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Reino Ruusu

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Computational software developer. News addict. Husband. Father of two.

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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ian Bremmer joins Ezra Klein to argue that America is succumbing to the ‘Gracchi Trap’—internal decay and norm-shattering rather than external conquest. As the Hormuz blockade squeezes Asian energy and China wields mineral export controls, US unilateralism drives global instability.
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Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Makers of the documentary NAZA and The Guardian pushed back against Israeli military attempts to discredit their film, revealing they interviewed over 100 sources including senior IDF commanders involved in strike authorisations, backed by leaked classified targeting documents.
theguardian.com
NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mallen Baker doesn’t hold back his sarcasm taking a look at Pete Hegseth's concrete steps towards theocratic lead in the DoD, Trump administration attempts to rule NATO with divide and conquer strategies under threats of a diesel export ban. Allies are elevating stockpile decisions to the IEA.
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Trump Just Used NATO To Punish Britain and France — Here's The Strategy
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump downplayed North Korea's nuclear weapons program, claiming Kim Jong Un's arsenal is fine because the dictator likes and respects him. Trump differentiated Pyongyang from Iran, pushed for a 2026 summit at APEC, and defended curtailing joint military exercises with South Korea.
independent.co.uk
Trump says it’s fine for Kim Jong Un to have nuclear weapons because ‘he likes me’
US president claims he’s ‘about the only person in the entire world’ the North Korean leader likes
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told an industry-backed MAHA summit that AI is better informed than any doctor in the US and can free patients from medical tyranny, citing Sam Altman on checking AI for diagnoses. The corporate-sponsored event drew backlash from grassroots MAHA activists.
nytimes.com
A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit (Gift Article)
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Netanyahu made a secret trip to Abu Dhabi to ask UAE President MBZ to deny giving him a pre-Oct 7 warning about Hamas, per AP sources. The PMO dismissed the report as fake news while Shin Bet demanded a censor probe after Israeli TV leaked the visit. Netanyahu also met regional officials on Iran.
timesofisrael.com
Netanyahu flew to UAE to ask MBZ to deny giving him pre-Oct. 7 warning of Hamas attack – sources
Both sides confirm trip one day later, but PMO denies it had anything to do with trying to quash report about Emirati leader's alert; Shin Bet files complaint to military censor, claiming network that...
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The CDC has lost 30% of its staff and 10 of 11 center directors under the Trump administration and Health Secretary RFK Jr. Operating under acting heads and political minders, the hollowed agency faces severe backlogs responding to measles at home, Ebola in DR Congo, and seasonal vaccines.
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Economist Jeffrey Sachs warns Trump's bilateral tariff formula breaks the global division of labor established over 80 years. Trade deficits reflect national spending exceeding income, not foreign cheating. Halting trade destroys wealth, as shown by $10 trillion wiped from markets in two days.
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Jeffrey Sachs Slams Trump’s Tariffs: ‘The Whole World System’ Is Being Broken Apart | US NEWS
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump allies including Peter Ticktin, Wayne Allyn Root, and Tina Peters are lobbying him to declare martial law or emergency powers for the midterms. Meanwhile, White House advisers, the Joint Chiefs, and DOJ push back, denying any plans for federal takeovers of state election systems.
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Economist Dean Baker warns the AI bubble faces eventual collapse as customers lack income for sufficient revenue. Faced with a wall of data center lease commitments and CDS spreads widening by 60 bps, fund managers face severe asymmetric downside with strong incentives for herd mentality.
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Frontier AI is getting rejected by businesses | Dean Baker
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Before resigning over the White House ballroom, architect James McCrery warned Donald Trump his design lacked fire exits and containment, prompting Trump's response: 'I am the code.' To bypass GSA and safety standards, Trump routed the project via the Executive Residence.
