Links 4/26/2025 | naked capitalism

Duck strikes in to Minnesota DNR EagleCam nest and lays eggs Star/Tribune

The oldest ant ever found discovered fossilized in Brazil ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

🚨#BREAKING: A wild report from a firefighter in Tennessee confirms that an Amish neighborhood whose sawmill utterly burned to the bottom on the night time of April eighth…

…had been COMPLETELY REBUILT AND WAS ALREADY FUNCTIONING on April seventeenth, simply 8 days later

Learn that once more. pic.twitter.com/EeaSQCUK15

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 23, 2025

Who Have been the Carthaginians? Historical DNA Research Reveals a Beautiful Reply Haaretz

A Unusual Phrase Retains Turning Up in Scientific Papers, However Why? ScienceAlert (Chuck L)

Computational evaluation of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from proof to instinct Nature (Paul R)

#COVID-19/Pandemics

How can this not fear individuals? HOW? pic.twitter.com/ZgclqUrSqR

— Cat (Solidarit1) (@CovidSolidarit1) April 25, 2025

We ELIMINATED measles within the US with protected & efficient vaccines in 2000.

We’re dropping that standing NOW.

Many years of progress: gone.

Individuals take heed to conspiracy theorists over scientists.

Measles killed hundreds of thousands earlier than vaccines.

We’re heading again there if this continues.

— Andrea C. Love, PhD (@dr_andrealove) April 24, 2025

Local weather/Atmosphere

Seeing misplaced winters, not simply rising temperatures, shakes local weather indifference PhysOrg (Chuck L)

84% of Earth’s Coral Reefs in Disaster as Worst Bleaching Occasion on File Hits ScienceAlert (Chuck L)

From boiling scorching to freezing chilly: Sudden flips in temperature set to extend with local weather change PhysOrg

Experiments to dim daylight to struggle international warming shall be given the inexperienced gentle by the Authorities inside weeks Telegraph

China?

China exempts some items from US tariffs Reuters

China tells Trump: In order for you commerce talks, cancel tariffs BBC

China’s rare-earth mineral squeeze will hit the Pentagon exhausting Protection One (Kevin W)

Trump tariffs: President vents at China over Boeing as Beijing denies claims of commerce deal talks Unbiased

Chinese language firms are recruiting not too long ago laid-off U.S. scientists—significantly these with experience in synthetic intelligence.

Corporations are providing beneficiant “full-cycle assist” for relocation to Shenzhen.#Science #China pic.twitter.com/WpK1nwrDVK

— Jason Smith – 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) April 26, 2025

Guidelines on self-driving vehicles loosened in bid to problem China The Hill (Kevin W)

India

US Seeks India Commerce Deal on E-Commerce, Crops and Information Storage Bloomberg

India-Pakistan Row

Pakistan shuts airspace to Indian airways and suspends commerce RT (Robin Ok)

After lethal Kashmir assault, India reviews change of fireplace with Pakistani troopers NPR

Africa

Why the US can’t beat al-Shabaab in Somalia Accountable Statecraft (resilc)

Sudan Battle Is A World Disaster In The Making – Evaluation Eurasia Evaluate

Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World Battle New Left Evaluate (Robin Ok)

O Canada

Rising demand at meals banks seen as ‘canary within the coal mine’ for affordability disaster CBC

European Disunion

Why Europe gained’t splurge to chase away Russia Euractiv

Brussels rebuffs UK bid to prise open entry to EU single market Monetary Occasions

The far-right Various for Germany (AfD) continues to rise in recognition, firmly establishing its management amongst political events within the nation UATV

🇷🇴 INCREDIBLE TURN OF EVENTS

The Constitutional Courtroom of Romania’s choice to cancel the primary spherical of the presidential elections in December has been overturned (!) by the Courtroom of Attraction in Ploiești

The choice may be appealed inside 5 days pic.twitter.com/5l1hhTYic6

— Day by day Romania (@daily_romania) April 24, 2025

Outdated Blighty

Recruitment businesses are shutting for enterprise at their quickest fee because the monetary disaster as firms tear up hiring plans amid rising taxes and international financial uncertainty Staffing Trade

Israel v. The Resistance

This rally in Tel Aviv is simply Enormous: 10,000 Israeli residents, Jews and Palestinians, which can be holding collectively the photographs of those youngsters who’ve been boned to dying in Gaza. We’ll again all the way down to the threats of the police, we won’t give up till Ending the killing. pic.twitter.com/TPirh21uma

— Alon-Lee Inexperienced – ألون-لي جرين – אלון-לי גרין 🟣 (@AlonLeeGreen) April 24, 2025

US Has Launched 750 Airstrikes on Yemen Since March 15 Antiwar.com (resilc)

Iran Doesn’t Need Rubio’s Faux ‘Compromise‘ Daniel Larison

New Not-So-Chilly Battle

Ukraine might have to surrender land for peace – Kyiv Mayor Klitschko BBC. resilc: “Short-term is like 50-100-1000 years?

