A 21-year-old Japanese snowboarder, Kokomo Murase, just landed a backside triple cork 1620.
She’s the first woman ever to do it.
📹Kokomo Murase
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) November 20, 2025
The Math Shows Jackson Pollock Painted Like a Child Would Nautilus
13 dizzying and dazzling images from 2025 Drone Photo Awards Popular Science
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails The Verge
Elizaveta Porodina Traces the Inflorescence of Flowers Atmos
COVID-19/Pandemics
A Virus Takes Flight Georgia Magazine
Long COVID’s Shadow Lingers Forbes
Climate/Environment
First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change Phys.org
Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists SciTech Daily
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The Conversation
South of the Border
US warns civilian flights as military activity around Venezuela increases Al Jazeera
Trump Begins New Phase of Venezuela Escalations…but Is It Just a Ruse? Simplicius
Mexico’s week in review: Sheinbaum weathers the storm Mexico News Daily
U.S. Banks Shelve $20 Billion Bailout Plan for Argentina MSN
China?
This is not an aquarium, but a subway station in Zhengzhou.🐳🐋🐬🐟😅 pic.twitter.com/ddaiwS2vy1
— Sharing Travel (@TripInChina) April 4, 2023
The next MAGA divide is China The Hill
China unveils ‘world’s first’ autonomous drone that can hunt submarines: Report Interesting Engineering
China’s top scientists chart the future of space exploration CGTN
India
India trade unions condemn new labour codes, plan nationwide protests Reuters
‘Only major economy…’: Harvard economist shows India outpacing US, Europe, China in post-Covid growth Business Today
Trade outlook: India’s exports hold steady amid Donald Trump tariffs; new markets offset US slowdown The Times of India
Africa
Historic South Africa G20 summit declaration prioritises developing world Al Jazeera
Africa loses over $50bn yearly to illicit financial flows – Dr. Aliyu APA News
The Collapse of Western Power in Francophone Africa The Stanford Review
European Disunion
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback Techpolicy.press
Europe increasingly ‘vulnerable’ to shocks: ECB chief AFP
EU launches case against Slovakia over constitutional changes Courthouse News Service
Old Blighty
The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits The Grayzone
A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day The Guardian
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers https://t.co/tVK4Xlkr1X pic.twitter.com/AI4SkOZNsM
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 22, 2025
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire’s latest test as hospitals say 24 killed APTrump embraces Saudis, UN backs Gaza plan, but Israel faces harsh Middle East reality Jerusalem Post
US ambassador to Israel met with convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard: Report Andolu Agency
Israel expands military raids into Syria’s southern countryside Daily Sabah
New Not-So-Cold War
Trump pressures Ukraine to accept peace deal: Early analysis from Chatham House experts Chatham House
Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit Guardian
US insists it authored Ukraine peace plan ahead of talks on ending war BBC
Ukraine war briefing: defeating Russia an ‘illusion’, says Putin, as he welcomes Trump deal The Guardian
Russia’s drone revolution heaps pressure on Ukrainian defenses CNN
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers Cyberscoop
Court Sides With Quest In Privacy Battle MediaPost
Imperial Collapse Watch
New York City’s homeless population estimated at over 350,000 Xinhua
Georgia agents seize ‘enough Fentanyl to kill millions of people’ WSB Radio
Trump 2.0
The economy rears its ugly head Ipsos
‘A world turned upside down’: MAGA faithful grapple with Trump’s Mamdani lovefest, MTG’s downfall Politico
Musk Matters
Tesla to ramp to 500 Robotaxis in Austin, 1,000 in Bay Area, by end of 2025: Musk Teslarati
Elon Musk’s Starlink is rewiring the world — but at what cost? The Times
Democrat Death Watch
Democrats facing crisis as more than 2M voters leave party in four years: analysis NY Post
Why Democrats lost voter confidence The Enterprise
Immigration
New Orleans braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have rights’ The Guardian
The Trump Administration’s New Mass Deportation Playbook Amereican Immigration Council
Our No Longer Free Press
‘Quiet, Piggy’ ‘Terrible Reporter’: President Trump Escalates Assault on Journalists PEN America
Khashoggi’s widow condemns Trump, Saudi crown prince over response to journalist’s murder The Jerusalem Post
Mr. Market Is Moody
Voters pessimistic on economic conditions Fox News
Satoshi Nakamoto losses $47 billion in Bitcoin amid intense crypto correction Cryptopolitan
Wall Street’s wild week shows just how fragile confidence in the stock market has become MarketWatch
AI
Address ‘Affordability’ By Spreading AI Wealth Around Noema
Whistleblower claims Figure AI fired him for warning their humanoid robot could kill Cryptopolitan
Theologian warns against AI’s false comforts The Catholic Registr
The Bezzle
‘Cloud Storage Full’ scam steals your photos and money Fox News
Visa flags rapidly escalating fraud risks as agentic commerce takes hold Digital Commerce 360
Guillotine Watch
A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million on Tuesday night, making it the most expensive piece of modern art ever sold at auction. pic.twitter.com/BiM8vYofuY
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 19, 2025
Highest sale in art auction history was “Salvator Mundi”, by Da Vinci. $450 million.
No one knows for sure who bought it, but experts think Mohammad Bin Salman has it on his yacht.
There’s a great documentary on it – “The Lost Leonardo” with former CIA officer @GrayManActual https://t.co/lIDBYqVZqU pic.twitter.com/QdZZDjGYl6
— Beau (@beausecurity) November 19, 2025
Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
“The next MAGA divide is China”
Yeah, nah! This sounds like an attempt by The Hill to get people to forget the fight against Israeli Firsters by bringing up the bogey man of China. Epstein? Forget him as all the papers are – mostly – being released so stop living in the past and get with the program. For all we know China may be the home of Chinese narcoterrorists so everybody think about Chyna and forget all about the fight between America Firsters and Israeli Firsters.
The Hill is hopeless.