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel faces political turmoil over the documentary NAZA, which reveals "factory-scale" targeting protocols approving up to 20 or even 500 civilian casualties per strike. With officials demanding citizenship revocation and treason charges, the film shatters long-standing domestic denial over Gaza.
nytimes.com
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At the 81st UN General Assembly, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate Iran, declared Cuba a failing state facing collapse, defended a 100-year Venezuelan oil deal, attacked the International Criminal Court, and ordered federal agencies to rebrand artificial intelligence as super intelligence.
theguardian.com
Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him
US president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pacific ocean temperatures at the heart of El Niño have reached +3.05C, breaking the all-time 150-year record months before its expected winter peak. With forecasts projecting a 4.0C anomaly, the 1,000-year event threatens to blow apart planetary heating records and trigger cascading global crises.
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outspoken Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse warns against "climate hushing" ahead of the 2026 midterms. He argues that rising insurance costs and electricity bills must be tied directly to "the villains"—the denialists and fossil fuel dark money pushing regulatory rollbacks and bending SCOTUS ethics.
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Whitehouse: Call Out the Corruption Propelling the US Climate Retreat - Inside Climate News
The Rhode Island senator, who could lead the Judiciary Committee if Democrats win in November, urges stronger messaging and a focus on Supreme Court reform.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The few curves between this year and the bulk of the measurements are known as "Super El Niño." So what should we call this one?
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The White House is drafting an executive order to create an outside panel with veto power over NIH research grants, escalating clashes between OMB Director Russell Vought and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya over spending cuts, academic purges, and federal control over biomedical science.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Asian governments are racing to adapt as the 2026 "supersized" El Niño threatens acute hunger for 50M people. With monsoon rain down 50% in India, record drought in Sri Lanka, and compound fertilizer inflation from the Iran war, regional rice yields are projected to fall 8-10%.
theguardian.com
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Russians vote in tightly controlled Duma elections with anti-war Yabloko barred and United Russia unchallenged. Behind the lifeless campaign, pervasive anxiety mounts over an imminent second wartime mobilization once the compliant parliament is sealed, driving young men to flee abroad.
theguardian.com
Russians go to polls against backdrop of Ukraine war and Putin’s tightening grip
President’s United Russia party faces no meaningful opposition after liberal anti-war party barred from ballot
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Russia is coercing tens of millions of citizens onto state-backed super-app Max after banning Telegram and WhatsApp. University of Michigan research reveals Max grants authorities a backdoor into its mini-app ecosystem, enabling silent screen captures, user impersonation, and code injection.
theguardian.com
Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clear-headed (and snarky) analysis from Mallen Baker of Canada's EU associate membership offer. US reliance blocks Trump acting on threatened severe tariffs, while considerable hurdles remain within the EU. Watters' hurt reaction to rejection as an anecdote of ridiculous nationalist propaganda.
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Why Canada and Europe's Move Just Sent Trump Into a Fury
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Copernicus reports Earth's atmosphere held record water vapour in August 2026 at 27.35 kg/m², beating July 2024 by 20 trillion litres. Driven by record heat and a super El Niño, higher moisture fuels severe storms via latent heat release and blocks nighttime cooling during heatwaves.
theguardian.com
Planet’s atmosphere breaks record for water vapour levels increasing risk of extreme heat and rainfall
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canadian PM Mark Carney addressed the European Parliament to embrace the EU's historic associate membership offer. Amid Donald Trump's threats of punitive tariffs on Europe, Carney championed middle-power collective resilience and strategic autonomy across defense, critical minerals, and AI.
theguardian.com
Canada’s Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal
After Trump describes the tie-up as ‘laughable’, PM says majority of Canadians support closer ties with bloc
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Greg Jaffe reports on Pete Hegseth's Pentagon upheaval: purging or blocking up to 80 generals and admirals, banning officers from Ivy League grad schools, vetting master's theses for loyalty, and polygraphing staff, all while the extended Iran war triggers acute missile interceptor shortages.
nytimes.com
In Hegseth’s Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle Turmoil (Gift Article)
Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anne Applebaum details how MAGA transformed US foreign policy into a transactional empire of private grift and far-right patronage: bullying Brazil, Greenland, and Canada while allies accelerate structural decoupling from Washington.
theatlantic.com
MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Patrick Boyle breaks down Germany's economic paralysis: the debt brake unlocked, but public investment still frozen by procurement rules. Structural depreciation is faster than investment and trade surpluses are plowed into lax spending by foreign borrowers instead of necessary domestic investment.
