Links for you. Science:

America Has a Hot-Steel Problem. Railways, roads, power lines, batteries—the heat of climate change is making them all falter.
Startups Are Racing to Make Water Out of Thin Air
WHO declares mpox a global public health emergency for second time in two years
The antiviral tecovirimat is safe but did not improve clade I mpox resolution in Democratic Republic of the Congo
E. Coli, Diarrhea and Dead Fish: Europe’s Rivers Have a Sewage Problem. It’s not just the Seine and the Thames. Across the continent, untreated waste that flows directly into rivers and lakes is making people sick and harming wildlife.
How the World Wide Web gets spun out of thin air (gift link)

Other:

Kamala, A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma, Many People are Saying
Working Conditions at That J.D. Vance–Funded Farming Start-up Sound Wretched. Did Trump not know this or did he just not care?
Crazy Items in the Project 2025 Leader’s Book That Trump Doesn’t Want You to Read. With Trump distancing himself from Project 2025, its leader postponed his book, which attacks childless Americans, birth control, and dog parks
Collapsing Mortgage Securities. Broken Processes. No Accountability. Sound Familiar? (though here there is a legitimate change in the value of the assets due to exogenous factors; doesn’t rule out fraud, but in 2015, no one foresaw these kinds of reductions in value)
Kamala Harris doesn’t owe the national press anything
Whoops, Trump and Elon Musk’s Xwitter Convo Didn’t Go Over Well with the United Auto Workers
How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign
America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
We have had no reflection, no willingness to think through how irresponsible and reckless so much of our mainstream press and so many of our journalists have been and continue to be
The Year From Hell
25 Great Danes seen ‘running loose’ after California woman killed in dog attack
On a 2020 Podcast, JD Vance Agreed With Host Who Said ‘The Whole Purpose of the Postmenopausal Female’ Is to Help Raise Kids
It Follows
Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps. She learned from Biden’s fatal error.
Biden To Announce Drug Price Agreements After First Negotiations With Manufacturers
White House says deals struck to cut prices of popular Medicare drugs that cost $50 billion yearly
Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years
The brain-wormed fantasies of Elon Musk’s Twitter graveyard keep seeping into real life. It’s clear who wears the blame
Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term
Are Black voters really leaving Democrats in the dust? The data from recent elections tell a more complicated story.
Project 2025’s Climate Cuts Would Cost Americans Billions Of Dollars Per Year
Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)
In forthcoming book, Heritage president rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks (“On page 69, Roberts rails against the Swampoodle dog park in Washington, D.C., for having too much room for dogs to play and not enough for children, blaming this on “the antifamily culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement throughout our sprawling government.””)
Palm Beach Mayor Explores Closing Mar-a-Lago as Residents ‘Don’t Feel Safe’
Ad Execs Speak Out: Musk’s Lawsuit Makes ExTwitter Even Less Appealing
Stray dog ‘desperate to catch a ride’ chases pup bus, gets adopted (gift link)