The rise of ‘safety fatigue’ among parents CNN
Did medieval people love their children? Works in Progress
Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed ‘Cyclops’ ZME Science
Climate/Environment
El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term Bloomberg
Europe is burning: How bad could this wildfire crisis get? Euronews
Climate Anxiety and the Communities I need Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub
Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth Noema
Water
California drought may have pushed parts of the Sacramento Valley aquifer toward permanent collapse Phys.org
China?
China Imposes Reciprocal Sanctions on 14 European Technology Companies TeleSur
Exclusive-China starts production of home-grown immersion DUV chipmaking tools, source says Reuters
China’s global AI strategy High Capacity
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI Rest of World
Southeast Asia
Indonesia pushes EU to fast-track landmark trade deal Antara
Syraqistan
‘It feels like hell’: Gaza families battle suffocating summer heat in tents Middle East Eye
This is the first time #Iran has initiated an attack without a preceding strike by the United States or Israel. In that sense, the attack appears to have been a signal related to Netanyahu’s visit to the White House earlier in the day.
It suggests that Iran’s military strategy… https://t.co/WAv9IcVooB
— Hamidreza Azizi (@HamidRezaAz) July 28, 2026
Joint Saudi-US strikes on Iraq cloud PM Zaidi’s visit to Riyadh Amwaj
Türkiye secures landmark energy deal with Iraq: Erdogan TRT World
Ukrainian Saboteurs Targeted Iraqi Government Facilities in ‘False Flag’ Attacks: Perpetrators Arrested Military Watch
China rejects report alleging air-defense missile deal with Iran Al Mayadeen
Africa
Protesters storm key Libya energy complex as blackout fears grow AP. “The Mellitah complex sends 30 million Standard Cubic Meters of gas to Italy daily”
Chad announces intent to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, drawing praise from the US AP
European Disunion
Merz demands hundreds of billions cut from EU budget in Dublin talks DPA International
Italy’s mafia seeking drones from Ukraine war black market, prosecutor says Intellinews
EU sanctions on Russia obstruct fight against raging wildfires RT
O Canada
Ontario billionaire under fire for arguing poor people shouldn’t be able to vote blogTO
Old Blighty
The NHS is the frontline in the attack on Palestine activism Jewish Voice for Liberation
Burnham’s Britain will take its China cues from Washington Nikkei Asia
Leaks show Paul Mason secretly advised UK Chancellor John Healey to escalate Ukraine war The Grayzone
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelensky’s dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars Responsible Statecraft
US Senate advances Russia sanctions bill Anadolu Agency
Russia’s latest 13,800-ton nuclear submarine to carry hypersonic cruise missiles Interesting Engineering
Why’d Tokayev Publicly Share A Predictably Unacceptable Peace Proposal With Putin? Andrew Korybko
Russia issues international wanted notice against Telegram founder Pavel Durov for aiding terrorism France24
South of the Border
Peru’s Fujimori assumes office, orders military to lead crime crackdown Anadolu Agency. Fittingly on her father’s birthday.
Venezuela’s Rodríguez Hosts US Congress Delegation to Evaluate ‘Joint Agenda’ Venezuelanalysis
The U.S. blockade on Cuba is taking a direct toll on infant mortality as Washington continues to intensify its genocidal policy.
Alex Main, co-author of a recent @ceprdc report, outlines the extensive array of U.S. tactics to try to bring down Cuba.https://t.co/sCyI6YaDTR
— Camila (@camilapress) July 28, 2026
Trump 2.0
Trump commemorates Graham’s life — with sunny Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meetings Politico
By 22-Point Margin, Americans Think Netanyahu Should Be Arrested on US Soil Common Dreams
Trump approval plunges deeper as war on Iran, prices fuel public anger Al Mayadeen
Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums New York Times
FEMA’s New Mission: Domestic Terrorism Ken Klippenstein
The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It? Can We Still Govern?
