Bottlenose dolphins are relying on fishing trawlers in Adriatic Sea, study finds Geographical
A 37-year soil experiment revealed a hidden climate threat Science Daily (Kevin W)
Aging is Funny, Okay? Oldster (Micael T). Hhhm.
COVID-19/Pandemics
I've been writing a really long thread on the long covid dopamine study, but it's incredibly long winded and complicated and boring and depressing, and even I'm fed up of it, so here's the five tweet version:
— tern (@1goodtern) July 14, 2026
Climate/Environment
Move Over Oppenheimer Jackson Damian
HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT
52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and
2026 World RecordMINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN
33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTANNext days WORSE
53/54c Middle East
49/50C former USSR
50/52C CHINA
NIGHTS up to 40CMOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY pic.twitter.com/sTpiY7BQHM
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 14, 2026
World’s water supplies heading for irreversible decline, warns UN’s Guterres National News. We warned that potable water would be the critical resource to come first under catastrophic pressure from the inception of this site.
Scientists Suggest “Sun-Dimming” Cloud Plan To Reduce Super El Nino Impact NDTV
Melting icebergs can weaken a massive, far-off ocean current system PhysOrg
51 dead, over 1 million marooned by floods in Bangladesh Global Times
” rel=”nofollow”>Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves New Scientist
Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say ABC
Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwest Guardian
China?
China economic growth falls sharply, missing target BBC. Just like Japan in its post-bubble years: strong export sector, weak domestic activity.
China’s Credit Expansion Disappoints as New Loans Miss Forecasts Bloomberg. No archived version yet.
China has detained US nuclear seismology expert since 2024, family reveals Guardian
We were wrong about DeepSeek. Now Chinese AI companies export trillions of AI tokens Kevin Walmsley (Kevin W)
Africa
Egypt’s water dispute with Ethiopia overshadowed by rising Horn of Africa tension, experts say National News
Khartoum faces drinking water crisis as Nile levels drop sharply Sudan Tribune
South of the Border
European Disunion
EU signals emergency import curbs after dramatic growth in Chinese trade gap South China Morning Post (guurst)
Heat Wave Dries Up German Rhine Chokepoint to Strain Fuel Supply Bloomberg
Old Blighty
Jonathan Cook: Burnham’s Hollow Contrition on Gaza ConsortiumNews
Israel v. The Resistance
🇺🇬 NEW: Uganda is preparing to deploy troops to Gaza at the request of U.S. President Trump, the state-owned newspaper New Vision reported Monday.
According to the paper, Trump asked President Yoweri Museveni, through his Board of Peace, to contribute forces to the International…
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) July 14, 2026
Al-Aqsa could be on the verge of changing forever.
For decades, Al-Aqsa Mosque has been administered by the Islamic Waqf under Jordan's custodianship. A reported US-Israeli proposal could change that.
The plan would replace the Waqf with a new Israeli-created body, officially… pic.twitter.com/Ytov9fUCJu
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) July 13, 2026
Will Hamas concessions amount to a genuine transfer of power in Gaza? Arab News
Grenade attacks across Israel target sushi chain in escalating feud between crime families Times of Israel (Kevin W)
July 14, 2026 — US naval blockade of Iranian ports goes into effect CNN
Trump knocks US-Iran war back to square one Asia Times (Kevin W)
Exclusive: Israeli Intelligence Cutout Made Contact With ‘Influential Figures’ In Syria To Lay Groundwork For Normalization The Dissident (Robin K)
Turkiye
10 years since the Turkish military coup attempt targeting Erdoğan WSWS (Alan S)
Syraqistan
The ongoing Pakistan-Afghanistan war The Communists (Robin K)
New Not-So-Cold War
The EU has found a loophole in the Black Sea for its warships Vzglayd via machine translation (guurst)
Ukraine’s Drone Sinks FSB Patrol Vessel Near Putin’s Palace Chosun
Trump will support bill on anti-Russia sanctions — CNN TASS (guurst)
Olympic funding questioned by nine EU nations over Russia readmission Aljazeera (Kevin W)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
The Controversial Flock Cameras Tracking Every Car — Full Breakdown Dave Plummer, YouTube (BC)
Imperial Collapse Watch
No Direction Home Aurelien. A must read and a terrific essay, even by Aurelien’s high standards.
