Ronan the Sea Lion Can Keep a Beat Better Than You Can ZME Science
Samurai city Works in Progress
How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge? Construction Physics
Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea? Lit Hub
Climate/Environment
HUGE EXPANSION NORTH ATLANTIC ‘COLD BLOB’
The cold blob is the result of AMOC slowing
Could this indicate an increase of AMOC slowing?
Could Pacific Ocean El Niño heat have drained heat from the North Atlantic? (Climate Reabalyzer, 1 June 2026
It’s larger by Copernicus on 3… pic.twitter.com/2uEt3Q0RK6— Peter D Carter (@PCarterClimate) June 3, 2026
NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll NASA
Trump announces $700 million in new support for struggling coal industry AP
Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally Bloomberg
As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants Inside Climate News
Pandemics
Ebola, hantavirus… how eroding global health cooperation could threaten worse crises ahead The Conversation
The Koreas
North Korea unveils nuclear fuel plant as Kim vows ‘exponential’ boost to deterrent France24
China?
Shangri-La and the Art of Looking Away Pacific Polarity
China takes aim at micro dramas promoting ‘wealth-flaunting’, ‘distorted views’ South China Morning Post
India
The Cockroach Janta Party – Anna Hazare Redux? The Wire
Key cancer drug shortage in India for 2 weeks, doctors raise alarm Indian Express
Syraqistan
Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration Responsible Statecraft
US senator demands release of US citizen abducted by Israeli army Al Jazeera
Revealed: Israel’s curriculum for ‘influencing public consciousness’ +972 Magazine
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‘Humiliated’ enemy shifting to hybrid war after military defeat: Ayatollah Khamenei Press TV
Experts Debunk The Iranian Nuclear Weapon Story By Larry C. Johnson The Dissident
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Israel to continue operations in Lebanon for now despite ceasefire, defence minister says Al-Monitor
Sheikh Qassem slams Washington declaration, calls direct talks ‘farce’ Al Mayadeen
Africa
Fighting in Somalia’s capital as anger over election delay erupts Al Jazeera
Old Blighty
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records The Register
UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten Jonathan Cook
Burnham confirms he will run to replace Starmer as Prime Minister if he wins Makerfield by-election The Independent
European Disunion
EU enlargement: Merz and Macron plan for ‘new momentum’ Euractiv
EU trade chief wants to emulate US intensity in talks with China Politico
France invites Finland to join nuclear deterrence initiative YLE
The Caucasus
EU pledges aid to Armenia, accuses Russia of economic coercion Intellinews. A whopping 50 million.
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelensky proposes face-to-face talks in open letter to Putin BBC. Commentary:
On a more serious note, we have:
1) Trump-aligned influencers suddenly all becoming rabid NAFOids
2) an escalation of Ukrainian attacks against Russian civilians
3) Rubio reminding everyone that the US is unequivocally on Kiev’s side and always will be
4) Trump escalating… https://t.co/rQRIjlfdCF
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) June 4, 2026
House Passes Bill To Give Ukraine Billions in Additional Military Aid as War Escalates Antiwar
Ukraine’s SPIEF Attack Aims for Max Provocation, as Drones Witnessed Coming From Baltic Direction Simplicius
NATO TRANSITIONS TO A LONG TERM DIRTY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA Mark Sleboda (video)
Imperial Collapse Watch
America’s Long War on Everybody Julian MacFarlane
L’affaire Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) The Chris Hedges Report
South of the Border
Venezuelan Gov’t Orders Airlines, Shipping Companies to Deposit Fuel Payments in US Treasury Account Venezuelanalysis
Venezuela: National Assembly Pushes Reform to Open Electricity to Private Sector Venezuelanalysis
Venezuela’s Rodríguez visits India to seal Caracas’s oil comeback Intellinews
DIDDY’S COURTROOM PIT BULL NOW FIGHTING FOR MADURO IN MANHATTAN Hoodline
Evo Morales Denounces Government Plot to Detain Him and Hand Him Over to U.S. TeleSur
Trump Escalates Aggression Against Cuba with New Sanctions and Intervention Threats TeleSur
Trump 2.0
Senate GOP defeats amendment to ban Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund The Hill
1. Don’t believe the headlines.
Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund is not “dead.”
The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it’s dead.
But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 4, 2026
What Trump Delivered for Amazon Bloomberg
Democrats Suck
Democrats are furious after latest Platner revelations Politico
It’s so crazy that the only person who had anything bad to say about Platner is a Zionist far-right operative (whose employer worked on Project 2025) who wants to join the Collins campaign and whose accusations are carefully couched in terms to evade a lawsuit + discovery. https://t.co/uFXew6Waeu
— john brown’s buddy (@_gothlorien) June 4, 2026
Watchdog Says Don’t Let Warner Hide Behind Pulte While Pushing Warrantless Spying Powers for Trump Common Dreams
House Dems Join GOP to Help Advance Deeper US-Israeli Military Integration Common Dreams
San Francisco progressives got their clocks cleaned this election San Francisco Standard
The Accelerationists
GREG BROCKMAN: MEET THE CHATGPT BILLIONAIRE FUNDING TRUMP, PUSHING A.I. AND DESIGNING HI-TECH WEAPONS Mint Press News
Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites TechCrunch
As Detainees Strike Across the US, Tech Helps Trump Hunt ICE Watchers Tech Policy Press
Agriculture
Screwworm In Texas Cattle Could Drive Up Beef Prices—After DOGE Axed Prevention Efforts Forbes
AI
Senior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI Giants NOTUS
Sanders follows Trump toward government stakes in private firms Semafor
The start of the bailout. See, AI as a model is economically nonviable. But, it has actual national security applications & implications. So, package it as the latter and Uncle Sam won’t let it tank, even though it is a hype bubble and you oversold your investors and clients. https://t.co/zLVIUr1Kum
— Bex (@BexStreams) June 5, 2026
US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks FT
New Bipartisan Legislation Takes a Big Step Forward in Restricting State Regulation of AI Gizmodo
Meta’s Data Center Strategy and the Mad Max Phase of the AI Boom Distilled
Republicans probe China’s influence in data center opposition Politico
Groves of Academe
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with Ars Technica
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund The Guardian
The Bezzle
SpaceX blocked from early U.S. benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules CNBC
Class Warfare
Part of the problem with allowing the surplus from our collective work and endeavors to be captured by a handful of monopolists is that you get decisions about where to invest that surplus that make little sense. https://t.co/ZiEPKNRK3q
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) June 3, 2026
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