Scientists find Earth’s mantle beating like a heart, slowly tearing Africa apart Interesting Engineering
Fire-Eyes Of The Underworld Noema
Stunning amber fossil reveals ‘Last of Us’-type fungus likely lived alongside dinosaurs CNN
Climate/Environment
Philly and other places have been setting records this week before sunup The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nearly a Third of Tuvalu Residents Seek Climate Visas to Australia as Sea Engulfs Their Home Common Dreams
On solid ice: the plan to refreeze the Arctic The Narwhal
Malaysia will stop accepting U.S. plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California Los Angeles Times
Pandemics
A new preprint (June 2025) shows that microclots formed during COVID-19 can obstruct capillaries and impair microcirculation.
And remarkably, an earlier peer-reviewed study reached the same conclusion – by a completely different method. 🧵— Zdenek Vrozina (@ZdenekVrozina) June 26, 2025
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A new report from Sweden highlights a staggering 62% increase in Type 1 Diabetes diagnoses for children under 5 between 2018-2022. Experts suggest the #COVID19 pandemic may have heavily impacted immune systems.#Type1Diabetes#ChildrensHealth#SwedenCovid pic.twitter.com/cBdegaJYDC— Roger Gustafsson WHN|bsk.social (@RogerGustafsso2) June 26, 2025
China?
China Is Still Choking Exports of Rare Earths Despite Pact With U.S. WSJ
Harvard Academic Who Met Top Chinese Diplomat Sees US Trade Breakthrough Soon Bloomberg
Trump says US signed agreement with China, offering no details South China Morning Post
Lutnick Says US-China Trade Truce Signed, 10 Deals Imminent Bloomberg
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China’s Structural Advantage in Open Source AI Interconnected
Cutting Through Narratives on Chinese Arctic Investments Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Old Blighty
Uncovered: How UK police are hiding their Palantir work Democracy for Sale
Very interesting below from @PJTheEconomist about the proposed welfare reforms.
Could the best choice to make, perchance, be a health-related solution to sort out whatever it is that is causing the health-related benefits to increase over the last five years? https://t.co/tOuxmD2Z7m
— Alan Barnard (@alanbarnard1) June 26, 2025
Syraqistan
Israeli attacks kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza, including three near aid site Al Jazeera
Netanyahu Halts North Gaza Aid After Smotrich Threatens to Quit Coalition Over Alleged Hamas Access Haaretz
Iran Aftermath, Trump’s Schizophrenia, Iran-Russia-China Tripartite Regroup, more… The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda (Video)
🇩🇪🇮🇱 While the world talks ceasefire, Western arms shipments to Israel are surging.
This Israeli 747 cargo flight stopped in Cologne for just 2 hours—loading 128 tons of military equipment—then flew straight to Nevatim Air Base.
Nevatim has become the central hub for offloading… pic.twitter.com/11OG9RWfV6
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) June 26, 2025
Exclusive: Details emerge of secret diplomatic efforts to restart Iran talks CNN
Khamenei’s Speech to Iran Karl Sanchez
Seyed M. Marandi: Iran vs Declining West in a Multipolar World Glenn Diesen (Video)
The day a nuclear Iran was born Amwaj
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So the DoD explanation for the lack of craters at Fordow is to show a video of a MOP penetrating five meters of earth into a hillside cutout open to the air on one side.
This is so radically different from the scenario at Fordow that it largely confirms my theory none were used. https://t.co/7kOgeSV9JI
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) June 26, 2025
No intel that Iran moved highly enriched uranium before US strikes: Pentagon chief Anadolu Agency
Early intelligence suggests Iran’s uranium largely intact, European officials say FT
Meanwhile more details emerge about Iranian strikes on Israel:
New footage of successful Iranian missile strikes on Israel is emerging.
This shows strikes on alleged “strategic sites” in the Tel Aviv area. pic.twitter.com/aFInShiy4U
— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) June 26, 2025
⚡️🇮🇱🇮🇷JUST IN: CH13’s Raviv Drucker:
“There were a lot of missile hits in IDF bases, in strategic sites that we still don’t report about…It created a situation where people don’t realize how precise the Iranians were and how much damage they caused”pic.twitter.com/sYVBM8hdOp
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) June 26, 2025
Israel Suffered Extensive Damage Larry Johnson
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EU leaders deplore Gaza humanitarian crisis, call on Israel to fully lift blockade Anadolu Agency
🚨 Colonel Moshe Tetro, architect of Gaza’s starvation and hospital assaults, walks freely in Brussels as Israel’s military attaché. The #HindRajabFoundation had filed a complaint against him to the ICC in December.
