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    Dear patient readers,

    Apologies for major Links overload. Seemed hard to trim, too many of the items struck me as having merit.

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    Kitten hitchhikes more than 100 miles through Pennsylvania in grill of car CBS (Paul R)

    Tiny blue octopus identified as new species AccuWeather (Li). Cute!

    The secret to pigeons’ incredible navigation was hiding in their liver Science Daily (Kevin W)

    Please circulate widely:

    Stoicism VS Skepticism Classical Wisdom (Micael T)

    The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer Baffler (Micael T)

    Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics Science Daily

    Ebola

    Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, protest organiser and source say Reuters

    Congo’s Ebola Footprint Widens as Officials Race to Gauge Epidemic’s True Scale Bloomberg

    #COVID-19

    Scientists thought brain inflammation was driving long COVID but the scans told a different story Science Daily (Paul R)

    Climate/Environment

    Elephant declines could trigger wider ecosystem losses in African savannas, 15-year test shows PhysOrg

    Arctic ocean passes ‘irreversible’ chemical tipping point Oceanographic Magazine

    The warming risk hiding in chemicals needed to keep cool Dialogue Earth

    China?

    China’s crude oil imports slump, but it’s economics not altruism Reuters

    Japan

    Japan Adds to Steel Scrutiny With Probes on China, Taiwan, Korea Bloomberg

    Japanese bond yields are the highest in 40 years. The budget and a ‘red flag’ from PM Takaichi have markets nervous CNBC

    Africa

    Some people’s lives matter more than others’: local responders in Sudan feel ignored as the world focuses on other crises The Conversation

    Tinubu, Makinde set up special forces as terrorists turn schools into hunting grounds Business Day

    Southeast Asia

    Thailand’s regulatory shift fuels capital flight and shadow network liquidation Pattaya Mail

    South of the Border

    If Cuba collapses, the US will be forced to deal with the consequence of its actions Sky. Sadly, not really.

    Venezuela & IMF working on loan restructuring VenezuealAnalysis (Robin K(

    Colombia presidential runoff pits leftist senator against pro-Trump rival BBC

    Leaked audio reveals U.S. embassy plot to frame Colombia’s left-wing government in drug trafficking case Camila Lourdes Galarza (Robin K)

    Is Bolivia on the brink of collapse? Channel 14

    European Disunion

    US castigates Europe over defence spend as NATO reassures Asia Internazionale

    EU Imperialism Rising After Hungarian Coup Kit Klarenberg

    Europeans Face Severe Price Shocks From War and Weather Bloomberg

    Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe The Conversation

    Sweden ramps up aid to households and businesses to tackle energy crisis Le Monde

    Old Blighty

    Britain’s Nuclear Renaissance Faces Mounting Cost Pressures OilPrice

    Mandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show Guardian (Kevin W)

    Israel v. The Resistance

    Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries Responsible Statecraft (Li). Conor had a link on this yesterday, but please circulate and make noise.

    More: SNEAKY Congress Tries TO BOND Israel-US Militaries FOREVER Breaking Points

    Strait of Hormuz is as ancient as the hills Indian Punchline (Kevin W)

    Climate shocks are pushing Gaza’s fragile systems ‘closer to collapse’, warns humanitarian expert EuroNews

    Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control Aljazeera

    Food supplies dwindle in Yemen following Strait of Hormuz closure New Arab

    How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy +972

    New Not-So-Cold War

    France and allies intercept sanctioned Russian oil tanker in Atlantic France24

    Russia accuses France and the UK of piracy over cargo ship seizure RT (Kevin W)

    From Politico’s morning e-mailed newsletter. You cannot make this up:

    LESS TALK, MORE PRESSURE: As Russia ramps up threats against Europe, the bloc is racing to agree a 21st package of sanctions by the end of next week. On the menu? New measures targeting Russia’s oil revenues, banks and shadow fleet, three diplomats and EU officials told Playbook.

    Back to Plan A: The proposed sanctions, expected to be presented to the European Commission next week, show that Brussels is doubling down on a strategy of pressuring Russia rather than seeking negotiations — despite calls from some leaders to name a “special envoy” for peace talks.

    Look closer: The thinking is that Ukraine could be in a stronger position after the summer. Naming a special envoy at this stage could undercut efforts to pressure Russia just as Ukraine is turning the war in its favor, said one official, who like others cited here was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive sanctions preparations.