Democrats Suck
‘Give him a chance’: Democrats sticking by embattled chair Semafor
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
The Accelerationists
MAHA
Cyclospora and salmonella outbreaks raise concerns about U.S. food safety PBS News Hour
Taylor Farms’ White House Ties Queried by Top Democrat Amid Outbreak Bloomberg
Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer The Onion
Sports Desk
FIFA plan for Kushner-backed $20 billion operation to run World Cup meets fury from Europe’s UEFA CNN
Healthcare?
Nurse Impales Himself During Hike, Walks 10 Miles To Safety Instead Of Paying For Helicopter Rescue Bill Total Pro Sports
Economy
Emerging markets stare at inflation risks as powerful El Niño looms Reuters
Germany: Low Rhine River levels could weigh down economy DW
Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years AP
Morgan Stanley Bankers Were Pressured to Approve Mortgages for Wealthy Clients WSJ
Imperial Collapse Watch
How AI Could Reinforce Dollar Dominance Project Syndicate
AI
How AI Can Make Design Work Appear Prematurely Resolved Common Edge
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face Ars Technica
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It’s Working Drop Site
Class Warfare
Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week Futurism
L.A. Labor Leader’s Criminal Charge for Protesting ICE Dismissed Los Angeles Magazine
Heat Related Death? Who Knows? Confined Space
They Aren’t Afraid Enough Black Lodges
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Germany news: BMW to cut up to 8,000 jobs
One of the hats I wear is “teacher of business English to unemployed Germans”. I’ve been doing it for a couple of years and have watched the mood and expectations of my students change radically. (These are very employable people in general).
Early 2025 they were positive about finding a nice new job (of being given the choice of multiple nice jobs) and blasé.
Mid 2026 they are full of depression and the only ones getting jobs seem to be with defence companies. They have put together the obvious pieces and realised Germany is economically family-blogged and there is zero chance of the current elites fixing anything. I’m too kind to tell them it’s actually worse than that.
Old Adolf once said ‘Give me four years and you will not recognize Germany again.’ When you think of what Germany looked like in 1945, he was right. And when you look at what Olaf Schulf and Friedrich Merz have done to the German economy in the past four years, it looks like they are going for a repeat performance.
Perhaps they all journeyed on Odysseus style to…South Carolina! The BMW plant here is thriving or pretends to be.
And speaking of Odysseus and the new movie–if one may be indulged–this is very good.
https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/28/why-the-odyssey/
Edward Curtin has Nolan’s number whether the subject is Oppenheimer or Odysseus. The grandiose style masks the thinking of a liberal apologist who shines up his subjects for consumption.
I’m afraid your last sentence brought a smile to my face when I reflected that Nolan took the spectacularly bright colours of the Mediterranean and cast his film in browns and grays and black.
Guess he was shooting for “wine dark.” I haven’t seen the movie so any snark by moi is speculative.
Scenes from his movie was giving me flashbacks of the final episodes of Game of Thrones where it was so dark, people actually made lightened versions on YouTube so that you could actually see what was happening.
And for future reference, this is what the armour that Odysseus actually wore would have looked like-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FNCpBM0GiKg
There once was a rumor that Warner Brothers took up film noir to save on lighting. Or there’s this version.
https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-film/The-Hollywood-studio-system
I was a big fan of the HBO Game of Thrones and doubt that was their reason.
Here is a guy talking about why modern films are so dark and Game of Thrones gets special mention as an example-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai70gtFs8qo (8:40 mins)
That was a wonderful piece from Edward Curtain, Carolinian.
I wonder how many SC public high schools still offer Latin? I had almost a year’s worth in high school, then two and a half years of Greek in college. Ancient languages are a discipline that seems particularly ill suited to our present time of continuous electronic interruption.
Furman University used to offer a Greek major, but they dropped it about thirty five years ago. My wife’s roommate’s husband was the last one. He went on to be very successful as an independent computer programmer. If you can learn Greek, computers are simple.