Level Three of Five: State Terror Inside the United States W.A. Lawrence
The ICC was created also to investigate atrocity crimes, and in order to shield Israeli officials from ongoing investigations the US administration is now bragging about dismantling the court. https://t.co/0baFuJUteG
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) July 14, 2026
Making the World Safe for War Criminals Daniel Larison
This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.
A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the… pic.twitter.com/Gvjn3KvL0A
— Teddy – PolyBackTest.com (@Bitcoin_Teddy) July 6, 2026
Trump 2.0
Trump’s slow-motion dismantling of elections Salon
House passes Trump-backed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent NBC (Kevin W)
Immigration
The ICE murders in Maine and Texas and the lessons of Minneapolis WSWS
ICE shootings spark demands for reform as critics argue agency is ‘stalking Latinos’ The Hill
Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump administration officials and pro-Israel groups for ‘conspiracy’ Middle East Eye
Our No Longer Free Press
Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting On Social Media PC Magazine
Antitrust
States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ Variety
Mr. Market Needs a Therapist
Behind the AI Rally Lies a Dangerous Leverage Cycle Real Clear Markets
AI
Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI Gary Marcus
Unchecked Reliance on AI is Upending Corporate Workflows TMTPost (guurst)
Someone created a ‘Ghost Font’ that humans can read but AI can’t — I had to try it for myself tom’s guide (Micael T)
Data centres in a heatwave: heaping demand on stretched electric grid during climate crisis Irish Times
IBM Stock Collapses After a Grave Warning About AI Fast Company
Class Warfare
Conservatism: America’s Personality Disorder Chris Armitage
Medicare Turns 61; The Case for Expanding it to all Americans Juan Cole (FDS)
The End of the Managerial Age Richard Vigilante
I was genuinely getting worried that the DSA and its candidates might tap the brakes on genocide, MAGA ICE goons sport killing people in the streets and the collapse of free and fair elections
But thanks to co-operation between oligarch-friendly Democrats and oligarch-friendly…
— Gregory Travis (@greg_travis) July 14, 2026
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “A female (Lithobates catesbeianus) American Bullfrog – just guessing on the gender, but females are bigger than males and their ears (dark circle at the waterline) are the same size as their eyes, whereas males have big ears.”
And a bonus:
Meanwhile in Florida, a beagle protects its family home from an alligator pic.twitter.com/sHzfLU9qwD
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) July 14, 2026
A second bonus:
A female puma named Dania moves past a group of photographers with her eyes fixed on a nearby guanaco pic.twitter.com/XGxd8UktP3
— Nature Unedited (@NatureUnedited) July 13, 2026
And a third:
He chose to befriend fish instead of hunting them. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/FC3cnQ8cXA
— The Best (@TheBestqueenx) July 15, 2026
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
‘Secretary Marco Rubio
Department of State
@SecRubio
The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty.
We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.’
Rubio is just grandstanding here. About a quarter of a century ago Bush passed the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA), known as the Hague Invasion. So if an American or that of an allied nation (cough*Israel*cough) gets imprisoned for war crimes, the US military is already authorized to go in and free them and Rubio knows it-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
Will members of the IDF now be classified as US service members under that Act? Or, will US service members be classified as IDF and so be fair game for the ICC?
Fun thought, Russia and China supply “officers” to enforce ICC warrants, worldwide.
Stay safe.
They already thought about that in that Act and listed a bunch of countries who also were protected, but actually, it was only Israel that they were talking about-
‘The subsection (b) specifies this authority shall extend to “covered United States persons” (members of the U.S. Armed Forces, elected or appointed officials of the U.S. Government, and other persons employed by, or working on behalf of, the U.S. Government) and “covered allied persons” (military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by, or working on behalf of, the government of a NATO member country or a major non-NATO ally, including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, South Korea, and New Zealand).’
Working link for “Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves” article at-
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2533887-shifts-in-the-jet-stream-are-behind-europes-long-heatwaves/
Welcome to the new norm.