    North Korea, Russia show deepening security alignment UPI

    Ukraine’s Transformation Into An Anti-Polish State Wasn’t Inevitable Andrew Korybko

    Big Brother is Watching You Watch

    We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything 404 Media

    iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity PC Magazine. Paul R: “Next come the SWAT raids if you say something unkind about Trump. This was a feature intended for kids that was supposedly enabled in a beta test by accident, but yeah, I want my calls encrypted all the way through.

    Imperial Collapse Watch

    Americans Today Have Little To Be Proud Of Ian Welsh (Micael T). It is much worse than that. When people ask where I am from (and I should lie and say I am Canadian), I tell them and immediately say how ashamed I am to be an American, with particulars.

    U.S. Air Force Surges Budget For Urgently Needed F-47 Fighter By 65 Percent as Chinese Competition Intensifies Military Watch

    DoD not allowed to fix most of its own stuff. Guess who’s cashing in? Responsible Statecraft (resilc)

    Trump 2.0

    Hegseth strikes female and Black Navy officers from promotion list New York Times (Kevin W)

    ‘Disturbing Graves’: Vietnam Moves the Dead to Make Way for Trump’s $1.5B Golf Course Sunday Guardian (Dr. Kevin)

    Trump posts AI-generated images of a ‘DronePort’ he wants on top of new White House ballroom Yahoo! Kevin W: “Question. How do they plan on getting those fuel trucks on top of that roof?”

    GOP Clown Car

    How Maine’s lobster revolt could cost Trump the Senate Financial Times. Go lobstermen! I have some in my gene pool.

    Our No Longer Free Press

    Australia’s two-tier hate crime laws explained The Noticer (KK). Trust me and read it. Worse than you could imagine.

    The UK Is Getting Even Crazier In Defense Of Israel Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W)

    Economy

    Trump’s war is starting to strangle the world Sydney Morning Herald

    Sudden outbreak of wildfires near Canada’s oil sands threatens to disrupt supplies amid global energy crisis Independent

    The aluminium shock hitting the world economy Bloomberg

    Iran war forces farmers to seek fertilizer alternatives from cow dung to compost Associated Press. resilc: “Too bad they can’t spread bullshit from deecee……”

    How Drought-Stressed Wheat Could Complicate Harvest This Season Agriculture.com

    Australian wheat harvest to drop almost 50 per cent as farmers adapt to energy crisis Australia Financial Review

    We’re having the worst wheat crop in decades. You’ll notice the ripple effects soon at the grocery store The Hill

    Historic cattle shortages push US beef prices to record highs Financial Times

    Mr. Market Needs a Therapist

    AI debt sales reshape global corporate bond markets Reuters

    Writing’s on the wall for the bond market – for those who can read it South China Morning Post

    AI

    LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way The Register

    Inference Is Unlikely to Ever Be a Low Marginal Cost Operational Node, & the Other Reasons Why the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs Ought to Fail Brad DeLong

    AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog Futurism

    Fake ChatGPT download site infects Windows and Mac users with malware Malwarebytes

    The Bezzle

    Crypto treasuries turn to risky equity in drive to raise cash Financial Times

    github and the crime against software Efron Licht. Dave our tech maven: “This was once a wonderful product.”

    Guillotine Watch

    Trump Shovels $4 Billion Directly to Elon Musk, Who Spent a Fortune Getting Him Elected Futurism

    Class Warfare

    ‘It’s never enough’: young Americans struggle to build financial independence as cost of living spikes Guardian

    Graham Platner Loses Washington’s Vote Ken Klippenstein

    Sexting scandal is latest Graham Platner controversy to threaten his chances in Maine The Hill. This clip is not available on YouTube, but I recall in the California guberantorial race when three credible women accused Schwarznegger of having groped them. Schwarznegger got in front of the cameras on a nice green lawn, with his wife Maria Shriver next to him. Schwarznegger said he did it, he apologized to the women, said he was on a movie set and was young and stupid and thought he was being playful, now thanks to learning more, particularly from his wife, he knows better. The scandal immediately went away. The problem is Planter’s bad behavior is fresher but he needs a version of this sort of thing.

    The Home-Insurance Coin Flip: Nearly Half of Claims Result in Zero Payout Wall Street Journal

    West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis The Urbanist

    Antidote du jour. Tracie H:

    This pretty Palomino always looks like it’d love some attention each time I pass it on the days my walk take me along the dirt road that skirts its corral. There are two fences between us that suggest that strangers are unwelcome, so I am forced to ignore the prancing and staring that seem designed to draw me near.

    Links 6/2/2026 | naked capitalism

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    See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here

    Dem Centrists Pick Their Side, Stand With ICE, Data Centers, and Israel

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