Superconducting magnets from dark matter labs can hear universe’s unheard music Interesting Engineering
Italian Mechanic Transforms Junked Fiat Panda Into the World’s Narrowest Fully Functional Car Laughing Squid
Water
Flint’s still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale to other cities AP
Pandemics
Well, now the technology is finally emerging that will let us detect viral persistence of COVID.https://t.co/cC6ytdtouD
— Friesein (@Friesein) July 3, 2025
Examples in thread:
Crying reading young ppl in TikTok comments discover in real time that they have brain damage from past covid infections. No one’s ever told them that it’s connected and they’re panicking because they’ve had Covid so many times. So heartbroken and angry that we’ve let this happen
— Becca Roth (@Becca_Roth) July 1, 2025
China?
China Set to Cancel Part of EU Summit in Latest Strain on Ties Bloomberg
China tells EU it cannot afford Russian loss in Ukraine war, sources say South China Morning Post
The world’s most affordable homebuilders? Companies buying homes from Chinese factories Kevin Walmsley
India
How India’s Forest Governance Is Increasingly Loaded Against Forest Dwelling Communities Behan Box
Indian farmers are turning to ‘assisted pollination’ as a ‘pollinator apocalypse’ takes hold Down to Earth
Africa
BLINKEN ORDERED THE HIT. BIG TECH CARRIED IT OUT. AFRICAN STREAM IS DEAD. MintPress News
Old Blighty
UK F-35B fighter jet stranded in Kerala can’t be repaired, likely to be dismantled: Report Hindustan Times
Syraqistan
Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians Amnesty International
GAZA AID OR COVER FOR WAR? US MERCENARIES ACCUSED OF FIRING ON CIVILIANS MintPress News
‘Blood for Food’: The US soldier-spies sidelining UN aid work in Gaza All-Source Intelligence
The Devil in the Details of Trump’s “Final Proposal” for Gaza Ceasefire Drop Site
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Israel warns of action if Iran resumes nuclear weapons pursuit Iran International
Iran reaffirms NPT commitment after halting IAEA cooperation The Cradle
US targets Iran oil trade, Hezbollah with new sanctions The Hill
Israel holding secret talks with Russia on Iran, Syria during ceasefire: Report Anadolu Agency
U.S. plans nuclear talks with Iran in Oslo next week Axios
Iran says no talks unless US drops deception, commits to diplomacy Press TV. They know the US is not capable of that, right?
Narrative Shift: Israeli-US Strikes Strengthen Iran’s Resolve Simplicius
How did we wind up at war with Iran? Scott Horton explains.
(0:00) The History of Why Iran Is Such a Global Focal Point
(11:16) The Jimmy Carter Doctrine
(22:29) The Brutality of the Iraq/Iran War
(29:40) The First Iraq War Was a Massive Mistake
(41:32) Bill Clinton’s Fatal… pic.twitter.com/WnZ3zXBmcF— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 3, 2025
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Russia becomes the first country to formally recognize Taliban’s latest rule in Afghanistan AP
European Disunion
Remuneration of Reserves: The Planned End of Government Securities? MMT France
Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine Nature
Reviving Europe’s historical scents—including ‘the smell of hell’ Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin says he won’t back down from Ukraine goals in hour-long call with Trump France24
Several large fires are burning in Kyiv from the combined missile and drone strikes on the city. https://t.co/ddbaOGEDQi pic.twitter.com/wXyKykp485
— AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) July 4, 2025
The Importance of Today’s Chat Between Putin and Trump Larry Johnson
Former Luhansk mayor taken out by Ukraine’s Security Service, sources say RBC Ukraine
Azerbaijani & Turkish Plots, Macron-Putin-Phone Call, Kiev Drones Strike from Kazakhstan Mark Sleboda
Armenia does not deny reports US proposed plan to connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan OC Media
BRICS
Exclusive-BRICS to launch guarantee fund to boost investment in member nations, sources say Reuters
“Liberation Day”
U.S. Imported Food Reliance Worsens: Food Trade Deficit Alert! Rethink Trade
Vietnam Trade Deal Takes Aim at Back Door for Chinese Goods WSJ
“Beijing also achieved a higher-level longtime goal: Washington has now put export controls, a national security tool historically treated as non-negotiable, on the table in trade talks https://t.co/o59AHhIj2t
