Dorm Life Forever? The Problem with Micro-Living JSTOR (Micael T)
This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in 1 second Science Daily (Kevin W)
Climate/Environment
Record sea temperatures in June push world into ‘uncharted’ waters Financial Times
Scientists fear seabird die-off as El Niño looms: ‘We don’t know how bad this will get’ Guardian
Plankton Decline Across the North East Atlantic Signals Failing Ocean Health Eco Magazine
In India’s Mountains, Climate Change Is Rewriting the Map of Disease Health Policy Watch
‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution Politico
Extreme weather is affecting AI: global AI data centers face threats from extreme heat Gelonghui Finance
China?
China’s housing market free-falls as buyers wait for floor prices Asia Times
Why the West Still Can’t Decode China’s Rise Arnaud Bertrand, Beijing Review (Chuck L)
China Second-Half Outlook: AI Supercycle Cuts Into the K-Shaped Economy Citigroup
Exclusive-Inside Taiwan’s nightmare scenario: Chinese blockade, earthquake, sabotage and invasion Global Banking and Finance
Japan
Traders Plot Worst-Case Scenario for Yen If Crisis Hits Japan Times
Africa
Record number of people displaced into neighbouring countries as Sudan conflict marks three years Oxfam
Expanding conflict drives record hunger in northern Nigeria Arab News
South of the Border
Cubans face endless blackouts, collapsing salaries and empty shops – but they’re refusing to give up Sky
Israel makes another move on the westrrn hemishere Venezualanalysis (Robin K)
‘It was a massacre’: Haiti gangs carry out mass killings across the country Guardian
European Disunion
EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos — judgement TASS. Micael T: “We must go to war with Putler to defend our freedom to criminal prosecution for listening to other news!”
German workers banned from taking sick leave without a medical note in tough reforms. Independent
Not everyone can act like sick ministers Aftonbladet via machine translation. Micael T: “About sickness benefit day. If you fall ill you deduct a certain percentage from you salary for 1-many days. Not ministers though. The rules of neoliberalism in action.”
Old Blighty
Keir Starmer suggests Andy Burnham borrow billions for defence Guardian (Kevin W)
Bank of England to push ahead with plan to limit hedge fund leverage Financial Times
Bankers and unions set for clash over possible Burnham tax raid on UK banks Guardian
Exclusive: British Museum made false claims about its removal of ‘Palestine’ from displays Middle East Eye
Balkans
Flamingos, Jared Kushner, and Albania’s fight against Trump’s Resorts openDemocracy (Robin K)
Israel v. The Resistance
🔴The IDF’s Yellow Line in Gaza has shifted again, despite the so-called «ceasefire.» Since it came into effect, the IDF’s effective control has expanded from 53% to up to 70% of the Gaza Strip. Almost all of Gaza’s population is forced into less than a third of its territory🧵 pic.twitter.com/iOUCvHYpvQ
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) July 2, 2026
Explaining the Numbers in Gaza Karen Kwaitkowski. Important. A well-supported analysis that concludes that “well over a million” Gazans have died in Israel’s genocide.
Jewish-American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, says he witnessed the aftermath of Israeli soldiers tying two Palestinian children’s hands behind their backs and burying them alive at Nasser Hospital, their cries silenced beneath the dirt. pic.twitter.com/UZbl4IXzzc
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) July 1, 2026
Israel Exposed War Crimes Archive (guurst)
CENTCOM states that this air defense coordination cell was established in January, but it’s worth noting that by January of 2025 (not 2026), this regional construct was already having meetings at Fort Campbell. In fact, this coordination cell with Arab nations began forming back… https://t.co/2ZiM63p4S9 pic.twitter.com/LaiQFlKC9s
— barry with the NED (@bonzerbarry) July 1, 2026
Palestinian goalkeeper killed by Israel in Gaza as Fifa faces fresh calls to act Middle East Eye (resilc)
* * * ⚓️ Something Stupid This Way Comes
The USS Boxer has finally arrived, carrying another Marine Expeditionary Unit to augment the MEU attached to the USS Tripoli.
Including US Army units in the region, the US now has maybe 10k combat effectives with which to do something stupid. https://t.co/VzdXUjiuwO
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) July 1, 2026
* * * The Grand Bargain Is Ending Brandon Weichert
How Florida’s Cuban Diaspora and the Israeli Lobby Came Together — and Are Coming Apart Intercept (resilc)
Huckabee: Israel ‘the 436th congressional district’ of US Responsible Statecraft (Kevin W)
Russia and China were quietly taking over helium markets. Then Iran blew them up for everyone else Kevin Walmsley (guurst)
From Mohamed A-Bukhai @kwnn_yemen on Twitter (hat tip Chuck L). Twitter not allowing embedding “Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Violent Speech”. Click through for full tweet.
Translated from ArabicFinal Warning Message to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
This is the last chance, and it cannot tolerate any delay or hesitation. Our people’s patience has run out, and there is no longer room for the situation to continue as it is….
