Links for you. Science:

Come any closer and I’ll sting you – Lybia tessellata holds anemones in specialized claws
Bird flu confirmed among mass sub-Antarctic seal deaths as virus continues global spread
New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection
Iron Fertilization Isn’t Going to Save Us
The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate
SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 enters lung cells and evades neutralizing antibodies with high efficiency

Other:

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (horrifying in its own way)
County Capture: The Role of Militias in County Governments in Central and Southside Virginia (more important to report 59 times on Harvard though…)
The Fourteenth Amendment Scolds Abetting Trump’s Return (“What is it about the broken America they’re helping to usher in through their empty, repetitive screeds that they find so appealing? Are the clicks really that good?”)
Complacency Has Replaced Alarm in the Newest COVID Surge
Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”
The D.C. Council Is Considering (Another) Massive Crime Bill. Here’s What’s In It
Texas blocks federal border agents from processing migrants in Eagle Pass public park
Here’s The Tape of Roger Stone Discussing Assassination of Democrats — Which He Denied Ever Doing (the obsession with Nadler, a Jewish congressman, is telling–Nadler isn’t really a power or popular at all)
Trump Is Playing With Fire
Every Pay Bump Is an Admission of Guilt: Where did your raise come from? It was always there.
Psst: Joe Biden Has Solved the Student Debt Crisis. The president’s new student loan program, SAVE, will slash monthly payments for borrowers like me. It’s the large-scale debt relief activists have spent years fighting for. Why are they badmouthing it? (1-this really is a good program; 2-it’s not flat-out abolition (‘year of Jubilee’) approach, so it isn’t easy to explain and doesn’t make for good news copy)
The River Finally Came for Bill Belichick
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Got to Get Better at This. A tip: Don’t put the names of dead people on your nominating paperwork.
Overthrowing the Insurrection Clause
Mary Lou Retton’s Third Act Is Her Most All-American
Biden announces fresh wave of early student debt cancellation for some borrowers
Reporters should ask Republicans if they renounce political violence
Another Round of Public Library Bomb Threats
The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump (this degeneracy has always been there though, it just has gained ascendancy)
January 6 Is Exactly What the Fourteenth Amendment Was Talking About. And ignoring its clear dictate is a dangerous choice to make.
How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act
Trump and his enablers have been moving towards ‘absolute immunity’ all along
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA
How Biden Can Reclaim Black Voters’ Support in 2024
The Workers of Hollywood See A.I. Fights Ahead
Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party” in the style of Iron Maiden (funny; video)