— Shehzad Qazi (@shehzadhqazi) July 3, 2025
Trump 2.0
Republicans Deliver on Promises to Borrow Trillions So They Can Punish Poor People, Expand the Police State, and Transfer Trillions of $$$$$ from the Working Class to the Rich. The Cocklebur. Some key sections:
Disappearance Department
ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the World’s Militaries Newsweek
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined. https://t.co/TYe1G8u4IS
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) July 3, 2025
AI Police State
The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI Blood in the Machine
Silicon Valley/Venture Capital Pentagon
Of course the least controversial component of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that hardly anyone’s even noticed or talked about is the first tranche of $25 Billion for this ridiculous Lockheed Martin boondoggle that’s about to spur a global arms race pic.twitter.com/b1B2ihkZTp
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 4, 2025
Economic Inequality
average change in annual income for americans once the big beautiful bill passes (imminently) pic.twitter.com/CZOqjty5JX
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 3, 2025
Climate
This is exactly what Project 2025 proposed HEATED
“Why are they doing this?” Balanced Weather
Healthcare
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. David Dayen, The American Prospect
From the States
Nevada Democrat says Trump megabill could push gamblers ‘into the black market’ The Hill
The Big Ugly Bill just got uglier for Iowa Along the Mississippi
Odds and Ends
5 under-the-radar pieces of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that may impact your life Axios
Taking a page from the China playbook, the budget bill in the House would subsidize US companies to form joint ventures with big Chinese battery makers that currently dominate the industry. The Electric. https://t.co/qV7DJUldgg
— Steve LeVine (@stevelevine) July 3, 2025
MAHA
Prasadism Infests the Food & Drug Administration Pandemic Accountability Index
Democrats en déshabillé
‘Immoral’: Democrat Hakeem Jeffries blasts Trump megabill in record-breaking, 8-plus-hour speech ABC News
7 minutes after the Big Beautiful Bill passed, I received a fundraising text claiming Hakeem Jeffries “stonewalled” Trump. pic.twitter.com/nH1Itd9ETd
— Appodlachia (@appodlachia) July 3, 2025
Mamdani
Democratic congressman @Tom_Suozzi slams Zohran Mamdani as “a bad example” who made “lofty, utopian promises: free public transit, free college tuition, more public housing” pic.twitter.com/tv3JM76DWh
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 2, 2025
Mamdani and Beyond ZZ’s Blog
What I love about Ackman is that he has no problem brazenly showing us how the oligarchy works in this country. This billionaire gets private sit downs with Adams and Cuomo and then decides which of them should run.
Democracy? Who needs it.
Oligarchy is what we have. https://t.co/TAVTrxwiI3
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 3, 2025
Trump’s Threat to Deport Mamdani Isn’t a Joke Ken Klippenstein
The Necessity of Birthright Citizenship for Black People Black Agenda Report
AI
ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies The Register
Police State Watch
After 47 years in the US, Ice took this Iranian mother from her yard. Her family just wants her home The Guardian
Healthcare?
Stung by high prices, Americans make their own weight-loss drugs Reuters
Insurer Blue Shield of California’s new parent company alarms consumer advocates Los Angeles Times
DOJ’s Largest Health Care Fraud Takedown Ever Should Make Us Ask: Why Is Our System So Easy to Exploit? HEALTH CARE un-covered
Silicon Valley/Venture Capital Pentagon
We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum Programmable Mutter
The Bezzle
Are you caught up on the emerging FAKE EQUITY DEBACLE?
So, ICYMI, there’s a heated dispute going on between the likes of Elon Musk and Sam Altman over whether Robinhood’s new Europe-focused tokenized equities are real equities or not.
To generate these contracts Robinhood uses…
— Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) July 3, 2025
Class Warfare
Worker’s Song The Baffler
Awkward silences Aeon
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