Let’s get ready to RUBBLE!!!🚘
This is better than any fair derby hands down.
Glacier View Car Launch, Alaska. Every 4th of July🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vkPs2XDlZk— Bobbi (@kittenaround_51) April 24, 2026
20 things your phone knows about you that you never told it Quartz
Rare Diseases and the Platform Biotech Renaissance Contrary Research substack
Scientists Say We May Need to Nuke Asteroids—But Not How You Think ZME Science
World Cup propels surveillance to new heights The Conversation
COVID-19/Pandemics
‘The next pandemic is not a matter of if, but when,’ Oxford professor says Euronews
Brain Scans Reveal Dopamine Damage in Long COVID, Pointing to New Treatments Inside Precision Medicine
Climate/Environment
Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, and So Fast Futurism
Scientists Discover an Alarming Trend Climate Models Are Missing SciTech Daily
South of the Border
Cuba suffers second island-wide blackout in a week amid Trump fuel blockade Al Jazeera
Death toll from Venezuela twin earthquakes surpasses 4,000 Andolu Agency
Colombia’s Petro accuses Israeli cyberfirm BlackCore of election interference Middle East Monitor
China?
Breaking! China just made a big breakthrough in reusable rockets. For the first time, China successfully achieved the controlled recovery of a carrier rocket’s first stage at sea.
The Long March-10B rocket was launched from China’s Wenchang. 6 minutes after the stage… pic.twitter.com/a1qxYEyq5V
— Li Zexin 李泽欣 (@XH_Lee23) July 10, 2026
China climate plan pushes renewables in factories, data centers Los Angeles TimesChina’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon Wired
China is becoming the auto industry’s innovation lab The Street
China’s visa-free policies fuel inbound travel surge China Daily
India
India is becoming a shaping power Al Jazeera
Is it the End for Communism in India? Scheerpost
The Great Nicobar Project: India’s Indian Ocean Power Play Geopolitical Monitor
Africa
How World Bank and IMF loans are reshaping policymaking in Africa Al Jazeera
After the Great Wall of China, Africa is building an 8,000-km Wall of Trees to fight climate change, restore land and feed millions The Times of India
European Disunion
Why an EU ruling about a traffic app could have major implications for big tech companies The Conversation
EU agrees to open new phase of membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova Euronews
EU drafts ‘electrification’ plan to curb oil and gas use, after Iran war disruption Reuters
Old Blighty
How England’s class divide shaped Andy Burnham, the U.K.’s likely next prime minister NPR
UK at a crossroads: Between multiculturalism, extremism, and loss of governance – opinion Jerusalem Post
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
Still bombing GAZA 😡 https://t.co/y1Z3Phmzua
— Hanane Rebelle (@hanane80951160) July 11, 2026
Israel Detains Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Inside Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli police detained Sheikh Muhammad Hussein after he delivered the Friday sermon.
The sermon reportedly condemned Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza. At the same time, Israeli police also raided the office of… pic.twitter.com/Wwtr8sIwNJ
— Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani) July 10, 2026
Israel launches fresh airstrikes in southern Lebanon despite US-brokered deal Andolu Agency
US Democrat Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit Reuters
Israel’s Last Hope The Times of Israel
New Not-So-Cold War
‘You’re playing with fire,’ RT editor-in-chief warns Europe RT
Ukraine Won’t Be Able to Produce Patriot Missiles Domestically Despite a U.S. Licence Military Watch Magazine
Russia, Ukraine report multiple casualties following overnight strikes Andolu Agency
Russia Halts Shipping Through Kerch Strait After Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Vessels United 24 Media
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras ABC 7 Eyewitness News
Imperial Collapse Watch
Trump 2.0
Trump lost his war with Iran — now he’s trapped in it MS Now
Trump trades threats with Iran’s leader as mediators struggle to save talks Al Jazeera
Ex-White House lawyer: Trump ‘stacking every card in the deck’ ahead of midterms The Hill
Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife NPR
Musk Matters
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets TechCrunch
Democrat Death Watch
Editorial: Centrist Democrats must not let ‘democratic socialists’ take over their party without a fight Chicago Tribune
Democrats fear chances of winning Senate may be slipping away The Hill
Immigration
Houston shooting marks at least the 8th fatality in US immigration sweeps AP
House report details how DHS used FEMA to bolster immigration crackdown Federal News Network
Our No Longer Free Press
NJ court doubles down on one of the worst censorship orders we’ve seen Freedom of the Press Foundation
Mr. Market Is Moody
America’s Debt Just Hit a WWII-Era Record While the Economy Booms: The Trap Nobody’s Talking About 24/7 Wall Street
US Bucks The Trend Despite Price Spike, But Oil Demand Set To Slump: When Is A Recovery Expected International Business Times
The U.S. stock market is becoming ‘too big to fail’ MarketWatch
AI
AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds Futurism
AI Detects Hidden Warning Signs Before Major Earthquakes SciTech Daily
Robinhood expands autonomous trading with AI crypto agents Cryptopolitan
Apple sues Open AI, accusing it of stealing trade secrets Semafor
The Bezzle
Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe TechCrunch
INTERPOL seizes $293 million, arrests 5,811 in global scam crackdown Cryptopolitan
Guillotine Watch
The top 5 expensive Honey in the world
📹top5expensive
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) April 2, 2025
The five most expensive restaurants in the world. pic.twitter.com/7xxyEAnv6K
— BILLIONAIRE COLLECTION ® (@BillionMagazine) January 29, 2026
Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
“Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.”
I offered a prayer that Allah make arrangements that Graham spend his eternity in Jahannam in a perpetual cycle of witnessing the atrocities he supported in Gaza.
“Trump trades threats with Iran’s leader, Araghchi holds talks with Omani FM”
The new Ayatollah has a message for Trump-
‘My name is Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. You killed my father. Prepare to die.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I73sP93-0xA (2″16 mins)
RE: Democrats fear chances of winning Senate may be slipping away
Maybe try not knifing your own candidates in the back when they’re winning. How hard would that have been? Maybe Chuck will follow Lindsay’s lead – that might improve his party’s chances immensely.
A recent post on the Plattner affair had a commentary about this Chuck as someone who chooses control of the party over winning elections.
About those “5 most expensive honeys”:
“Elvish honey: this rare honey is harvested in deep caves in Turkey, about 1800 meters underground.”
Honey produced 1800 meters underground? My first reaction is that this does not look credible at all.
America’s 4th of July demolition derby in Alaska. I particularly liked the Stars and Stripes painted one going into ground. No metaphor there:)
” Russia Halts Shipping Through Kerch Strait After Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Vessels ”
I have seen several videos on the TV news of Ukrainian strikes on those ships and in every case they go for the bridge in order to terrorize and kill the civilian crews. And I still believe that it is Washington behind these latest series of attacks by providing satellite coverage and targeting information as part of a campaign to call a ceasefire and freeze in place. The bad news is that grain deliveries may stop coming from this sea and with crop production down due to a lack of fertilizers, this will be bad news for a lot of countries.