Links for you. Science:

Virological and serological kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant vaccine-breakthrough infections: a multi-center cohort study
The eye of the tiger mosquito: It once made headlines. Is it still around?
Thread on (mis)estimating R0 of COVID-19
An Emerging Tickborne Disease Is Gaining Steam in New York
Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They’re Back. Chinese researchers have uploaded genetic sequences of coronaviruses to a scientific database more than a year after they took them offline. (guessing this won’t get the coverage the original paper had…)

Other:

How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet
When Psychopaths Speak
Cuba’s Elites Have Failed Their Country: For decades, they asked the lower classes to sacrifice on behalf of the revolution, while prioritizing tourism. Now protesters are saying they’ve had enough.
‘We’re still behind’: Public HBCUs see record investments, but still contend with legacy of state-sponsored discrimination
In Provincetown, COVID-19 hits 14 friends in a show of Delta variant’s might
Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu is on an island alone with rent control
His campaign is over. But Trump’s political groups are still spending donor money at his properties.
All News Is Politics
Democrats can’t count on voters being mad enough about suppression to overcome it
How Covid vaccine incentives failed America
There’s No Such Thing As Society
Vaccine Mandates Are as American as Apple Pie
CDC Scaled Back Hunt for Breakthrough Cases Just as the Delta Variant Grew​​​​​​
Short lease in a slick machine: a personal essay about apartments
How Biden Can Profitably Piss Off Republicans
I’m An ICU Doctor And I Cannot Believe The Things Unvaccinated Patients Are Telling Me
How Joe Biden Became A Trust Buster
Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network with propaganda
Ron DeSantis is leading Florida into utter destruction while COVID-19 cases spike to record level
First they protest masks in racist fury. Then hotbed of loud, wrong Missourians attracts COVID-19
Congress wants to make going to the airport less miserable