Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning Futurism
The Witch Swoops Back Into the Spotlight The Low Countries
The Year 536 AD Was So Bad It May Have Been the Worst Time in Human History to Be Alive ZME Science
Climate/Environment
Flash flooding kills 4 in Kentucky, 1 in Tennessee, prompts numerous water rescues ABC News
Unfortunately the interior West wildfire outbreak has continued to intensify under “extremely critical” fire weather conditions today and record-dry vegetation in some areas. Existing fires have re-intensified, and there are 2 new fires of particular concern in Colorado. [Thread] pic.twitter.com/CFRBgf2b8V
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) June 29, 2026
Poland records highest ever temperature as European heatwave moves east Notes from Poland
Hungary heat record broken as temperatures reach 40°C near Budapest Daily News Hungary
Heatwave: Which European countries are running out of water? Euronews
🔴⚠️🌡️🌊The unprecedented #heatwave over #Europe is bringing its effects also to the Mediterranean Sea. In the last few days the #Copernicus Sea Surface Temperature has rapidly increased and the latest anomaly data exceed 8°C
⬇️SST daily anomaly on 27 June 2026 #climateemergency pic.twitter.com/Y8PbmcDUxt— SatWorld (@or_bit_eye) June 28, 2026
Night shifts help brick kiln workers avoid peak heat, not its consequences Mongabay
To Decarbonize Quickly, Think Beyond Electrification Jacobin
The Koreas
S. Korea to build semiconductor cluster in southwest with 800 tln won in corporate investment Yonhap
China?
Reading Beijing’s Signal to Brussels Pekingnology
Chartbook 454: China shock 2.0 and mercantilist-on-mercantilist violence. Adam Tooze
Southeast Asia
How the Russia-Ukraine War Rewired Southeast Asia’s Arms Trade The Diplomat
Syraqistan
16,000+ killed and injured: ‘Israel’s’ continue to devastate Lebanon Al Mayadeen
Israel recognises Armenian genocide in move slammed as ‘ironic’ amid Gaza onslaught New Arab
Clashes erupt in Daraa as Israeli forces launch strikes in Syria Al Mayadeen
NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and…
— Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) June 28, 2026
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show The Guardian
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Mass arrests signal Iraqi PM’s push for reform before Trump talks Iraqi News
In the shadow of Minab: Inside the US testing of ‘new missiles’ on Iran’s Lamerd Middle East Eye
Iran’s Quiet Surrender: The Trap of Normalization With the West BettBeat
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Pakistan says its security forces killed 29 fighters along Afghan border Al Jazeera
European Disunion
Austerity erodes the governments that impose it Philipp Heimberger
Hungary can join the euro area by 2030 without austerity, prime minister says Intellinews
EU Commission HQ shuts down air conditioning for lower staffers, but keeps it on for most commissioners Anadolu Agency
Volkswagen’s brutal jobs cull sparks prospect of sale of crown jewels FT
Old Blighty
Exposing The Keir Starmer Arson Mystery Kit Klarenberg
UK to buy drone command warships instead of new destroyers UK Defence Journal
New Not-So-Cold War
A Senior Ukrainian Sergeant Threatened Poland With Drone Strikes Against Its Cities Andrew Korybko
Bloomberg tries its best to spin Russian oil revenue in a negative light… Marat Khairullin Substack
Putin Addresses United Russia’s 23rd Party Congress Karl Sanchez
On Russophobia Pascal Lottaz
The Great Game
As Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal, His Sons Stand to Profit New York Times
South of the Border
Venezuela’s earthquakes death toll nears 1,500, tens of thousands still missing France24
Trump 2.0
‘We Should Go to Court’: Khanna Says Latest US Bombings of Iran a ‘Blatant Violation’ by Trump Common Dreams
‘Horrifying’: Pulte’s choice for top spy aide stokes fears of Trump vote tampering MS Now
Party Time at the ODNI? SpyTalk
250th
Trump’s Great American State Fair Faces Confederate Flag Controversy And Sparse Crowds Forbes
View from atop the Ferris Wheel at the Great American State Fair!! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nQAXNMpKfx
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) June 27, 2026
Not likely to get much better:
PUNISHING heat wave Wednesday through July 4 in DC.
