New Jersey Hawk Develops Intelligent Searching Technique Utilizing Site visitors Alerts ScienceAlert
Container ship barely misses Norwegian man’s home after operating aground Washington Submit (Kevin W)
Can We Belief Social Science But? Asterisk (Anthony L)
“Whenever you see this, I might be useless” Aftonbladet by way of machine translation (Micael T). Vital.
COVID-19/Pandemics
‘Between 2022 and 2023 there have been 1.5 million “lacking People,” referring to extra deaths. It’s prompting questions on what could possibly be driving this.’
I by no means imagined issues may get this ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/A7Xiy4N1Fd
— Jammer (@acrossthemersey) May 23, 2025
FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hep B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?YEP.
A thread🧵
1/
— Andrea C. Love, PhD (@dr_andrealove) May 5, 2025
This report is clearly sensationalistic. No concept if the underlying examine (see its design) confirms the conclusions:
BREAKING! Alarming Examine Reveals That Far-UVC Mild Would possibly Not Be as Protected as Beforehand Believed, Can Trigger DNA Harm!https://t.co/8eR6tUPmPV#BreakingNews #BREAKING #News #Alerts #FarUVC #Disinfectant #COVID19 #H5N1 #CleanAir #Health #WorldNews #Coronavirus #Warning #222nm
— Thailand Medical Information (@ThailandMedicaX) May 24, 2025
Local weather/Atmosphere
Examine: Increasing Renewable Vitality Does Not Decrease Fossil Gasoline Manufacturing OilPrice
Warming of +1.5 °C is just too excessive for polar ice sheets Nature
Clouding the forecast: Why so many local weather fashions are mistaken about fee of Arctic warming PhysOrg
China?
China’s house ambitions ‘forcing’ Washington’s Golden Dome technique: commander South China Morning Submit
Anti-missile system intensifies US-China nuclear competitors Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Chinese language Work Much less For Longer Retirements Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
The US-Japan alliance – its previous, current and unclear future Engelsberg Concepts. Wowsers, others inspired to remark however I needed to cease right here:
This transformation was something however pre-ordained, nor was it merely the results of rational, overlapping pursuits. Moderately, it was the consequence of shrewd alliance administration, psychologically astute and empathetic diplomacy, and daring management on either side of the Pacific. It additionally relied on the 2 nations’ capacity to climate the pressures of their typically fractious home politics, in addition to their capability to navigate sharply contrasting cultural and historic traditions, to not point out typically radically totally different approaches to financial administration.
Bullshit. The US interfered in order that socialistic leaders didn’t come into energy by backing many senior folks from the outdated regime…who by any rights ought to have been purged and even prosecuted as warfare criminals. Maybe the insinuation is that the US wouldn’t have invested within the absence of proper wingers being in cost.
South of the Border
China-CELAC Summit Proclaims Cooperation Initiatives and $9 Billion Credit score Program Venezuelanalysis. Robin Okay: “Every week in the past. Ongoing.”
European Disunion
“A brief historical past of exploding pipelines.” The Floutist
Previous Blighty
Voters are sick of lectures from the lanyard class The Instances (Paul R)
Starmer’s Chagos deal to price UK as much as £30bn The Telegraph (Kevin W)
Israel v. the Resistance
…’Not a single baby in Gaza ought to stay there’…
👇THIS 👇 pic.twitter.com/H19fqkQKAz
— Decide Napolitano (@Judgenap) May 20, 2025
Israel’s help plan for Gaza is a key a part of its technique to expel Palestinians Mondoweiss
Israel’s reinvasion of Gaza is a strategic catastrophe Monetary Instances
America is probably not hopeless:
“Do you hear in regards to the infants that had been beheaded?
They had been by no means beheaded, that was a made up story.”
People are slowly waking up… pic.twitter.com/bQQiKE7crW
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) May 23, 2025
Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Tough American Conservative (resilc)
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
Ukraine: a rustic that by no means was Julian Macfarlane. Contains translation of much-discussed Medvedev remarks, the place the punch line was that Ukraine wants to simply accept the present Russian provide or else it can quickly not be a state.
Evaluation: Russian ‘Triple Chokehold’ Tactic, + Offensive Season Outlook Simplicius
A flagless fleet is threatening the seas Monetary Instances (resilc)
Make Moscow Pay Overseas Affairs
HOW MUCH MORE WAR CAN RUSSIA AFFORD? Seymour Hersh, Hoo boy….
So A lot for Western Experience on Russia Larry Johnson
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian military has begun utilizing a ‘triple chokehold’ tactic on the entrance, which permits for sluggish however regular development – The Telegraph
▪️First comes the bottom assault to pin down the Ukrainian Armed Forces, forcing them to take up positions moderately than maneuver. Then… pic.twitter.com/7m6MeVoQBx
— — GEROMAN — time will inform – 👀 — (@GeromanAT) May 23, 2025
Ukraine: a rustic that by no means was Daniel Larison
Canada, Norway to deepen Arctic, protection ties amid Ukraine warfare Anadolu Company
Nicely deserved but additionally means Lavrov can’t retire for a minimum of one other 12 months 🙂
Putin introduced Overseas Minister Lavrov with Russia’s highest award, the Order of St. Andrew the First-Known as
“The expertise, information, expertise, and intelligence of Russia’s chief diplomat Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov have earned him unconditional respect each in our nation and… pic.twitter.com/fQcW6NiyIL
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) May 22, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Poured in 2022 pic.twitter.com/hXxCP1293X
— KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 (@brim006) May 23, 2025
bob:
Everyone seems to be trying on the high quality of the concrete, or the ending, it’s all dangerous!
