How to Make Your Dog Laugh Humor Science
‘What Everyone Gets Wrong About Our Generation’—According to 21 College Kids GQ (Adam H)
Climate/Environment
It’s a ‘Golden Age’ for U.S. LNG Industry, But Climate Risks Loom Yale Environment 360
Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health Carbon Brief
Pandemics
Silent Invasion: COVID-19′s Hidden Damage to Human Organs MDPI
Measles outbreak growing in parts of Arizona and Utah, health officials say NBC News
Japan
Australia–Japan energy partnership needs a shared story East Asia Forum
China?
China Courts Foreign Gold Reserves to Boost Global Clout Bloomberg
Fertility Decline in China and Its National Military, Structural, and Regime Security RAND
India
S-400 deal on track for 2026, Russia proposes Su-57 production in India: Report India Today
Turkey Eyes Trump’s Consent to Produce Some US Jet Parts Locally Bloomberg
Africa
‘Killed us twice’: Families of US drone victims seek reparations in Somalia Al Jazeera. “In letters seen by Al Jazeera, US AFRICOM admits to killing civilians in air raids, but refuses ‘condolence payment’.”
Syraqistan
❗️ALERT❗️@gbsumudflotilla has been attacked 7 times in a short span! Boats hit with sound bombs, explosive flares, and sprayed with suspected chemicals. Radios jammed, calls for help blocked. Immediate international attention AND PROTECTION required!
Hands off the Flotilla! pic.twitter.com/huyNZxTp6o— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) September 23, 2025
Gaza: bridge between Africa and Asia and cultural genocide GeoPolitiQ
The Last Two New England Democratic Senators Unconditionally Supporting the Gaza Genocide Drop Site
💥An Italian state-owned TV channel – in a country ruled by a right wing party – expresses solidarity with the general strike in support of the population in Gaza, “subject to a military occupation, a daily massacre, and a mass deportation carried out by the Israeli government.” pic.twitter.com/RRNDeFy95a
— Paolo Mossetti (@paolomossetti) September 22, 2025
Ayatollah Khamenei Emphasizes Futility of Negotiating with US Tasnim
Trump special envoy Tom Barrack — who drew outrage in August for telling Lebanese journalists to stop acting “animalistic” and “act civilized” — today praised ordinary Iranians as “thoughtful, civilized, and educated.”
He said the regime, however, was “manipulative,” and Israel… pic.twitter.com/2jgO005lCA
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 23, 2025
Iran says deal with Russia will build eight nuclear power plants Iran International
China signs $2.5bn seawater contract to sustain Iraq’s oil output The Cradle
General Assembly
Trump declares war on the world at UN General Assembly speech WSWS
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N. New York Times
France’s Emmanuel Macron calls Trump for help as he’s forced to walk through NYC to avoid UN traffic New York Post
***
This is insane…
As Trump arrived to the UN, the escalator stopped working the moment he stepped on it.
Then the teleprompter stopped working the moment he got up to the podium to speak. pic.twitter.com/XBTgfr6zJ8
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 23, 2025
If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately.
The Times reported this on Sunday.👇 pic.twitter.com/NitsWbGYG0
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 23, 2025
European Disunion
Germany’s €80B rearmament plan sidelines US weapons Politico
A private equity firm’s secret strategy to crush German unions on behalf of sovereign wealth funds All-Source Intelligence
New Not-So-Cold War
Trump Claims Ukraine Can Retake All Territory Captured by Russia, May Be Able to ‘Go Further’ Antiwar. “…with the support of the European Union.”
BREAKING: Trump says that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if the aircraft enters their airspace. pic.twitter.com/EKynMymtYP
— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 23, 2025
Poland warns Russia not to ‘whine’ if its jets are shot down in NATO airspace Euronews
‘We cannot wait’: EU calls for drone wall to deter Russia after new incident in Denmark Euronews. ‘Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the incident “the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date” and said she could not rule out Russian involvement.’