Saudi Arabia is evading the obligations of peace in Yemen and is blaming Washington, claiming that our support and stance on Gaza is the reason for the obstruction
We say clearly: Our options are open, and we will not stand idly by if Washington and Riyadh continue this maneuvering
To everyone who takes measures to restrict our people in their livelihood, the equation of bank for bank, airport for airport, and port for port has not been canceled, and this game will not continue, and our people will not submit to economic blackmail and will confront and thwart all conspiracies
We will impose the equation of an eye for an eye and a siege for a siege
And airport for airportWe warn you: Saudi airspace is approaching complete closure 🔥
New Not-So-Cold War
John Mearsheimer: The End of Russian Restraint & New U.S. Grand Strategy Glenn Diesen, YouTube
John Helmer: Ukraine Is Becoming a FIRING PLATFORM WITHOUT Any People Dialogue Works, YouTube
The NY Times Lies About Russian and Ukrainian Casualties Sonar 21 (Kevin W)
Imperial Collapse Watch
Text – S.4367 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act Library of Congress (resilc)
TRUMP’S $1BN CRYPTO FORTUNE, VANCE-TRUMP RIFT & TUCKER TO MAKE OWN PARTY — w/ Robert Barnes YouTube. Barnes: “Most corrupt in American history.” Vikas S: “Plugged-in people know this, but the details are damning.”
New Poll: Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know What America’s 250th Is Celebrating Cato. resilc: “Isn’t it Amazon Prime week??”
We became the late 18th Century British. What now? Responsible Statecraft (resilc)
How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States? Davis Fetz (resilc)
The Pitfalls of a ‘Middle Ground’ Strategy Daniel Larison
Trump 2.0
Trump refuses to renew US-Canada-Mexico trade pact he once championed Guardian
Air Force major arrested after calling for Trump impeachment outside Capitol The Hill (resilc)
U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn charged with damaging Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool NBC (Kevin W)
Federal nuclear agency moves to relax radiation exposure rules Washington Post
Our No Longer Free Press
Public Opinion: Cornered by the Many, Controlled by the Few Finn Andreen (Micael T)
Economy
Global monetary tightening and the fragility behind it ODI Global
U.S. adds just 57,000 jobs in June, a worrying sign as wage growth remains slow NBC
Mr. Market Needs a Therapist
Yet another ‘quant tremor’ strikes systematic investors Financial Times
AI Bubble Fears Grow as Michael Burry, Top Economists Sound Alarm FirstPost
AI Debt Deluge Makes Credit Market Look Safer While Masking Risk Bloomberg
AI hopes and fears dominate global central bank meet Reuters
Retail dip-buying is reaching historic extremes:
Average daily equity purchases by retail investors during S&P 500 down days are running at nearly 3.5 times the daily average seen since 2020, the highest on record.
This is +56% higher than during the meme stock mania in 2021.… pic.twitter.com/4Mj6406C6F
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 2, 2026
AI
The AI Race Nobody Can Win Foreign Affairs. Robin K: “Toward the end when the discussion turns to corporate governance, bubbles, inflation, and central banks, things seem to go wobbly.”
Watching this full 18-minute interview with Palantir CEO, Alex Karp is enough to teach you more about Ai than any institution would ever teach you: pic.twitter.com/DuaI1yYSXI
— ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ (@hamptonism) July 1, 2026
Programmer “Productivity”: CHART OF THE DAY Brad DeLong. Important tidbit at the top of how the “The brand-new VW ElectricMicroBus that replaces the 22-year-old Subaru” makes driving more difficult.
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival Wired (resilc)
Ambani-Trump Jr. investigation encountered a Google AI surprise ProPublica. “Google, the proprietor of the world’s primary research tool, has rolled out AI Overviews that can indiscriminately take in fake material and authoritatively spit it back out as real.” (Kevin W).
The Bezzle
SpaceX Is Junk. That’s What the Bond Market Says Bloomberg
S2 Capital dissolves $400M first fund with “no return of capital” TheRealDeal (albrt)
Private Credit Keeps $14 Billion Trapped in Bid to Outlast Storm Bloomberg
What Private Credit Is, and Why Investors Are So Worried About It New York Times (resilc)
Guillotine Watch
Police hunt Ukrainian woman over Monaco bombing Agence France-Presse
Musk demanded proof people died from USAID cuts. He got it — and lost it. Judd Legum
Class Warfare
Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech Wired (resilc)
The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable Bloomberg
We Crunched the Data: There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America New York Times (resilc)
Average New Car Prices Hit Record High Of $51,974, But People Are Still Rushing To Buy Them Jalopnik (resilc)
This Is RUINING the Trades… YouTube (resilc)
Antidote du jour (Tracie H):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Dude is rock climbing when a mountain goat casually pulls up beside him. Honestly insane that these animals just live like this. pic.twitter.com/UBblWGGhLi
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 30, 2026
A second bonus:
He was so fancy for no reason 😂 pic.twitter.com/pMRAp6zmuO
— Nature Unedited (@NatureUnedited) June 30, 2026
And a third:
❤️🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/nsf8YKJEhc
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 1, 2026
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
