No one can explain why the National Guard is even in DC aside from Trump’s megalomania, and now they’re determined to be able to shoot themselves and others both on purpose AND at random. What could go wrong? I think what disturbs me the most about all of this is how willingly our various forces around the country are jumping into the role of occupying America.

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change - Ars Technica

Part of the problem with neglecting your country and relying on the cost-cutting-above-all-else private sector to manage it for you is that you wind up with very precariously balanced social necessities like, I don’t know, medicine. Expect this problem to get worse, not better.

A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence – The Marginalian

Here’s yet another example of an animal that has a type of intelligence that defies human intuition about what intelligence is and how it’s created.

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son | Russia | The Guardian

How come my dad never led me into a life of spying and subterfuge? My life could be so much more interesting.