The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding High Country News
Scientists may have finally ‘seen’ dark matter for the 1st time Space
These century-old apple trees could have rare genes to fight off new threats Points North
Thanksgiving
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers Kansas Reflector
Small retailers face holiday supply chaos due to tariffs Reuters
This Thanksgiving, Ohio workers and families are holding on by the skin of their teeth Ohio Capital Journal
Who really owns your Thanksgiving turkey? Investigate Midwest
Climate/Environment
The Last Ice University of Manitoba Today
Scientists warn mountain climate change is accelerating faster than predicted, putting billions of people at risk University of Portsmouth
The ocean is undergoing unprecedented, deep-reaching compound change Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Seeing The Wendigo 3 Quarks Daily
Pandemics
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Africa
US Is Aware of Reports That It Killed a Civilian Clan Elder in a Somalia Airstrike Antiwar
How the Nile Water Dispute Threatens Counter-Terrorism Efforts National Interest
Japan
Trump urged Japan to avoid escalation in China dispute, sources say Straits Times
China?
Hong Kong fire: Death toll rises to at least 44 with hundreds still missing; police arrest 3 Straits Times
Syraqistan
Trump Gaza Plan Condemned as ‘Concentration Camps Within a Mass Concentration Camp’ Common Dreams
Israeli army, Shin Bet begin ‘large-scale’ operation against West Bank resistance The Cradle
‘We will disarm Hezbollah’: Israeli war chief threatens new war in Lebanon The Cradle
United States to inaugurate its largest Middle East diplomatic facility in Iraq’s Erbil New Arab
Old Blighty
UK: the ‘make or break’ budget Michael Roberts
UK Labour’s budget piles on suffering for workers, but not enough to satisfy ruling class WSWS
Justice secretary wants jury trials scrapped except in most serious cases BBC
European Disunion
European Parliament agrees to dilute and postpone EU deforestation rules Euronews
Top EU official accuses US of ‘blackmail’ in trade talks Politico
German Chancellor Merz’s approval plummets to 23%, poll shows TRT World
Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia WSJ
Why Europe No Longer Matters Larry Johnson
New Not-So-Cold War
Fighting for Peace and Fighting for War in Ukraine Gordon Hahn
SERGEI LAVROV HAS THE “WE ARE LOSING SYRIA” LOOK – NEW PODCAST WITH NIMA ALKHORSHID BREAKS THE NEWS John Helmer
Zelensky strikes back Events in Ukraine
Who is Dan Driscoll, suddenly at the center of Ukraine peace talks? Responsible Statecraft
EU ‘ready’ to propose Russian assets loan despite Belgian doubts Euractiv
As potential Ukraine deal looms, France and Britain map out boots-on-ground role Politico
EU top diplomat says Russian military size should be capped Euractiv
You Can’t Get There From Here. Aurelien
South of the Border
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela Maureen Tkacik, The American Prospect
Dominican Republic authorizes US to use its territory ‘for a limited time’ to combat drug trafficking Anadolu Agency
Panama Canal presses forward with port tenders despite US unease over Chinese bidders Intellinews
L’affaire Epstein
🇺🇸 WOAH!!! REP. MASSIE says FBI staff threatened a member of his staff with a criminal investigation if he “didn’t straighten up and play ball.”
WTF is going on in DC?!?!? pic.twitter.com/KtYejUnKCq
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) November 26, 2025
Trump 2.0
Has the bailout of generative AI already begun? Gary Marcus
Prosecutor drops Trump’s criminal case in Georgia The Hill
Trump policies ignore basic business principles, threaten U.S. economy Bleeding Heartland
Farmworkers sue over Trump’s low wages for foreign guest workers Washington State Standard
Economy
Tyson’s beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact Lexington and ranchers nationwide Flatwater Free Press
From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, why California’s job market is taking a hit Los Angeles Times
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy CNBC. “Device hoarding.” That’s a new one I think.
Weimar Republic
Immigration
US halts all Afghan immigration processing after shooting of two National Guard members Anadolu Agency
Relative of sneering White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt snatched by ICE Canary
Democrats en déshabillé
Illegal Orders, Liberal Hypocrisy, and Fake Outrage Black Agenda Report
By The People? For the People? Ian Welsh
Fascism in America Dublin Review of Books
Wars Come Home
Zionist humor is very highbrow and sophisticated, so just in case this went over anybody’s head the joke here is that they want to murder Norman Finkelstein for his political beliefs. https://t.co/ZC015f9EtK
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) November 25, 2025
Accelerationists
Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley just called the transparency activists at https://t.co/7vYVNCDLR6 “terrorists.”
So, if mapping cameras is “terrorism”… what do we call mass surveillance of millions of innocent drivers? pic.twitter.com/eEVbk7Sn5X
— Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1) November 24, 2025
Our Famously Free Press
THE SEVEN RICHEST BILLIONAIRES ARE ALL MEDIA BARONS MintPress News
PUBLIC MONEY, PRIVATE SECRETS: RETHINKING FOIA IN THE AGE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE GOVERNANCE LPE Project
Healthcare?
Medicare Prices to Drop Up to 85% on Drugs for Weight-Loss, Cancer, Asthma, and More MedPage Today
Imperial Collapse Watch
Putting Callousness First Arthur Goldhammer
In a looming nuclear arms race, aging Los Alamos lab faces a major test Searchlight New Mexico
Navy Shows Why The U.S. Is Losing Its Relative Power Moon of Alabama
Hitler Ahoy: The Third Reich’s Surface Fleet Big Serge
Groves of Academe
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise Bridge Michigan. Some good news!
The Claims of Close Reading Boston Review
The Dying Art of Being a Bum Hickman’s Hinterlands
Class Warfare
New “Who Owns America” Report Maps Corporate Ownership of Residential Land Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Re ‘The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding’
This thought of Henry Beston’s in ”The Outermost House’ came to mind:
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
Beautiful.
“EU top diplomat says Russian military size should be capped”
The whole thing is weird. The European nations want the Ukraine to have the biggest army in Europe. Since the Ukraine is broke, it will be the Europeans who will pay for it, equip it, train it and all the rest of it. Then there is the question of the demographics. After the war, can the Ukraine afford to have 800,000 people in the military which will take away so many from any workforce? Since the whole thing is dodgy, they want the Russians to reduce their military to give the Ukrainians a better chance to win in SMO 2.0. Only a Kaja Kallas would consider this to be a great idea.
Would “device retention” be a better descriptor?
Maybe ‘frugality’ would be a more apt description.