Links for you. Science:

Another Group of Scientists Calls for Further Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus (letter here)
Modeling of Future COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Rates and Nonpharmaceutical Intervention Scenarios — United States, April–September 2021
Landmark study casts doubt on controversial theory linking melting Arctic to severe winter weather
A Cultural Triumph: Microbiology Student Makes A Petri Dish Masterpiece
A rare calico lobster was rescued from a Red Lobster. It’s now headed to a Virginia exhibit.

Other:

DC Health Finally Lifts Restrictions on Long Term Care Facilities. They Could Have Done That Weeks Ago.
G.O.P. Seeks to Empower Poll Watchers, Raising Intimidation Worries
Keck & Keck, Edward McCormick & Elizabeth Blair House (1953) Lake Bluff, IL
SHELDON SHOCKED
Capital Checkers Finds A New Home In Adams Morgan
Republicans’ dishonest war against ‘critical race theory’
Since-deleted video shows Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office during 2019 Capitol Hill visit
Spies Somehow Failed to Get Trump Officials to Call Him Stupid on Hidden Camera
How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuking the Filibuster
The struggle for the survival of US democracy
Bad textbooks are the reason we need Critical Race Theory
Liebenberg & Kaplan, St. Clair Theater (1936) St. Paul, MN
HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”
‘Good Jewish boy’ or chief ‘infiltrator’? NJ man spent years as fake rabbi in Israel, groups say
Uber (Ch)eats
Grievance, rebellion and burnt bridges: Tracing Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection
‘Doesn’t matter’: Democrats reject GOP’s debt limit demands
The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein
The Republican theory of unemployment is classic Marx
The Trump Camp Was Machiavelli Meets the Three Stooges
Stimmies killed the McJob
An Electric Car in High-rise Manhattan: How Long Is Your Extension Cord?