Links for you. Science:

Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Greece imposes restrictions to tackle ‘goat plague’
Multiplicity of Type 6 Secretion System toxins limits the evolution of resistance
Get Faster, More Focused Search Results with NCBI’s New BLAST Core Nucleotide Database (core_nt): Effective August 2024, core_nt will become the default
Logan: Planetary-Scale Genome Assembly Surveys Life’s Diversity
Mucosal immunization with ChAd-SARS-CoV-2-S prevents sequential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to unvaccinated hamsters

Other:

Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America: CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way. (gift link)
Have babies for Russia: Putin presses women to embrace patriotism over feminism (this is the future U.S. conservatives want for the U.S.; gift link)
Pretending Not To Understand Things
Hundreds of ‘Harris for President’ golf carts roll through Trump stronghold (the Dreaded Antifa, no doubt…)
Storming Sde Teiman, Far-right Lawmakers Try to Inject Chaos Into the Israeli Army. Israel’s far-right has been seeking to impose its values on the IDF since the onset of the Gaza war. Monday’s detainment of Israeli reserve soldiers who are accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention center may have provided them with the opportunity they were waiting for
‘Unacceptable and abhorrent’: Republicans turn on Trump over Black journalists convention
Corporations Will Never Police Themselves
Olympic sharpshooter’s ‘Matrix’-inspired style turns heads in Paris
A conspicuously dressed-down shooter won Olympic silver. Then he went viral
Twitter disappears from Mac App Store
Biden privately weighs how to use the time left in his presidency
Press Freedom
Trump vs. Harris is dividing Silicon Valley into feuding political camps (this story misses something important: while some Trump supporters are amoral sociopaths in it for the money, many are true believers. They are making the money arguments in public to other VCs because their reasons for supporting Trump are awful)
Lawmakers renew push to hold federal officials accountable for civil rights violations
Trump suggests Harris would struggle with world leaders based on her appearance: “I don’t want to say as to why,” Trump said. A campaign spokeswoman denied he was talking about her race or gender.
J.D. Vance’s Hatred of Cat Ladies Is Weirder and More Dangerous Than You Think
Senators want to prevent the next Scarlett Johansson AI voice fiasco
Republicans Want Someone Younger Than Donald Trump as President: New Poll
More of America’s homeless are clocking into jobs each day. Homelessness, already at a record high last year, appears to be worsening among workers.
‘Do a DNA test’: Mike Lindell TV host blames Kamala Harris’ Black ethnicity on demons (not weird tho)
Swimmer Sasha Gatt tests positive for COVID-19 at Paris Olympics
JD Vance seems to hate women, but he loves tech billionaires
JD Vance ‘hates women’, Kara Swisher says: ‘I’m not joking about it. Go pay attention’ (even Kara Swisher thinks he’s weird…)
“Where am I going to live?”: Questions for Colorado doctors amid choking smoke and ozone
How Project 2025 backfired on the GOP. While such conservative gambits were carried out under the radar years ago, now people are paying attention.
Don’t fall for scam PACs claiming to support Harris