“A Clusterf**k!”: Real Motive Behind NATO’s Dangerous False Flags Mark Sleboda (video)
The Great European Drone Panic, +US’ Sinister Venezuelan Buildup Simplicius
***
Ukraine Accepts IMF Forecast of Bigger $65 Billion Financing Gap Bloomberg
Han Yichen: Structural weaknesses behind Russia’s fuel crisis The East is Read. Han is an Associate Research Professor at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
Poland to reopen border crossings with Belarus, PM says TVP
Moldova arrests 74 over ‘Russian plan to incite mass riots’ The Times
South of the Border
Drone Strike in Haiti Kills 8 Children at a Birthday Party New York Times. “In March, the authorities in Haiti hired foreign military contractors to operate armed drones to target gangs that terrorize the capital, Port-au-Prince. The contractors work for a company owned by Erik Prince…”
Our Famously Free Press
Sinclair, Nexstar won’t broadcast Kimmel’s show despite it returning to ABC Axios
As Jimmy Kimmel Becomes a Speech Icon, Alex Berenson Fights on Alone Matt Taibbi
YouTube to allow creators banned for Covid-19, election misinformation to apply for reinstatement CNBC
How Israel Captured TikTok American Conservative
Trump 2.0
Trump Administration Threatens Housing for Millions in “War on the Poor” Truthout
Concerns Arise About End of Paper Social Security Checks Government Technology
Trump’s GOP Blamed as Rural Health Clinics Begin to Fall Under Crushing Weight of Big, Ugly Bill Common Dreams
Ryan Routh found guilty of 2024 attempted assassination of Trump in Florida The Guardian
Trump cancels meeting with Democratic leaders, edging closer to shutdown The Hill
Weimar Republic
Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Kirk in days before death, sources say The Grayzone
Charlie Kirk And The 8th Front Mark Wauck
Police State Watch
ICE Can’t Stop Lying About Its Accomplishments Ken Klippenstein
Democrats en déshabillé
This mentality reveals everything that’s wrong with the current D leadership. pic.twitter.com/gBTNtIfll2
— Hal Singer (@HalSinger) September 23, 2025
Jon Stewart mocks Trump over acetaminophen pronunciation The Hill. If Liberals were so smart, you’d think they wouldn’t be so dumb…
It’s the Economic System, Stupid America’s Undoing
Biden/Harris Post Mortem
New Census Bureau data: Poverty and child poverty increased under Biden Stephen Semler
Harris says she lost to Trump because she ‘didn’t have enough time’ The Hill
Imperial Collapse Watch
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason Consortium News
Accelerationists
Chartbook 410: Malign coincidence – MAGA & the moment of hyperscaling. Adam Tooze
Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse New York Times
Jeff Bezos’ Billionaire Dad Is Hiring a CEO to Run His Family Office WSJ
The Silicon Valley boomtown where it feels like the pandemic never happened San Francisco Standard
Economy
First Brands’ lenders race to rescue car parts supplier as debt woes rattle markets FT
Fed’s Powell sees ‘no risk-free path’ for interest rates after central bank’s cut last week yahoo! Finance
AI
Microsoft is reportedly building an AI marketplace to pay publishers for content Neowin
MAHA
Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference Mother Jones
FDA Commissioner Flagrantly Misquoted Harvard Public Health Dean at White House Autism Event Drop Site
MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU European Medicines Agency
Sports Desk
Groves of Academe
🚨 BREAKING: EVERY SINGLE High School in Oklahoma will now have its own Turning Point USA chapter, Oklahoma State Superintendent @RyanWalters_ announced
“Radical leftist teachers’ unions have dominated classrooms for far too long, and we are taking them back.”
LFG! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/YAfthyjxaK
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2025
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Healthcare?
New Analysis Reveals Health Exchange Plans Have Shifted Costs to Sicker Patients No Patient Left Behind
Antitrust
The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy BIG by Matt Stoller
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Leavitt to Believer
In this week’s episode, Karoline escalates angst against walking up recently immobilized stairs, and feels certain that Eddie Haskell and/or Lumpy Rutherford was certainly behind the breakdown, thankfully Ward intercedes and the matter is all but forgotten, or was it?
The escalator immobilizers been reading Gene Sharp :-)
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357693
Thank you. From my reading it could be as simple a thing as a for-profit social media account booster. I imagine there is significant demand for this kind of service.
Thanks for that. I smelled a rat from the beginning, as all the MSM were quick to blame “Chyna!”
“Ryan Routh found guilty of 2024 attempted assassination of Trump in Florida”
One of the weirdest stories of 2025. Hardly anyone was aware of his trial because it seems that the main stream media was barely covering it. Now they have found the sob guilty but the details of why he did it are kinda slim and some of us are still wondering about his connection with the Ukraine. Will there be intrepid reporters going down to his prison to conduct extensive interviews with him? I’m betting no and I expect Ryan Routh to be quickly memory holed.
Rather conclusive evidence that a pen is definitely not mightier than a sword…
He seems pretty disturbed. Or perhaps a fan of Benny Hill.
If Trump won, the president could execute Routh, the filing suggested. If Routh won, he said, he would become president.
