Links for you. Science:

New Milestone! NCBI Pathogen Detection Reaches 2 Million Isolates
Novavax has a good COVID-19 vaccine. How good is it? A very deep dive. Let’s separate the mythology from the data.
You just lived through the most humid summer on record
Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
Mpox Outbreak Hits Iowa Prison As Multiple Inmates Infected
Dozens of ‘high-risk’ viruses discovered on fur farms in China (paper here)

Other:

D.C.’s Byzantine, Quasi-Federal Probate System Is Making It Harder for Families to Hold on to Their Homes. The District’s system for tracking down old records related to inheritances is plagued by delays, torturing families navigating the process.
Senate candidate Royce White says suburban women voters are for suckers. In an unhinged rant, the U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota attacked fellow Republicans for seeking the votes of suburban women. (definitely NOT weird)
Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress
Can 0.03% of US votes really swing the presidential election?
America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
The Media Are About to Help Trump Fail His Way Back to the White House
Some disabled workers in the U.S. make pennies per hour. It’s legal.
Trump Is Making New, Sketchy Foreign Business Deals: From Saudi Arabia to Serbia, despots are cozying up, likely in preparation for a second term.
Why do all these neo-Nazis keep showing up in prominent conservative circles?
Palm Springs tests who should pay when a Black community is destroyed
Trump claims public schools are performing transgender surgery on children without parental knowledge
Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation
If We Want To We Can Be REALLY MEAN, WE’VE BEEN HOLDING BACK
Trump Honors ‘Suckers and Losers’ With Illegal Arlington Cemetery Photo Op: His crime spree continues.
The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous? One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.
Fact check: GOP sends ‘heroin and hookers’ mailers about Democratic NC House candidates (always good to donate to the recipient of the ratfucking)
Biden did stuff, and it looks like it’s working so far. Only one President has taken actual concrete steps to address U.S. industrial weakness vis-a-vis China.
Trump’s Visit To Arlington National Cemetery Was More Than An Unconscionable Breach Of Humanity
Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic. Boycotting Israel strikes at the heart of traditional Judaism. (worth reading even if you don’t agree)
Trump’s Adventures in Arlington, Revised
Eric Adams For President
Doctors grapple with how to save women’s lives amid ‘confusion and angst’ over new Louisiana law
Every Parent In America Should Not Have To Live In Fear Of Their Kids Being Murdered In School
Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
Mark Robinson Really Used to Love Porn, According to Guys at the Porn Store
What Will We Do With Our Free Power?