Links for you. Science:
Hermit Crab Migration
Widespread exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife communities
Hundreds of invaders have taken over the Isle of Man. They’re wallabies
San Francisco health officials advise indoor masking amid summer COVID wave
Non-KPC Attributes of Newer β-lactam/β-lactamase Inhibitors, Part 1: Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Study Raises Questions About Key Features of H5N1 Infection in Cattle — It may not always produce mild illness, and asymptomatic animals can harbor virus
Other:
Trump’s reckless vaccine ultimatum. The former president panders to his supporters with a campaign promise that would bring mass, unnecessary death
Kamala Harris’ Surprising Record on Trans Rights
Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity
Instead Of Fact Checking MAGA, Democrats Have Moved On To Vibe Checking
Why Covid Keeps Winning: We didn’t learn a thing.
Grimes’ mother says Elon Musk is ‘withholding’ his children from her daughter: ‘Please Elon, I beg you’
Sen. Cynthia Lummis announces bill for US Treasury to buy 1 million bitcoin worth $68 billion: Bitcoin 2024
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong. From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown
We can finally call them weird
Republicans Are About To Become Desperate. But they won’t respond by listening to the public; they’ll respond by ratcheting up the menace.
Businesses Thrive on Car-Free Streets, Yet Mayor Adams Ignores Call for Widespread Pedestrianization
Why, as a Republican mayor, I support Kamala Harris over Trump
In Tim Walz, Democrats see a potential VP pick who can shore up the ‘blue wall’
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Daily Wire host goes on strange sexist rant: “Women cannot take care of themselves.” Andrew Klavan: “The central purpose of every society is to figure out the distribution of women because women are valuable” (doing a socialism of… the womens)
President Biden Is Getting Serious About Supreme Court Reform
Trump can’t figure out what to do about Harris
J.D. Vance May Be The Worst Politician I’ve Ever Seen. This is before even taking the couch into consideration.
Culture War Outrage BS At The Olympics
Red state governors sacrificed 200,000 Americans to COVID-19
When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue? I don’t believe that it has.
Here’s One Weird Trick For Calling Trump ‘Weird’ That Will Make It Less Weird
Twitter is a Trump campaign website – and it could break your brain
The ridiculous moral panic over the Olympics’ opening ceremony
Yes They Can? Democrats haven’t been this fired up about a presidential candidate since Obama, and the Harris campaign is racing to capitalize on the momentum: hiring veteran ad-maker Jim Margolis, doubling down on TikTok (where Kamala is approaching Trump-level virality), and leaning into the J.D. Vance creep factor. (gift link)
A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
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Over 100 VCs pledge support for Kamala Harris