Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how Space.com

Salamanders are surprisingly abundant in US northeastern forests, research finds Phys.org

What Chickens Know: On Bonding with Birds and the Language of Hens Literary Hub

Climate

COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals BBC

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate Inside Climate Mews

Sustainable Building Effort Reaches New Heights with Wooden Skyscrapers JSTOR Daily

93 still missing after severe floods in Spain The Watchers

Syndemics

MMWR: Serologic Evidence of Recent Infection with HPAI A(H5) Virus Among Dairy Workers Avian Flu Diary

China?

China unveils $1.4tn package to shore up economy FT

Trump’s comeback no surprise for China – and this time Beijing is prepared South China Morning Post

China in ‘intensive’ consultations with EU on EV price commitments CGTN

No winners in trade wars, says Chinese envoy, as US confrontation looms Channel News Asia

China Unveils New Missile Defence System With Staggering 3000 Kilometre Range: What is the HQ-19’s Role? Military Watch

The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan TokyoDev

Myanmar

Famine Imminent in Myanmar’s Rakhine State as Economy Collapses, UN Says The Diplomat

The Koreas

S.Korea fires ballistic missile after Pyongyang’s missile launches Anadolu Agency

South Korea’s ‘4B’ Movement Goes Viral in US After Trump Elected 404 Media

India

Colonies of former colonies Aeon

Africa

Oil discoveries fuel battle for strategic island off West Africa S&P Global

Syraqistan

Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans Middle East Eye. The deck: “Travelling fans verbally abuse locals and tear down Palestine flags before fights break out with Dutch youth.”

Trump’s victory throws diplomatic bombshell into Israel’s multi-front war – analysis Jerusalem Post

Trump Will Work to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Erasing Palestinian Aspirations Haaretz

How close is the Israeli army to collapse? Asa Winstanley, Palestine is Still the Issue

Easy-fit prosthetics offer hope to thousands of Gaza amputees BBC

European Disunion

EU leaders gauge impact of Trump’s return at Budapest ECP summit BNE Intellinews

Can Europe’s unity survive as its sense of crisis grows? FT

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine Now Faces a Nuclear Decision Foreign Policy

“NATO or Nukes”: Why Ukraine’s nuclear revival refuses to die Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Ukraine loses ground to Russia as Trump win leaves future U.S. support in doubt PBS

Western leader blurts out what was once taboo on Ukraine Responsible Statecraft

US to back Ukraine’s talks with Russia if Zelenskyy is ready Ukrainska Pravda

Trump 2.0 is good news for Putin, bad news for Zelenskiy Ben Aris, Radio Moskva

Russia’s Putin says ready for dialogue with ‘courageous’ Trump Al Jazeera

Europe already ‘Trump proofing’ Ukraine war aid Responsible Statecraft

South of the Border

What Is Homelander Doing in Venezuela? Venezuelanalysis

Trump Transition

“Six ways from Sunday”?

Trump’s Return Is an Abominable Ambush for the Fed John Authers, Bloomberg

Can Trump Fire the Fed Chair? Some Legal Realism Credit Slips

Who is Susie Wiles? Trump’s new chief of staff and ‘work wife’ is grandma who has grown men quaking Daily Mail

Calling all nat sec wonks: These are the transition positions you should be paying attention to Politico

Robert Kennedy Jr’s influence over Donald Trump sparks Big Pharma alarm FT

Can the Next President Change U.S. Foreign Policy? War on the Rocks

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump Returns! Empire in Decline! (video) Dialog Works, YouTube

How would Trump’s promise of mass deportations of migrants work? BBC

Trump says there’s ‘no price tag’ for his mass deportation plan NBC

Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration Fortune

Dem governor issues stark warning to Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’ FOX. Pritzker.

2024 Post Mortem

Thirty years later, the answer emerge History Unfolding

Milestones n+1a

How 5 key demographic groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast AP

‘BlueAnon’ conspiracy theorists spread viral voter fraud claims after Trump victory France24

4D Chess: Democrats Admit Trump Actually Won In 2020 And Is Now Unable To Serve Third Term Babylon Bee

I Wonder Daring Fireball

Harvard Professors Cancel Classes as Students Feel Blue After Trump Win Harvard Crimson. Musical interlude.

Biden Administration

No One Is Running America Now Indi.ca

Digital Watch

New Device Generates Electricity From Moisture in the Air (press release) SUNY Binghamton

Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out 404 Media

Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6% The Register

Class Warfare

New York Times Tech Strikers Sing ‘No Scabs’ and Call a Wordle Boycott Labor Notes

Antidote du jour (Marek Szczepanek):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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About Lambert Strether

Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. To me, the key issue — and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me — is the tens of thousands of excess “deaths from despair,” as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics — even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton’s wars created — bright shiny objects by comparison. Hence my frustration with the news flow — currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press — a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. What kind of political economy is it that halts or even reverses the increases in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let’s call such voices “the left.” Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn’t allowed to get back into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! I love the tactical level, and secretly love even the horse race, since I’ve been blogging about it daily for fourteen years, but everything I write has this perspective at the back of it.