Links for you. Science:
An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer
‘My jaw dropped’: Bat loss linked to death of human infants. In places where bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticides, and baby mortality spiked
Scientists stunned to find large sharks hunting each other in world-first study
Trying to time your vaccines just right? There are no easy answers, but here are some factors to consider
How did water bears get so hardy? Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis (paper here)
Florida Museum of Natural History to close for renovations for 15 months, two dozen positions ‘paused’
Other:
Tucker Carlson and the Heterodoxy-to-Holocaust Denial Pipeline
Trump’s biggest fans aren’t who you think. A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
I know what Trump was really talking about in his child care rant, and it’s more troubling than you thought
Sassey
California city’s $550m deal with Chevron could be a national model for environmentalists
High Profile Public Figures
Why U.S. Nightlife Sucks. And why urban revitalization initiatives have failed to fix it.
Security
The Labyrinthine Rules That Created a Housing Crisis
Liz Cheney: Her dad’s voting for Harris, she endorses Cruz rival Allred
The Failing School Bus: The causes and consequences of another broken piece of public infrastructure.
“If You Are a Psycho and You Want to Make Headlines”
Feds in Philly announce takedown of Russian-backed propaganda effort aimed at influencing U.S. presidential vote
Trump Serves Up a Word Salad That The New York Times All But Ignores
‘I’m a new racist.’ Local judge removed from docket after court official shares audio recordings
DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
Texas’ Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To Intimidate Political Rivals. The Texas attorney general is using search warrants, undercover operations and more to intimidate Latinos, organizers said.
Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad
Donald Trump’s incoherence makes the media’s double standard hard to hide
The Cannibal South
Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere
Biden’s Labor Legacy Is in Jeopardy — With Help From the Supreme Court
Trump’s Diabolical Plan for the Federal Workforce. Trump’s reelection would mean a radical transformation of the civil service. Democrats need to raise the alarm.
Now, Trump says, the photo of him with E. Jean Carroll may be ‘AI’: Trump’s scrambling effort to undermine the verdict in his sexual assault trial enters familiar territory. (narcissistic collapse…)
Russia’s useful idiots: The MAGA influencer ecosystem is even shadier than we thought. (“…buying that requires believing that at no point did Pool, Johnson, and the others think it odd that a small Tennessee company could pay them six figures per video.”)
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia. Even some of the right-wing stars hired by the group last year wondered why it existed. Now, a new federal indictment claims it was a propaganda front.
