Woodpeckers Use Tennis Participant ‘Grunting’ Trick To Drill Bushes StudyFinds
Social identification with a group boosts followers’ social well-being EurekAlert
Can Visiting an Artwork Gallery Decrease Your Stress Ranges and Enhance Your Well being? Smithsonian Journal
Local weather/Setting
Northern Lights dazzle all the best way to the Gulf Coast as main photo voltaic storm impacts Earth Balanced Climate
CO2 to hit document in 2025, key temperature restrict may very well be reached in 4 years: Examine Straits Instances
The sinister alchemy that places lead into Zambian kids’s veins The Continent
Pandemics
PUPIL ATTENDANCE & ILLNESS
The federal government & media appear to imagine that the numerous rise in pupil absence in comparison with pre-pandemic is primarily pushed by truancy.
They don’t appear to imagine there’s a GENUINE enhance in sickness.
So let’s take a better have a look at the info… 🔎 pic.twitter.com/xvHkQZR05G
— Cat within the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) November 12, 2025
Japan
Deepening chill with China over Taiwan Observing Japan
Stagflation Creates Coverage Dilemmas, Battle Between Takaichi and BOJ Japan Financial system Watch
Japan and Europe come collectively in assist of Taiwan Intellinews
China?
Europe’s carmakers face ‘devastating’ chip disaster as Nexperia provide crunch continues FT
What’s the $13 bn bitcoin hack that China blames US for? Firstpost
China buys extra Brazil soybeans as US purchases stall Farmer’s Advance
🇨🇳🇺🇸China Hatches Plan to Maintain U.S. Army From Getting Its Uncommon-Earth Magnets
China is reportedly planning to ease the stream of uncommon earths and different restricted supplies to the U.S. by implementing a “validated end-user” (VEU) system that excludes corporations with ties to the… pic.twitter.com/Q5ozBfJIuT— CN Wire (@Sino_Market) November 11, 2025
India
Putin to go to India on Dec 5 as ties deepen, says Russia-India discussion board host Enterprise Customary
Syraqistan
Rescue Groups Dig Up Over 50 Our bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza Metropolis Clinic Drop Website
Israeli crowd applauds troopers accused of raping Palestinian prisoner Center East Eye
US to construct internment-style camps for Palestinians in Israeli-controlled Gaza The Cradle
Navy Considers Base for 10,000 Close to Gaza With out US Troops Bloomberg
Trump Formally Asks Israel’s President to ‘Absolutely Pardon’ Netanyahu in Corruption Case Haaretz
Israel is constructing a ‘land seize wall’ deep inside southern Lebanon as air strikes proceed The New Arab
“The terrorist(s) within the White Home.” Patrick Lawrence, The Floutist
European Disunion
Europe’s fiscal–geopolitical vicious circle German Institute for Worldwide and Safety Affairs
IMF requires radical reform of the European welfare state WSWS
Far proper cheers as von der Leyen’s get together abandons centrist coalition over inexperienced guidelines Politico
Chief of far-right AfD suggests Poland as nice a risk to Germany as Russia Notes from Poland
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
The scandal that would convey down Volodymyr Zelensky The Spectator
As I mentioned, NABU, which went towards Zelensky’s cronies, is US proxy in Ukraine: “NABU detectives met with a brand new FBI agent in reference to the Mindich case, sources say. Yesterday, detectives on the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine met with the brand new FBI officer, who… pic.twitter.com/vKjqH1nu6d
— Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) November 12, 2025
How Far Will Ukraine’s Corruption Scandal Go? Andrew Korybko
Germany to funnel additional cash into Ukraine’s corruption-plagued vitality sector RT
Norway reportedly considers sovereign fund collateral for EU’s €140bn Ukraine mortgage Intellinews
Germany inches near settlement on contentious navy service however questions stay Euronews
Fuel gangrene returns to Ukraine in echoes of First World Battle trench warfare The Telegraph
Russia Formally Introduces New Department of the Armed Forces: Unmanned Methods Forces Simplicius
TED POSTOL: Burevestnik Missile & Poseidon Torpedo, What We Know Daniel Davis / Deep Dive (Video)
Africa
Sudan reduction operations are getting ready to collapse, UN company warns AP
The Caucasus
Hypothesis of sabotage, projectile grows as Turkey investigates navy aircraft crash Turkish Minute
South of the Border
Unique: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike issues in main break CNN. Whenever you’ve misplaced the UK (if report is true).
