How biomedical research is funded by public institutions and performed in universities and research institutions, both now in danger
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis: Crypto’s Role in Trump’s Economic Masterplan (With Special Emphasis on Stablecoins)
Might there be more method in Trump’s crypto and dollar madness than most assume?
Extreme Heat, Hospital Crowding, and the Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change
A study confirms that extreme heat events stress hospitals so much that they produce non-heat excess deaths.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Missile Defense Pretense
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The impossible dream of a national missile shield and the implications for Trump’s Golden Dome
Trump’s Desire to ‘Un-Unite’ Russia and China Is Unlikely to Work – In Fact, It Could Well Backfire
The oh-so-clever US intends to drive a wedge between China and Russia, after having been mean to Russia and still mean to China.
Five Reasons Why Euro Area Citizens Should Be Terrified By the ECB’s (Apparently) Fast Approaching Digital Euro
Imagine a technology that could facilitate the single greatest expansion of totalitarian power in history in the hands of the European Central Bank and EU Commission. What could possibly go wrong?
The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About the Arctic & Baltic Fronts
Even with a settlement in Ukraine and geopolitical thawing in the Arctic, the UK, Baltics and other refusniks can still cause trouble.
Coffee Break: Across the Pond – Even the Best Laid EU Plans…
The EU plan to borrow €800 Billion for defense was rejected by the Dutch Parliament. In particular, they objected to the fact that the money will be borrowed by the EU and the more fiscally responsible countries (mainly in the northern states of the Union) would end up paying for it.
The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived
Colorado joins Oregon in green-lighting the very much supervised use of psychecelic mushrooms.
Satyajit Das: DOGE – The Accelerant in American Decline
Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
When Will Courts Start Using Contempt Power To Stop Trump Administration Procedural and Constitutional Abuses?
I hate to put on my cynic’s hat, but I see a weird childlike faith in daddy figures behind the hope the the good daddy, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, will stop the mad bad dad Donald Trump. The other archetypal story line at work is the hero’s journey, with Roberts as the hero, […]
‘Quiet Panic’ as National Rental Assistance Program Set to Run Out of Cash
More “unsolvable” homelessness: A COVID-era emergency housing voucher is running out of cash — and there’s no plan to save it.
