California Burning
From smoke to roaring flames: Inside the primary hours of the lethal Pacific Palisades fireplace NBC
How one road in LA went up in flames BBC. Altadena (i.e., not the Palisades).
* * * Local weather change performs key contributing function in LA fires Axios. Commentary:
Yeah, lifeless giveaway that issues are damaged
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 13, 2025
The pistachio billionaires who guzzle extra water than all of fire-ravaged Los Angeles Day by day Mail. With shoutout to Yasha Levine!
How Properly-Intentioned Insurance policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires The Atlantic. Commentary:
When the hearth division reveals up thats Socialism. 🙄
When the Insurance coverage Firm would not pay, or cancels your coverage, that is Capitalism.
— Brad (@BraddrofliT) January 13, 2025
* * * California fires may very well be costliest catastrophe in US historical past, says governor FT. On fire-rated buildings, a thread:
Learners Information to Hearth Rated Constructing Design:
I am knowledgeable engineer that has designed and constructed buildings all around the nation, and all over the world. The primary essential fireplace design was in California🧵 pic.twitter.com/1IYwzktQvI
— Matthew Chang (@matthewachang) January 11, 2025
The California wildfires may very well be leaving deeper inequality of their wake AP
* * * Amid the fires, LA is warning some residents the faucet water isn’t protected. Right here’s why NPR
How one can assist the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires LA Instances
FBI looking for operator of privately owned drone that punched gap in Canadian firefighting airplane FOX
Local weather
Biodiversity, Latitude and Conservation: An Essay on Ecological Patterns 3 Quarks Day by day
Syndemics
Mpox Clade I within the U.S. Ought to Be a Wake-Up Name MedPage In the present day
Chook Flu Is a Nationwide Embarrassment The Atlantic
* * * ‘I used to be an infectious illness nurse, I’ve by no means seen a disaster just like the quad-emic’ iNews UK. The deck: “[I]t isn’t attainable for folks to ‘hand wash their approach out of the quad-demic.”
ANALYSIS: Why are B.C. children sick on a regular basis? Well being consultants clarify Surrey Now-Chief. Report from Bonnie Henry territory.
* * * Neurological post-COVID syndrome is related to substantial impairment of verbal short-term and dealing reminiscence Nature. N = 90. From the Summary: After “an in depth neuropsychological take a look at battery,”Deep neuropsychological evaluation confirmed that neurologic [Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS)] sufferers carried out worse in a normal screening of cognitive deficits in comparison with [healthy controls (HC)]. Neurologic PCS sufferers confirmed impaired psychological flexibility as an govt subfunction, verbal short-term reminiscence, working reminiscence and normal reactivity (extended response time).”
Syraqistan
Hamas to launch 33 hostages in breakthrough cope with Israel, report claims Day by day Mail
Israel Targets Houthi Ports of Hodeidah and Ras Isa With Extra Airstrikes Maritime Government
Oil Tankers Again Up Close to Yemeni Port After Israel Hits Tugs gCaptain
May Trump’s Sharing of a Scathing Video Supply a Glimpse Into His Relationship With Netanyahu? Haaretz
The foundations-based worldwide order:
Throughout the now-decimated Gaza Strip, America’s mark is all over the place. In footage shot by CBS Information in Could, the bottom is affected by US-made ammunition casings – some used to prop up tents, others became playthings by youngsters. pic.twitter.com/zvfeA8wEi7
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 13, 2025
China?
China releases world’s strongest digital warfare weapon design software program – without spending a dime South China Morning Put up
China’s exports in December up 10.7%, beating estimates as greater US tariffs loom AP
Why Trump’s tariffs could be simply what China’s ailing economic system wants South China Morning Put up
Cambodia’s China-backed canal on Mekong might threaten ‘fragile ecosystems’ South China Morning Put up
India
Maha Kumbh set to start in Prayagraj with Shahi Snan The Hindu
How India’s Meeting Line Training System Shapes the Good H1B Candidate The Wire
Africa
A startup metropolis in Kenya tries to deal with Africa’s downside of urbanizing whereas poor AP
European Disunion
Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s combative ‘left-wing conservative’ Agence France Presse
Belgians brace themselves for a nationwide strike on Monday EuroNews
Brussels hushed up Ursula von der Leyen’s week in hospital with pneumonia Politico
Pricey Previous Blighty
Elon Musk’s Newest Terrifying Foray Into British Politics New Yorker
The reality about Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk’s ‘sabotage plot’ The Spectator
Who’s Ivor Caplin? Former Labour MP who criticised Elon Musk, now embroiled in little one intercourse scandal Instances of India. Silver lining:
Ivor Caplin, the previous chair of the Israel foyer group the JLM, which is carefully linked to the Israeli embassy, has been caught by paedophile hunters trying to satisfy a baby.
He was chair of the organisation throughout the marketing campaign to oust Corbyn.pic.twitter.com/d1CYMIN6Iv
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) January 11, 2025
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Russian elites are delighted with Donald Trump’s Mar a Lago press convention Gilbert Doctorow, Armageddon E-newsletter
Zelenskyy able to trade N Korean troopers for Ukrainians held in Russia Al Jazeera
Large rally in Bucharest protests courtroom’s choice to annul presidential elections Anadolu Company
Zelenskyy suggests Transnistrian authorities could also be siding with Russia amid vitality disaster Ukrainska Pravda
Slovak parliament delegation arrives in Moscow for official go to Anadolu Company
South of the Border
President Xi’s particular envoy attends inauguration of Venezuela’s president CGTN
Venezuela’s president praises assembly with Turkish minister Anadolu Company
US maintains Venezuelan oil licenses regardless of ‘illegitimate’ Maduro inauguration S&P International
* * * How El Salvador turned a mannequin for the worldwide far proper FT
Trump Transition
Trump ally Steve Bannon blasts Elon Musk as ‘really evil’ in MAGA cut up Al Jazeera
* * * One ballot finds majority of Greenland respondents assist becoming a member of US The Hill
‘You don’t simply go and purchase a rustic’: Greenland plunged into geopolitical storm FT
Antitrust
Monopoly Spherical-Up: LA Fires Change America, and Mark Zuckerberg Begins Bargaining Matt Stoller, BIG
Digital Watch
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Resolution To Fly Accomplice Flag At Fb Headquarters The Onion
Realignment and Legitimacy
Class Warfare
Placing a Steadiness — Advancing Doctor Collective-Bargaining Rights and Affected person Protections NEJM
Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the critique of capitalocentrism. Adam Tooze, Chartbook
From Gaza to California: the flames that join us all Mondoweiss
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