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Climate/Environment

Folks this can’t be happening 🔥👀 pic.twitter.com/897CpI6Fme

— Climate Watcher 🔥🇨🇦🇬🇧 🇯🇲🌺 (@pmagn) March 24, 2026

Warming coastal waters primary driver of large-scale humid heatwaves Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds The Guardian

🌡️Widespread +25–35°F anomalies again tomorrow (3/25), with 80s and 90s pushing deep into the Plains & Midwest. On its own, this would be standout late-March heat. Stacked on top of the past week… it’s something else entirely. pic.twitter.com/K4ov1jm3Wq

— The Global Warmer🔥🌏 🔥 (@TheGlobalWarmer) March 24, 2026

There’s been quite a few questions re: just how unusual the upcoming storm in the Middle East is. So here’s some maps:

The shortwave trough forcing the severe outbreak will easily be the deepest on record (1950-2024) in March, and may potentially set the yearly record. https://t.co/EyQPOoUoXG pic.twitter.com/YnecTVQG8O

— Tomer Burg (@burgwx) March 25, 2026

Blocking diversity causes distinct roles of diabatic heating in the Northern Hemisphere Nature

Sorry your house burned down. Here’s a $23,000 HOA bill — due next month Los Angeles Times

Wildfire smoke linked to rise in violent assaults, 11-year study finds Phys.org

Japan

Japan set to send combat troops to Philippine exercises — Brawner Manila Times

Germany steps up Indo-Pacific push, eyeing visiting-forces pact with Japan Japan Times

China?

With US trapped in Iran, why is China wasting a golden opportunity to attack Taiwan? China Translated

Southeast Asia

Marcos orders P20B emergency fund to secure fuel supply Manila Times

Fuel Shortages Fail to Stop Deadly Junta Airstrikes on Civilians The Irrawaddy

India

US-Approved Iranian Barrels Find a Cautious Reception in India Bloomberg

Syraqistan

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United States Said to Have Sent Iran a Plan to End the Middle East War New York Times

Is Trump Serious About Negotiations with Iran? Larry Johnson

BREAKING | Iran’s Fars News Agency reports that US and Israeli strikes targeted energy infrastructure in Isfahan and Khorramshahr, including a gas management building, a pressure reduction station, and a gas pipeline linked to a power plant; damage was reported to the facilities…

— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) March 24, 2026

Red Crescent reports 82,000 civilian structures hit in Iran DPA International

War in Iran: Why destroying cultural heritage is such a foolish strategic move in any conflict The Conversation

Talks better than fighting, China tells Iran TRT World

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Top PMU commander, over a dozen fighters killed in new US strikes on Iraq The Cradle

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇶 The Iraqi Armed Forces and the Iraqi Council of National Security have given the Popular Mobilization Forces full authority to respond to and retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attacks, effectively giving them the green light to enter the war formally. pic.twitter.com/NwbfLT5tkV

— The Daily News (@DailyNewsJustIn) March 24, 2026

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Israel says it will take control of large buffer zone in southern Lebanon BBC

Lebanon withdraws Iran envoy’s accreditation, orders him to leave Al Arabiya

Incredible quotes in the deleted Telegraph article about the Lebanese Christians supporting Hezbollah.

I wonder why they didn’t want their audience to read this 🤔 pic.twitter.com/TR4YxupIw5

— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) March 24, 2026

Africa

Trump’s Sahel reset banks on ‘sovereignty,’ guns + minerals deals Responsible Statecraft

Old Blighty

The London Ambulances Attack: Of Course It Was A False Flag Craig Murray

European Disunion

US seeks access to 3 new defense areas in Greenland: Report Anadolu Agency

Mette Frederiksen’s leftwing bloc fails to win majority in Danish election The Guardian

Nato chief riles Europe by backing Trump’s war in Iran FT

Stagflation alarm bells ring in the euro zone as energy crunch hits the global economy CNBC

EU delays proposal to ban Russian oil amid Iran war, price spikes and Druzhba row Euronews

German military satellite plan fuels EU fragmentation fears Reuters

New Not-So-Cold War

The Russian Bear wakes Julian MacFarlane

Lavrov: its WW3 Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Blaze at Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga after major Ukrainian drone attack Straits Times

Russia fires nearly 1,000 drones in one of its largest aerial attacks on Ukraine The Guardian

Trump 2.0

Leaked Document: Iran War Meets Little Brother Ken Klippenstein

Senate shoots down Iran war powers measure; Fetterman, Paul cross aisle The Hill

Americans would trade jobs for cheaper eggs The Argument

Democrats flip Florida state House district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago The Hill

Democrats Suck

Schumer indicates Democratic openness to Republicans’ DHS deal Semafor

Police State Watch

Exclusive: ICE’s Bounty Hunters Ken Klippenstein

Minnesota Sues Trump Administration Over ICE Killings — And a Car Sitting Shrink-Wrapped in a Warehouse Migrant Insider