I had a Latin class in high school–not a year–and somewhat enjoyed it. But my favorite part of high school may have been the photography darkroom. The teach even let me borrow the Nikon F one time.
Film, of course, has somewhat gone the way of Latin.
Back then we were competing with the Russkies and education, even secondary, taken somewhat more seriously. Latin was considered important for its role in serious science as well as languages.
My seminary training was in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. I attended in the 90s, but 30 years earlier, the LCMS training system was unique in the U. S. Young men drawn to the ministry began their studies at the age of 13 at one of several boarding schools distributed around the country. They studied classical Greek and Latin along with German because the Synod believed that theology could only be properly discussed in German. This program continued until they were 20, when they switched to the Ft. Wayne Senior College where they focused on Koine Greek and Hebrew in preparation for seminary where they would study the Bible in the original languages.
Not surprisingly, young men were less and less drawn to such a rigorous program, and by my time in seminary, most of us were second-career with families. We picked up our Greek and Hebrew in summer school and weren’t required to do Latin and German. The system of prep schools was gone by the late 80s.
When you’re in a hole. . .https://caliber.az/en/post/bloomberg-germany-seeks-china-s-weak-point-in-preparation-for-trade-war
How have the trade skirmishes between China v. the US and Japan worked out?
“In many of those sectors, Germany’s most powerful lever would not only be halting exports of machinery and components but also suspending maintenance and servicing of equipment already operating in China, the people said.
Germany is having confidential exchanges with companies, including ones about country-specific risks, according to a government official when asked to comment on the new assessment. The official added that Germany’s policy on China hasn’t changed and there is no plan for mandatory data collection from companies.”
“California drought may have pushed parts of the Sacramento Valley aquifer toward permanent collapse”
This is no joke this. When that land compresses, it does not matter how much it rains afterwards those spaces are no longer there to be filled up again. That capacity is G-O-N-E gone. In some parts of California the land has sunk like an express elevator as that land has compressed. Check out the years in this photo and how much the land has sunk. And this photo was taken back in 1977-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Poland_(hydrologist)#/media/File:Gwsanjoaquin.jpg
Wow that picture blew my mind. That’s an insane amount of subsidence. I just looked into it quick and saw up to 28 ft (8.54m) of subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley and a total volume loss of 14km3 which is about 15% of the total groundwater capacity.
Mexico City is another place that sinks about 35-50 cm per year with 12-39m of subsidence over the last century.
Sorry 9-12 meters not 12-39 for Mexico City
Mexico City is built over an old lake bed and landfill.
The drought portends something far worse than subsidence. The Central Valley produces massive amounts of real food for the plebes. Be it dairy, orchard, or sundry field crops, a reduction in water is life threatening.
re: Lindsey Graham. From Breaking Points.
RAW FOOTAGE: Lindsey Graham TEARS OF JOY After Iran Strikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYocIoz-p_8
Even Trump said at his funeral that Lindsey never met a war that he did not like. Glad that the sob is dead.
I’m glad he’s out of the Senate.
AIPAC donations: $1,025,896 dollars.
He was their good and faithful servant.
I think he would find the above sentence a complement.
(note to Saagar: when you spit out the word ‘Boomer’ that’s a fuzzy term. The word you were looking for is ‘Neocon.’ / ;)
What a lightweight, Hakeem Jeffries has him beat at $1,495,709
Thanks!
It´s interesting that – still – raw material from MSM is out there that is – lets say “realistic”.
Which means of course that rank and file among the media know what is happening. By that I mean folks behind the camera, sound staff, editors, gaffers and so.
Just like these crews who actually make the expensive motion pictures know the secrets of the film industry which you will never read about in THR.
re: Graham, Sullivan, et al. – I would assume they know the truth one way or the other (Sullivan after being ouf of office last year conceded as much re: Ukraine) – but being a superpower they simply don’t care. They who have grip over the US essentially do not care whether or not they win or lose militarily. Unless certain demands are met.
Which is of course why all these wars are happening far away.