Trump says Ukraine has not signed minerals deal Reuters

The Street to Battle in Ukraine — The Historical past of NATO and US Army Workout routines With Ukraine — Half 2 Larry Johnson

UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked paperwork reveal GrayZone (Kevin W)

Ukraine silently encroaches on ‘pleasant’ Moldova OpenTheMagazine (Kevin W)

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In America? https://t.co/zGOKkwBrfW

— RationalInvestor (@Orangeman1992) April 25, 2025

Imperial Collapse Watch

If this will get confirmed and Trump certainly folds, this shall be seen as a type of seminal occasions that affirm, past all of the propaganda, a elementary rebalancing of energy between China and the US, and an finish to the period of US financial dominance.

Factually talking, the US… https://t.co/j3RyH3zBiH

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 23, 2025

US to spend $946B by 2034 to take care of, modernize nuclear army energy Anadolu Company

ONE WAR AT A TIME AND PLENTY OF MONEY TO BE MADE IN THE MEANTIME – THIS IS TRUMP’S GAME AS THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE GENERAL STAFFS UNDERSTAND John Helmer

Trump 2.0

Hassle indicators emerge for Trump in DDHQ/The Hill polling common The Hill

Hegseth orders make-up studio put in at Pentagon CBS (Dr. Kevin)

Musk-owned firm says it qualifies for federal contracts reserved for small companies Musk Watch

Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum targeted on actuality of slavery Guardian

Tariffs

The White Home has put itself and the nation in a nasty state of affairs however doesn’t notice it but.

Round April tenth China to USA commerce shut down.

It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by practice.

55 to New York by sea.

That… pic.twitter.com/8vnGDMWCpt

— molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) April 24, 2025

Easy methods to Put together for the Coming Provide Chain Shock Matt Stoller

Uncertainty Over Trump’s Tariffs Paralyzes U.S. Companies New York Occasions (resilc). Essential.

Unique: US pharma tariffs would increase US drug prices by $51 billion yearly, report finds Reuters (Kevin W)

Why China is taking a a lot more durable stance in direction of Donald Trump this time spherical South China Morning Publish

China, Japan, Korea sense Trump commerce warfare weak point Asia Occasions (Kevin W)

Tariffs imperil America’s standing as world funding magnet Axios (Kevin W)

Product shortages and empty retailer cabinets loom with falling shipments from China NBC (resilc)

DOGE

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Financial savings Could Be Erased by New Prices New York Occasions (resilc). Should you thought this was about financial savings, versus ideology, you weren’t paying consideration.

Steve Bannon desires Elon Musk to supply ‘particular accounting’ of presidency fraud uncovered by DOGE Semafor (resilc)

Inspector Normal Probes Whether or not Trump, DOGE Sought Personal Taxpayer Data or Delicate IRS Materials ProPublica

Immigration

Milwaukee County Circuit Choose Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Pam Bondi’s putting feedback on arresting judges Washington Publish (Kevin W)

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of overseas college students’ US visa registrations Politico (Kevin W)

ICE Cancels $3.8 Billion Contract for Immigrant Tent Detention Camp at Fort Bliss ProPublica (Robin Ok)

A plot so misplaced it might by no means be discovered The Racket (Randy Ok)

Our No Longer Free Press

New England Journal of Medication will get swept up in U.S. legal professional inquiry into alleged bias STAT (Dr. Kevin)

What the Doxxing of Pupil Activists Means For the First Modification Progressive.org (Robin Ok)

The Obligations of Capability Sam Husseini

California proposes to permit testing of driverless heavy-duty vans Guardian (Kevin W)

Mr. Market Has a Nervous Breakdown

Shopper sentiment is now decrease than throughout the 2008 monetary disaster, reflecting worries that President Donald Trump’s tariff insurance policies will create new inflationary pressures Investopedia

US house gross sales lowered greater than anticipated in March — dropping to their slowest tempo since 2009 as panicked consumers bail, new information out right this moment exhibits Day by day Mail

The Bezzle

Indicted ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Pays Roger Stone $600,000 to Foyer for Him New York Occasions. resilc: “Nigeria has no the place close to the extent of corruption we’ve got in USA USA.”

Why Macro Forecasting Is So Arduous Inconceivable Barry Ritholtz. resilc: “ez, if Trump is alive, it is going to be worse.”

Guillotine Watch

The Superrich Have Turned the Tiny Florida City of Manalapan Into the Subsequent Palm Seaside Wall Road Journal

Luigi Mangione Enters Plea in CEO’s Homicide Case MedPage At present

Class Warfare

Madrid’s Greatest Landlord? U.S. Funding Corporations New York Occasions. resilc: “The most cancers of capitalism wants chemo.”

New report cites ‘dangerous results’ of personal fairness corporations shopping for nursing properties • Iowa Capital Dispatch (Robin Ok)

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You do not intimidate me, you are going to be my greatest pal whether or not you prefer it or not! pic.twitter.com/pUEK30NxFL

— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 25, 2025

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