Links 6/12/2026

American horses are obese, too STAT

Newfound ‘whale necropolis’ reveals 5.3 million years of seafloor life Phys.org

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition Construction Physics

When Bigfoot Finds You Points North

Climate/Environment

It’s Official: NOAA Declares El Niño Is Here, With 63 Percent Chances Of It Being A Big One IFL Science

Updated 2026 Hurricane Outlook Trends Down as El Niño is Officially Declared Eye on the Tropics

Scientists Found Bacteria Thriving Inside Fog and Eating Air Pollution ZME Science

Ebola

Ebola outbreak map: Cases hit 600 in Africa, drawing US attention USA Today

State Department memo says US Ebola response beats China’s Semafor

Pandemics

Water

Climate change disrupts freshwater faster than nature can adapt Climate & Capitalism

Half the world’s reservoirs could be clogged up with dirt by 2060 New Scientist

LAST YEAR, A CORPUS CHRISTI CRYPTOMINE GUZZLED OVER 11 MILLION GALLONS. NOW, ITS WATER USAGE IS BEING KEPT SECRET. Texas Observer

Japan

LDP adopts plan to ‘transform’ defenses, invest in drones, AI Asahi Shimbun

US tungsten scrap exports to Japan soar on Chinese curbs Nikkei Asia

Japan, Malaysia agree to boost energy, maritime security cooperation Kyodo News

China?

Asia Pacific Reshaped: China and Australia after Hormuz Warwick Powell

India

US ‘specifically’ asked India to buy Russian oil in 2022, says EAM Jaishankar Economic Times

Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing TechCrunch

Syraqistan

Israeli government mulling huge funding to expand West Bank settlement: NGO Al Jazeera

Gaza is not an aberration – Israel planned this genocide decades ago Middle East Eye

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Israeli firm BlackCore meddled in New York, Scotland, Angola, Togo elections, says France TRT World

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Trump Backs Down Again After Blustery Raid of Little Consequence Simplicius

Trump has applied the Israeli model of the “ceasefire” in Gaza and Lebanon to Iran GeoPolitiQ

What’s in the Iran deal Trump says he’s ready to sign Axios. Ravid at it again.

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11 killed in Israeli airstrikes on eastern, southern Lebanon Anadolu Agency

Saudi Arabia lifts 5-year ban on Lebanon imports: What to know Al-Monitor

European Disunion

EXCLUSIVE: Kallas’ Israel ‘apartheid’ remarks deepen EU foreign policy crisis Euractiv

The EU’s budgetary coup Thomas Fazi

“America is great,” says Albanian opposition leader after US lifts sanctions Intellinews

Albania’s Protests Against Jared And Ivanka’s Resort Plans Are Getting Bigger Forbes

Old Blighty

UK defence chief steps down, accuses Starmer of making Britain ‘less safe’ France24

Britain’s Garden Habits Are Making Their Homes Harder to Insure Bloomberg

New Not-So-Cold War

Higher losses for defenders Events in Ukraine

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time New Scientist

Ukraine hits fuel supplies to Crimea, sparking a fuel crisis on the Russian-held peninsula AP

Ukraine is transplanting its industrial heart to the west The Economist

Imperial Collapse Watch

Why Anti-Liberalism Fails Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue

Trump 2.0

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DOGE? THE “OMBIFICATION” OF THE TRUMP-MUSK PAYMENTS CRISIS Notes on the Crises

Congress Fails to Reauthorize America’s Most Powerful Surveillance Law, Which Expires at Midnight Friday Gizmodo. Dems block with help of some GOPers not because of spying on Americans but because of opposition to the nomination of Bill Pulte for Director of National Intelligence.

Trump nominates ex-SEC Chair Jay Clayton as intelligence chief The Hill

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet Futurism

Our Famously Free Press

EXCLUSIVE: Will the U.S. Deport Trita Parsi? The Free Press

Economy

Trump’s Iran War Slowing Global Economic Growth to Lowest Level Since Pandemic: World Bank Common Dreams

America’s emergency oil reserve is about to hit lowest level since Reagan era The Independent

Mr. Market

Hedge Funds Are Hiring Climate Scientists to Profit Off Extreme Weather Risks Gizmodo

AI

What Would It Look Like If the AI Bubble Popped? Matt Stoller

How much does it cost to be AI-pilled? Ramp Economics Lab

OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic WSJ

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized The Atlantic

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why 404 Media

Screening Room

Nothing new here: Another sequel, another lighthouse Not-Ship

Antitrust

Paramount-Warner Deal Leaves Working People On the Cutting Room Floor The Economic Populist

Agriculture

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Poultry Across 12 States — Dallas’s Egg and Poultry Supply Chain Faces Disruption and Food Price Pressure as Summer Heats Up Medical Daily

Vacant congressional seat complicates response to screwworm cases KVUE

Screwworm Can Infect People, Pets And Livestock—What To Watch For Forbes

Healthcare?

Nearly Half of Working-Age Adults Struggled to Afford Healthcare in 2025 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Can’t Pay Medical Bills? Trump Officials Suggest Getting a Loan New York Times

Class Warfare

The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine Caitlin Johnstone

NYC Amazon Driver Fired Over Pro-Union Social Media Posts The City Reporter

Whither Writing Workers? Ramble

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5 comments

  1. The Rev Kev

    “What’s in the Iran deal Trump says he’s ready to sign”

    Barak Ravid also says that the deal states that the Iranians will make Trump their new Ayatollah, that their oil fields will be turned over to US corporations to run and profits deposited in a Trump trust fund to be dispersed to the Iranians upon their good behaviour, that Iran will pay back the US & Israel for the cost of all the bombs and missiles dropped on it, that Iran will open up a new Iranian Embassy in Jerusalem and that the Iranian people will be given whatever it is that Barak Ravid smokes to be at peace with all this.

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    1. Huey

      That has to be a joke – there’s no way that the deal states that profits would be returned to the Iranians.

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  2. Mark Gisleson

    Somewhat disquieting to see Kallas’ remarks about Israel running a South African style Apartheid regime dismissed as a “blunder.”

    It is incomprehensible to me that any news source would still dare quibble about Israel’s obvious Apartheid policies during the ongoing genocide. Europe is suffocating under a heavy layer of Zionist censorship and for the life of me I cannot see any difference between their swill and drowning in a manure lagoon.

    Dismissing criticism of Israel as a blunder, imho, makes Euroactiv an accessory to genocide. There is no controversy here, no confusion. Israel is what it is but no one’s allowed to say what that is: an Apartheid system modeled on South Africa’s and markedly “improved” in many inhumanly brutal ways that have led directly to the present atrocities.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      After the apartheid regime collapsed, a delegation from South Africa went to Israel for some kind of business. The black delegates got very uncomfortable as they recognized that the procedures being done to the Palestinians were the exact same that were being done to them not that long previously. It hit a little too close to home.

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      1. Carolinian

        Or they saw the new Klan terrorizing residents of the West Bank. Klan 2 doesn’t burn crosses though. They write “death to the Arabs” on mosques.

        Of course Israel letting its freak flag fly is undoubtedly a big mistake unless one thinks Armageddon is around the corner. Hasbara depended upon staying mostly below the radar in country’s such as my own. Even Republicans or perhaps especially Republicans are now latching onto the hypocrisy of their politicians. The leading candidate who ran against Lindsey Graham in the primary had “America First” as his slogan.

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