Links 6/17/24

Links for you. Science:

“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans (I think there are some good things here, but I didn’t include part I because there are some factually unsupported statements)
Going viral: The role of mobile genetic elements in bacterial immunity
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine
Shark seen regurgitating echidna in surprising first
Humans didn’t domesticate horses until 4,200 years ago — a millennium later than thought

Other:

D.C.’s 2025 Budget Is the Worst on Housing Issues in a Decade, Advocates Say. What Happens Now?
New Biden administration rule would ban medical debt from credit reports (no difference between the two parties something something)
How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats. Newly obtained data shows the IRS division that audits corporations and the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past five years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the unit covering small businesses.
This Supreme Court Ruling Is Not the End of the Fight over the Abortion Pill
The health industry’s invisible hand is a fist
Trump Returns to the Scene of the Crime—and the GOP Cheers
Big Union Win in Virginia Schools where Bargaining Suddenly Legal
Out of Ink: Can Washington Post Publisher Will Lewis Win Back the Newsroom?
Three Strikes So Why Is WaPo CEO Will Lewis Not Out?
New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethics
SF startup bosses illegally peddled $100M in Adderall, Feds say
Excuse Me, Is There AI in That? Businesses and creators see a new opportunity in the anti-AI movement.
What election denialism is really about
The Major Problems With Hamas’ Counteroffer for a Cease-Fire
Trump or Biden? Historian With Ace Record Calling Elections Delivers His Verdict
After Supreme Court’s abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion. The Christian right failed at a backdoor ban, so now their only path forward is winning the 2024 election
There’s a Time Bomb Hidden In the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pills Decision
Remembering the Good Job Market Of the 70s
Economics 101: Why introductory economics courses continued to teach zombie ideas from before economics became an empirical discipline
Fantasyland General: Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.
The Supreme Court’s Blocking Strategy: America’s top legal authority is doing all it can to prevent Donald Trump from standing trial before the election.
The Supreme Court Majority Is Being Awfully Literal with This Bump Stock Ruling
Like the Confederacy, Republicans lose vote to restore racist monument
Supreme Court kneecaps Congress and the administrative state to advance its own policy preference (enabling more mass murders)
DNC launching billboards hitting Trump over Milwaukee comments
Quiet, Boys: Where Are the Proud Boys?

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