Canine educated to illegally dump garbage, Italian authorities say BBC (Paul R)
I’m at all times nervous when driving close to any tanker truck:
A clearer, terrifying view of the liquefied fuel tanker crash in Renca, Chile, moments earlier than the explosion.
No escape. One minute you’re driving alongside, then growth.pic.twitter.com/eF89063lQ5
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) February 20, 2026
The Cult Deprogrammer Who Wanted Deprogramming Minority Report (resilc)
Biology’s New Period: The historic shift from learning life to engineering it Massive Suppose
Plastic surgeon pumps extra drama into ‘PenisGate’ at Olympics with injection declare New York Publish (Micael T)
The most recent skincare fad is rubbing salmon sperm in your face The Verge This appears foolish. Sperm does have a ton of development elements however received’t penetrate the pores and skin. Would possibly brighten the pores and skin a bit however appears unlikely to have a lot impact except carried out in reference to one other process, like microneedling to get it deeper into the dermis. Micael T famous: “The Loafer E-book of Crap Jobs ranks pig wanker #10. I’m wondering what the lifetime of a salmon wanker appears like.”
COVID-19/Pandemics
Covid Coloring E-book (Paul R)
Lengthy COVID continues, but the parable that it’s “over” nonetheless persists. Folks nonetheless get #LongCovid after re-infection. One lady: after third COVID‑19 an infection in 2025, she grew to become home‑certain with extreme fatigue & coronary heart points. Vaccinate, disinfect air & masks.pic.twitter.com/R4BWC7fKWk
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 20, 2026
CLIMATE IN EARTH ENERGY IMBALANCE RUNAWAY STATE
Earth power imbalance to Dec. 2025 by Leon Simons
Far worse than doubling over previous twenty years.
It is elevated 3.8 fold previous previously 20 years
Acceleration price will increase coincide with final two El Ninos
An El Nino is predicted… pic.twitter.com/JwqfwPuikX— Peter D Carter (@PCarterClimate) February 21, 2026
Virus kills over 70 tigers at north Thailand park Strait Occasions (Micael T)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Rising variety of People report experiencing excessive chilly, AP-NORC ballot finds Related Press (Kevin W)
MIT EARTH MODEL (2008) HIGH EMISSIONS SCENARIO 7.6°C
IPCC AR5 WG3 (2014) Put excessive emissions together with all ‘uncertainties’ vary as much as 7.8°C 2100. In the present day IPCC says 4.4°C. Science rejects danger to our future and planet
#climatechange #globalwarming pic.twitter.com/VJUXTUQ11j— Peter D Carter (@PCarterClimate) February 21, 2026
One other file heat night time on this insane winter hest wave.
MIN 13.6C Pyanj TAJIKISTAN
Hottest winter night time in historical pastIn KYRGYZSTAN practically all stations broke such a file together with the nationwide one.
Month-to-month anomalies attain as much as +8C above regular ! https://t.co/zEntCQCHtv— Excessive Temperatures Round The World (@extremetemps) February 21, 2026
E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Crops New York Occasions
China?
IMF rebukes China’s mannequin with its personal credibility in tatters Asia Occasions (Kevin W). I hate to placed on my important pondering hat right here, however first, the thrust of this text is advert hominem and subsequently logically invalid. Second, the analysis wing of the IMF is impartial of the neoliberal program aspect, and has recurrently revealed discovering that oppose mainstream financial pondering akin to that imposing austerity in a weak economic system may have a adverse fiscal mulitplier (as in make the fetishized debt to GDP ratio worse) and that financialization past a really modest stage harms development.
China’s Priorities in Agriculture and Rural Improvement in 2026 USDA (Robin Ok)
Chinese language Peptides China Discuss
Africa
Decolonisation III: Africa is Again. Half One Jeff Wealthy
European Disunion
Why the EU received’t anchor an anti-Trump commerce bloc Euractiv
Adults within the Room Valdai Membership (Micael T). Extra on Munich Safety Convention fallout.
Stay: Macron requires ‘calm’ as France braces for tribute to far-right activist France24
Poland’s Conservative Opposition Has Good Cause To Reject A Gigantic EU Mortgage For Arms Andrew Korkbko
France says shocked by European Fee presence at Board of Peace Reuters (resilc)
Previous Blighty
How Starmer Survived — And In all probability Will Once more World Affairs. Micael T: “Like a cockroach.”
