Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica Penn State University
World faces new nuclear arms race, researchers warn Business Times
Humans Have Now Seen the Dawn of Time from Earth After Breakthrough 404 Media
RECONDUCTORING: BUILDING TOMORROW’S GRID TODAY Hackaday
Climate/Environment
Deadly flash flooding in West Virginia Balanced Weather
How fungi are surviving—and even thriving—in a warming world Food & Environment Reporting Network
Blue Line Medicine Orion
Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? NPR
Pandemics
Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests NBC News
Amazon’s Return-to-Office Mandate Sparks Disability Complaints Bloomberg
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children The Gauntlet
Clean Air for Kids Ltd is finally out in the wilds!
And a registered Company.We need to clean the air our kids are breathing. Especially in schools where they spend the majority of their day.
Let’s just do it! @CleanAir4KidsUK pic.twitter.com/JfVFXMT86d
— Ruth Brooker (@erbrooker) June 13, 2025
China?
US, China leave issue of military-use rare earths, AI chip curbs unresolved in new trade truce FirstPost
($) Oracle Cloud: the Largest “Chinese Cloud” in America? Interconnected
China’s nuclear arsenal surges 20% in one year, reaching over 600 warheads: SIPRI Breaking Defense
India – Pakistan
O Canada
Canada Is Gathering Global Leaders in a Province That Wants Out of the Country WSJ (resilc)
Syraqistan
Sources: US Will Enter Israel’s War With Iran Antiwar
Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, US officials say Reuters. Sure.
Scoop: Trump pressed to take hard line with Iran after Israel strikes Axios
Pentagon split over Trump’s Israel policy Semafor
Trump’s Schizophrenic Middle East Policy, Facilitating Disaster Larry Johnson
US backing Israeli attacks, Iran to respond decisively: Pezeshkian Al Mayadeen
We’re about to get dragged into nation-building 2.0
Israel has formally requested a direct US intervention in its war against Iran. The intervention itself will seem easy, relatively speaking. It’s the aftermath you should worry about. What we’re likely looking at is yet another…
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 15, 2025
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) June 16, 2025
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Nuclear Claims Are a Smoke Screen for Hopes of Toppling Iran Foreign Policy
Israel’s attacks on Iran hint at a bigger goal: regime change Dawn
Israel’s Channel 14 – a mouthpiece of Netanyahu – reports that Israel is preparing the “Dahiyeh Doctrine” for Iran.
This entails the destruction of civilian infrastructure on a very large scale – as Israel did in Lebanon.
It has nothing to do with the nuclear program…
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 15, 2025
Iran reports 5 car bomb explosions in Tehran by Israel Anadolu Agency
Exiled crown prince says Iranian people have ‘tremendous opportunity’ to topple weakened regime Fox News
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Pakistan to drop nuclear weapon on Israel if Israel nukes Iran, says Rezaei Türkiye Today
India breaks with China, Russia on Israel-Iran war Asia Times
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Do the Kurds and Baluch Have a Plan Following Israel’s Blow to Iran’s Regime? Middle East Forum. Wishful thinking from the neocon outfit?
Kurdistan Region Presidency Condemns Israeli Attack on Iran, Urges Swift International Response Kurdistan24
No idea if this particular thing is a psyop or not, but, generally speaking, Iran’s ethnic diversity is a huge weak point and Tehran’s enemies are very good at weaponizing ‘multiculturalism’.
Kurds are heavily pro-Israel and have been for decades. Persian Azeris are fertile… https://t.co/XYSAfqlzBT pic.twitter.com/ePXdeBPblX
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) June 15, 2025
EU brings Turkiye into its security fold Arab News. Usually a sign that Turkey is “cooperating” elsewhere.
Türkiye denies claims of Mossad infiltration through Iran border Turkiye Today
Azerbaijani FM tells Iranian counterpart it won’t allow Israel to use territory for strikes AFP
Iranian TG channels report the detection of drones near the maritime border with Azerbaijan.
