Rescued Bunny Who Was Raised for Meat Greets His Devoted Human at the Door Like a Dog Laughing Squid
Scientists Just Remapped the Entire Roman Road System. All 300,000 km of it ZME Science
The Busiest “Rail Line” You’ve Never Heard Of Is In the Suburbs of Atlanta The Transit Guy
Climate/Environment
Significant tornado causes heavy damage to Brazilian city, while eastern US deals with first big taste of winter. Balanced Weather
Water temperatures in Amazonian lakes rise to unprecedented levels, killing wildlife Phys.org
Crop water origins and hydroclimate vulnerability of global croplands Nature Sustainability
Stratospheric aerosol climate intervention could reduce crop nutritional value Environmental Research Letters
Pandemics
Clinical and cost- effectiveness of diverse posthospitalisation pathways for COVID- 19: a UK evaluation using the PHOSP- COVID cohort BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Thailand-Cambodia
PM suspends peace pact, captives’ release, with Cambodia Bangkok Post
Africa
RSF burning, burying El Fasher dead in mass graves: Sudanese Doctors’ Network The New Arab
China?
China USD Bombshell Cancels U.S. Treasuries As U.S. Chip Giant Admits Defeat To Beijing Sean Foo (Video)
China exempts chips used by carmakers from export curbs BBC
Visiting China During the Age of AI Sinocities
Zhao Yushun: the last generation of Chinese smallholder farmers The East is Read
Old Blighty
Thousands of pensioners evicted from care homes and put at risk of homelessness: ‘It’s so cruel’ Big Issue
UK deploys anti-drone specialists to Belgium after string of incursions Euronews
Syraqistan
In an interview with @AJEnglish @AJArabic , Dr. @GhassanAbuSitt1 revealed medical evidence indicating that vital organs — including hearts, lungs, kidneys, and corneas — were surgically stolen by the Israeli occupation from Palestinian martyrs in #Gaza.
He noted that the chest… pic.twitter.com/yu18JeQb7M— Sahat English 🇵🇸 (@sahatenglish) November 7, 2025
U.S. steps up Gaza aid role to support fragile ceasefire WaPo
Israel opens a new front: War with Hezbollah is back on the table RT
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The eugenist history of the Zionist movement Zachary Foster
YouTube (and probably other occupied platforms as well) claims that Zionists are ‘a protected group’. What in Zionism, precisely, makes its members a protected group? What other political ideology or organization gets a protected group status?
Zionism is not an identity; it is… pic.twitter.com/nn7Kb5Z4Vh
— Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) November 8, 2025
Victors’ History New Left Review
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🇸🇾 Mass anti-Shiite protests have erupted in Syria, aimed at pressuring the HTS-led authorities to expel the Shiite population.
Gunfire has been reported in the Sayyida Zeynab district of Damascus, a predominantly Shiite area, as demonstrations spread through the city.
The… pic.twitter.com/rmjjgpEfT6
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) November 9, 2025
The Dangerous Stalemate Over Iran’s Nuclear Program New York Times
Dam Reservoirs Plunge Below 3% In Iran’s Second City: Media AFP
Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate? Informed Comment
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Yemen Reports Dismantling of Espionage Network Tied to US, Israel and Saudi Arabia TeleSur
Saudi Ex-Intelligence Official Seeks American Help Spilling U.S. Secrets New York Times
New Not-So-Cold War
THE ELECTRIC WAR GATHERS MOMENTUM — EXPLAINER John Helmer
War end– 2026? Julian Macfarlane
Lavrov Reaffirms Russia’s Demands to End the War as Ukraine Crumbles Under Withering Attacks Larry Johnson
During Zelensky’s interview with The Guardian at the Mariinskyi Palace, the electricity went out. pic.twitter.com/iUtjrp4iYo
— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 9, 2025
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Legalising the theft of Russian assets Ian Proud
EU’s 20th sanctions package against Russia to be prepared ‘within a month,’ Zelensky says Kyiv Independent
South of the Border
U.S. Examining Sites To Send Additional Military Assets To Caribbean The War Zone
Millions of Venezuelans Join Volunteer Militias as US Attacks Continue Orinoco Tribune
What A Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring Larry Johnson
“Liberation Day”
Trump says Americans will receive $2K each from tariff push The Hill
Bessent Says Trump’s $2,000 ‘Dividend’ May Come Via Tax Cuts Bloomberg
Trump 2.0
WHAT CONNECTS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM PROCESSORS, AI AND THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? PART TWO Notes on the Crises
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI NonZero Newsletter
Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push WSJ. “A few weeks ago, [Noem and Lewandowski] ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights—and for their own travel…Once officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines…”
Unions Slam Trump For Giving China A Pass On Shipbuilding Bloomberg
ICE Targets Louisiana Shipyard in Major Immigration Enforcement Operation gCaptain
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/1ot3vXEVOw
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) November 9, 2025
Shutdown
Senate votes to advance proposal to end 40-day government shutdown The Hill. “Centrist” Democrats cave and throw Obamacare overboard. “Thune agreed as part of the broader deal to schedule a vote later this year on legislation to extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are due to expire in January. The Senate GOP leader, however, did not guarantee that any bill to extend the subsidies will pass the Senate or — if it passes the upper chamber — get a vote in the House.”