Right here’s how the monarchy survives the fallout from Andrew Telegraph
UK police search info from ex-protection officers of king’s brother Andrew Reuters (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
US envoy Mike Huckabee says it could be ‘positive’ if Israel took all Center East land Guardian (Kevin W)
That is extraordinarily sinister! Israel plans to show Gaza right into a “cashless society” the place the IDF totally controls who has entry to e-money, who one can transact with, how a lot, & who starves to dying
This is able to be the final word instrument of blackmail & pacification towards journalists,… pic.twitter.com/LZa1pQXiBF
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) February 20, 2026
How the US Authorities Sabotaged the Genocide Conference Orders towards Israel — and Tips on how to Get Again on Observe Sam Husseini
US evacuates a whole lot of troops from Qatar, Bahrain amid Iran tensions: Report Anadolu Company
That is referred to as a lynching. A Palestinian-American teenager was lynched yesterday by a mob of Israeli settlers and there’s complete silence from American politicians. pic.twitter.com/cQrUCdLkK9
— Linda Mamoun (@mamoun_linda) February 19, 2026
* * * White Home Drama Re Pending Choice to Assault Iran Larry Johnson
Airpower, Coercion and Phantasm: What Previous Campaigns Inform Us A couple of US Air Conflict on Iran Kautilya the Contemplator
Conflict on Iran Scott Ritter (Micael T). Ritter is means higher when he forces himself to place pen to paper than when he sounds off on YouTube
Hoo boy. A lot for Saudi claims they received’t let the US use their airspace:
⚡️BREAKING
Chinese language satellites uncovered that the US has deployed six E-3 Sentry AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia from the US mainland
These plane are essential for an assault on Iran, as they management the battlefield
There are additionally an extra 20 gasoline tankers current at this… pic.twitter.com/oFI0nf5jmn
— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) February 21, 2026
The White Home Is Too Certain About Iran and Oil Costs Bloomberg
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Announcement❗️
So long as Ukraine blocks the Friendship oil pipeline, Hungary will block the €90 billion Ukrainian warfare mortgage.
We can’t be blackmailed!https://t.co/84SUrMU4Em— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) February 20, 2026
Iskander Missile Plant Hit in Strike Deep Inside Russia’s Udmurtia Kyiv Publish
4 years on, Russia continues to be paying for a deadly miscalculation in Ukraine CNN
Massive Brother is Watching You Watch
France Is Dropping Zoom and Staff YouTube (resilc)
Substack Breach Might Have Leaked Practically 700,000 Consumer Particulars On-line Tech Republic (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Multipolar Delusion International Affairs
Supremes v. Trump Tariffs
Learn: Supreme Court docket ruling on Trump tariffs The Hill
US Supreme Court docket Strikes Down Trump’s World Tariffs Bloomberg
Trump tariffs reside: US Supreme Court docket guidelines Trump’s sweeping tariffs are unlawful Monetary Occasions
Supreme Court docket strikes down tariffs ScotusBlog
Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court docket’s Tariff Choice Josh Marshall
Making Sense of the Tariffs Ruling Steve Vladeck. Observe that Vladeck, who’s on the SCOTUS beat, disagrees with Marshall.
Winners & Losers of SCOTUS Choice Putting Down Tariffs Barry Ritholtz. Helpful however I doubt this loss will assist the greenback all that a lot. Liberation Day was a shocking show of Trump’s willingness to throw his weight round. The gross sales of greenback belongings, notably shares, have been what whacked the dollar. His continued recklessness and unpredictability means international traders ought to nonetheless assign a danger premium to the US, which suggests decrease costs.
Trump brings in new 10% tariff as Supreme Court docket rejects his world import taxes BBC (Kevin W). We had identified repeatedly that Trump has different authorities moreover the IEEPA that enable him to impose tariffs, however none remotely as sweeping or versatile as that.
After the Supreme Court docket Ruling, What Is Subsequent for Trump’s Tariffs? Council for International Relations. Revealed after Trump imposed 10% tariffs, which he can preserve in place for less than 5 months.
