Links for you. Science:

Updated COVID-19 Vaccines for Use in the United States Beginning in Fall 2024. FDA Updates Advice to Manufacturers of COVID-19 Vaccines (2024-2025 Formula): If Feasible Use KP.2 Strain of JN.1-Lineage
Yes, Everyone Really Is Sick a Lot More Often After Covid: It’s not your imagination: At least 13 communicable diseases are surging past pre-pandemic levels (It’s important to draw attention to this, but my hunch is that the explanations–note the plural–will be very place/time/disease dependent; one dissertation advisor, who was an accomplished theoretician once told me, “Mike, it ultimately comes down to those stupid fucking natural history facts”)
Project 2025 Has Bad Medicine for HHS
Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is ‘harmless’ for kids
L.A. County COVID cases, hospitalizations rise amid FLiRT variants summer uptick
The Oldest Ecosystems on Earth

Other:

As MAGA pursues an agenda of gaslighting and cruelty, timid responses won’t cut it in 2024
How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden. The U.S. once looked to modular construction as an efficient way to build lots of housing at scale, but Sweden picked up the idea and put it into practice (gift link)
GOP Lawmaker Grilled On Why Abortion Was ‘Best Choice’ For His Girlfriend, But Not Others (rape, incest, and me exceptions)
Tales of the Resistance (“Which puts a different complexion, to my way of thinking, on the question of how bad “the generals” were when they balked at Trump’s commands: what’s your responsibility, when your commander and his orders are stupid and corrupt?”)
Trump Reportedly Couldn’t ‘Keep A Thought Straight’ At CEO Meeting: ‘All Over The Map’
Clarence Thomas’ Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible
Ex-Aide Says Trump Discussed ‘Executing People’ More Than Bill Barr Claims To Recall
What Made Kathy Hochul Flip? Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing. (“She traded the MTA for a House seat? Are you fucking crazy?!”)
Trump Is Fine With SCOTUS Legalizing Bump Stocks, Which He’d Helped Ban
D.C. traffic cameras have led to sharp decline in speeding, data shows
Almost 9 In 10 House Republicans Voted To Put A Confederate Memorial Back At Arlington National Cemetery
Senate Republican blocks Democratic-led effort to pass Supreme Court ethics bill
Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britain
Elon Musk’s Neuralink forced a pregnant employee to work with herpes-infected monkeys that scratched her, lawsuit says
Sony’s Will Smith Post-Slap Rebound
Crews Rescue 28 People Trapped Upside Down High On Oregon Amusement Park Ride
Inflation Is Not Destroying Joe Biden. But something is! (housing)
The Left’s Trumpnesia Problem: A new poll finds that not only do many young and first-time voters not really remember the chaos of the Trump years, but they don’t really care that much, either, when presented with examples of Trump’s most inflammatory rhetoric.
CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’
Biden’s Love for His Son Is Beautiful — and It Hits Home for Me
Crypto Tries to Recreate the Koch Money Machine to Pack Congress with Shills
For-Profit Journalism is Unsustainable
The Internet Archive Is a Library
The Democratic Base Has Gotten More Progressive— But Elected Democratic Leaders, Not So Much
The Zombie Classical
The Little-Known Legacy of the EP