Links for you. Science:

We Know How to Eradicate TB. We Just Need the Will.
Health Care Personnel Workdays Lost and Direct Health Care Salary Costs Incurred due to COVID-19 Infection in the Age of Widespread Vaccine Availability
Raw Milk’s Risks Don’t Stop Right-Wing Commentators From Defiantly Pushing It
The death of Vulcan: Study reveals planet is actually an astronomical illusion caused by stellar activity
Dengue fever, once confined to the tropics, now threatens the U.S. Climate change is expanding the habitat of the mosquitoes that carry the disease, allowing them to spread further north.
How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

Other:

Republicans in Congress have new ‘solutions’ for D.C. They’re absurd. “Home rule” means nothing for the disenfranchised Americans who live in the nation’s capital. (gift link)
My Political Depression Problem—and Ours: Granular study of the ever-more-authoritarian right didn’t demoralize the author as much as reaction from the left.
There’s Nothing New About Pronatalism
Service fees have upended D.C. restaurants. Here’s how workers really feel.
We’re Watching Facebook Die
Ex-IDF General Yair Golan Sweeps Labor Party Election, Vows to Rally Israel’s Fractured Left
My child went on puberty blockers, then they changed their mind
Joe Biden’s Dithering in Gaza Gets Absurd
Far-Right’s Star Boy Elon Musk Once Again Calls for Fauci’s Prosecution
Cybertruck Stuck On Ping Pong Mode In Flowing River
Another State Department official resigns over Gaza, taking aim at aid. The official, Stacy Gilbert, resigned Tuesday. She told colleagues that the State Department was wrong to conclude Israel had not obstructed aid to Gaza.
DC Council chair unveils budget proposal with property tax increase for certain residents
The First Tesla Cybertruck Dashcam Videos Are In, And It’s All Hate. It turns out that some people really hate Tesla’s angular pickup.
RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction to tear-downs of Confederate statues. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a podcast that he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history.”
Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump ‘authoritarian’
What more need Alito do before Durbin gets off the stick?
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office
Home insurance was once a ‘must.’ Now more homeowners are going without.
Behold The Terrors of the Texas Republican Platform
Scarlett Johansson’s ChatGPT face-off confirms our fears about AI
Russian disinformation sites linked to former Florida deputy sheriff, research finds
The Texas GOP takes the party’s hostility to democracy to a new level. Who says people should matter more than land area?
Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets
Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem
Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases
As crypto cash floods Washington, Congress eyes gentler regulations