Links for you. Science:
Congressional budget gridlock leads to stunning NASA layoffs (gift link)
Extensively Drug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outbreak associated with Artificial Tears
Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree
Researchers reveal first full passages decoded from famously inscrutable Herculaneum scrolls
Google Scholar is manipulatable
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
Other:
Elite lawyer brain is killing us (excellent)
What Biden’s Critics Get Wrong About His Gaffes: The president’s Mexico mistake is a warning sign, but not the one his critics think.
Nightmare Special Counsel Report Is the Media’s New Hillary Emails
The right-wing misreading of ‘Blazing Saddles’ is so telling
These Philadelphians got rid of their cars in the past year. They haven’t looked back.
About Right
‘Evidence Maximalism’ Is How the Internet Argues Now
US supreme court justices have strange views on whether Trump is disqualified
Why Republican Politicians Do Whatever Trump Says
Conservative judge relied on now-retracted studies to outlaw mifepristone
Ky. House committee votes to make fluoride ‘optional’ in tap water (this will hit the poor the hardest because a huge issue for the poor is dental care)
Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details taken in leak, published online (We’rE aNtIzIoNiSt, NoT aNtIsEmItIc)
The Disgusting Furor Over Biden’s Age (I’m decades younger than Biden, and I forgot the day of the month of my mother’s death once. I remembered (and still do) with crystal clarity the 24 hours leading up to her death, I just didn’t remember the fucking date. Not going to pretend Biden hasn’t lost a step, but this is getting ridiculous.)
Obamacare Created Big Medicine
Can’t Defend People Who Won’t Do The Minimum To Defend Themselves
Dahlia Lithwick on the Colorado case, the election, and the press
Mitch McConnell’s Plan to Sabotage Social Security From Within
A Local Childcare Center Faces Closure. Parents Want The City To Step In
D.C. Is Revising Its Public School Report Cards. But Proposed Changes Won’t Eliminate the Biased Score.
Readers Deserve Better Than Misinformation About Trans Care; A Response To Pamela Paul
The oldest Roman grasswork “Panama hat” extant, from Fayum in Egypt.
Whether Or Not Trump Gets the Boot from the Ballot Will Come Down to Semantics
Secretary Mayorkas Is Being Impeached for Following the Law on Border Enforcement
The Trump Ballot Case Is This Generation’s Brown v. Board of Education
Robert Hur’s Box-Checking
The Political Perils of a Black-Jewish Rift Over the War in Gaza
mikethemadbiologist
US Attorney positions are extremely important POLITICAL appointments. It’s routine for all or nearly all the USAs appointed by one presidential administration to resign their offices within a few weeks after a new administration comes into office, assuming of course that the new administration represents the other major party.
I come from a Commonwealth country. This is an incredible statement.
Congressional budget gridlock leads to stunning NASA layoffs
Humm, I wonder how many of those affected are being vigourously headhunted by Space Agencies in other countries?