Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found Science
Golden retriever named Mueller is mayor of Southern California town ABC. From before Mueller was Mueller.
The Dummy Company at the Heart of Deutsche Bank Money Laundering Probe ICIJ
CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme CBC
The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich Bloomberg
US farmers’ borrowing boom is built on shaky land values FT
Intense Rainfall Is As Damaging to Crops As Heatwaves and Drought, and Climate Change Is Making It Worse Yale Environment360
China?
A Slower Economy. A Trade War. Now, China Faces Rising Food Prices. NYT
Charting China, the (not always) super power The Interpreter
Tiananmen Square – Do The Media Say What Really Happened? Moon of Alabama
Hong Kong keeps Tiananmen crackdown memory alive with ‘record-breaking’ mass vigil South China Morning Post
Ebola cases pass 2,000 as crisis escalates Nature
Superbugs in the Anthropocene Monthly Review
Venezuela
Venezuela Defaults on Gold Swap With Deutsche Bank Bloomberg
Venezuela’s oil exports drop 17% in May as sanctions kick in: data Reuters
Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro? BBC
Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide The New Yorker
Russia’s Sovereign Internet Bill explained TechRadar
Syraqistan
Iran attacks US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin Duffel Blog
What war with Iran could look like Military Times.
The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot Craig Murray
May retail sales hit by ‘biggest slump on record‘ Sky News. In the UK.
Donald Trump says any US-UK trade deal has to include NHS FT. Trump says the quiet part out loud, as usual.
Trump Transition
Amassing War Powers, Bolton Rips a Page Out of Cheney’s Playbook The American Conservative
Michael Wolff’s ‘Siege’ Is Like His Last Book — But Worse Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Dems won’t impeach Trump but can’t stop talking about it Politico
Democrats Blame Trump on Trade, But Avoid Their Own Concrete Proposals Bloomberg
Federal aid headed to Missouri, Kansas as disaster bill passes after weeks of delay McClatchy
Top tech executives will be asked to testify in U.S. probe Reuters
Recode Daily: Big Tech’s regulatory reckoning might finally be here Vox
News Media Alliance pushes for new Senate antitrust bill Roll Call
Hospitals Accused Of Paying Doctors Large Kickbacks In Quest For Patients KHN
Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman Business Insider
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Your iPhone is staying busy while you’re sleeping Denver Post
This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bargoers OneZero
Utah will test hidden technology that tries to find weapons among crowds at schools, stadiums and churches Salt Lake Tribune
Imperial Collapse Watch
Everyone acts like America is in decline. Let’s look at the numbers. WaPo
The Sum of All Beards The New Republic
F-35 Dogfight Accidentally Resulted in a Sky Penis, Officials Say Military.com
Against Advertising Jacobin
Class Warfare
Inequality in the US is at the root of the trade wars FT
Homelessness in L.A. is a catastrophe in motion, and our leaders are largely to blame Los Angeles Times
JPMorgan Chase Seeks to Prohibit Card Customers From Suing NYT
‘It Puts You Into a Process That Hugely Favors the Employer’ FAIR
How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours MIT Technology Review
How Technology Grows (a restatement of definite optimism) Dan Wang
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