The establishment of buses is still in operation
America’s Electricity Gap Apricitas Economics
Climate/Environment
Unseen forces make food unhealthy for WaPo
After 37 years, the World’s Longest Soil Warming Experiment Reveals the Secret of Our Daily Climate.
What happens when a farmer loses his soil? Food and Place Reporting Network
Physics-based models outperform AI weather forecasts by record-breaking extremes Science. They remind us of the news of December.
How Old and Wise: How Old Animals Help Species Survive the Environment 360
An epidemic
Brief Background on Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak on Cruise Ship (ex Argentina) Avian Influenza Diary
Water
Ariz., Calif., Nev. announced the plan to save water on the Colorado River Arizona Daily Star
California will soon have more than 300 data centers. Where will they get their water? Grist
Japan
Japan to buy Russian crude oil amid global crisis Anadolu Agency
China?
China’s flouting of US sanctions sparks protests by banks Business Times
Keep Wolves Away China Articles. Views from the Hoover Institution and Palantir.
China’s ‘common prosperity’ faces reality check as inequality rises: read South China Morning Post
India
The Myth of Meritocracy in India: Who Really Goes Ahead? Countercurrents
Noida workers expose fault line between India’s economic ambitions and labor market reality Financial Express
India burns more coal as heat sinks and war in Iran cuts energy supplies CNBC
Syracistan
Israel threatens resumption of war in Gaza to force disarmament as ‘deal’ by Al Jazeera. Frames.
In East Jerusalem, ‘the entire Palestinian community is about to be evicted’ +972 Magazine. For a biblical theme park at least.
More than 20 people arrested in Jerusalem are accused of planning to sacrifice goats at the Temple Mount Sweden Herald
The Samson Files I: Dimona and the Birth of Nuclear Ambiguity Kautilya The Contemplator
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Operation Project Freedom… War Power Fraud Larry Johnson
You must be kidding me. The WSJ: pic.twitter.com/0D7YXDtgma
– The Americanets 📉 (@ripplebrain) May 4, 2026
⚔️ Casus Belli
Trump ordered the US Navy to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, and warned Iran to stand down, otherwise.
Iran has ordered ships stationed near the strait to move away from it.
Iran will fire on American warships, and Trump will call it a casus belli.
– Will Schryver (@imetatronink) May 3, 2026
The breakup of Europe
The German government is struggling to explain: Where have all the billions spent on defense gone? Ostdeutsche Allgemeine (machine translation)
Why Did the Golden Lion Die? In Judgment and Dissolution at the Venice Biennale in flux
Africa
The US military says two members of the Moroccan military are missing Al Jazeera
US Launches 61st Airstrike in Somalia Antiwar
Old Blighty
Dominic Cummings’ “moonshot” agency awards ÂŁ52m to US tech firm Democracy for sale
UK to enter talks to join EU’s ÂŁ78bn loan for Ukraine The Independent
The New Cold War
Ukraine Drones Strike Russia’s Primorsk Port, Oil Tankers and Warships Reuters
Leningrad Oblast repelled the largest attack by Ukrainian UAVs since the start of the SMO, with more than 60 drones shot down. They all use the airspace of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland.
Unmanned aircraft launched in Lutsk… pic.twitter.com/CAppB0dMRf
— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) May 3, 2026
Sweden Seizes Suspected Russian Shadow Ship in Baltic Sea TĂĽrkiye Today
Thanks, but no thanks. Enough is enough. Wait! Maria Zaklarova, Vedomosti. The US State Department is accused of threatening the child of a Russian official.
Promotion to strengthen Events in Ukraine
New NABU tapes implicate Zelenskiy’s inner circle in Intellinews corruption
Trump 2.0
Trump is changing the power of the administration with an unprecedented inconsistency of lower court decisions AP
The North Carolinian military hired Trump’s latest adviser to the U.N. while pushing for the role of the Peacekeeping All-Source Intelligence Board.
Trump Taps Israel Lobbyist From Israel Intelligence Cutout to Join Iran Talks. The opposition
Trump’s Renewable Energy Crackdown Hits Legal Wall OilPrice
After More Secret Social Security Data Revealed by Trump’s Team, Where Will the GOP ‘Draw the Line’? Common Dreams
Democracies are simple
Kamala Harris bought a Malibu home. His neighbors thought it meant something. Politics
Imperial Collapse Watch
Robots are building clay houses in Central Texas using dirt from the soil
Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes from China CNN
Sinophobic Sinophilia n+1
Agriculture
Chart 445: Is the “China shock” coming with a “big” food empire? Adam Tooze
What is the Interaction with Meat Prices? And Why Is Beef Different? The Enlightened Omnivore
UAE fertilizer resorts to trucks to move product to Gulf FT
Bank Of Fertilizer And Food Grain Companies Sells $66 Million Shares Amid Iran War DeSmog
American Farmworkers Orion
Police State Watch
NYC officials criticize ICE after standoff outside Brooklyn hospital leads to 8 Gothamist arrests. And it appears Mamdani’s NYPD is cooperating with ICE.
Big Brother is Watching You
Ghost Operators: How Israeli Telecoms Are Being Exploited to Track Citizens Around the World Haaretz
Gunz
At least 10 injured in mass shooting near Lake Arcadia in the US state of Oklahoma Anadolu Agency
Our Famously Free Press
Fox News is telling Americans that Iran is strapping dolphins with suicide bombs.
Who still believes this propaganda?pic.twitter.com/JPSwtcTpnj
— Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 (@EthanLevins2) May 3, 2026
The AI
States across the Western US that are prone to wildfires are using AI to detect early AP. AI that costs a lot and needs human validation.
Health care?
The Paradox of Medical AI Applications Eric Topol
The economy
OPEC+ members agree to ‘symbolic’ Cradle oil production increase
US Is Last Resort Oil Supplier as Hormuz Disruptions Worse Bloomberg. “But record U.S. exports also come with warnings that the supply chain is quickly being pushed to its limits. Many energy experts are questioning how long exports can be maintained at such levels…”
Not being trusted
Who Killed the Airplanes? Matt Stoller
Casino Nation
Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except for a Few Sharks—in Prediction Markets WSJ. Lovely chart:
Class War
The wealth gap has never been wider:
US private sector financial assets relative to US GDP reached a record 6.7x.
This means that the total amount of stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments owned by the private sector has never been larger compared to the real economy.… pic.twitter.com/gReT4NS5Ig
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) May 4, 2026
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