Links for you. Science:

Twice-a-year shot provides 100 percent HIV protection, study finds (gift link)
Diversity and phage sensitivity to phages of porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Validating combination throat-nasal swabs for COVID-19 tests would improve early detection, especially for the most vulnerable
Deep mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.86 and epistatic emergence of the KP.3 variant
Early evolution of the BA.2.86 variant sheds light on the origins of highly divergent SARS-CoV-2 lineages
The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community

Other:

Democrats’ new line of attack on Republicans? ‘You’re being weird’: “I think it’s really elegant in its simplicity,” one Democratic strategist said.
Aging, incoherent felon refuses to drop out of presidential race
Justice Elena Kagan Calls for Enforceable Supreme Court Ethics Rules
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child
Started/Going (I don’t understand how people who have trained for years fail to take precautions)
Guess News Organizations Shouldn’t Have Fired All Their Fact-Checkers, Huh? Media really fucked the couch on this one.
The One Vice Presidential Pick Who Could Ruin Democratic Unity
New College of Florida tears up nature preserve, claims it’s an improvement. Neighbors and alumni are outraged but President Richard Corcoran pushes on with his expansion of sports facilities
In private speech, JD Vance said the ‘devil is real’ and praised Alex Jones as a truth-teller
Why no one’s building middle-income housing in American cities
D.C.’s Youth Probation Agency Is Supposed to Help Kids. Many Say It’s Failing Them Completely.
Cokie’s Law In Action
D.C. Housing Authority Employees Allege Hostile Work Environment Under New CFO
House GOP jets off on early vacation instead of funding government
Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power
BREAKING: Trump walks into Biden’s Supreme Court trap
Don’t treat Trump like he has no agency
Youngkin appoints two more to education board, including Scalia daughter (Youngkin is a moderate something something)
JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender. Overt chauvinism is the unifying thread of the New Right.
Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025’s Plan for the EPA
The other issue with Trump’s plan to stuff the government with loyalists
AI’s Real Hallucination Problem: Tech executives are acting like they own the world.
Beware the People Who Claim “America Isn’t Ready for a Black Woman President”
D.C. cleans up vandalism and graffiti in wake of anti-Netanyahu protests
Fearing a Trump takeover, Justice Department alumni endorse Kamala Harris
At Netanyahu’s Watergate quarters, residents irked by protests, security