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Why Germany Stopped Working
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Second Thought details how US elections are manipulated by big donors: Super PACs, 501(c)(4) daisy chains, and candidate loan repayments, leading to post-election influence. Also: Trump administration purge of 75 election officials, DHS voter roll scrubs and poll intimidation threats.
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Here's Every Way To Rig The Midterms
YouTube video by Second Thought
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ocean anomalies up to +14°F! While El Niño drives global weather patterns, its biggest impacts are arguably local in #Peru, #Ecuador and the #Galápagos Islands. The extreme warmth along the coast is disrupting one of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. 1/
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Iranian hardliners led by cleric Hossein Taeb orchestrated rogue strikes in the Strait of Hormuz in July to sabotage a peace deal with Donald Trump, defying President Pezeshkian and IRGC chiefs as unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's absence deepens Tehran's escalating power struggle.
nytimes.com
How Iran’s Hard-liners Blew Up the Peace Deal with Trump
Opponents derailed the agreement with a clandestine effort to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, regime insiders say. Iran’s president was furious when he found out.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Over 187 gray whales have stranded dead along the Pacific coast in 2026 as Arctic warming and rapid sea ice melt disrupt benthic amphipod prey, leaving whales severely emaciated. Malnutrition is driving population decline and reproductive collapse, compounded by fatal vessel strikes.
scientificamerican.com
Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming
Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Russian drone hit a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train 2km from Poland amid a 450-strike barrage, destroying a locomotive and sparking NATO border concerns. Polish PM Tusk convened emergency talks and Donald Trump urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian diesel refineries.
theguardian.com
Train carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say
Ukrainian Railways says former British PM and David Petraeus crossed into Poland shortly before drone attack near border
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
August 2026 was the hottest month on record globally at 1.65°C above pre-industrial baselines, per Copernicus and NOAA. US summer temperatures broke the 1936 Dust Bowl record, while ocean heat tied all-time highs as fossil fuel emissions compound an intensifying El Niño.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For daily data, a z-score of 6.21 represents an expected recurrence period of 10.3 million years. Now we've reached it again in less than 3 years. With the still strengthening el Niño, we are likely only heading further into uncharted waters (literally).
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/09/2026
One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Canada enacted dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on $20B of US goods as Trump targeted Bombardier with boycott calls and false claims. Mallen Baker argues the conflict is not economic, but an imperial push for dominance over resources—backfiring as foreign direct investment shifts towards Canada.
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Trump's War on Canada Has Nothing to Do With Trade
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani released 170k+ unsealed records revealing city and EPA officials misled the public on toxic air and asbestos after 9/11 to rush reopening Wall Street. Over 25 years later, post-9/11 toxic exposure illnesses have killed more people than the attacks themselves.
nytimes.com
After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality
The Mamdani administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Fifth Circuit dismissed a lawsuit by Jackson, MS residents over lead contamination, ruling the Constitution grants no substantive right to clean drinking water nor truthful health information from officials. Judge Engelhardt wrote remedies lie at the ballot box, not federal courts.
eu.usatoday.com
No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit from Mississippi residents related to lead-contaminated water.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Newly declassified videos in the 9/11 families' $1T lawsuit show alleged Saudi agent Omar al-Bayoumi paintballing with al-Qaeda's Anwar al-Awlaki and Saudi religious officials. British police also found a flight descent equation in 2001 that was never shared with interrogators.
bbc.com
New videos of man in 9/11 lawsuit reveal links to extremists and Saudi state
The footage and other evidence the FBI failed to share undermine Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Helen Toner and Ezra Klein discuss out-of-control frontier AI. Talk of the "orthogonality thesis" (detachment of means and ends), enforceable developer liability laws, "horizontal acceleration", limiting chips to inference-only during a mandatory training pause, and recursive self-improvement.