(We may witness a breaking point or shift with this Iran War as fallout this time will reach the US too.)
Would this be a war against e.g. a peer military power like Mexico.
You can assume these same people would behave completely different. Or rather: They would not sit where they are sitting. It´d be a different country.
Michigan Senate Dem candidates debate.
From Breaking Points.
Abdul BLASTS Haley Stevens LIVE For AIPAC Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_kOqU2D2zs
The number of (mainly substack) writers I have discovered through Naked Capitalism’s daily links is astounding.
That piece (attributed to V.) at “Black Lodges” entitled “They Aren’t Afraid Enough” was phenomenal!
A real person writing eloquently and articulating a concept that i believe i and many other commentators have long ruminated over:
Makes me think that the observation “The Cruelty Is the Point” is more true than I realized.
(I also read KLG’s “Alcohol and the Eclipse of the American Dream?” this morning.
Ben Panga’s comment included this amazing sentence [which fellow commenter ‘jefemt’ also highlighted]:
Thank you, the people that produce Naked Capitalism, and those who contribute their words and their money to this endevour.
Well, I believe scarcity IS a reality- distribution, sharing, amangement- there’s the rub.
Yes , it seems cruelty IS the point. What. A. World.
We live in a unique, fragile, closed loop spaceship.
? What the hell does Elroy not see that he already has The Spaceship? He’s on it, and appears to have commandeered a seat on the Bridge.
Clean the farkin’ toilet, Elroy! Jeff, the dishes are all dirty!! These things do not take care of themselves!!
Sheeesh.
Really great essay from Black Lodge, and more confirmation that Naked Capitalism is the best blog on the inner tubes
“One has to understand that the ruling classes fear something deeper than electoral defeat. They fear social confidence itself.
There exists a particular quality possessed by populations who no longer fear losing everything. Once survival ceases occupying every waking hour, politics expands into the available space. Time itself becomes dangerous and leisure produces association. Association produces solidarity and then solidarity produces organization. Organization eventually produces movements capable of imagining societies beyond capitalism altogether.
Perhaps this is the possibility that abundance inadvertently creates.
After all, history repeatedly demonstrates that revolutionary movements rarely emerge from absolute destitution alone. Political consciousness requires space within which consciousness can develop. Endless insecurity destroys precisely that space.
This may explain why neoliberalism increasingly appears willing to sacrifice long-term stability in exchange for immediate domination. Better an exhausted population permanently managing crises than a prosperous population with sufficient time to discover that billionaires are historically unnecessary. Better endless culture wars than class politics. Better algorithmic distraction than public assembly. Better loneliness than solidarity. Better anxiety than confidence.”
His othervstuff is pretty good, too. Raw, uncooked.
https://blacklodges.substack.com/p/our-negotiation-with-fascism
I think abt this stuff a lot in my downtime, alone in the wlderness.
The entire point of modern US society is to get people to finance everything. That way the rent seekers can get their cut. Education, homeownership, medical care, credit cards, even short term loans for grocery and restaurant bills are being offered. If you are not doing these things, your social score (credit score) suffers. So of course there is artificial scarcity of things that are needed. Its a feature of the system.
I don’t scarcity is artificail. Closed loop finite world indicates otherwise. That said, I concur about the ‘entrepreneurial take for ‘the cut’. And the best take is for the inelastic-demand, essential things in life: Health Care, potable water, healthy food stuffs, shelter.
The sharing and distribution: how/why? There is the rub.
Waste makes distribution a problem that is not solvable. (This is before one even gets to growth.) Scarcity is heightened by the incredible wastefulness with which we use resources. Whether or not there would ever be enough to go around without turning the planet into a flooded strip mine, there definitely won’t be, if hamburgers, the suburbs, and 68 degrees indoors year-round are the standard. Of course, how could this message be legible, or anything but horrifying, when all that actually exists is an elite intent on stripping away what little one still has, for the sheer joy of seeing one without it?