Travel misery at airports as FAA cuts lead to thousands of cancellations and delays NBC News
The US air traffic control system is in desperate need of improvement. Would privatization help? CNN
Trump Admin Threatens to Penalize States That Don’t ‘Undo’ Full SNAP Payments Common Dreams
WATCH: Long lines stretch outside a Cleveland food bank after federal SNAP payments are paused due to the ongoing government shutdown. pic.twitter.com/QiJYnz1q2m
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 8, 2025
US could see negative Q4 GDP growth if Trump can’t reach deal to end shutdown: White House adviser Firstpost
Democrats en déshabillé
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption The Intercept
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump. Huff Post
Police State Watch
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Chicago Sun-Times
Mamdani
Chartbook 415 Zohran Mamdani, New York City and the promise to revive social democracy in America. Adam Tooze
Mamdani’s First Loss Ken Klippenstein
Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship. Is it possible? Al Jazeera
Our Famously Free Press
BBC bosses quit amid scandal over doctored Trump speech RT
Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line Payday Report
AI
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom New York Times. The deck: “To fund heavy spending on infrastructure for artificial intelligence, companies have leveraged a growing list of complex debt-financing options.”
Mr. Market
50-year mortgage: Housing director calls Trump’s idea ‘complete game changer’ Fox13
Is This the Last Bubble? Charles Hugh Smith
Imperial Collapse Watch
BRICS to introduce multipolar carbon markets Edward Slavsquat
The Mamdani Mirage, Trump’s Wars & Russia’s Realpolitik: Political Reality TV vs Empire Wars Fiorella Isabel and Vanessa Beeley
Groves of Academe
New York school phone ban has made lunch loud again Gothamist
Boeing
Lawsuit accuses UPS, General Electric and Boeing of negligence in fatal plane crash in Louisville WDRB
Boeing celebrates $1B factory expansion project — in South Carolina Seattle Times
How Airbus took off Works in Progress
The Bezzle
Pluralistic: Facebook’s fraud files Cory Doctorow
Coinbase Failed To Screen 30M Transactions Worth €176.5 billion Fintech Business Weekly
Accelerationists
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway WSJ
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race Gizmodo
Can Narcissists Actually Change? The Conversation
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
MD11.
The engine and pylon both came off. The wing stayed on
They don’t know yet the sequence of events.
Did the pylon fail taking the engine with it or did the engine fail causing the pylon to break at the wing attachments.
Or is there some other explanation.
just let the experts at the NTSB do their job and they will have an answer.
Rushing to conclusions let alone a lawsuit is sad and inexcusable
yes. but as people will want to gnaw on something…..
MD11 was first problem child of the Boeing – McDonnell merger. with problems similar to the 737MAX—-love of reusing an aging design versus creating a new (more expensive) clean-slate design
but for the crash, it is unlikely that the age of the plane was a factor (versus maintenance mistakes, factory mistakes, etc)
‘ChrisO_wiki
@ChrisO_wiki
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.’
This is so slack this. The whole thread is worth reading-
https://xcancel.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1987450443643986224
So what happens next? Will the Heritage Foundation demand that the black and Hispanic soldiers be removed from the Vietnam war Three Soldiers Statue? Maybe claim that the WW2 Red Tails fighter squadron was only a Democrat hoax? Meanwhile the town of Limburg near that cemetery are thinking about erecting their own memorial to US black soldiers for WW2-
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/calls-for-permanent-memorial-in-limburg-to-black-us-liberators/
Regarding the resolution, via Senate D cooperation, of the shutdown, I wonder whether this might be a tactical move to very explicitly pin blame for the ACA premium hikes on Senate and House Rs when the promised future Senate vote on the matter either does not take place or is defeated (and the matter is suppressed in Committee, or defeated on the floor, in the House).
It has been repeatedly noted that the Ds seem to prefer being in opposition to governing. Perhaps this is another instance of that.
“Millions of Venezuelans Join Volunteer Militias as US Attacks Continue”
Trump may have put himself in check here. He sent a large military force south under the assumption that Maduro would break and flee the country. And at that point Machado would step into his place and proceed to have a fire sale of Venezuelan assets, especially all those oil fields which Trump lusts over. But of course there was no Plan B because Plan A would work for sure.
Well it didn’t. Maduro stood firm and mobilized the nation including these militias in this article. And when a Russian Task Force turned up in their waters it was all over. Trump could pull those warship back home but it would be a huge L for his ego and all those attacks on those speed boats would be seen as political theater. The only out I can see is if he made a deal with Maduro based on Maduro’s initial offer so that he could get a great oil deal and claim victory as well as solving his 9th war. Who knows? Maybe Maduro will nominate him for a Nobel Peace prize afterwards.