Links for you. Science:
Two dead in listeria outbreak linked to deli meat. Here’s what to know.
Pair of sea lions chase people, charge through crowds once again at California’s La Jolla Cove
Critical Public Health Threat: Deadly Fungus Discovered in Commercial Soil, Compost, and Flower Bulbs
EPA weighing controversial geoengineering ocean experiment south of Martha’s Vineyard. Scientists are seeking permission to advance an experiment that entails releasing a sodium hydroxide solution into the open ocean.
Toxic ‘foaming’ watermelons are showing up in Maine
Ancient Arthropod Was Shaped Like a Taco and Swam Upside-Down
Other:
Full Employment Is Joe Biden’s True Legacy
Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas. An 824-page investigative file offers a visceral picture of an officer’s attempt to prosecute librarians amid a nationwide movement to criminalize books. (this is the future conservatives want)
Potty-mouthed parrot arrives at shelter; 400 people apply to adopt him (gift link)
Kim Davis Tees Up Supreme Court to Reverse Marriage Equality Ruling. In an appeal over damages awarded to a same-sex couple, Davis says the 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is wrong and should be overruled just like Roe v. Wade.
Outside the perimeter: In a tent city near the Republican National Convention, homeless residents grapple with a deadly police shooting.
My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’
Biden wants government to stop buying single-use plastics
If Kamala Harris Is a D.E.I. Candidate, So Is JD Vance
‘Hideous piece of road garbage’: Inside the Tesla Cybertruck’s 110,000-member mockery club
City’s Public Health Vending Machine Program Ends Up With Just Four Installed Out of 10 Announced. Thousands of free harm-reduction and sanitary supplies have been dispensed by the devices, but the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene quietly closed the program in May.
The totalitarian tell in Trump’s “unity” speech
Texas family saves orphaned baby bird by wrapping it in tortilla: ‘That’s all I had’
Confronting the hate, Phil Williams tells neo-Nazis: ‘When I look at you guys, I do not think master race.’
Voter registrations spike after Kamala Harris bid. How to register, check your status
Ben Shapiro’s Weird Insult to Kamala Harris and Taylor Swift Backfires
No judge with Tesla stock should handle Elon Musk cases, watchdog argues
Read a transcript of Biden’s speech on dropping out of the presidential race
J.D. Vance in Serious Trouble After Damning Project 2025 Book Foreword
Tim Walz Would Make a Great Running Mate. Kamala Harris apparently needs a white dude. They don’t come better—or whiter—than this.
Sanctions crushed Syria’s elite. So they built a zombie economy fueled by drugs.
The Battle Is Joined
An online army rises, this time on Kamala Harris’s side. A grassroots network of TikTok creators, energized by the new likely Democratic nominee, are using their skill at playful video collages to build Harris a viral political powerhouse from scratch.
Democrats, All of Them, Must Protect Harris (gift link)
‘Narcissistic abuse’ has gone mainstream. But what is it? Skeptics say it’s just a trendy hashtag. Survivors say it describes the unimaginably manipulative relationships they’ve escaped.
DEI: If Kamala is a diversity hire, looks like maybe diversity hires are a good thing
Larry noodged me for four decades. I’m glad he did. Larry Rosen’s D.C. pharmacy burned in the ’68 riots. He never got over it, becoming an enduring voice for victims of the violence.
mikethemadbiologist
I think you may have an incorrect URL on the “Ben Shapiro’s weird insult” link.