Links 6/10/2025 | naked capitalism

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The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests Popular Mechanics

The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone Ted Gioia

Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about cognitive peaks Financial Times. See? Reading and commenting at NC preserves and may even improve your cognitive capacity.

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Long-Term Coronary Microvascular and Cardiac Dysfunction After Severe COVID-19 Hospitalization

🔥A small study( 37 patients) but AGAIN suggesting the presence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and coronary microvascular dysfunction among patients hospitalized with severe… pic.twitter.com/pds78gpzAo

— Harry Spoelstra (@HarrySpoelstra) June 10, 2025

New H5N1 bird flu study just dropped

It’s brutal.

This is a real-world proof-of-concept for mammalian adaptation.

It shows H5N1 doesn’t need years or massive jumps to evolve.

It can do it in a single host.

That makes spillover-to-sustained-transmission far more plausible… pic.twitter.com/xdc57TUw4l

— Outbreak Updates (@outbreakupdates) June 5, 2025

Climate/Environment

Climate capitalism won’t save us The Ecologist

Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers Grist

China?

China says its exports to the US fell 35% in May, as trade talks are due to start in London Associated Press

U.S. and China to Meet in London at Precarious Moment in Trade War New York Times

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China’s electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper – but is there a deeper cost? BBC (Kevin W)

Donald Trump moves to block foreign drone makers from selling new models in US MSN

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⚡️🇨🇳 China deploys two aircraft carriers to the Western Pacific for the first time

20+ warships are operating east of Taiwan. It comes aftet the US regime has multiplied provocations against China in the past months. https://t.co/XmGOpDqKHT pic.twitter.com/wbm20jzqTc

— MenchOsint (@MenchOsint) June 9, 2025

The U.S. invented GPS, then left it to age like an abandoned missile silo.
China’s BeiDou? Built for a war that hasn’t started yet. And they’re ready to win it.https://t.co/HWj5XqzxKh

— William Huo (@wmhuo168) June 10, 2025

How Xi Jinping lost control – A timeline YouTube. I cannot verify but she does seem to have a lot of supporting evidence

India-Pakistan

UK and India discuss ‘counter-terrorism’ cooperation after Pakistan ceasefire Reuters

World Bank Data On India And Pakistan Shows Massive Contrast Over Poverty NDTV

Africa

Sahel: Russia Replaces Wagner in Mali Under Pressure from Algeria, Touaregs Brace North Africa

French advocacy group urges world powers to act on Sudan ‘catastrophe’ Sudan Times

O Canada

Military aids evacuations as Canada wildfires expand eastward PhysOrg

European Disunion

Trump tariffs could wipe out European steel sector, senior industry figure says Guardian (resilc)

Europe had a multibillion dollar battery unicorn startup that recently went bankrupt.

Here’s what a Chinese worker from a partner company had to say about them:

“I joined the largest subcontractor company for Northvolt (NT) back in 2022. The issues with NT were apparent early…

— LinaHua (@Linahuaa) June 7, 2025

Mass demonstration calls for Spain’s leader to resign over corruption Aljazeera

Old Blighty

Thousands join anti-austerity march in London to protest against Labour’s cuts Guardian

Reeves avoided coming to the Chamber to announce her screeching U-turn on the Winter Fuel Policy.
I asked the Minister, who drew the short straw, now Labour has a taste for climb-downs will they be reversing their ridiculous NIC incr destroying jobs & IHT changes harming farmers pic.twitter.com/ZbcbD7ppvQ

— Esther McVey (@EstherMcVey1) June 9, 2025

Britain’s energy bills problem – and why firms are paid huge sums to NOT provide power BBC (Kevin W)

Israel v. the Resistance

There is a threshold at which medicine becomes murder. I have seen it. It is here.

The World Health Organization was informed calmly and formally that the Israeli army has suspended medical coordination for all Palestinian males over the age of twelve. Twelve. At that age, a…

— Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzingaza) June 9, 2025

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Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers DropSite

Israel has sold record amount of debt in US since war on Gaza erupted: Report Middle East Eye (Kevin W)

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Israel did not arrest the crew of the Madleen, it kidnapped them Council Estate Media

Rogan’s Boomer Ramboism Can’t Compete with Greta’s Balls of Steel BettBeat

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Why the BBC killed its Gaza documentary Asa Winstanley

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Iran Ups Ante as Israel Chafes for Face-Saving Escalation Simplicius

Schumer’s Iran Position Is Stupid Washington Monthly. resilc: “Senator from Jerusalem.”