Trump: “I’m allowed to chop off any and all commerce…I can destroy the commerce, I can destroy the nation, I am even allowed to impose a international nation destroying embargo…I can do something I need to do to them…I am allowed to destroy the nation, however I can not cost a bit of price.” pic.twitter.com/LZQLJQueuI
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) February 20, 2026
Most People approve of the Supreme Court docket placing down Trump’s tariffs YouGov
Trump 2.0
11 Million Guests Quick: Inside America’s Persevering with Tourism Stoop New York Occasions (resilc)
How Trump violated the bourgeoisie Unherd
There’s Solely One Method to Eradicate Trumpism for Good New Republic. resilc says, echoing the Rob Urie put up that simply went reside: “Obomba began this doom loop with no Iraq warfare crimes, nor any for 2007/08 monetary scamzzz too.”
Mapping Christian Nationalism Throughout All 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas YouTube (Robin Ok)
ICE Rampage
A whole bunch of scholars suspended, faculties below shut watch over anti-ICE walkouts The Hill
The shutdown helps Democrats by altering what “immigration” means to voters G. Elliott Morris
L’affaire Epstein
🧵1/5 Buried contained in the Epstein information is one thing much more disturbing than a blackmail community, as sinister as that’s. What the paperwork reveal is a worldview. A coherent, funded, institutionally embedded worldview about what human beings are, what they’re price, and who will get… pic.twitter.com/x6QCZJglop
— Dr. Roger McFillin (@DrMcFillin) February 19, 2026
Our No Longer Free Press
As readers know, I’ve adverse fondness for Israel. Nevertheless, what Tucker is whinging about is lavatory normal therapy of foreigners who depart from Ben Gurion. In 1997 (I had been there a day and a half of enterprise conferences with an Israeli financial institution), I used to be warned to reach >2 hours earlier than departure (this was within the days when because of vastly much less stoopid procedures, 1 hour for a world flight was positive in the event you had solely carryons, which was my standing) as a result of I’d be grilled intensively. A younger feminine soldier requested me the identical questions greater than as soon as, why had I been there, who I had seen, and many others. She even demanded to see a duplicate of my itinerary and referred to as one of many names on it to confirm my claims.
BREAKING: Footage of Tucker Carlson within the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel has been launched (seen under).
He wasn’t detained and merely went by way of routine processing. Right here you see him smiling and hugging airport employees in a VIP lounge, contradicting his account.
Why does… pic.twitter.com/NQH4Zk6wiu
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 19, 2026
For those who pay attention rigorously, Tucker under says it was the 2 producers who had gone into Tel Aviv who got the complete diploma at departure. Tucker and the others presumably may have departed freely however all of them needed to go away collectively.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Tucker Carlson on his interrogation in Israel: “That was the weirdest expertise of my life.”pic.twitter.com/aFJb53auBE https://t.co/fSR2aYGFAS
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) February 20, 2026
Police State Watch
Sober individuals being arrested nationwide for DUI WSMV 4 Nashville, YouTube
Endure the Kids
West Virginia sues Apple over baby intercourse abuse materials saved and shared on iCloud Guardian (resilc))
Zuckerberg takes the stand Caleb Ecarna
AI
Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and harmful The Register. resilc: “If AI simply hoovers up the whole lot and poops it again, didn’t all of us be taught from GIGO???????”
Payrolls to Prompts: Agency-Stage Proof on the Substitution of Labor for AI Ryan Stevens, Cornell
OpenAI’s {Hardware} System Simply Leaked, and You Will Cringe Futurism
Digital blackface prospers below Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending actuality’ Guardian (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
70% of Argentina’s Union Members on Strike — 96% of Chattanooga VW Employees Approve Contract — Pitt College students Protest Border Patrol Recruiting Mike Elk
Is it potential to develop a tutor-proof check? Daisy Christodoulou
Antidote du jour (through):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
And a bonus (guurst):
🤔Вышел на пенсию и завёл скотину… pic.twitter.com/kU9nbrRbG7
— МаИ (@ivanjvsivan) February 11, 2026
A second bonus:
Response of the cat who did not just like the chips as a result of they have been spicy. 😂 pic.twitter.com/XsdXCBDs6x
— Why you need to have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) February 20, 2026
