400-mile chain of ‘fossilized volcanoes’ found buried deep under South China Interesting Engineering
This Millipede’s Secretions Could Help Target Brain Disorders, Scientists Say StudyFinds
Climate/Environment
Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Open Mind
How the DOE and EPA used and misused my researchThe Climate Brink
Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars FT
Bear trouble in Sierra Madre: After the Eaton fire, home invasions rise sharply Los Angeles Times
Pakistan monsoon rains death toll rises to 299, including 140 children Anadolu Agency
Kerr County emergency coordinator says he was sick and asleep when floods hit Texas NBC News
Pandemics
Study Shows a Need for Vigilance When Observing Long COVID Symptoms in Younger Children Rutgers Today. Commentary:
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but their symptoms often differ from older children.
Symptoms like fussiness, poor appetite, difficulty sleeping, and coughing were more common in the youngest group, making it easy for clinicians & caregivers to miss the diagnosis. #PublicHealth pic.twitter.com/oblp0xMcN6— Roger Gustafsson WHN|bsk.social (@RogerGustafsso2) August 2, 2025
Absolutely wild end of term marketing in a Boots chemist near me.
“Thank you teacher!
*cough*
For letting our kids infect you *cough*
& your family over the last year.
Have some Benylin.
*cough cough*
You’re great!”Great teachers (& kids) deserve clean air not cough syrup. pic.twitter.com/rbzUVYIcrq
— Augusta Lees (@AugustaLees) August 1, 2025
Now why do you think trials are starting into using HIV antivirals to treat people infected with SARS-CoV-2?
See below.
Could it be that both viruses have similar impacts on human health? https://t.co/pCCx4Ebnat
— Alan Barnard (@alanbarnard1) August 1, 2025
City doctors blame ‘long Covid’ for severe viral infections that have laid Kolkata low Times of India
Neuropsychiatric Risks Linked to COVID-19 Revealed Bioengineering.org
China?
China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies WSJ
America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military The American Conservative. From 2019, still germane.
How Russia Made China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter A ‘Powerhouse’ National Security Journal
Stop Crying Over the China “Trap” Pekingnology
China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China Hudson Institute. From a few weeks ago, but a useful glimpse at US delusions.
How Robust Is China’s Energy Security? Cener for Strategic and International Studies
China’s first compact nuclear reactor now powers 500,000+ homes Glass Almanac
China state media asks Nvidia to prove H20 chips are secure Business Times
India
India To Maintain Russian Oil Imports Despite Trump Threats Reuters
Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine Straits Times
To further tech manufacturing, India rethinks China blockade The Indian Express
Africa
US Launches Airstrikes Against al-Shabaab During Major Battle in Somalia Antiwar
Cholera kills 80, infects over 2,100 in Sudan’s Darfur: UNICEF Anadolu Agency
Old Blighty
Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who’s really behind them? The Big Issue
Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics Democracy for Sale
Syraqistan
All these genocidal monsters are putting out the same tweet painting the holocaust regime as the victim and demonizing a people fighting for their lives. It’s all a coordinated campaign to justify the Zionist regime’s Final Solution https://t.co/9LTRW9POzc
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) August 3, 2025
Sixteen More Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza in Three Days Due to Israeli Siege Antiwar
Today was the largest invasion of settlers into Al-Aqsa since 1967.
There’s been almost complete international silence about the decimation of the status quo in Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs. Same about the growing erasure of Al-Aqsa’s status quo. I’m afraid we’re heading… https://t.co/pZQggNhLe1
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) August 3, 2025
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Mike Johnson at the Kosel: ‘May America Always Stand with Israel’ Matzav
To recap: Israeli settler murdered a Palestinian on camera
Israel then took hostage the body of the dead Palestinian, kidnapped his relatives & exonerated the Israeli shooter!
Reminder: Israel’s conviction rate of Palestinians is 99.74% & the conviction rate of settlers is 1.8% pic.twitter.com/dXClP62U3r
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) August 3, 2025
American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel The Intercept
Israel Activates Its Cells Consortium News
What Can Be Done to Stop the Genocide of the Palestinians? Larry Johnson
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Examining the Mistrust Between Iran & Pakistan The Asia Cable
Iran, Pakistan ink 12 cooperation deals to boost trade and regional connectivity The Cradle
European Disunion
It is not enough to leave the EU: it must be destroyed GeoPolitiQ
Ai Wei Wei was commissioned to reflect on Germany for Zeit Magazine, but they seemingly didn’t like his reflections and killed the article. He shared them: pic.twitter.com/zO0Pot8Mi4
— James Jackson (@derJamesJackson) August 1, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine urges Trump admin to ‘strangle’ Russian economy amid nuclear tensions ABC News
Ukraine says multiple officials detained in drone corruption probe Anadolu Agency
Germany Announces Urgent New Patriot Missile Deliveries to Ukraine ‘Within Days’ Military Watch
SITREP 8/3/25: Trump’s Sub Scare Can’t Eclipse Ukraine’s Pokrovsk Collapse Simplicius
L’affaire Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell Seems to Have New Friends in High Places Common Dreams
Spook Country
Kash Patel’s girlfriend slaps down conspiracies that she’s a secret Israeli ‘honeypot’ agent Daily Mail
What happens when a cutout is cut out All-Source Intelligence
Trump 2.0
‘Unfit and Unqualified’: Senate GOP Confirm Pro-Trump ‘Attack Dog’ Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney Common Dreams
Trump to announce new Fed governor, labor statistics chief this week Axios
Democrats en déshabillé
Two-Party Duplicity ZZ’s Blog
Vulnerable Dems fret after getting a shock: AOC’s campaign cash Politico. Good to know AOC is sending money onto CIA Democrats like Slotkin, Lamb, and Golden.
Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map Texas Tribune
The Supremes
Umpires No More New York Review of Books
Police State Watch
Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT Truthout
Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents The Intercept
Accelerationists
In case you missed it, the sovereign nation of Iran is not allowed to enrich uranium because it can’t be trusted.
But private corporations, WHICH ABSOLUTELY CAN BE TRUSTED, will now be able to. pic.twitter.com/Kwv4AhidfF
— Greg J Stoker (@gregjstoker) July 31, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China ProPublica
U.S. Navy Battleships Won’t Ever Make A Comeback National Security Journal
A Christian Nation Phantom Heresy
War Is a Global Health Catastrophe MedPage Today
Our Famously Free Press
Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down after Congress cut money NBC News
The destruction of the CPB won’t get rid of NPR and PBS
It will make them more dependent on the sources of funding that ruined them (NGOs and the tech sector)
They will survive and become even worse
— Benjamin Studebaker (@BMStudebaker) August 2, 2025
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Guillotine Watch
How Flying on a Private Jet Became the No. 1 Marker of Real Wealth WSJ
The Bezzle
The AI bubble is so big it’s propping up the US economy (for now) Blood in the Machine
AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud Gary Marcus
Class Warfare
Boeing defense union poised for its first strike since 1996 Seattle Times
WE CAN’T ARREST OUR WAY OUT OF HOMELESSNESS Other Words
Some Problems Won’t Be Solved HOGELAND’S BAD HISTORY
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