New Not-So-Cold War

Russia Unleashes Massive Drone Attack on Kyiv and Odesa, Kills 1 Bloomberg. Above the fold. More detail: Kyiv Suffers Devastating Mass Attack💣 Moscow Multiplies Drone Production📈Military Summary 2025.06.10 Military Summary, YouTube

Mark Sleboda: Reason Moscow’s Dnepro Entry Spells Doom For Ukraine- Higher Loses, Russia New Regions Jamarl Thomas, YouTube

Russia Seeks ‘Asymmetrical’ Response For Strike On Its Nuclear Assets Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

Russia says its moratorium on deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles comes to end Anadolu Agency

Renault Considering Making Drones in Ukraine Moscow Times

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Moscow claims Britain 100% involved in Ukraine’s ‘terrorist attacks’ against Russia Anadolu Agency

WAR AGAIN — PLAYING MOLOTOV TO THE TWO RIBBENTROPS WHO THINK PUTIN IS AS WEAK AS GENERAL MACARTHUR SAID OF STALIN IN 1952 John Helmer (AG)

Lavrov At the Future Forum 2050 Karl Sanchez

Full Event: Lavrov Brutally Takes Down UK, Rips NATO Over Ukraine, Then Drops Iran & China Shocker Hindustan Times

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

New: Pavel Durov blows Tucker Carlson’s mind by exposing U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors—and bans them from telling their own company

This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.

“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that… pic.twitter.com/MaJipjeOOO

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) June 9, 2025

Imperial Collapse Watch

Millions of Eggs Recalled After Dozens Sickened With Salmonella Bloomberg

Trump 2.0

RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines CNBC (Kevin W)

‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’ KFF Health News

Why Elon Musk’s luck ran out Unherd

Elon Musk body-checked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ‘like a rugby player’ during fiery clash at White House: report New York Post. From over the weekend, still germane

Trump promotes $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for newborns at White House event CNN. Gee, I am old enough to remember when the idea that women were excoriated for supposedly having had babies to get government money. Remember “Aid for Families with Dependent Children”?

Muni bonds set for record sales on fears US Congress could scrap tax break Financial Times

Immigration

Trump Deploys Marines to a “Manufactured Crisis,” Defense Official Says Intercept

Donald Trump tests limits of presidential authority by sending troops into Los Angeles Financial Times

Powerful National Unions Break Against Trump’s Actions in Los Angeles Michael Shedlock

LA protester goes viral for delivering impassioned plea to authorities at anti-ICE demonstration:

“You should be standing here with us! You’re on the wrong side of history. We know you got a job to do. But you took an oath to the Constitution, not the fascists in the White… pic.twitter.com/7875wwjl7H

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 10, 2025

The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles Zeteo

False Flags Ken Klippenstein

The Dangerous Truth About the ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Used Against LA Protesters Wired (resilc)

US troops make first detentions in Trump border military zones Reuters

‘The US was our El Dorado’: Africans on Trump’s travel bans and taxes Guardian. resilc: “The loss of African hospital workers and caregivers here will be dramatic as this expands.”

Will 1,000,000 Deportations Be Enough? American Conservative (resilc)

Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry Associated Press (Kevin W)

Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns TechCrunch

Guillotine Watch

Lawmakers Traded Stocks Heavily as Trump Rolled Out ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Wall Street Journal

Class Warfare

Wealth inequality’s deep roots in human prehistory Science Daily (Anthony L)

Millions of student-loan borrowers are getting a ‘financial scarlet letter’ that could risk their home purchases and job prospects, Elizabeth Warren says Business Insider

14 years ago puts us in 2011 deep in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Credit card delinquencies were elevated, but the stress was a residual scar from a systemic credit collapse. Consumers were deleveraging, banks were recapitalizing, and the Fed was deploying QE and… https://t.co/l1QevzkaD3 pic.twitter.com/SbmHnCEWn3

— EndGame Macro (@onechancefreedm) June 8, 2025

Shocking stat of the day:

52% of US consumers can not cover a $2,000 emergency expense using only savings, according to a Fed survey.

Furthermore, 31% of Americans can not handle a $500 unexpected expenditure.

A record 37% of respondents described inflation and prices as their… pic.twitter.com/qmM3WYS23D

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) June 7, 2025