Links for you. Science:
Giant Joro spiders are invading the East Coast. Don’t worry, they’re shy.
Want to See Bison at Yellowstone? You’re Likely Not Prepared.
‘A disturbing experience’: Postdoc fights to have work that plagiarized her thesis retracted
Bird flu detected in San Francisco, first city in California to report in wastewater
Ensuring a sustained workforce to combat antibiotic resistance in the 21st century: the critical need for training the next-gen of scientists at the pre-doctoral level
Increasing community prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in urine is associated with increasing district-level antibiotic consumption
Other:
‘Washington Post’ publisher tried to kill a story about him. It wasn’t the first time
Birx says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19 (she’s not wrong)
Note to Fed: It’s okay to cut interest rates now. The board’s insistence on keeping rates higher for longer is based on a serious misjudgment.
Bored Billionaire Syndrome
NYC had a plan to make it hard for cars to enter the city. Here’s why the governor blocked it. What would have been America’s first congestion pricing experiment has been delayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, leaving public transit in a financial hole. (we will never have nice things)
Outrage mounts as Hochul pushes last-minute NYC tax hike to replace congestion tolls: ‘Insulting joke’ (when you’ve lost the NY Post)
Why Mexico City’s thirst is causing it to sink
Loaded Up With Junk. Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.
Want to go back in time? Visit a school where cellphones are banned. It’s too much to expect students to resist the gravitational pull of devices designed to addict them.
Republicans hide their war on contraception in plain sight
Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming. A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens. (The year is 2026, and the Resistance has completely immobilized right-wing law enforcement by dumping water on their vehicles…)
COVID-19 Can Be Occupational Disease, Colorado Court Says in Worker Death Case
‘Utterly medieval’: Radical GOP senators vote against birth control
Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter
Dick Durbin needs to step up and do his damn job
What Murky Depths Produced Your Fish Dinner?
The Washington Post is in fascist-guided free fall
The Closer at the End
A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies
Can the “OG Organizer” Keep Biden in the White House?
Colorado governor signs bill that would prevent voter-adopted statewide ranked choice voting from taking effect
The law-and-order party defunds the IRS. Again
Conservative family who relocated from California to Idaho to escape liberal politics reveal why they REGRET their move after struggling to fit in with ‘judgmental gossips’
After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.
In Virginia, Data Centers Collide with Zero-Carbon Goals
Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending
mikethemadbiologist
The obvious response to ‘were you better off under Trump?’ is to show video from 2020, e.g. refrigerated trailers being used as makeshift morgues, Trump regularly making outlandish claims and lies about the disease, etc