From the Wisconsin Dem senate primary, a Democratic Socialist is running and the Dem estab is freaking out.
Again from Breaking Points.
Centrists in SHAMBLES As Socialist Surges to Wisconsin Gov Lead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVPzUxFrtTk
edit: Wisconsin Governor’s primary race, not Senate race.
Thanks for the link to an interesting argument.
Like many, the author describes the post-WW II period:
We often speak at NC about the New Deal and the “good ol’ days” when a workin’ man could earn enough to support a family and see the USA in his Chevrolet for a couple of weeks every summer. This is a misunderstanding of what was taking place during the “Leave It to Beaver” years. A militant labor movement, sprinkled with communists and anarchists, represented a real threat to the ruling class in the 30s, a time removed by only a decade or so from the Leftist revolutions at the end of WW I. The linked author’s “settlement” was merely a temporary truce, and the goodies granted were not only designed to stave off revolution temporarily but were used to soften those working class unionists until they were more concerned about bargaining for another 3-day weekend than bringing down capitalism. By the time tobacco lawyer Powell wrote his how-to for a reactionaries’ comeback, it was all over.
A second issue with the concept of “scarcity” in a society well-basted in Bernays Sauce, is that perceived “needs” are manufactured in our heads by the Madmen. Are “homes” in short supply? Might that have something to do with what has happened to the “middle class house” over the last 80 years. Check out an early post-WW II neighborhood of Malvina Reynolds’s “Little Boxes.” Compare it first to the 60s split levels, then to 90s McMansions. The “middle class house’ that our 50s UAW member could afford is about half the size of the 60s split and a third of the 90s McMansion. This constant raising of the bar is just as effective as capitalist discipline as precarity.
All true. Another important factor in that moment was the destruction of Germany and Japan as industrial rivals,* together with the decolonization of what soon became (proudly; the term was not then a perjorative) the Third World, which meant a massive new market (i.e., with little industrial capacity of its own) for American goods. I bring this up because it was not an alignment of circumstances that can be repeated.
And of course, as you suggest, it wasn’t what it’s been mythologized as. In addition to racial disparities, there were entire regions of the country that the golden age of American capitalism simply didn’t reach, or where deindustrialization set in long before 1973.
*American industry itself ensured that the benefit from this would be short-term.
I hope that the establishment does not terminate this site.
Thank you! My computer read the piece to me. I am not disposed to adequately critique it, but I do feel that the lulling of demands of the precariat with the new deal forward has diminished the chance of their final dominance.
And even the precariat’s continued survival.
‘cats with jobs 🛠
@CatWorkers
The artist and his work.’
Obviously that Siamese cat is practicing for this year’s Christmas tree.
Antidote: More than a little morning Ted Nugent “Cat Scratch Fever” exuberance?
Plunge protection team getting warmed up?
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4620094-south-korea-looks-to-hold-emergency-stock-market-meeting—reports
Later today, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh announces the Fed Funds Rate decision. It might be a rate hike … that would surely add to Taco’s no good, awful, horrible summer.
Trump will have one of his Handmaids take out and hang the Warsh?
Kevin, the printer is out!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hgLF0UOv1pw
Warsh and the gang broke the long-end of the bond market. TLT is cratering:
https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TLT -1.65%
30-year bond yield hits 5.20%
Bank stocks blowin’ chunks!
Flock/ Surveilling City Council: 1 minute Listen carefully- quite a mouthful!!
Must – see Tee Vee 2026: https://youtu.be/_z3hlclZnnU?is=_9ZMJiWBN7TFpXXJ
Fire!!! Everyone should watch this.
Re: “I would never do this to you…”
Where can I sign up to donate? Drones would be cheaper than satellites, of course. They would have to shoot them down, which is a crime against property, right? All politicians invoke the sanctity of property, don’t they? (exceptions rare). The action could serve as the beginning of a … national movement???
PS – for satiric purposes only, OK?
Is the sorry state of the chair the cat’s work? Is the cat proud? I wonder.
