Links for you. Science:
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study (press release here; the feds disagree)
FDA Proposal Will Not Sufficiently Curb Injudicious Use of Antibiotics in Food Animals
Protecting Lions Helps the Whole Food Chain? Actually, We Don’t Know.
The American Psychiatric Association Sickened America — It’s time to right their wrongs and move toward recovery
How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints
Other:
An intriguing reason that Republicans want to keep the filibuster
What is — and isn’t — unusual about the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border
Kim Janey Becomes First Black Woman To Lead Boston
How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out
DeJoy asks House panel for more USPS money to support plan that includes slower mail delivery
The Years of Work Behind Washington’s Most Well-Liked Man
‘A God Around Here’: Elgin Baylor Built His Legendary Status in D.C.
There Sure Are a Lot of Weird Arguments Against DC Statehood in Congress Today
Mayor Bowser’s Rent Crisis Group Debates Eviction Moratorium
Republicans go all ‘We plant seeds in the South’ at Washington, D.C., statehood hearing
The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response
Why Republicans Have No Good Arguments Against D.C. Statehood
Why McConnell Gets Away With Filibustering
Covid: The countries that nailed it, and what we can learn from them
On Voting Rights, Ted Cruz Tells the Truth for Once
There is no immigration crisis
A Black Woman Mayor in Boston Is a Big F*cking Deal
All Republicans Have Against D.C. Statehood Is a Parade of Bogeymen
Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’ Star, Dies at 81
The pandemic exposed Charlie Baker’s Republican heart
The dangerous game Tucker Carlson is playing on vaccines
mikethemadbiologist
The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science