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‘Indolent and not photogenic’: can I make my reluctant cat a social media star in seven days? The Guardian
Are we living in a stupidogenic society? No More Marking (resilc)
Climate/Environment
The effects of plastic exposures on children’s health and urgent opportunities for prevention The Lancet
More than 100,000 hospitalized in Japan this summer due to heatstroke Anadolu Agency
Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of India’s Kidney Disease Epidemic Yale Environment 360
Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record Carbon Brief
China?
Can easing of property curbs in 3 big cities help give Chinese consumption a boost? South China Morning Post
Sanctioned Chinese company builds revolutionary natural gas turbine. Who will buy it? Everyone. Kevin Walmsley
Syraqistan
Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza Drop Site
Protests erupt across Europe after Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid flotilla Anadolu Agency
PROTESTS ACROSS ITALY – thousands march in Rome to Chigi Palace. Naples train station occupied, with demonstrations in Bologna and Milan. General strike Friday Il Fatto Quotidiano (Machine translation)
Dockworkers around the world will be listening and watching. Now that the Italian unions have moved for a general strike across all sectors, except essential services it should be a clarion call to every union around Europe.
If not, find another union and stop paying dues. https://t.co/HRb2pA3stH— Eoin Ó Conchobhair 🇵🇸 (@DrEoin) October 1, 2025
Germany approves arms exports to Israel again Anadolu Agency
My latest film, Germany’s Israel Obsession Antony Loewenstein
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Key Middle Eastern leaders shocked by Israeli rewrite of Gaza plan but still back it Middle East Eye
Trump Signs Order Giving Security Guarantee To Qatar After Israeli Attack Antiwar
US troop drawdown in Syria on hold over regime stability concerns Al-Monitor
US reduces total number of troops in Iraq amid shift in bases Task & Purpose. “…from 2,500 to under 2,000, while leaving Al-Asad Air Base in Western Iraq.”
Please do not make any accusation, produce any conspiracy theory, unless Netanyahu issues a denial. https://t.co/pEo9aWlCKL
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) October 1, 2025
Old Blighty
UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage Ars Technica
European Disunion
Starting From Zero. Aurelien
EU presses ahead with December signing of divisive Mercosur deal Intellinews
France: Dropping Out of Democracy The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
New Not-So-Cold War
French navy boards Russia ‘shadow fleet’ ship, arrests two France24
They are clinically insane. https://t.co/bh6o8orL7r
— Thomas Fazi (@battleforeurope) October 1, 2025
Lacking Air Defense, Europe Races to Catch Up in Drone War Bloomberg. “One person familiar with the matter described the idea as a PR label…”
Also imagine placing such an enormous order for systems that have already been rendered largely ineffective in Ukraine, to be delivered a decade hence when they’ll be totally ineffectual.
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) October 2, 2025
Nordic-Baltic training center for Ukrainian soldiers opens in Poland ERR. Right next to a drone-launching strip, too.
US ‘to provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range strikes in Russia’ The Telegraph
Russia Still Top Supplier of US Nuclear Fuel Despite Import Ban Bloomberg
Even though there are over three years of documented Ukrainian strikes against the Zaporozhye NPP, including a botched special forces raid, Zelensky is accusing Russia of shelling a Russian nuclear power plant on Russian territory run by Rosatom. pic.twitter.com/iIY20RaGa4
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) September 30, 2025
Zaluzhny’s New Op-ed Brings Frontline and Tech Progression Update, Plus Some Grave Admissions Simplicius
How Ukraine’s Geopolitical Power is Rising Notes from the Circus
Summer 2025 Azov Lobby Review Azov Lobby Blog
It’s funny how all the warmongering narrative factory workers think they have managed to co-opt and gentrify the neo-nazis to serve their dubious geopolitical causes. But it’s the neo-nazis who have co-opted and de-civilized these vain idiots who are destroying all the post-WWII…
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) October 1, 2025
South of the Border
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONJURES UP NEW “TERRORIST” DESIGNATION TO JUSTIFY KILLING CIVILIANS Nick Turse, The Intercept
Milei Authorizes US Troop Deployment in Tierra del Fuego Without Congressional Approval Orinoco Tribune
Trump 2.0
Trump administration knocks out at least 15 oversight websites, saying IGs ‘lied to the public’ Defense One. Shutdown quickly paying dividends.
Donald Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Towards War at Home and Abroad Larry Johnson
FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League amid conservative backlash Al Jazeera
Trump signals bailout for soybean farmers hit by tariff war The Hill
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill Can We Still Govern?
