Links for you. Science:

What Has Four Legs, a Trunk and a Behavioral Database?
As plan for new U.S. health agency to speed treatments takes shape, doubts remain
Here’s What We Know (And Don’t Know) About Long COVID
How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highway? Take a Look.
COVID-19 Vaccines Work Way Better Than We Had Ever Expected. Scientists Are Still Figuring Out Why.

Other:

Inside the Conservative Movement’s Long Con to Capture the Courts. How Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell quietly installed hundreds of federal judges, waging an insidious war on the judicial branch bound to shape American life for decades to come—and not for the better.
D.C. Vaccinations Near Seventy Percent Goal
About Time for the Pitchforks
The FBI was behind an encrypted phone company that spied on criminals worldwide
How Can Merrick Garland Function as an Institutionalist Leading a Corrupted Institution?
America’s Oligarchs Are Operating in Financial Disneyland
The real reason employers can’t hire enough workers
Yellen’s New Alliance Against Leprechauns
You probably can’t guess which state’s Democratic party formalized a role for Native folks
COVID Relief Donations Are Supporting a Project to “Hinduize” India
Redlined America
REPUBLICANS THINK THEY’RE BULLETPROOF (AND THEY USUALLY ARE)
Burning the midnight oil: Eric Adams’ mysterious whereabouts off the campaign trail
Covid: Good And Bad
Spreading Vaccine Fears, And Cashing In
Biden administration will limit mandatory Covid workplace safety rules to health care settings: Unions and other safety advocates say all workers should be protected.
D.C., Md. hospitals will require employees to get vaccinated against covid-19
My Fellow Republicans, Stop Fearing This Dangerous and Diminished Man (Comstock is a full-bore hack ideologue going back to the Clinton era, and even she gets it)
WTF, Merrick Garland? Seriously?
Oregon Republicans call on GOP state lawmaker to resign after video shows him appearing to tell protesters how to enter closed state Capitol
Head Start’s Long-Run Impacts on Human Capital and Labor-Market Outcomes