It’s a good thing that gold is not radioactive or something going by how much Trump has blinged up the Oval Office-
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117000544407681188
It’s got more gold than a 1970s pimp.
Donald Trump: Putting the John into the Presidency. Hookers, no cocaine. Blow, welllll… .
Or Tony Montana’s mansion in “Scarface.”
I dropped by Truth Social and learned just how out of touch I am.
America has entered a new Golden Age of Peace and Prosperity!
And I didn’t notice.
Minor rant on: Bloomberg and El Nino may increase global warming. NO! Global warming is only on a long time scale and does not include weather or short-term variability of a few years. This is a definition that the headline writers do not understand.
Archive link isn’t working for me, but the teaser shows they are claiming that hitting the 2C mark may occur sooner due to El Niño, as if hitting a benchmark is climate change. Global warming is defined as the integrated over space and time of the entire globe, which is 70% water.
A volcano could erupt tomorrow and plunge the globe into winter that never ends for a few decades and that would NOT mean global climate change would not resume with the same trend in 30 years (caveat – if the volcano knocked human population down dramatically, say 95%, then the drive of climate change would be gone, but all the warming baked into the cake (CO2 in atmosphere, etc. would remain).
“…in the short term” was the laugher that caught my eye in that headline. I would not bank on that.
Those benchmarks work the same way the colors green, yellow and red function on a tachometer. In the recently departed Holocene, we were running in the green. Now we’re in a yellow that’s getting orangier and orangier on its way to red. The old beginning of the yellow was 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. That was chosen because the consensus of expert opinion was that if we could keep under 1.5 degrees, then the impacts would be neither too severe nor run a risk of setting off tipping points. Obviously, 2 degrees means that we’ll see severe impacts and tipping points may be reached.
Sitting around 1.5 degrees mark currently and seeing the floods, droughts and fires, touching 2.0 degrees, even temporarily, ain’t good. And “temporary” is very qualified here. The temperature is headed for 3.0, so if it reaches 2.0 degrees, then drops below it, it’s still headed past 2.0 on its way to 3.0.
All that warming is baked into the oceans. El Nino is a symptom, not a source. The warming Pacific adjacent to my coastal town is making the current daily temps in the 80’s seem hotter than I’ve ever experienced here. (First moved here in the 60’s.) The Oregon coast may be a more survivable location in the years ahead.
” FIFA plan for Kushner-backed $20 billion operation to run World Cup meets fury from Europe’s UEFA ”
Yeah, Infantino has got to go. Is he trying to sell the World Cup to the Trump family indirectly? Does he want private equity running world football and extracting all the fees that they can out of the game? Does Infantino think that he owns the World Cup and nobody has a say? By the sounds of this article, Infantino wants to make sure that he in embedded permanently in FIFA so that he has access to all those money streams. If he succeeds, I can one day see a split where blocks of nations will leave FIFA and form their own version starting with the Europeans.
“blocks of nations will leave FIFA and form their own version starting with the Europeans.”
and they will still kick the Russians out.
Uh oh … Crude inventory falls by 7.2M barrels for the week ended July 24:
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4620376-crude-inventory-falls-by-72m-barrels-for-the-week-ended-july-24-eia
SPR falls another 3.8M barrels, down to 307.7M.
Bessent’s hedge fund buddies are gonna need to pick their Chiclets up off the canvas.
“FEMA’s New Mission: Domestic Terrorism”
Umm. That’s not suppose to be their job. Domestic terrorism is the job of the FBI while FEMA is supposed to be there in case of emergencies. If anything, this will make a lot more people be suspicious of FEMA and any help that they can offer.
Next up. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service also receives an update mission to tack down illegal aliens sneaking though forests.
Mearsheimer has a YouTube channel, Offensive Realism:
https://youtu.be/9xHeed2VQVU?is=yviztM9tZpkyZVGl
Someone up at the DHS must be reading the NC comments section.