The Uniparty
Ex-USAID chief praises Trump for India tariffs in call with Russian pranksters RT
Weimar Republic
Is This a Horst Wessel Moment? ZZ’s Blog
Police State Watch
Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants Truthout
DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz” Truthout
Iowans protest following kidnapping of Des Moines superintendent by immigration Gestapo MR Online
ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny announcement, says Lewandowski The Hill
Imperial Collapse Watch
Words Matter Mark Wauck
Industry Reps: US Can’t Go for One-for-One Kills in Drone Warfare with China Air and Space Forces Magazine
The Pentagon Should Scale Back F-35 Purchases—and Buy Drones Instead The National Interest
US Army Awards Raytheon $5 Billion Deal for Coyote Missile System Defense Post
Boeing
Healthcare?
Lawsuit: CVS Health Looted Rite Aid Pharmacies, Stripped Them for Parts HEALTH CARE un-covered
Antitrust
Wall Street Gets to Keep Its Government Open BIG by Matt Stoller
Immigration
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign ProPublica
ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown Ken Klippenstein
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
AI
Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs The Budget Lab at Yale. One of the takeaways: “Currently, measures of exposure, automation, and augmentation show no sign of being related to changes in employment or unemployment.”
“AI is an attack from above on wages”: An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix Blood in the Machine
OpenAI’s new social video app will let you deepfake your friends The Verge
AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton 404 Media
Gunz
Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down The Register
Our Famously Free Press
FCC Considers Lifting Ban on ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Network Mergers and Relaxing Media Ownership Rules Cord Cutters
TikTok investor: ‘Embed the love and respect for Israel’ in the US Responsible Statecraft
“Liberation Day”
Trump’s pharma tariffs on hold amid administration’s effort to secure pricing concessions, industry investment: Stat Fierce Pharma
How TrumpRx will work — and why insured Americans may not save any money The Independent
Trump’s big, costly, coercive trade deals falling apart in Asia Asia Times
Economy
Private-Sector Jobs Report Hit With Seriously Brutal Revision The New Republic
The Bezzle
At The Money: The Flood of New ETFs Barry Ritholtz
Class Warfare
Ninth Circuit Brings Trader Joe’s Bullshit Trademark Suit Against Employee Union Back From The Dead TechDirt
Breaking: Labor Notes has put together a new resource to help you organize w/ rank-and-file members in your local to build toward a nationwide show of power & a season of escalating labor action that could harness the momentum from May 2028 to spin a whirlwind of class struggle. pic.twitter.com/sV19RArz2k
— Luis Feliz Leon (@Lfelizleon) October 1, 2025
‘An extraordinary legacy’: Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 BBC. In the spirit of avoiding hagiography it should be noted that for all the love Goodall showed primates, the same was not extended to many humans. She was complicit in Israeli apartheid and spoke at the World Economic Forum in favor of reducing the world population by about 90%.
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
re: Germany v. free media
JUNGE WELT daily
machine-translation
Dirty bombs
The EU apparatus fights critical media with all means – even with right-wing fake news factories
By Susann Witt-Stahl
https://archive.is/hB1aM
There are many different kinds of small cats!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QI5tZ14W64&t=4s&pp=ygUKU21hbGwgY2F0cw%3D%3D
This one is the Fluffy-Pawed Bossy Cat, presumed to be a direct ancestor of the common house cat.
I am reminded of Orwell’s 1984, where the Party’s driving mission was to make Winston love Big Brother.
> Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record Carbon Brief
Climate Reanalyzer still hasn’t started connecting dots on the recent Sea Surface Temperatures. It makes more sense if you go through the subset regions. Everywhere is running hotter, except Sub-Polar, and ENSO 3.4, which are below the normal bar, not just recent-normal. Could be La Niña kicking in. Just squirrely.
Didn’t you hear that climate change is a hoax?
Goooooooood Mooooorning Fiatnam!
It’s 0420 hours somewhere. From the delta factor of reserve banking, to the DMZ (Donald Monetary Zone) of crypto, back to Bitcoin all in one byte. Today’s forecast calls for a hundred percent chance of clout crowding the market in the cloud, not that any of it exists except in fertile mind fields we’ve carefully laid utilizing furrowed brows pecking away furiously.
Here’s a song coming your way right now for those of you back in the Banana-Split Republic. “Nowhere To Run To” by Martha and the Vandellas. Yes! Hey, you know what I mean! Too much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRIOKvR2WM
>>>>The effects of plastic exposures on children’s health and urgent opportunities..
N = 1 house: With the presumption that any impact is greatest (hence lowest hanging fruit) during ages 0 – 3, the kids had all their Costco/private-label powdered formula made with distilled water. Then they had cow milk and distilled water when they went off the bottle for fluids; and tap water when there was no alternative.
No regrets and very happy with the results, though I can prove squat. Electric stills are (relatively) cheap and easy, but slow. other alternative is to go full reverse osmosis but more expensive upfront, and tougher to kèep track of filter expiry.