Links for you. Science:
New dry powder aerosol COVID-19 vaccine shows promise against multiple virus strains
Man Dies in First Known Fatal Case of Alaskapox
Bacteriophage and antibiotic combination therapy for recurrent Enterococcus faecium bacteremia
The De Bruijn Mapping Problem with Changes in the Graph
A Columbia Surgeon’s Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data.
Nowhere to Grow: The Duke Herbarium needs a bigger home for its more than 825,000 plant species – including the Lady Gaga ferns
Other:
Evangelical Code Switching, Media Complicity, and the Meaning of “Love”: Journalists Either Can’t or Won’t Translate Evangelical, and That Suits Evangelicals Just Fine
The Billionaire Bully Who Wants to Turn Texas Into a Christian Theocracy
U.S. opioid deaths are out of control. Can safe injection sites help?
As lawmakers push more ‘anti-vaccine’ policies, Texas schools report soaring exemption rates
9 Gay Men to be Crucified and Stoned to Death in Yemen. A second Houthi court sentenced 13 students to death and ordered others to be flogged for “spreading homosexuality.” (they seem nice)
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing
Remember the ‘Biden bribe’ allegation? DOJ now says it was made up. (gift link)
New D.C. Council Bill Would Merge Two Prominent Violence Interruption Programs
Mike Johnson needs a cognitive test
Why everyone refuses to believe what voters are telling them about immigration
The Trump gravy train is about to run over the RNC. Good.
Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions
How will WMATA avoid crisis and cover costs for the next couple years?
How False Republican Bravado Warps All Politics: We should all try harder to recognize the difference between confidence and kayfabe
Choosing to rebuild state capacity – IRS edition: You should be rooting for the IRS modernization project
Utah School Board Member Is Censured After Questioning Student’s Gender
Jonathan Mitchell Tells NYT on Record (!) That He Hopes Trump Doesn’t Learn About the Comstock Act on Abortion and Starts Talking About It in Public
Circuit Breakers: Judges on the Fifth Circuit, many of them Trump appointees, are attempting to transform the law and challenge the very structure of American government.
The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing
A Historic Abdication: If the Supreme Court decides not to rule on whether Trump should be disqualified, it could set off precisely the crisis it hopes to avoid.
I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation
The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here
As a former Republican senator in Utah, I’m embarrassed. For Utah Republican leaders to rush in with military troops to the Texan border is beyond embarrassing — it is disgraceful.
Texas Soldiers Say Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star Is ‘A Show’
Netanyahu’s ‘Total Victory’ Is a Political Slogan, Not a Realistic Goal
Biden’s top man on the opioid epidemic has created a ‘toxic’ office environment. Complaints have mounted over Rahul Gupta, who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. (oddly enough, an ally of Sen. Joe Manchin turns out to be an asshole)
mikethemadbiologist
At this point, I’d be happily amused to if dry-aerosol-vaccine were wafted into all the public spaces, with neither more nor less consent required than we (are allowed to) give to all the other particulate crap inflicted on us. “Why should we test this for safety? We didn’t test any of the other shit you breathe for safety, and you’ve never complained.”