Links for you. Science:

A CDC Update on the Draft 2024 Guideline to Prevent Transmission of Pathogens in Healthcare Settings
Malicious Measles Myths: Memory-Holing a Monster
A Promising Turn in the Quest to Treat Long Covid
Feeling Bitter: Or, at least my mouth was, and wow did I ever want to know why.
Medical AI falters when assessing patients it hasn’t seen
How Long Does It Take to Get COVID-19? Here’s What a New Study Says

Other:

America Is Not a Democracy: The movement to save democracy from threats is too quick to overlook the problems that have been present since the founding.
How Will The Golden Age Of “Making It Worse” End?
Dumb Money Squared (or, the one about the Hikers in Bear Country)
Why Are Sensible Medicine Doctors Indifferent to the Nonsense Comments of Sensible Medicine Commentators? As Instructed, I Consider the Dualities of Interest and Motivating Biases.
American Fascism
Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find
Send in the clowns: Love them or hate them, downtown Boston’s new public art installations are a marketer’s dream
Inside the collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex
The Genocide Double Standard: To have legitimacy, international justice must be applied fairly and evenly.
Explainer: The Israel-Hamas War and the International Criminal Court
How the Hindu Right Triumphed in India
Is the Heart and Soul of Trump’s MAGA Base Really the White Working Class?
Marvel World: Marvel Studios has managed to recruit fans into rooting not just for its superheroes, but for the company’s business plan.
The Rise of the American Oligarchy: What targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own.
Massachusetts Wakes Up to a Hospital Nightmare. Erstwhile Boston media darling Steward Health Care has been strip-mining hospitals for a decade now. The power elite may finally be paying attention.
A federal judge is fed up with those defending the Jan. 6 rioters
Austin experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. They spent the no-strings-attached cash mostly on housing, a study found.
A vote for Trump is a vote for chaos. Let’s leave the 2010s in the past where they belong.
Trump Is a Combination of Every Threat We Have Ever Faced in Our History
Why Wall Street is Surrendering to Trump (it’s Charlie Sykes, but he does know his (ex)-people very well)
No more helipads? Beverly Hills home renovations blocked until affordable housing built
The Introverts Have Taken Over the US Economy. During the pandemic, a lot of Americans had to stay home — and many discovered that they preferred staying in to going out. (also, some shit got really expensive too)
The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart
Watch yet another GOP lawmaker take credit for funds she voted against
The second insurrection
A Texas school district’s flagpole raises questions about America’s separation of church and state