The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius The Guardian
Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time BBC
Study Sheds Light on Drinking and Dementia Risk MedPage Today
Climate/Environment
Global factors are driving high food prices in Denmark and abroad Denmark National Bank. “…extreme weather conditions linked to climate change, such as droughts and floods, have reduced global production.”
Country’s floods batter fields, factories and fiscal plans Dawn. Pakistan.
This happened at the Fullerton Hotel Ocean Park in Hong Kong a couple hours ago. I have never seen anything like this before.
I was up at 4 am taping my windows because water was just pouring in…
Ragasa is indeed a super Typhoon 🌀… pic.twitter.com/O59FJbGLsE
— Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 (@KingKong9888) September 24, 2025
Pandemics
Long COVID and Days of Work Missed Due to Illness or Injury by Adults in the United States, 2022 Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
What could cause the reactivation of Epstein–Barr virus in individuals with long COVID Emerging Microbes & Infections
Water
Who Controls Water? Green European Journal
General Assembly
The UN at 80: ignored and irrelevant Michael Roberts
The Koreas
India
India needs a cultural revolution to get rid of the American Dream MK Bhadrakumar, Deccan Herald
China?
In China, Ray Dalio discusses global debt issues as Beijing seeks his counsel South China Morning Post
Trump tariffs tilt Southeast Asia towards China East Asia Forum
China doubles down on climate, wind and solar pledges — a day after Trump called them a ‘scam’ Politico
Syraqistan
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life. Drop Site
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) September 24, 2025
Yemeni Drone Strikes Israel, Wounding More Than 20 Antiwar
Spain joins Italy in dispatching navy vessel to back humanitarian flotilla for Gaza Anadolu Agency
URGENT 🚨 Don’t be fooled by Meloni’s naval deployment: It is nothing but a cynical rouse to demobilize the @gbsumudflotilla — in direct coordination with the State of Israel that attacked us.
We will reject this proposal. We will keep sailing. And we will complete our mission. pic.twitter.com/7Wrcx9IzAI
— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 25, 2025
How MI6 Fabricated Iran Nuke Fraud Kit Klarenberg
Iran Sanctions Snapback Offers Chinese Oil Buyers a Lucrative Boost Reuters
Iranian intelligence has released images from deep inside the Dimona nuclear complex, exposing one of the most guarded facilities of the Zionist entity.
The material reveals how millions of classified nuclear and military documents were siphoned from inside occupied Palestine,… pic.twitter.com/vKa4B4LNrJ
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 24, 2025
Old Blighty
Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair Democracy for Sale
O Canada
Stunning Charts Tell a Whole Other Story About Canada’s Economy Dougald Lamont
Rent is $2000-$3000, parents are working from 7am to 10pm, community centers and extracurricular programs are being cut, schools are in disrepair and understaffed, groceries are $300 per person every month, and there are no jobs left for anyone without experience. https://t.co/2mQ1cnzEng
— Poke-mandem (@TrussMe96) September 21, 2025
European Disunion
A Europe of Nations? Aurelien
New Not-So-Cold War
Europe Is on Its Own With Russia Now Foreign Policy
Denmark shuts second airport in a week, more ‘unidentified’ drones spotted Al Jazeera
Pistorius: Russian jet flew over German Navy frigate in Baltic Sea DPA
Shooting down Russian jets ‘on the table,’ von der Leyen says Politico
SVR Revealed That British & French Troops Are Already In Odessa Andrew Korybko
Russia hits another Ukrainian army training camp in Iskander missile strike TVP World
PUTIN DECLARES IT’S WAR OR PEACE IN SPACE — TRUMP GIVEN UNTIL FEBRUARY 2027 TO MAKE UP HIS MIND John Helmer
EU will propose tariffs on Russian oil amid growing pressure from Trump Euronews
Russia Opens New Production Line at Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 as First Carrier Loads Cargo gCaptain
South of the Border
Ignore Ukraine (Trump Is), Pay Attention to Venezuela Larry Johnson
US in talks for $20bn Argentina swap line as Trump gives Milei full backing Intellinews
The U.S. helped Argentina, then Argentine farmers made a deal with China Axios
The US government is preparing a $20+ billion bailout of Javier Milei’s failed libertarian experiment in Argentina.
This is a form of election meddling. Trump desperately needs Milei to win the election in October, and he’s planning to use large sums of US government money to do… pic.twitter.com/q09JFZAjUY
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) September 25, 2025
“Liberation Day”
Tariffs Split Container Shipping: U.S. Imports Sink as Global Trade Grows gCaptain
Our Famously Free Press
Trump Turns Pentagon Into Department of War on First Amendment FAIR
They would go after Patrick Henry these days Art Cullen’s Notebook
Trump 2.0
White House ready to use shutdown for mass firings Regular Order by Jamie Dupree
Trump plans ‘America First’ foreign aid funding shift, document shows Reuters
Trump taps ‘Tough Patriot’ — L.A. lawyer known for crypto, guns — as 9th Circuit judge Los Angeles Times
Getting Away with Murder The New York Review
MAHA
Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol Ars Technica
Democrats en déshabillé
She built a Presidential campaign from scratch, chose a VP in two weeks, and pulled off one of the most successful Democratic convention in decades in under a month.
