Links for you. Science:
Yes, Some Adults Do Need to Be Revaccinated Against Measles. A new measles outbreak — along with a population improperly vaccinated in the 1960s — has many Baby Boomers wondering if they need to be revaccinated.
Why banning the practice of chopping off shark fins is not saving sharks: A study in the journal Science found that the number of sharks killed by fishing is going up despite government efforts to save the ocean predators
Major Measles Outbreak Erupts In England As Vaccine Hesitancy Increases
We’re in danger of falling off a ‘snow loss cliff.’ Here’s what that means. Crossing a key temperature threshold could put more than 2 billion people at risk of losing snow crucial for water supply.
The JN.1 COVID Variant: Symptoms, Incubation Period and When to Test
The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians
Other:
Why Your Negative COVID Test Might Be Less Reliable in 2024 (everyone should read this)
America’s Trump 2028 Problem: If the threat of violence keeps us from applying the constitution to Trump now, how will we do so later?
Why You Should Want Nikki Haley to Win the Primary: Let the GOP tear itself apart. (I do think the decision by the Supreme Court about whether to remove Trump from the ballot will depend, in part, on how well she does in the early primaries)
Female saboteurs who poisoned 46 Russian soldiers in Crimea are on the run after shoot-out with police, say reports
What Nikki Haley — and I — Learned at a Segregation Academy (gift link)
These Republican governors chose to let some kids go hungry this summer
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths: Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
Inside the Messenger’s money-torching bet to make media great again
Reactionary centrism: The toxic force that could elect Trump — and kill off democracy. Supposedly fair-minded moderates who demonize the left are poisoning our politics — and only helping the Orange Man
Marijuana reclassification proposed over lower public health risk, documents show
They were Israel’s ‘eyes on the border’ – but their Hamas warnings went unheard
More Nikki Haley supporters would vote for Biden over Trump in November, Iowa Poll finds
Shameka Hayes Takes Office as the D.C. Jail’s New ANC As Debate Rages About the Role of Incarcerated People in District Politics
We are not the ones being coddled by those around us for the sake of social expediency, that’s them.
Another Gunfight Is Looming in Tennessee (gift link)
Donald Trump can’t escape Dobbs
Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds
The Media Still Doesn’t Get Biden Voters
‘The Social Contract Has Been Completely Ruptured’: Ireland’s Housing Crisis (gift link)
Joe Manchin vows to meet Biden and use No Labels threat to force policy shift to center (I told you)
Ban TikTok
Virginia county finds 4,000 misreported 2020 votes, shorting Biden
Meet the Operatives Who Profited From January 6
Eisenkot, Gantz said to urge hostage deal for long halt to war; PM, Gallant opposed
British Library restores access to online collection following ransomware attack
How Blue Paper Revolutionized the Art of Drawing
mikethemadbiologist
i was surprised to not see glenn youngkin on the ‘fuck them kids’ list re: summer lunch.
more surprised to only *now* hear about the prince william county vote fiasco, one of those disappearing biden votes may have been mine!