Links for you. Science:

Infertility: A common target of antivaccine misinformation campaigns
Billions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this year in a rare double-brood event
Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time
Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution (related post here)
Scalable, accessible and reproducible reference genome assembly and evaluation in Galaxy
Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing: a multicentre cross-sectional study

Other:

My Patients Used to Be Gung-Ho About the Covid Vaccine. What Changed? (gift link; Danielle Ofri is great, but the NYT running this is just galling after giving assholes like Leonhardt free reign)
Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies. Donald Trump warns there will be chaos if his criminal cases hurt his 2024 campaign. Democrats are already facing a wave of violent threats.
As layoffs batter L.A. Times, California lawmaker renews push to force Google, Facebook to pay for news
Top GOP School Official Appoints Woman Behind ‘Libs Of TikTok’ To Key Position
Republicans Are Playing With Fire—Again: Nikki Haley and the party leaders trying to push her out of the GOP race are both too scared and consumed with hatred for Democrats to state the obvious
What Would A Second Trump Term Look Like? Ask The Supreme Court. What Republicans can’t do through the courts they can do through the presidency and Congress — if they have that power. And they seem inclined to use it.
Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending
The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried.
Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors
Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans
Don’t let Trump’s primary dominance deceive you: Behind the curtain, the GOP is tearing itself apart
Texas declares war
Gen Z Is Listening to What Netanyahu Is Saying. Is Biden?
AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around
Everybody Hates James Comer And Thinks He’s A Moron. Even His Fellow Republicans.
Democrats Are Having a Blast Making a Circus of the GOP’s Hunter Biden Probe
The myth of technological inevitability: Lessons from the 1990s human cloning debate
Driving 10 MPH Too Fast? This California Lawmaker Wants Tech To Stop You
Trader Joe’s Attorney Argues National Labor Relations Board Is ‘Unconstitutional’
Utah: Teen Harassed, Accused of Being Trans at JV HS Basketball Game
‘Right now someone is being raped in a tunnel’: Knesset hears of Hamas sex crimes
Sam Altman’s self-serving vision of the future
Yes: FTX Was Really Bankrupt. And the Standard Excuses Are as Invalid as They Typically Are
Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: “Endgame” Is To Ban Trans Care “For Everyone”
Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care
Oklahoma hires Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik to help censor public school books