She crushed an opponent who has stood on more presidential debate stages than anyone in history. She energized… https://t.co/e3PQLrgkPQ
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) September 24, 2025
Police State Watch
Federal government accuses Kansas town of ‘aggressive and unlawful’ interference with CoreCivic Kansas Reflector
The Prison Next Door Bolts
OFFICIALS SAID THEY BUSTED A TREN DE ARAGUA PARTY. ATTENDEES BEG TO DIFFER. Texas Observer
Weimar Republic
At least two people dead after shooting at Dallas ICE facility Texas Tribune
This is the fishiest shit I’ve ever seen. We’re supposed to believe the shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers? https://t.co/jqgNDfVZpz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2025
Exclusive: The ICE Shooter’s Politics Ken Klippenstein
Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces’ Unpopular Front
In the valley of the vampires Yasha Levine
Imperial Collapse Watch
“US Will Drive Its $35T Debt Into Crypto:” Senior Putin Advisor Anton Kobyakov Karl Sanchez
Stablecoin issuer Circle examines ‘reversible’ transactions in departure for crypto FT
Accelerationists
Who’s Getting Rich Off Your Attention? Kyla Scanlon
Starbase will take partial control of beach near Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch site Texas Tribune
He spilled Peter Thiel’s Antichrist secrets. Now he’s banned from the lectures San Francisco Standard
Groves of Academe
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt Truthout
The Miami billionaire and New York charter system behind a new push to privatize public schools in Florida Seeking Rents
Antitrust
Monopoly Utilities Ousted America’s Best Regulator Boondoggle
Boom: Did a Top Trump Justice Official Just Resign in Disgrace Over an Antitrust Scandal? BIG by Matt Stoller
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
The Strongman’s Surveillance State Boston Review
AI
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Harvard Business Review
Economy
Via JPM’s Michael Cembalest, AI-related stocks have driven:
– 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022
– 80% of earnings growth over the same period
– 90% of capital spending growth
– Data centers are now eclipsing office construction spending.
– In the PJM… pic.twitter.com/tDp2QvbAT9— James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ (@JimPethokoukis) September 24, 2025
$2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend – Bain & Company’s 6th annual Global Technology Report yahoo! Finance
the state of the AI investment bubble, in plain English:
overcapacity projected at USD 2 trillion, higher energy prices, higher water wastage, for a technology we dont need at that scale pic.twitter.com/n1TLdTWBHy
— Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) September 24, 2025
Mr. Market on the Prowl
Day trading is about to get easier for smaller retail investors CNBC
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
‘Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕
@KingKong9888
This happened at the Fullerton Hotel Ocean Park in Hong Kong a couple hours ago. I have never seen anything like this before.
I was up at 4 am taping my windows because water was just pouring in…
Ragasa is indeed a super Typhoon 🌀…’
There comes a point where you have to look down and say ‘Feet. Do your stuff!’
tariff dollars are ruled out for a farm bailout, maybe sba loans and then forgiveness like 2019, Funny to see farmers going gee whiz this is bad after slurping on frump.
Can’t remember but weren’t tariff dollars used back in Trump’s first term to bail out the farmers then?
Is it possible to use BlueSky links instead of Twitter/X links when the alternative exists? For example, Aaron Rupar (linked above) also posts on BlueSky.
Maybe there are technical reasons or network-effect reasons for continuing to use X links or maybe you already switch when possible, but it would be lovely to move away from a Musk-owned property.
No affiliation or interest in it, it’s just that Musk is simply awful.
Thanks!
Valley of the Vampires: “Full Psycho Consumerist Spectacle” will be the name of my next band.
a bit related to “psycho”
Dallas ICE shooter’s only criminal issue was a marijuana charge.
It is a reasonable hypothesis that hyper-THC marijuana is a contributing factor for psychosis and mental health issues
Not holding my breath as this idea is antithetical to the pro-pot crowd and the crowd that is anti-crime, criminals are 100% culpable for their actions and state of mind
‘Daniela Gabor
@DanielaGabor
the state of the AI investment bubble, in plain English:
overcapacity projected at USD 2 trillion, higher energy prices, higher water wastage, for a technology we dont need at that scale’
And to think that we use to laugh at the Dutch getting suckered into buying overpriced tulips. Maybe I missed it but I have read nowhere how these corporations building data-centers coming out the kazoo are investing their own money into energy infrastructure such as the electrical grids that all that energy runs over. Odd that. So how long until all the smart money quietly gets out of all these investments and stashes that loot somewhere out of reach of the feds jut before it all implodes. You know that it is going to happen.
I’m thinking the unfolding energy debacle will make Enron look like a crooked popsicle stand in Peoria.
Imagine thousands of abandoned, half-built data centers, with rebar sticking up in the air.