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The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Anthropic's Claude produced the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. Collaborating autonomously across 11 days via Prove2Me, Claude wrote 13M lines of Lean and proved 29,500 theorems, marking a major leap in AI autoformalization for research mathematics.
anthropic.com
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A wave of Russian and Ukrainian strikes on commercial shipping in the Black Sea killed 23 crew in July alone, stranding grain exports. With Russian export capacity down to 40% and Ukraine bottled up, Oxford Economics warned global food prices could jump nearly 12% in 2026.
theguardian.com
Deadly escalation in Black Sea attacks prompts fears of even higher food prices
Russian and Ukrainian strikes in July killed more crew than in whole war to that month, preventing grain exports
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
While standard El Niños bring late-winter cold to the UK, the record 2026 Super El Niño could flip the pattern to continuous storms and rain through spring. Met Office models show extreme Pacific heating alters North Atlantic pressure, driving mild westerlies and heightened flood risk.
newscientist.com
Super El Niño could have unexpected effect on UK winter | New Scientist
An El Niño is usually expected to herald a cold end to winter in the UK – but this year could be different
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent disingenuously blames fuel prices on Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian refineries. Following attempted coercive resource extraction, cutting aid to Kyiv and draining US missile interceptor stocks in Iran, the Trump administration has surrendered all leverage.
paulkrugman.substack.com
Imperialist Delusions and the Price of Fuel
Trump and Bessent tried to betray Ukraine. Now they don’t have any cards.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nvidia's growing reliance on vendor financing—backing customer debt and guaranteeing compute leases—mirrors the 1990s telecom bubble. Funding your own clients props up GPU demand, but when startups falter, vendors face double exposure: losing both the customer and the backstopped loan.
youtube.com
Why Wall Street is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
France has officially recorded its hottest summer since records began in 1900. With national average temperatures 3.6°C above normal (surpassing 2003) and 53 heatwave days across 3 episodes, the country faced widespread wildfires, 250,000 evacuations, and near 40% rainfall deficit.
apnews.com
France records its hottest summer since measurements began over a century ago
France has recorded its hottest summer since measurements began over a century ago, according to the environment minister.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Driven by surging imports of AI hardware and semiconductors, the U.S. trade deficit jumped 24% in July to $88.6B, a 16-month high. Bilateral deficits with Taiwan hit a record $20.7B as capital goods imports surged, presenting a setback to Trump tariff policy and a drag on Q3 GDP.
nytimes.com
U.S. Trade Gap Ballooned in July
The trade deficit bounced back up last month as spending on data centers to feed the A.I. boom drove up imports.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after confronting Donald Trump over Pete Hegseth's military purges. With Randy George and Chris Donahue ousted, the US Army now operates with fewer generals than anytime in recent history and without confirmed civilian or military leadership.
theatlantic.com
Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The UN warns that El Niño is "supersizing before our eyes," on track to be the largest in 1,000 years with peak Niño3.4 SST anomalies reaching 4°C by November. The event is projected to devastate crops, push 50M people into acute hunger, and make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded.
theguardian.com
‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Joe Blogs analyzes Russia's slow-motion bank run: Russians pulled $15.2B in cash this summer as drone jamming knocked out mobile payments and fears grew of deposit seizures. With 10-year bond yields hitting 17% and a 6.5T ruble deficit, Russia faces a sovereign debt spiral.
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Russian Bank Panic
YouTube video by Joe Blogs
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Reino Ruusu @rruusu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Mallen Baker analyzes allied pushback at the G20 finance summit: Scott Bessent lectured allies hypocritically on "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies while inviting Russia's Siluanov and barring media. Meanwhile, China and SCO leaders rejected US coercive unilateralism for a multipolar model.
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World Pushes Back Against Trump's America At The G20
YouTube video by Mallen Baker
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