Links for you. Science:
Mpox not new Covid and can be stopped, expert says
Great Barrington Declaration Author Joins COVID-19 Lab Leak-Pushing Group
Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important
Fauci recovering at home following hospitalization for West Nile virus infection. In an interview with STAT, the former NIAID director said he’d ‘never been as sick in my life’
New study suggests climate change will make hail bigger and more costly
Endangered lynx makes its first appearance in Vermont in years
Other:
The Democrats Have A Very Serious Florida Problem— And That’s 30 Electoral Votes
Harris’s fight against price gouging is good economics. The idea that prices serve to balance supply and demand — and should be left free to do so — is bred in the bone of economists. So much so that facts barely matter.
Bill Pascrell and elder statesmen leave House in hands of a new generation of Democrats
Casting Kamala’s Fantasy Cabinet. Despite Harris’s lack of a national security platform, Democrats are entering a new phase of feverish speculation surrounding who might be tapped to create, and execute, her foreign policy agenda.
The practical, impractical impulse to stockpile a ‘good bag’
Taking T for Jesus. The transphobic evangelicals hawking hormones
Democrats are the freedom party
Fighting Words
Biden is insulating Harris against Trump’s racist demagoguery
Kamala Harris Fuels a Beautifully Heretical View of the World. At the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris painted Donald Trump as the incumbent who needs to be resoundingly defeated. It was part of liberal democracy’s powerful pushback against quasi-authoritarianism that’s already happening in other countries – and could come for Netanyahu as well
Trump is losing his audience
Donald Trump Stokes Fears Of Another Jan. 6
A robot in downtown Boston can paint your nails in 10 minutes for $10
The Hidden Reason Chicago Was Such A Rousing Success For Democrats
Down alleys and into basements, a local man is on a mission to reveal Boston’s secrets
Will Trump dump Vance or just keep cheating on him with his new jumpoff?
Record labels forgot these songs existed. One man rescued them
Don’t trust Google for customer service numbers. It might be a scam.
This 150-square-foot bookstore is located in a basement over the Sumner Tunnel
Public service, secret payments: FBI says Trayon White had two sides. On days FBI says he took bribes, D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) took to social media and posted about serving constituents.
I was a captive of Hamas. After I was freed, I was imprisoned by online trolls. I was among the Oct. 7 hostages. I dreamed of freedom, and hoped the world would embrace us.
Killing Noncompete Clauses Is All About Freedom
Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Economists
The Con at the Core of the Republican Party
We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia. Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it.
Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America
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