Routh also requested a putting green for match practice and asked for “female strippers” to be present.
There is only one thing that you can say to a person like Routh-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT3Q85IvtDs
Only question is why he specified “female” strippers. Hmmmm.
MLB will use robot umpires in 2026 AP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Take me out of the ball game,
Take me out with the Čapek;
Introduce a robot umpire that’ll cut no slack,
I don’t care if I never get back.
Let not root, root, root for the algorithm
If artificial intelligence wins, it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes (after reviewing a called ball) you’re out,
At the old ball game.
Here’s how I interpret Trump’s speech to the United Nations. First, I read excerpts in Italian in today’s Fatto Quotidiano, which means that, as I read along, I realized how poetic Italian can seem. It is the language of Dante and Alda Merini. In my brain I had to back-translate the Italian excerpts into Trump’s vulgarity.
There is not much to parse. How to think of Trump? King Lear comes to mind. I don’t find King Lear to be tragic. He doesn’t have the flawed character of a tragic personage. Instead, Lear is self-absorbed and doesn’t know that actions have consequences. He divides his kingdom and thinks that, in his dotage, he will move with his entourage from court to court and eat his daughters out of their provisions.
The seemingly liberated gesture of willing his lands to his daughters is empty. The tragedy is what happens to those loyal to Lear.
Lear himself is an emanation of a phenomenon: There’s no fool like an old fool. And that’s where the US of A is with Trump. As well as with Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Les Wexner, and Lindsey Graham. They believe that their actions have no consequences, and years of being around yes-men and bag-ladies mean that they no longer see consequences.
The most insightful observation of Trump’s personality is from Yves Smith, who keeps repeating that Trump sniffs out other persons’ weaknesses.
There’s no fool like an old fool. So you have Trump-Lear, stumbling around stage, looking for gratitude, and you have Trump-Lear looking for weakness. How does one deal politically with such an eventuality?
The “bad” daughters may have a solution: Unity in political refusal.
PS: I sometimes wonder at the efforts to diagnose Trump as a narcissist. It’s a waste of time. Also, I find USanians diagnosing narcissism in other USanians to be a tad rich.
Going from one conceited vicious self enriching dementia patient President surrounded by yes men and beholden to special interests to another may be a sign that the end of Empire is nigh.
These are the days of sovereign nations acting in their own interests.
No action should be expected beyond that.
Re: Tylenol causing autism
1) I wonder if anybody believes this.
2) Did Advil donate money to MAHA?
3) I do think an excess of fevers in pregnancy could lead to various conditions, that is discussed in Dr. David Perlmutter’s brainmaker. He stated the correlations with type I diabetes, ADHD, etc, over a decade ago I think.
…
4) Since Trump doesn’t want pregnant women to take Tylenol, he will surely approve mandatory greater sick leave for pregnant women. That’s good news.
/Sarc.
I can’t say I’ve seen or heard much about it, but as I understand it a side effect of a case of measles can leave you with a completely reset immune system – meaning you’ve lost all or a lot of your prior acquired immunity. One of the things that measles does is attach your long term immunity memory B cells. While most current measles cases are of those who were not vaccinated, I would suspect a fair percentage were likely vaccinated for other diseases as the MMR was the vaccine people avoided because of the false fears of autism. That said, we could have a growing group of youth who are now susceptible to other diseases they think they’ve been vaccinated against.
I grew up before there were vaccines for childhood diseases. I had mumps , chickenpox, and measles. Fortunately I survived without any long term effects. Back then parents would expose their children to someone with the disease so they would get it. I don’t remember anyone that caught these diseases to have any long term effects.
“How to Make Your Dog Laugh”
Next step, how to teach your dog to dance with you-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZ8SEQJIzM (5:23 mins)
Since September 8, the numbers for Sea Surface Temperature have been highly erratic. Climate Reanalyzer showed this as a series of jagged spikes, but as of yesterday they chucked connecting the dots and just show the data points.
If this were a single instrument, you’d think there’s a calibration problem. But these are aggregate values, specifically the mean, and outliers should have smeared out. Curious.
When i’m 64 being only a few months away, its quite something transitioning from a can do country to a can do no right country over 3 score and nearly 4, with what would have been a great headline writer for Pravda leading us down the primrose path to perdition.
As a country we’ve been living on past laurels for a long time now, with our leaders only capable of devising ways to divide us-not unite us, while we justify killing others around the world because there’s money in it.
That said, we’re an entertaining lot and so unpredictable in our actions compared to 4 legs good.