“Don’t construct it like they used to…”It’s a ramp to a sidewalk that doesn’t exist! There isn’t any continuity to the sidewalk within the background. I’d personally wager to the fitting too,
Aggressive Virus Feeds on Brains of Western Leaders Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Navy pushing billions for sea-based nukes that no one appears to need Accountable Statecraft
Classes From Hurricane Helene on Evacuation Orders, Messaging and Emergency Managers ProPublica
50 Years Later, Majority of Vietnam Veterans and U.S. Adults Suppose the U.S. Ought to have Stayed Out of Vietnam Emerson Polling (resilc)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the CIA, and Me Joe Costello. Vital.
Trump 2.0
US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet NED Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
Trump fires dozens from Nationwide Safety Council in main energy shift PressTV. Much less risk of knowledgeable enter, extra focus of energy in Trump’s palms. Additionally now the lead story within the Monetary Instances.
4 prime companions give up Paul Weiss, Large Regulation agency that minimize take care of Trump Enterprise Insider
U.S. Officers Bought Shares Earlier than Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market ProPublica (Robin Okay)
Trump’s Marketing campaign Towards Elite Regulation Corporations Suffers One other Defeat in Courtroom Wall Avenue Journal
Cuts to Medicaid and perhaps Medicare Offended Bear. The Medicare half isn’t well-known.
Trump v. Harvard
Decide briefly blocks Trump admin from revoking Harvard enrollment of overseas college students Reuters (Kevin W). Listening to on the twenty ninth. It can nonetheless take a while (given the excessive profile of this case, my guess is at most 10 days) for the choose to problem an order, until the choose deems the case of 1 facet to be so weak that she guidelines from the bench. I don’t regard the latter as doubtless since even when so, it doesn’t look so scorching to an appeals courtroom.
Harvard v the Division of Homeland Safety
Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Transfer to Bar Worldwide College students New York Instances. Recaps argument within the grievance.
Trump’s Assault on Harvard Is an Astonishing Act of Nationwide Self-Sabotage Yascha Mounk
These Are the U.S. Universities Most Depending on Worldwide College students New York Instances (resilc)
Tariffs
Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% on iPhones BBC
Why Trump Lashed Out at Europe Over Commerce Wall Avenue Journal. Lead story. The very fact of this clearly planted piece signifies some on the Trump staff are working additional time to attempt to handle the optics and in some way make Trump look much less emotionally immature and harmful than he’s. However the “lashed out” within the headline = the Journal not absolutely shopping for what it was being bought. However the physique is unduly understated, for example depicting the EU having a “extra staid and process-oriented strategy” when that’s how commerce negotiations just about should be completed until one facet is dictating phrases.
Donald Trump ‘not on the lookout for deal’ as he threatens EU with 50% tariff Monetary Instances. Hoo boy.
Japan once more ‘strongly’ urges US to take away further tariffs Anadolu Company
Allianz Commerce World Survey 2025: Commerce warfare, commerce offers and their impacts on corporations Allianz
The Tyrant’s Commerce Struggle Daniel Larison
Immigration
DHS Is Getting Able to Establish Everybody Who Leaves the Nation, Increasing Immigration Dragnet Murzata Hussain
Democrat Demise Want
US senate to analyze who actually ran nation beneath Biden RT (Kevin W)
‘Abundance’ Requires Redistribution Compact
Our No Longer Free Press
FBI Visits Me Over Manifesto Ken Klippenstein
Microsoft Bans the Phrase “Palestine” in Inside Emails Drop Website
AI
Anthropic’s new AI mannequin turns to blackmail when engineers attempt to take it offline TechCrunch
Google’s New Video-Producing AI Could Be the Finish of Actuality as We Know It Futurism
CEOs report 25% of AI initiatives delivers anticipated ROI Fortune (resilc)
SoftBank simply patented EVERY doable AI utility LinkedIn (Micael T)
The Bezzle
Influencer who attended Trump’s memecoin dinner says he received a ‘Walmart steak’—and no entry to the president Yahoo! (Kevin W). BWAHAHA
Republicans Work Extra time To Assist Boeing Keep away from Penalties For Its Lethal Airplane Jalopnik
Class Warfare
US banana large Chiquita fires 1000’s over Panama strike Aljazeera
Antidote du jour. John U: “Scene from the Inca Path, Peru”:
And a bonus:
So dramatic 😭 pic.twitter.com/yNi7CMmrKs
— Why you must have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) May 22, 2025
A second bonus:
Anticipate it 😂😍 pic.twitter.com/ZJ4RUePQ22
— why you must have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) May 22, 2025
And a 3rd:
he is the grasp of rock climbers… pic.twitter.com/3BjzhaA53q
— Punch Cat (@PunchingCat) May 23, 2025
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
