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British twins grow ‘monster’ pumpkin expected to weigh more than a rhino Telegraph

Investors raise bets on bumper half-point Fed rate cut FT

Climate

Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide Scientifc American

Wildfires Threaten Nearly One Third of U.S Residents and Buildings Scientific American. From June, still germane.

650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 days, scientists find NBC

Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say CNN

Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse Ars Technica

Water

Is climate change making the Colorado Trail a thirst trap? It’s complicated. Colorado Sun

Syndemics

Inquiry into unexplained bird flu case in Missouri broadens to a close contact STAT

CDC FluView Update On Missouri H5 Case Adds An Important Detail Avian Flu Diary

Woman convicted for fatally infecting neighbour with Covid The Telegraph. Austria.

COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia Futures

What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain Bloomberg. Commentary:

Canada Needs a National COVID-19 Inquiry Now (preprint) SocRxiv. Meanwhile in the UK:

China?

President Xi Jinping tones down focus on China’s growth targets as headwinds mount South China Morning Post

China committed to ‘peacemaker’ role, including on Ukraine, Xiangshan defence forum hears South China Morning Post

U.S. Navy’s Top SEALs Special Forces Team Simulating Attacks on China in Taiwan Strait War: How Effective Are They? Military Watch

Super Typhoon Yagi exposes China’s cashless society flaws as people flock to charge phones. Watch Hindustan Times

The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan’s Legendary Wandering Magician Tokyo Weekender

The cursed stone resists return Pearls and Irritations

Labour unrest shuts down 100 factories in Bangladesh BNE Intellinews

Syraqistan

Netanyahu asks for criminal probe into himself to evade ICC warrant Al Mayadeen

How a Single Jordanian Tribesman Put the ‘Cold Peace’ with Israel at Risk Internationalist 360°

Massachusetts man shot in scuffle with pro-Israel crowd as video emerges of another who self-immolated Middle East Eye

Africa

The cocoa connection: How ‘brown gold’ is smuggled between Ivory Coast, Liberia and Guinea France24

Russia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across Africa Foreign Policy

Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does America Need an Africa Strategy? With Sam Wilkins War on the Rocks

New Not-So-Cold War

White House responds to Putin’s threats, calling it dangerous rhetoric but not a new one and US will not change its policy on Ukraine striking deep into Russian territory yet – White House Ukrainska Pravda. Commentary:

Biden indicates shift in Ukraine’s deployment of Storm Shadow missiles FT

Vladimir Putin Does Not Make Empty Threats Moon of Alabama

Raising the Stakes in Ukraine Consortium News

The State of the War in Ukraine NYT. The deck: “We explain using maps.”

Zelensky’s Last Hail Mary Gets Off to Rocky Start Simplicius the Thinker

Shoigu makes a comeback Gilbert Doctorow

Ukraine has highest mortality rate and lowest birth rate in the world Ukrainska Pravda

European DIsunion

The Gravedigger New Left Review. Barnier.

German chancellor, Polish premier discuss land border control decision Anadolu Agency

South of the Border

The Venezuela Elections of 28 July 2024: What and Whom to Believe? Venezuelanalysis

In a historic move, Colombia bypasses patent to access HIV drug Al Jazeera

Elon’s Brazilian Corporate Law Surprise Credit Slips

2024

‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians NBC. The deck: “The woman behind an early Facebook post that helped spark baseless rumors about Haitians eating pets told NBC News that she feels for the immigrant community.”

So what IS the truth about the city where Trump claims migrants are eating the pet cats and dogs? GREG WOODFIELD visits Springfield, Ohio, to find neo-Nazis are marching, residents in utter despair – and even talk of gun battles breaking out… Daily Mail. Commentary:

Donald Trump re-election bid being derailed by far-right influencers, allies fear FT

Trump appears to leave door open for second debate with Harris: ‘Maybe if I got in the right mood’ FOX

Ready your bets: Election gambling is going mainstream in the US Politico

Appeals court puts U.S. election bets on hold mere hours after a judge allowed it PBS

Democrats en Déshabillé

Staffer for NYC mayor fired amid extortion reports after NYPD commissioner resigns FOX

The Supremes

Loper Bright and the Ascendancy of the Cost-Benefit State (PDF) SSRN

What is Original Public Meaning? (PDF) University of San Diego School of Public Law

Digital Watch

We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI watchTowr

Gunz

Keystone at Clearview football game canceled after threats to host school Cleveland.com

Health

Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers The Economist

Groves of Academe

New University Rules Crack Down on Gaza Protests Mother Jones

Imperial Collapse Watch

US elections, China policy, Palestine-Israel and Russia-Ukraine: John Mearsheimer (video) ShanghaiEye, YouTube

Student Loans: Not Just About Attending College Conversable Economist

Class Warfare

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich Literary Hub

The Gift of the Grange JSTOR

The Rise of Shot and Sail (excerpt) Big Serge Thought

Antidote du jour (Jérémie Silvestro):

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.