Links for you. Science:

‘There is NO scent!’ What Yankee Candle reviews can tell us about COVID-19 trends
A disease-slaying drug that lives on in the body? CAR T cells have been shown to eliminate malignant tumors in patients who faced all but certain death. A new study suggests that cells as medicine could have applications well beyond cancer.
Vaccines alone cannot slow the evolution of SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19 Symptoms and Duration of Rapid Antigen Test Positivity at a Community Testing and Surveillance Site During Pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 Periods (the CDC guideline of five days just doesn’t cut it)
Rapid selection of sotrovimab escape variants in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infected immunocompromised patients
The relationship between anti-spike SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels and risk of breakthrough COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adults

Other:

Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation (a case study in why we can’t have nice things)
A Strong Republican Party
Scathing Federal Audit Of D.C. Housing Authority Spurs Calls For Reform At Troubled Agency
The ‘hurricane tax’: How Ian is pushing Florida’s home insurance market toward collapse
The News and Public Opinion About Police. LA Times readers become less informed after they read the news.
I’m Not Going To Wait Anymore. It’s time to stop relying on planners and traffic engineers to keep us safe.
The Vulnerability of John Fetterman: Inside this year’s highest-stakes Senate race.
Why Can’t the Left Take the W?
Kanye’s antisemitic tweet could be a preview of social media’s future
Framing, Context, Asking (not answering) Questions
A winter pandemic wave is looming. Get the booster.
MAGA antisemitism becoming more explicit
Republicans can’t keep getting away with racist and sexist comments
As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?
It’s just murder living in a red state
The Religious Right Isn’t Very Christian
The name’s Bond. Millennial Bond.
My relative running for Congress is part of a movement that endangers Jews. Should my family speak out?
The 2022 midterms are the most important of my lifetime
Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism
The Right’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Killing Republicans
We Know You Like The Internet So We’re Going To Put The Office In The Internet
The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump: It’s clear to me that Merrick Garland will bring charges against Donald Trump. It’s just a matter of when.
How Trump’s legal expenses consumed GOP donor money