That article about FEMA being tasked with implementing “Pre Crime” fits perfectly with my running meme of the FEMA Re-education Centres (FEMARC).
I’ll happily continue commenting until FEMA, under the Cybersecurity Mandate, implements the mandatory Approved Websites List. [Our Motto: AWL or Nothing!]
Stay safe.
From Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years
Works as long as gas continues to be relatively cheap. I guess we’ll see what the future holds with the ongoing debacle in the middle east.
And nary a citizen in sight; It’s amazing that a country with hundreds of millions of people and we don’t have any citizens at all, no?
DHS clearly meets the definition of a State Terrorist organization, masked agents kidnapping people on the street and murdering witnesses without any consequences.
The FBI is more into finding retarded teenagers and enticing them into “Terrorist Plots” before busting them or funding and entrapping dipshits into plots to “Kidnap” public officials like Whitmer.
FEMA just wants to hop on the gravy train, they see all those new “Detention Centers” going up and say “Hey, Me Too”, we already have plans and camps and deserve a cut of the funding.
Imagine being as incompetent as the Trump administration
Trump’s Tariffs Are Sending Some Companies Back to China (NY Times)
File under pandemic and pandemic official response.
From Taibbi with his friend and ER doc Dr. Matt Bivens.
Livestream: Anthony Fauci Hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKrcO0woFak
I se that Fauci is invoking the 5th Amendment frequently during his testimony.
Since he has been pardoned by Trump, how is refusing to answer those questions not contempt of Congress?
Perhaps some of our legal experts can weigh in.
I think you mean since Biden pardoned Fauci. Easy mistake to make though. It is pretty hard to tell them apart sometimes.
Biden gave Fauci the pardon, not Trump.
The news I hear is that Fauci was instructed by his counsel to take the 5th because the Paul is looking for anything to get Fauci to incriminate himself with which would be outside of Bidens pardon.
Anyone want to do a “Dr. Fauci” set of alternate lyrics to “Mr. Crowley”?
Actually, you could leave everything else the same, and it would probably work just as well–figuratively, of course.
What does Congress even do on a day to day? They should subpoena this guy to stand before the committee day in and day out, until he doesn’t, and they can hold him in contempt and jail him.
If only.
Another evil purveyor of the false herd immunity magic pony.
I’m about to find out whether the Red Cross’s declaration of an extreme blood supply crisis is for real or nonsense. The last time I tried to donate, several years ago, I was told that I had to remove my N95. They claimed that they really wanted my type O- blood, but not enough to use a forehead or an ear thermometer, so I declined to donate. It is ironic that I’m probably healthy (still novid as far as I know) and able to donate because I haven’t removed my mask in a crowded public setting in order to donate in the past. So I’ve sent an email to the local Red Cross blood center to see if they still require mask removal.
I don’t have any physical books due to lack of space and use a kindle instead (lack of space) but it is rage inducing to see precious books being destroyed like this to produce dubious text for the tech bros. Just awful.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
I believed the headline when I saw it a few days ago. Just now I read the story: “AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale.”
ISBNs were implemented in 1967. I wouldn’t put it past the AI companies to destroy rare books, but this article is flimsy outrage bait, with a hint of fascist book burning.
The books are already in private hands. Other than the scale of the purchases, I don’t see how this is different from how the market ordinarily allows books to fall out of print and disappear. Why are the hyperscalers buying physical? The article suggests that it is to avoid copyright liability.
Assessment: moral panic. There are better reasons to fight the Machine.
Almost all of the charity book sales in my area toss the books they can’t sell into the recycle bins. Including old books.
Brad Parscale seems like a good little Sociopath.
I Thought people might be interested in this:
https://www.apocalypseclock.com/
Predicts collapse in 2045…
Re: Did medieval people love their children
Bill Bryson already tackled this in one of his books and reached the same conclusion (yes, they did). As a layperson it’s hard to see how the opposite view gained any currency. One of those examples of academic groupthink in action, I guess.