The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages
Yves here. The post below by Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back uses a one-time church, still supervised by a pastor, now a provider of free
Links 7/20/2025 | naked capitalism
Top synchro execution in action! Gabriela Agundez and Alejandra Estudillo deliver height, precision, and perfect timing 🙌🇲🇽#Bestdives pic.twitter.com/P1Kxc04dvh — World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 18, 2025
Links 7/19/2025 | naked capitalism
Pollinators send out good vibrations — and plants respond sweetly Science News (Dr. Kevin) Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? BBC
Coffee Break: Garden of Healing, Good News on PEPFAR, Life in Biotech, and Our American Israel
Part the First: Pharmacopeia. Who doesn’t love a garden? It sometimes seems that all drugs come from plants, initially.  My first biology teachers claimed they
Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence
Yves here. This post makes an extremely useful observation, even though it is a bit more in economese than is ideal, despite it being aimed
Project Nectar: Another Palantir Special
Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel — nectar for wealthy bees “Perhaps more than any other nation, the United States hero-worships the men and women
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – AI Goes to War
A compact comprehensive discussion of the present state and future prospects of AI technologies applied to armed conflict is an impossible mission, but I will
Message to Trump: Incompetence Is Not Virtue. Also, People Will Die
Yves here. This short Dean Baker post says even more than he intends. Why has there not been more uproar about the jokes masquerading as
Links 7/13/2025 | naked capitalism
Making history for his country & proving that patience is key ✨ It took Artur Davtyan three Olympic Games to win Armenia’s first Olympic medal
