing

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