Links for you. Science:
COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women During Pregnancy — Eight Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020–May 8, 2021
Scientists Report Earliest Known Coronavirus Infections in Five U.S. States (paper here; not entirely convinced)
NIH researchers find more evidence Covid was circulating in the US in December 2019 (see above)
COVID-19 mRNA vaccination generates greater IgG levels in women compared to men (BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN?!?)
Novavax Covid-19 Vaccine Is 90% Effective, Including Against Variants, New Study Shows
Other:
Why Confederate Lies Live On (must-read)
Nonsense and Sensibility
Stopping Critical Race Theory Is Now a Bona Fide Right-Wing Grift
Why Buffalo is a hub for illegal debt collectors who scam thousands across the country
D.C.’s cheap parking permits are the Achilles’ heel of the Comprehensive Plan
Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident.
Returning to the Office Will be Hard
We Are Lucky That This Republic Survived
Ned Beatty, versatile and prolific actor of stage and screen, dies at 83
Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Bump Into the Shamelessness Ceiling?
The more we learn about Trump’s corruption of DOJ, the worse it gets
He Made Sticky Stuff for MLB Pitchers for 15 Years. Now He’s Speaking Out.
The Amazon that customers don’t see: Inside a key warehouse during the pandemic
We’re learning more about how Trump leveraged his power to bolster his election fantasies
If the Senate Is Serious About Ending Endless Wars, It Should Focus on the 2001 AUMF
How to Have a Roaring 2020s (Without Wild Inflation) (without dealing with housing and retail store prices, we’re going to have problems)
Still a summit secret: What happened in Helsinki between Putin and Trump? (Democrats are so bad at this)
A Foolproof Plan That Could Not Possibly Have Any Negative Consequences
The Policy That Might Have Rescued America And Stopped Trump
Spread The Blame Around
Biden’s plan to tackle far-right terrorism is sane and thorough, so expect a Tucker meltdown
mikethemadbiologist
I live in Buffalo. One of my friends worked in debt collections & our friendship was ended when I told her she was better off as a bartender (her former job) cuz at least she wasn’t harassing people to get money out of them when they obviously couldn’t pay. You don’t harass people in a bar. They wouldn’t be there if they didn’t want to be there.
I probably should have kept my mouth shut but ya know … her soul was at stake. Or something like that.