“After detecting several Israeli hostile drones flying toward Bandar-e Anzali from the maritime border of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the defense network took decisive action and… pic.twitter.com/6huxm0fAs0
— Open Source America (@USAopens) June 15, 2025
Opinion: The Engine of Turkic Integration – Why TURKPA Is No Longer “Just Talk” Times of Central Asia
Iran says it foiled attempt to establish land route linking Azerbaijan to Turkey through Armenia Turkish Minute
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Old Blighty
‘Renewing Britain’ by failing homeless children System Change
New Not-So-Cold War
HOW TO SAY IN RUSSIAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD, HAPPY US ARMY AND FLAG DAY John Helmer
Mr. Market’s Stress
Oil prices climb as Israel-Iran conflict heightens supply disruption fears Business Times
The Stress of Wall Street Is Sending Men to Pelvic Floor Therapy Bloomberg
“Liberation Day”
How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade Apricitas Economics
Imperial Collapse Watch
Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment Phenomenal World
Petrostate America Foreign Affairs
Somehow even the Mexican puppy K9 unit parade looks fiercer than the U.S. paradepic.twitter.com/snZHl93wVS https://t.co/vkBn2yen2B
— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) June 15, 2025
They really had this man CARRY a drone during the parade yesterday.
FFS.pic.twitter.com/7MV5gkUo3E
— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) June 15, 2025
Was it all just a bribery and money laundering scheme?
“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase” pic.twitter.com/wtcZbHLIt2
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 14, 2025
Trump 2.0
US tycoon pours $100mn into Trump crypto project after SEC reprieve FT
Crypto Bill Chaos: White House Blocks Conflict Clause in Bipartisan CLARITY Act Tron Weekly
Trump’s FAA pick has claimed ‘commercial’ pilot license he doesn’t have Politico
Democrats en déshabillé
Stablecoin bill marks emergence of Sen. Ruben Gallego as crypto power player AZ Central
Teachers union head Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC The Hill
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: The Luxury of War BIG by Matt Stoller
Weimar Republic
Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught, AP sources says AP
Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry Wired
Minnesota lawmaker shootings underscore frequency of US political violence Semafor
Trump says he ‘may’ call Walz after Minnesota shootings, calls him ‘grossly incompetent’ ABC News
When there’s political violence in western democracies it’s traditionally treated as a somber event for everyone to come together. That’s disappeared. The victims were gunned down just over a day ago and a US Senator is mocking the event and hinting at a deranged conspiracy. https://t.co/EO7pbWI8ng
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) June 15, 2025
Police State Watch
ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash The Intercept
To recap:
– ICE opened the facility without getting any permits from the city or allowing in city inspectors.
– Conditions are reportedly terrible, leading to protests.
– Conditions deteriorate, leading to unrest inside the facility.
– A riot breaks out and 4 people escape. https://t.co/Y7hUv7WN1t— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) June 13, 2025
CIA Analyst Sentenced To Prison For Releasing Documents On Israel’s Plans To Strike Iran The Dissenter
Immigration
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests AP
Reconquista Archedelia
AI
Is AI the Reason for Your Layoff? New York Becomes the First State to Require Companies to Disclose If So. Entrepreneur
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests The Register
Silicon Valley/Venture Capital Pentagon
The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’ Tech Crunch
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name The Register
A 17-year-old designed a cheaper, more efficient drone. The Department of Defense just awarded him $23,000 for it. Business Insider
Abortion
EXCLUSIVE: Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here? Prism
Zeitgeist Watch
Bananas are the worst food on earth Internal Exile
Class Warfare
Workers’ Rights Are Collapsing Globally. Canada Is No Exception The Maple
Pedagogy and Class Power: Reclaiming Freire in an Age of Reaction MR Online
When We Are All Enemies of the State Boston Review
How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era Lit Hub
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