Today we renew our call upon the ICC and Belgium to act.
More⬇️… pic.twitter.com/6EGyjIzJYV— The Hind Rajab Foundation (@HindRFoundation) June 26, 2025
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Pakistan developing nuclear-capable ICBM that could reach US after India’s Operation Sindoor: Report Hindustan Times
Turkey backs NATO’s 5% defence spending goal, plans nationwide air shield, source says Reuters
European Disunion
How to save Europe Thomas Fazi
MEPs seek Commission President von der Leyen’s resignation with censure motion Euronews
Trump’s European revolution European Council on Foreign Relations
Germany’s ‘Speechcrime’ Raids Are a Chilling Sign of Things To Come European Conservative
New Not-So-Cold War
EU leaders agree to extend all sanctions against Russia, but not 18th package Ukrainska Pravda
Go West: Russia’s LNG workaround and tapping into the West’s leverage Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
Russia Seizes Ukrainian Village Near Lithium Deposits: Implications for Critical Minerals Agreements and Investors Energy News Beat
Ukrainian intelligence drones destroy Russian air defence systems in Crimea – video Ukrainska Pravda
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Nato members agree to 5% GDP spending hike, but will they pay? Intellinews
Hike in defence spending could mean cuts in other areas, Mark Carney warns Toronto Star
Rearmament, it will be a disaster for public accounts: 700 billion in 10 years Il Fatto Quotidiano (machine translation)
🎶 Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy.
President Donald J. Trump attended the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. pic.twitter.com/asJb5FD2Ii
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2025
That’s The Plan, Alright? Andrei Martyanov
NATO spending hike won’t affect Russia’s security – Lavrov RT
The Great Game
COMMENT: Competing Trans-Afghan transport routes could split Central Asia Intellinews (Lambert)
Trump 2.0
“Revenge tax” being yanked from “big, beautiful bill,” Bessent says Axios
The Senate’s Reconciliation Bill Runs Into the Parliamentarian and Some Harsh Political Realities NOTUS
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It. ProPublica
Trump now wields sweeping veto power over U.S. Steel. Here’s how the ‘golden share’ works CNBC
Democrats en déshabillé
WAR POWERS RESOLUTION FROM HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS MAY NOT LIMIT TRUMP’S WAR POWERS The Intercept
Mamdani
This is a sitting US congressman.
Mask Off, Hood On. pic.twitter.com/IM83R10LsI
— Dean Withers (@itsdeaann) June 26, 2025
MAHA
RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel votes against preservative in flu shots in shock move The Guardian
The Supremes
Supreme Court’s conservatives give “defund” Planned Parenthood efforts a win Law Dork
Antitrust
Has Trump’s FTC Abandoned Fair Markets? Washington Monthly
Police State Watch
US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’ The Guardian
ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn’t El Salvador NOTUS
ICE arrests 100+ Iranian nationals across US amid sleeper cell concerns Fox News
‘No Secret Police Act’: Democratic Bill Would Ban Trump’s Masked Federal Agents Common Dreams. Would ban the masks, not the kidnappings and the gulags.
TRUMP’S GLOBAL GULAG SEARCH EXPANDS TO 53 NATIONS The Intercept
AI
Rick Perry’s AI plan: A colossal nuclear campus in Trump’s image WaPo
No active ingredients whatsoever Internal Exile
Tales of Agentic Misalignment Zvi Mowshowitz
Our Famously Free Press
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91 AP
Just as @briebriejoy predicted in Current Affairs, Joy Reid has now revealed that her Gaza coverage was one of the reasons why MSNBC fired her. pic.twitter.com/FBPSpWOuKx
— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) June 25, 2025
BRICS
Iran, BRICS, and the Dangers of Strategic Patience Tarik Cyril Amar
The Bezzle
Guillotine Watch
Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports The Guardian
Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony The Onion
Class Warfare
Amazon Workers Defy Dictates of Automation Labor Notes
UPS Drivers Are Battling Deadly Heat—Without A.C. in Their Trucks The New Republic
Pay Equity at Kroger Phenomenal World
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