Links for you. Science:
Space has a junk problem. Here’s how earthlings can respond.
A ‘Big Whack’ Formed the Moon and Left Traces Deep in Earth, a Study Suggests
Mpox circulated for five years before global explosion in 2022, research finds (paper here)
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Deaths Attributable to Antimicrobial Resistance, Latin America
Effectiveness of BNT162b2 BA.4/5 bivalent mRNA vaccine against symptomatic COVID-19 among immunocompetent individuals testing at a large US retail pharmacy
A Proofreading Mutation with an Allosteric Effect Allows a Cluster of SARS-CoV-2 Viruses to Rapidly Evolve
Other:
Nancy Mace learns the lesson of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene: MAGA is not for ladies. GOP women are supposed to be sexy but chaste, aggressive but submissive. It is a conundrum that can’t be beat
Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed
This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop
Autoworkers’ Historic Victory Is a Turning Point in the Climate Culture War
American Evangelicals Await the Final Battle in Gaza
Did people die from Covid because of the power of populist politics?
Why Israel Slept
Straw Donors
People Are Urging Bernie Sanders to Back a Gaza Ceasefire. Here’s Why He Hasn’t. Sanders has insisted on supporting a “humanitarian pause” instead of a ceasefire. To understand why, you have to look at his personal history.
Trump’s Next Term Will Be All About Avenging Himself Against His Foes
A thought experiment: How many homes could we build in DC west of Rock Creek Park?
Nonprofits Revive Right-To-Counsel Program For Tenants Facing Eviction
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics: How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
Controversial Former DCRA Director Forced to Withdraw From Pursuing Another D.C. Job Amid Council Resistance
The Palestinian People Should Be Enraged at Both Israel and Hamas: Israel’s crimes in Gaza are clear. But Hamas has inflicted tremendous harm on blameless Palestinians in a political war of attrition against its Fatah rivals. (domestic politics matter when it comes to ‘foreign policy’)
The Future Of The Democratic Party
Virginia parents are over Youngkin’s old classroom culture war playbook
U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey
Israel, the I.R.S. and the Big Grift
Fight moral nihilism and relativism about Israel. Facts matter.
No, newsrooms don’t need to cede control to social media.
Does new House speaker really think Biden impeachment push is apolitical?
To beat Trump, mock Trump. Make him the national laughingstock he deserves to be
Bowser’s nominee to lead Department of For-Hire Vehicles withdraws
UAW’s Victory And Joe Biden’s Curse: The president catches hell easily; his successes often go ignored
An election chief says the ‘big lie’ ended her career. She’s fighting back.
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The idea of mocking Trump is a non-starter.
Why 70 million votes for Trump? (Trump won 74 million votes, nearly five million more than any previous presidential candidate) Says Thomas Greene (from Noteworthy): “Trump will not be defeated by educating voters, by exposing his many foibles and inadequacies. Highlighting what’s wrong with him is futile; his supporters didn’t elect him because they mistook him for a competent administrator or a decent man. They’re angry, not stupid. Trump is an agent of disruption — indeed, of revenge…..Workers now sense that economic justice — a condition in which labor and capital recognize and value each other — is permanently out of reach; the class war is over and it was an absolute rout: insatiable parasites control everything now, and even drain us gratuitously, as if exacting reparations for the money and effort they spent taming us. The economy itself, and the institutions protecting it, must be attacked, and actually crippled, to get the attention of the smug patricians in charge. Two decades of appealing to justice, proportion, and common decency have yielded nothing.”
Stupid and angry aren’t mutually exclusive.