Russia denies Venezuela sought navy help and rejects U.S. ‘struggle on medicine’ justification Brasil de Fato
Migration from Venezuela Anti-Empire Venture
Argentina’s US$870-million enhance of IMF holdings factors to US help Buenos Aires Instances
L’affaire Epstein
Epstein e-mail says Trump ‘knew concerning the women,’ however White Home says launch is a Democratic smear AP
Extra Home Republicans Take into account Defying Trump In Upcoming Epstein Information Vote NOTUS
Epstein Geopolitics Un-Diplomatic
Trump 2.0
ICE, Nationwide Guard Deployments Simply the Starting Ken Klippenstein
These Wall Avenue titans are anticipated at Trump’s White Home dinner tonight CBS Information. Final evening.
5 Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano Can We Nonetheless Govern?
Breaking: DOJ Alerts CFPB Funding Could Lapse in Early 2026 After Justice Division Authorized Opinion Concludes Fed Losses Block Transfers Shopper Monetary Providers Regulation Monitor
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Trump group requested document variety of overseas employees in 2025 The Hill
Trump doubles down on plan for 600,000 Chinese language scholar visas regardless of MAGA backlash Fox Information
“Liberation Day”
US Treasury chief says ‘substantial’ tariff reduction coming to espresso, banana costs Anadolu Company
CHART OF THE DAY: Whereas a lot of the vital minerals speak within the US is about uncommon earths, one thing way more essential is occurring:
US aluminum all-in prices have surged to a document as merchants/smelters demand enormous bodily premia on prime of LME costs resulting from Trump’s tariffs. pic.twitter.com/kxoE9BNVcs
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) November 12, 2025
Shutdown Deal
Shutdown Deal Kills Meals Security Guidelines The Lever
Duffy, FAA freeze flight discount plan at 6% The Hill
MAHA
I’m a doctor who went to the anti-vaccine motion’s greatest gathering. Extra of my colleagues ought to too STAT
Vance, RFK Jr. to mingle with well being execs, influencers at DC MAHA summit The Hill. Closed to public and the press.
Democrats en déshabillé
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of employees arrested in FBI public corruption probe The Sacramento Bee. Federal authorities reportedly approached her in search of assist with probe into Newsom.
Progressive Wilson getting ready to victory in nail-biter Seattle mayoral race Salon
Police State Watch
Fullerton police cease man pointing gun at feminine driver, solely to be taught he’s ICE agent Los Angeles Instances
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Darkish Campaign of “Little” Wars The Realist Evaluate
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE Protean Journal
Ought to a struggle hero be deported? The advanced dilemma round one convicted vet. Christian Science Monitor
‘Nuremberg’: Can You Diagnose Evil? MedPage As we speak
AI
Unique: Right here’s How A lot OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Income Share With Microsoft Edward Zitron
The Ecological Value of AI Is A lot Greater Than You Assume Truthdig
Pure fuel will “dominate” electrical energy provide for U.S. knowledge facilities, in accordance with the World Vitality Outlook 2025. pic.twitter.com/mSTNFvHO6x
— Richard Meyer (@RichardMeyerDC) November 12, 2025
Information Facilities in Nvidia’s Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Energy Bloomberg
Financial system
Automobile mortgage delinquencies are surging. Right here’s what to do in the event you’re falling behind. Yahoo! Finance
Mr. Market Hovering Blind
White Home says October jobs and inflation knowledge could by no means be launched due to the shutdown CNBC
Dow scores first shut above 48,000, buoyed by anticipated finish of presidency shutdown CNBC
Class Warfare
Shares Aren’t Salvation Hamilton Nolan
Discover how they inform you to hate SNAP recipients, however by no means the individuals who have constructed SNAP subsidies into their low-wage enterprise mannequin? That’s as a result of the homeowners of the companies additionally pay skilled propagandists to inform you who to hate. pic.twitter.com/1VRewxixDc
— Russell Dobular (@russelldobular) November 12, 2025
Rise in untimely deaths prevents People from reaching age of Medicare eligibility, research finds McKnights
Meditation upon a Cannoli Hickman’s Hinterlands
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