The Accelerationists

The billionaires who think humanity is just a warm-up act Oligarch Watch

Screening Room

“Sinners” and the Bad History of the Blues HOGELAND’S BAD HISTORY

Agriculture

Strait of Hormuz Closure and Fertilizer Supply Risks for U.S. Agriculture Farmdoc Daily

Imperial Collapse Watch

Epistemic Collapse Un-Diplomatic

Plans, Platforms And Projectiles. Aurelien

Resource Rassling

Column: Every missile fired over Iran is burning through US tungsten stocks Reuters

Chinese Titanium ChinaTalk

QatarEnergy declares force majeure on some LNG contracts due to Iran war Al Jazeera

Energy Crisis Powers Up Big Payday for LNG Exporter Venture Global Daily Upside

Sports Desk

FIFA canceled thousands of hotel room reservations in World Cup host cities The Independent (resilc)

lmao a meteor just fly by and of course the ump missed it 😂 pic.twitter.com/d83pmXlWrq

— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) March 23, 2026

The Bezzle

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AGI has been ‘achieved,’ can create billion-dollar businesses yahoo! Finance

The AI Industry Is Lying To You Edward Zitron

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case The Guardian

Meta Targets $9 Trillion Valuation With New Executive Incentive Program WSJ

Mr. Market

Foreign Funds Ditch $50 Billion in Asian Stocks as Oil Shock Dims Prospects OilPrice

Class Warfare

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”

“Hard way plz!” https://t.co/s43mpjTXga

— The Last Farm (@TheLastFarm) March 24, 2026

Antidote du jour (via):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

Folks this can’t be happening!

That’s right, because this is disingenuous chart porn. They knocked out 2023, 24, and 25. It’s at record high, that’s not good, but they ripped off the dress and squealed the petticoat isn’t fit for a ball.

See: Climate Reanalyzer

Re: Peter Thiel is betting big on a $2B AI cow collar startup powered by cowgorithms — and investors are fighting to get in

“The collars connect to a farmer’s phone, allowing ranchers to monitor their herd’s location and health indicators through an app — and even move cattle remotely using vibrations and audio cues from the devices.”

No truth to the rumour that Palantir is planning to offer this technology to employers (/s)

came across this:https://x.com/cirnosad/status/2036667172458799300

and also a map, that i cant find, now, regarding how everything in north america is leafing/budding way, way early.

i will add my own observation: i spend most of my time outside, so i notice things, year over year. this year, not only are the trees leafing/budding early, they are doing so out of order…mesquites are usually last, and thus the old timer’s evidence that spring is really here. oaks are second to last. not this year,lol.

elms, usually rather early, are just now doing their thing…and the figs leafed out way early, and got bit by the freeze last week.

signs and portents.

amfortas, this is very off-topic but I wonder if you’ve ever read a book called Earth Abides?

For some reason it comes to my mind sometimes when I read your comments.

Peace,

BP

“Epistemic Collapse”

I’ve read elsewhere that the fall of the Soviet Union wasn’t because of the Reagan era military build up which propaganda says was the cause, but from epistemic collapse fueled initial by the Afghan war but put into final collapse after all the lies surfaced over Chernobyl.

If the war in Iran keeps on the track that it’s on and the US sends in ground forces which fail just as miserably, I could see an epistemic collapse in the US and possibly spreading to some other western nations.

“The London Ambulances Attack: Of Course It Was A False Flag”

The more you go into this story, the more suss it is. For example, those ambulances were due for replacement so now you wonder if it was partly a insurance job as much as claiming it was an antisemitic attack. But lots of people in the UK were surprised that Jewish people not only have their own ambulance service but their own police as well. Wait, what?

https://xcancel.com/doctor_rahmeh/status/2036017428409225517#m

https://xcancel.com/Wren_Poltics/status/2036006241953022010#m

The whole thing smacks of a state within a state. Normally I would not really care but it seems that they both get government funding.

Sorry your house burned down. Here’s a $23,000 HOA bill — due next month Los Angeles Times

Luke Carlson, an attorney who wrote a book about battling bad HOAs, was appalled when he heard about the lawsuit, which the HOA filed in March after a resident, whose home was destroyed in the fire, failed to pay mounting HOA dues, including the special assessment.

“It seems somewhat outrageous,” he said. “This is a situation where a homeowner has lost everything, and I don’t see how aggressive litigation solves any problems.”

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Was curious how many of the 6,700 homes lost in the Eaton Fire in Altadena had been rebuilt in the 14 months since, and it looks as of less than 20 on total.

1 in 350

‘Wyatt Reed

@wyattreed13

Incredible quotes in the deleted Telegraph article about the Lebanese Christians supporting Hezbollah.

I wonder why they didn’t want their audience to read this 🤔’

For those interested, that original Telegraph story is still on Yahoo! News-

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/christians-hezbollah-unite-against-epstein-100000557.html