NWS now forecasting highs of 104 Thursday, 105 Friday and 102 on July 4 — all record highs.
Heat indexes 5-8 degrees higher.
Forecast update: https://t.co/epWSoxksz8 pic.twitter.com/CUCrgJDp3B
— Capital Weather (@capitalweather) June 28, 2026
Sports Desk
MLB Owners Want the Union Playing Checkers While They Play Chess Neil Paine
AI
AI fuels record $200bn M&A boom in US power sector FT
Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company’s support for genocidal ‘Israel’ The Canary
China catches up Gary Marcus
Casino Nation
Total amount wagered on sports in the US…
2025: $165 billion
2024: $149 billion
2023: $121 billion
2022: $93.7 billion
2021: $57.5 billion
2020: $21.5 billion
2019: $13.1 billion
2018: $6.6 billion https://t.co/hjwOCMecna— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) June 28, 2026
Mr. Market
The entire stock market is balanced on a single bet, and this week the three groups who see the foundation most clearly all started backing away at once. Hedge funds are selling technology at the fastest pace in a decade. The dollar just posted its biggest monthly jump in nearly…
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) June 29, 2026
Healthcare?
Hospitals Are Using AI to Detect Intimate Partner Violence. That’s a Problem. MedPage Today
Why rural healthcare fund’s $50B focus on tech upgrades may not help vulnerable hospitals and providers The Conversation
‘Republicans Created This Crisis on Purpose’: Federal Data Shows ACA Enrollment Plunging Common Dreams
Supply Chain
Cancer drug shortages disrupt hospital supply chains, raise rationing concerns Becker’s Hospital Review
The Bezzle
California Regulators Voted to Release Ride-Hailing Safety Reports. Then They Didn’t. San Francisco Public Press
Agriculture
What to Watch As Screwworm Enters U.S. Food & Power
Guillotine Watch
A Super Yacht Armada Came To Miami, Leaving A Marine Graveyard In Its Wake Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg reveals he’s feeding his cows beer and macadamia nuts
“On the ranch, one of my projects is I’m trying to create the highest quality beef in the world”
“It’s very low stakes, I’m not selling it but I’m very into the genetics of the cattle. We’re trying to figure… pic.twitter.com/hj3MWFjkTR
— Jack (@Jackkk) June 27, 2026
Class Warfare
Number of parents worried about “putting food on the table” soars Newsweek
Cops Warn CEO Bodyguards That Luigi Mangione Fever Could Spark Class War The Intercept
Monopoly Round-Up: Why Wall Street Isn’t Yet Afraid of the Left Matt Stoller
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Today’s Antidote du jour. The Great Catscape!
Re; Climate/Environment
Ya’ll gonna love this:
Farmers Might As Well Ditch Their Long-Range Weather Forecasts
If you like your humor black and served from the gallows, you’ll note that the short-term forcast included in the article has since spun a complete 180, and not exactly for the better… it seems the weather gods appreciate a good joke too.
Farmers hoping for a calm, predictable second half to the 2026 growing season are unlikely to get it, according to meteorologist Don Day of DayWeather.
…Day admits he has “the least amount of confidence in any seasonal forecast that I’ve ever had in doing this for 30-plus years.” He explains that global models are built on historical baselines and cannot easily adapt to unprecedented atmospheric inputs.
Going out today? Make sure you pack an umbrella, sunscreen, and a snow-shovel.
Mohammed El-Kurd. Click on and read his whole twixt.
Then, David in Friday Harbor posted the Pascal Lottaz essay on Russophobia yesterday. I read it then, and I recommend it to you.
Theme: racism.
And you thought that with all of the blabbing about antiracism, Anglo-America no longer has problems with racism. Ahh, well.
Some wag in the comments here at Naked Capitalism yesterday recommended the comments to Pascal Lottaz’s essay. That must have been a joke that I misinterpreted. I stuck my toe in.
Do not go into the comments below Lottaz’s post. They are a vile swamp of the kind of ignorance that the WWW is so good at, the Worldwide Id, spewing and spewing.