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Husbands: 17 Things They Are Good For Babylon Bee

Man charged with theft over claims he swallowed $19k Fabergé egg BBC

Is the Sunward Anti-Tail of 3I/ATLAS Composed of a Swarm of Objects? Avi Loeb (Chuck L)

Common pesticides and plastic chemicals stifle healthy gut bacteria The New Lede

#COVID-19/Pandemics

America’s Vaccine Policy Whiplash—Finding the Way Forward JAMA (Robin K)

Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination PNAS (Paul R)

Long COVID Trial Explores Anti-Inflammatory Treatment JAMA (Robin K)

Climate/Environment

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales Guardian

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly The Conversation

Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth’s past New Scientist

One million people evacuated in Indonesia as death toll from floods surpasses 600 Guardian

Africa’s booming rice cultivation is fueling regional warming Nature

Water

Euphrates-Tigris water dispute: New chapter in Türkiye-Iraq relations Daily Sabah

Kurdistan’s hydropower stations at Dokan and Darbandikhan failed to restart this week as declining water levels prevented electricity generation Safaq

China?

Japan’s Sanae Takaichi reaffirms Taiwan is a part of China South China Morning Post

The China rare earths problem isn’t as bad as we think. It’s much worse: a look at gallium Kevin Walmsley

India

Russian Lower House Ratifies Military Agreement With India teleSUR

China’s pricing power is undercutting India’s export dreams Economic Times

South of the Border

U.S. requested resumption of migrant flights to Venezuela after Trump’s airspace closure assertion, Maduro’s government says CBS

Make America Gringo Again Julian Macfarlane

European Disunion

Welcome to the jungle: Raids, arrests, and a crisis of EU credibility Euractiv

Old Blighty

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years BBC. More creeping towards authoritarianism.

Jonathan Cook: High Court Trickery on Palestine Action Consortium News

British government fails in bid to jail Palestine supporter on terrorism charges Council Estate Media. In case you missed it…

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom The Register

Summer drought costs UK arable farmers over £800m – new analysis ECIU

Israel v. The Resistance

Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors Mediate (Paul R). Is she trying restore relevance by outdoing her “deplorables” remark?

Amnesty calls for war crimes probe on RSF attack on Sudan refugee camp Aljazeera

Netanyahu to Send Envoy to Lebanon for Talks on Bilateral Ties Under U.S. Pressure Haaretz

Netanyahu pushes for Israel-controlled ‘buffer zone’ in Syria between Golan Heights, Damascus PressTV

Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia’s uneasy détente The Cradle

New Not-So-Cold War

Putin Again Signals Defiance While Invoking War with Europe Simplicius

War in Ukraine: Trump’s envoy makes no progress with Putin Le Monde versus Ukraine: US, Russia say ‘some progress’ made in truce talks DW

Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. Popular Information

France Working Towards Direct Military Intervention in Ukrainian Hostilities – Russian Intel Warns Military Watch

Zelensky out by Christmas? Events in Ukraine. IMHO, this has become much more likely by virtue of the fantasy of Europeans stealing Russian assets to keep propping up Ukraine now being dead. All that EU boosterism greatly extended Zelensky’s sell-by date. Article has lots of useful detail, such as the fact that the neo-Nazis are more powerful than in 2022.

But it appears Ursula et al are trying to pretend they can steamroll Euroclear. Good luck with that: Belgium says EU plan on frozen Russian assets fails to address its concerns Anadolu Agency

Unprecedented NATO threats against Russia. Are they possible without US agreement? Defend Democracy

A Lithuanian Drone Provocation Almost Derailed Witkoff’s & Kushner’s Trip To Moscow Andrew Korybko

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 404 Media

Trump 2.0

Trump invites America’s wealthiest to fund his presidency Axios. Not news per se but good to have some tallies.

Hope on the Horizon: Farmers Anticipate ‘Bridge Payment’ Announcement AgWeb

Authority Crisis

Vance Defends the Murder Spree Again Daniel Larison

Hegseth Says He Wasn’t in the Room When Adm. Bradley Ordered Second Strike on Alleged Drug Boat Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

GOP Clown Car

GOP frets ‘dangerous’ result in Tennessee Politico

Immigration

U.S. halts all immigration cases — including citizenship ceremonies — for nationals of 19 countries, internal guidance says CBS

Trump calls Ilhan Omar ‘garbage’ and says Somalis should ‘go back to where they came from’ NBC. Includes a re-report of a New York Times story on raids planned for Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Apologies for missing this yesterday. Despite New York Times validation, the story as of then had not gotten out of the right wind mediaverse:

Minnesota government workers blame Walz for ‘massive fraud’ amid allegations against Somali community Fox

AI

OpenAI’s “Code Red” Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s Sam Altman declares ‘code red’ after rivals make advances Financial Times

The Bezzle

Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk BBC (Colonel Smithers)

UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble Financial Times

Bitcoin Hits Two-Week High But Crypto Sentiment Remains Fragile Bloomberg

Harvard’s Big Wager on Bitcoin Came Right Before the Bust Wall Street Journal. No archived version yet.

The 26-Minute, 51% Wipeout That Deepened the Trumps’ Crypto Woes Bloomberg

Class Warfare

Starbucks Agrees to Pay Workers $38 Million to Settle Scheduling Law Probe THE CITY

2,000 Iowa Nurses to Unionize – GOP Wins by Only 8% in Trump +22 District – 2,500 Starbucks Workers Continue Strike Mike Elk

Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies Wall Street Journal. No archived version yet.

Nominate Sam Altman as a living saint Change.org (Micael T)

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  1. The Rev Kev

    “Husbands: 17 Things They Are Good For”

    For some reason they have missed the most important thing that women need husbands and partners for – opening up tight lids on jars. That and reaching for stuff on the top shelf. I suspect that this is the only reason why my wife keeps me around for.

    Haven’t watched it yet but here is a related video-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Se7xJjmIfo (5:42 mins)

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