One Million Years Ago, Our Human Relatives May Have Challenged Giant Hyenas for Carcasses Smithsonian
Airports Want To Make Travel More Miserable By Letting Anyone Into The Terminal Jalopnik
You Should 3D Print Your Own Space Shuttle Jalopnik
Scientists Say They’ve Found Huge Number of Mysterious Circles Around the World Futurism
11 Scientists Found a Room-Temperature Superconductor. Now 8 of Them Want a Retraction. New York Times
Climate/Environment
The Bold Idea To Move Millions To Climate Havens NOEMA
The Microplastics Are in the Clouds Now Gizmodo
PA Fails to Buffer Homes from Fracking Belt Magazine
Water
‘A ticking time bomb’: Why California can’t provide safe drinking water to all its residents Los Angeles Times. It can; it just doesn’t care to.
#COVID-19
Hundreds Test Positive for COVID at Disney World, Lockdown Initiated by Report Moderators Inside the Magic (LS)
Looks like schools just reopened without updated vaccines for kids, without masks, without airborne mitigations. Naturally, #COVID hospitalizations surge for kids. Who could have foreseen this? 🤦🏻♂️ #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne https://t.co/DWqNaOVIMo
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 30, 2023
“Endemic” COVID: More total hospitalizations in 2023 than 2020.
But it’s cool because daily hospitalizations “remain at far lower levels than the worst points in the last few years.” pic.twitter.com/KY5n3tek54
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) September 30, 2023
SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers pro-atherogenic inflammatory responses in human coronary vessels Nature Cardiovascular Research
Old Blighty
The electoral (wrong) turn: beyond the binaries of Labour Red Pepper
The Sahel
The Sahel Will Define the Next Decade of Counterterrorism Operations The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
India
Are Food Grains Going to Emerge a Chokepoint if the India-Canada Spat Escalates? The Wire
HEAT-PROOFING INDIA Science
China?
China’s Micron Ban: A Tacit Admission of Domestic Manufacturing Proficiency? The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
AI will help the US maintain its economic dominance over China, strategists say Insider. The strategists also said it was a great idea to offshore US industry to China.
China’s manufacturing expands for first time in 6 months in latest sign of stabilising economy South China Morning Post
Decline of traditional supermarkets linked to worker protests across China China Labour Bulletin
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Taiwan’s New Submarines Will Be a Mixed Blessing The Diplomat
European Disunion
Critical approaches in EU law – still a blindspot Transformative Private Law Blog. “We need more critical legal engagements within EU law, because there is mounting evidence that the EU law is in part responsible for the high levels of inequalities that persist and the reproduction of various intertwined power structures. For instance, some have uncovered the ideological underpinnings of EU citizenship law that privilege economic rationality and perpetuates discrimination based on class, others the pervasiveness of the market logic in private law, the links between economic (neo) liberalism and authoritarianism, how the EU economic governance undermines and re-configures the notion of ‘social Europe’ in a context of austerity measures becoming entrenched within EU economic governance, or explored the legal architecture of money.”
New Not-So-Cold War
Grant Shapps to ramp up support for Volodymyr Zelensky The Telegraph. “I was talking today about eventually getting the training brought closer and actually into Ukraine as well.”
Who Is Operating Ukraine’s New Abrams Tanks? Presence of U.S. or Polish Contractors Likely Military Watch Magazine
German Federal Cartel Office Gives Go-Ahead to Joint Venture Between Rheinmetall and Ukrainian Defence Industry Defense-aerospace.com
Ukraine can use German missiles to attack Russia – Bundestag RT
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Germany’s Die Linke produced a detailed report on Ukraine’s official commemoration of Nazi collaborators like Bandera and Shukhevych, and asked Berlin to condemn
The gov’t refused, likely because denouncing the heroes of post-Maidan Ukraine would undercut military aid to Kiev https://t.co/xToJ6F3BPl
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 30, 2023
Right now, #Kyiv has a thoroughfare leading to Babyn Yar, recently renamed (NOT, definitely not under the Soviets) after Stepan #Bandera, an ethno-nationalist fascist whose Ukrainian nationalists participated in the Holocaust, mass-murdered Poles, and tried to get their own Nazi… https://t.co/ZYMGnvEDZn
— Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) September 30, 2023
Canada was ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler. But that salute didn’t come from nowhere Forward
Canadian Journalists Are Worried A Nazi’s Feelings May Be Hurt The Maple
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Russia raises military budget for 2024 by 70%: what does this mean? Gilbert Doctorow
‘The Source Of Russian Brutality’ As Proven By Fiction Moon of Alabama
Ukraine’ Assassination Program Has Gotten So Out of Control that Some of Its Members Are Starting to Speak Out Covert Action Magazine
South of the Border
Deploying Kenyan Police in Haiti is Unconstitutional Black Agenda Report
THE LATEST US EXPORT TO BRAZIL? LEGALIZED LABOR EXPLOITATION Law and Political Economy Project
O Canada
Canada’s Great Grocery Ripoff The Deep Dive
Biden Administration
Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified Jonathan Turley
2024
Liberal group in Michigan sues to keep Trump off ballot, citing 14th Amendment The Hill
Antitrust
“Never Seen Anything Like It:” The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 Years BIG by Matt Stoller
Democrats en déshabillé
Against the Current Harper’s. “Where’s the support for Democratic insurgents?”
Feinstein Is dead! like I did with Other dead people, I need to stop anyone from white washig her legacy…
So here we go: pic.twitter.com/PybLuUqYBC
— Esha K 🥭 (@eshaLegal) September 30, 2023
Shutdown Row
Ditching Ukraine aid, U.S. House in bipartisan vote passes bill to avert shutdown Maryland Matters
Rep. Bowman under investigation for pulling fire alarm before government funding vote The Hill
Shutdowns and paycheck-to-paycheck living Speaking Security
Realignment and Legitimacy
Anthony Fauci Was America’s Warmup Dictator Matt Taibbi, Racket News
Right-wing ‘constitutional sheriffs’ movement comes to Minnesota Minnesota Reformer
Police State Watch
Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery Bolts Mag
Imperial Collapse Watch
A New Era Of Mass Armies Approaches Ian Welsh
“‘The undiscovered country.’” Patrick Lawrence, The Floutist
AI
Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI Futurism
I Deepfaked My Own Nudes. They Were Not as Hot as the Real Thing GQ
Bush the Younger Legacy
George W. Bush Is Building a Memorial to the War on Terror. He Wants Your Feedback. The Intercept
Screening Room
Martin Scorsese Sees Characters Like Travis Bickle Everywhere: ‘Now, Tragically, It’s a Norm’ IndieWire
Groves of Academe
Students once made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England ZME Science
Majority of US students now support speech codes Unherd
Supply Chain
The IRA and the US Battery Supply Chain: One Year On Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia
De-risk? Decouple? A Chinese official says it’s just the West disrupting supply chains South China Morning Post
The Bezzle
Mark Zuckerberg touts potential of remote work in metaverse as Meta threatens staff violating return-to-office mandate Fortune
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital co-founder arrested at Singapore’s Changi Airport Channel News Asia
Class Warfare
Accounting for the widening mortality gap between American adults with and without a BA Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Brookings Institution
Truly exceptional:
The Life and Death Stakes of Labor Power How Things Work
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How will the city implement forced treatment for people with mental illness? 48 Hills. San Francisco. California CARE Courts start today.
Sacklerama! The Baffler. “Why we can’t look away from opioid epidemic entertainments.”
How Kierkegaard Connects Our Surging Anxiety to the Spirit of Our Age Mad In America
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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
