Links for you. Science:

Saved by a Bucket, but Can the Owens Pupfish Survive?
A lucky few seem ‘resistant’ to Covid-19. Scientists want to know why
Do Delta ‘breakthroughs’ really mean vaccine protection is waning, and are boosters the answer?
Have You Already Had a Breakthrough COVID Infection?
Study Suggests Lasting Immunity After COVID-19, With a Big Boost From Vaccination

Other:

Objective Reporting Breaking Out All Over
A Very Rare Electric Car Is Sitting In A Howard University Parking Lot
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80
The Mississippi clinic at the center of the fight to end abortion in America
‘I’m fed up,’ says member of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s COVID-19 task force
The American Media Is Deluding Itself Over Afghanistan
Already, Cracks Emerge in Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s “Unbreakable Nine”
Ron DeSantis’s Government-by-Talking-Point Strategy Is Kicking His Own Ass
Most of D.C. Council calls on mayor to mandate coronavirus vaccines — without testing option — for teachers, child-care workers (good, but nowhere near enough: we need many more vaccination requirements)
Pinto Provides Snitch Hotlines in Welcome-Back-To-School Tweet
It’s Time For NFL Coaches To Act Like It
Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen? In 2001, when the Taliban were weak and ready to surrender, the U.S. passed on a deal. Nearly 20 years later, the Taliban hold all the cards.
Democrats just launched a missile at the GOP’s fortress of minority rule
The Media Manufactured Biden’s Political ‘Fiasco’ in Afghanistan: “Straight news” has chosen sanctimony over circumspection.
In the online Austin ISD mask debate, a strange actor emerges: Kazakhstan
I served in Afghanistan as a US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences
Why the Biden administration’s competence strategy is flawed
My COVID Parenting Has Reached Peak Inconsistency
Millions of Rapid Covid-19 Test Results Risk Going Uncounted
New Montana Law Sows Confusion, Defiance Over School Quarantines
Could the Afghanistan withdrawal have been more competent? Yes, Biden ignored his national security advisers. But about those advisers…