This Wildcat Helped Create the House Cat and Is Now at Risk Because of It ZME Science
Ranchers may have to relearn how to fight an old enemy — the New World screwworm Harvest Public Media
Blind Man Builds Fully Adaptive Skatepark for Visually Impaired and Disabled Skateboarders Laughing Squid
Ahmedabad plane crash: Air India’s Boeing 787 with 242 on board crashes minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport Indian Express
Climate/Environment
Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming Carbon Brief
Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’ The Guardian
Pandemics
COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
These posts are rapidly increasing. It’s devastating. Where is public health, medicine? pic.twitter.com/GdFnB2tDsx
— Dr Kelly Jones 🦋cleanairclassrooms (@DrPops3) June 10, 2025
Minnesota’s unique Long COVID program retains funding following advocacy The Sick Times
Water
Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns The Guardian (resilc)
China?
US-China framework of agreed-upon measures; Zhangjiajie trash; AUKUS blowing up? Sinocism
China Puts Six-Month Limit on Its Ease of Rare-Earth Export Licenses WSJ
HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP BULLIED CHINA INTO TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS Foreign Policy in Focus
Pingshan Factory Fire: How Unpaid Wages Spark Tragedy and Unions Stay Silent China Labour Bulletin
China plans to turn Shenzhen into AI and aviation hub amid US sanctions South China Morning Post
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China’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries New York Times
Chinese rare earth minerals produced through forced labor: Rights groupThe Hill
How America can fast-track critical metals production—and disrupt the leverage China just used Fortune
US Critical Materials, Idaho National Laboratory partner to build rare earth processing plant Mining
India
Rare earth magnets: India hurries to set up new supply chains for key EV component as China curbs exports The Hindu
India’s $80 billion coal-power boom is running short of water Reuters
Syraqistan
Israeli Forces Slaughter 120 Palestinians in Gaza, Including Dozens Near Aid Site Antiwar
A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza’s crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel’s invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as “ecocide.” pic.twitter.com/7KHlr7Igec
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) June 11, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ Zeteo
Exclusive: USAID encouraged outgoing staff to apply for jobs at secretive Gaza-focused foundation All-Source Intelligence
Israel places two activists from Gaza-bound aid ship in solitary confinement TRT
Overcoming the New Fascist Genocidal Salute, the US Veto: Use the Precedents of 1956 and Apartheid South Africa Sam Husseini
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US-UK issuing rare warnings, evacuations in the Middle East Responsible Statecraft
Iran warns US bases across region in range, will strike if provoked Al Mayadeen
Is Donald Trump Starting World War III with Iran? Larry Johnson
Exclusive: US mobilization aims to force key negotiating terms on Iran Al Mayadeen
Iran Claims Historic Espionage Coup Against Israel. Is It a Bluff or Is It Real? Drop Site
1The first unofficial details of the documents and information obtained from #Israel by #Iran. It’s truly shocking. Read more…– Tel Aviv’s dangerous four-year roadmap in the nuclear field– Nuclear military industry facilities, bases, infrastructure and processes👇
— Mohammad Ghaderi | محمد قادری (@ghaderi62) June 10, 2025
European Disunion
The kids are all right: What Germany’s conservative turn means for Europe European Council on Foreign Relations
Germany Wants to Rewrite its Holocaust History Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub
Friedrich Merz won’t survive a single term in office and France will be the next country to exit the EU, triggering an implosion of the project Ian Proud
Old Blighty
Britain has nukes. But apparently Putin’s invading unless Keir Starmer guts the NHS Brian McDonald
New Not-So-Cold War
KREMLIN WAITING GAME — HOW TO UNDERSTAND TRUMP’S TACTICS AND PLAY THEM BACK AT HIM John Helmer
Spies and ties: The quiet war for Russia’s business elite RT
Russia bringing in de facto visa regime for Central Asia nationals, say critics Intellinews
Russia’s Newest Icebreaking Tanker Reaches Arctic Mega Project ‘Vostok Oil’ For First Time gCaptain
Secret British plans to ‘defeat entire Russian Black Fleet’ revealed in leaks The Grayzone
“Liberation Day”
US consumer prices rise moderately; tariffs expected to fan inflation Reuters
Trump 2.0
Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK Semafor
Trump Plan To Redirect Billions In Broadband Subsidies To Elon Musk Starts Seeing Blowback From States Tech Dirt
GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to ‘Accelerate’ AI Across Government 404 Media
Democrats en déshabillé
Gov. Polis’ veto of rent-fixing ban is more than a policy failure The Economic Populist
Good Billionaires Gone Bad . . . Gone Good Again? Left Notes
MAHA
RFK Jr. announces 8 appointees to CDC vaccine panel—they’re not good Ars Technica
5 food power players have strong ties to the MAHA movement STAT
Antitrust
so basically meta is buying scale ai, but below a threshold to trigger reviews etc pic.twitter.com/0Uj5lZBmjQ
— Nathan Benaich (@nathanbenaich) June 10, 2025
Wars Come Home
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz Consortium News
Pam Bondi: “After the October 7 anniversary, they added new drinks to the menu. One was ‘Sweet Sinwar’ in honor, of tribute to the leader of Hamas … You can’t do that. And so we’ve sued them and we’re gonna stop this from happening. And anywhere in the country, if you do this,… pic.twitter.com/VQVIBmqenL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 11, 2025
Police State Watch
As Marines arrive in L.A., military experts raise concerns: ‘This could spiral out of control’ Los Angeles Times
Gov. Greg Abbott sends Texas National Guard to sites of planned immigration protests Texas Tribune
Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight ProPublica (Robin)
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‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE Labor Notes
Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back IN These Times
They followed the government’s rules. ICE held them anyway LAist
NEW: @MiamiHerald reports that a 17-year-old migrant child – found living in a shed after ICE deported his mother, and who is a suspected victim of labor trafficking – was taken out of a Florida foster care facility in handcuffs and shackles and turned over to ICE. pic.twitter.com/j685pn6uA2
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) June 11, 2025
ICE’s War on Home London Review of Books
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Activism, Uncensored: The LA Riots Racket News
Healthcare?
Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors BIG by Matt Stoller
International Yard Sale: UnitedHealth to Say Adiós to Latin American Subsidiary HEALTH CARE un-covered
“Woke” Watch
Why Anti-Trans Campaigns Keep Returning to the Politics of Meat Sentient
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement HEATED
Imperial Collapse Watch
US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens The Register
Troubled Constellation Frigate Is Now At Least 759 Metric Tons Overweight The War Zone
The origins of human-centered design Can We Still Govern?
Politics Without Purpose. Aurelien, Trying to Understand the World
The 420
REEFER MADNESS RETURNS TO TEXAS WITH DAN PATRICK’S THC BAN Texas Observer
Was Rex Cauble Really the Cowboy Mafia’s Drug-Smuggling Kingpin? D Magazine
Silicon Valley
Never Forget What They’ve Done Edward Zitron
Guillotine Watch
Rituals of humiliation The Anti-Empire Project
Class Warfare
The Other Americans The Nation. “Where can the overworked and unhoused go?”
Rip Brian, the isolated vocals of Sloop John B, 1:17 sounds like the gates of heaven opening. pic.twitter.com/QZfa6abcpb
— Flip 🤠 (@Fliptheflipflop) June 11, 2025
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