Links for you. Science:

Explaining Order among Those Who Share Positions in the Author Byline (pdf)
Trump’s EPA disbanded our clean air science panel. We met anyway – and found that particle pollution regulations aren’t protecting public health
New TB Vaccine Could Save Millions of Lives, Study Suggests
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
Has Humanity’s Homeland Been Found? A contentious new paper traces the origins of modern humans to ancient wetlands in Africa, a claim other researchers have called far-fetched.

Other:

Missouri health director kept spreadsheet of Planned Parenthood patients’ periods
D.C. is a bright spot in the nation’s overall lackluster standardized test results (this would be the start of the cohort unaffected by the lead poisoning of the early 2000s in D.C.)
Is Trump close to a psychotic break? Harvard psychiatrist on the president’s downward spiral — and why his paranoia may persuade him to leave office
Trump’s Public Lands Chief Wrote For A Cult Extremist’s Magazine: William Perry Pendley authored anti-environmental screeds for Lyndon LaRouche. Now he controls 10% of the U.S. landmass.
State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men
Why are Democratic party elites so desperate for a 2020 centrist candidate?
WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program
You see kids in cages and other outright horrors of this administration’s immigration policies, but no one talks about how quietly sadistic they are in a thousand different ways to people like myself and my Lebanese husband, who have been trying to legally immigrate for two years
CNN’s Sean Duffy problem is only going to get worse
It’s the End of California as We Know It
How Lana Del Rey’s career explains a huge shift in the way we think about pop stars
California Is Burning—Nationalize PG&E
Revenge porn is a tactic of abuse. Katie Hill’s case makes that clear.
Trump and the problem of ‘minoritarian populism’
‘Not qualified’ rating and accusation from American Bar Association moves Trump nominee to tears
Impeachment Is Not a Coup
The History of Go-Go: A 6-Step Guide to the Essentials
Dropshipping journalism
My father’s library will likely survive the fires, but the California of my youth is gone
Not everyone will survive
If Progressives Don’t Try to Win Over Rural Areas, Guess Who Will