Links for you. Science:
How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids
Fur farming a ‘viral highway’ that could spark next pandemic, say scientists
Early science and colossal stone engineering in Menga, a Neolithic dolmen (Antequera, Spain)
University of Alberta researchers retract COVID study, citing multiple errors. Incidence of pediatric long COVID higher than had been reported in JAMA Pediatrics (i.e., they underreported the frequency)
Do flies vomit on our food and make us sick? Not only do flies vomit on food, but that vomit may also contain pathogens they picked up from an earlier meal.
A probiotic called akkermansia claims to boost health. Does it work? These probiotic supplements contain a friendly type of bacteria called Akkermansia muciniphila, one of the species of bacteria that make up our gut microbiomes.
Other:
Some Of My Best Sources Are On This Committee
The right-wing bubble says Trump will save your cat from immigrants. False claims and baseless ones are politically useful, so they rocket to the social media accounts of prominent right-wing people.
Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where’s everyone who questioned Biden’s age and fitness? Where are the headlines screaming: ‘Deranged old man peddles nonsense while threatening violent deportation of immigrants’?
D.C. AG sues landlord for ‘horrendous’ conditions in subsidized housing scheme. A D.C. landlord has been profiting from rental assistance programs while subjecting low-income residents to dangerous conditions, according to two lawsuits.
Retired generals defend Harris, blame Trump on Afghanistan withdrawal: The former military brass say Trump left Biden and Harris with a disaster
This is the best privacy setting that almost no one is using. You have options to click one box to order companies not to blab your personal data. California might soon require it by law.
Jewish voters favor Kamala Harris over Donald Trump 68% to 25%, poll shows. The survey also found that 87% of American Jewish voters support the Biden administration’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War that would release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
Google is a monopoly and judges want to fix that. Outcomes are hard to predict.
Was Kamala Harris code-switching or pandering? We asked an expert.
RFK Jr. made big promises to pollution victims. Some say he didn’t keep them
James Earl Jones, legendary actor known for unmistakable baritone voice, dies at 93
House Republican claims immigrants eating park ducks
Trump and Harris say they want to make housing more affordable. The experience of Bethlehem, Pa., helps explain why.
Americans without health insurance surged with Trump—and plummeted under Biden
MAGA Is Nothing Without Trump
Boston can’t afford to give in to NIMBYism as housing crisis deepens
Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation (this whole act of intimidation seems to have been disappeared from the discourse)
A Game of Telegram: Ever since his arrest in Paris, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has become an unlikely free-speech martyr, somehow uniting both Navalny supporters and the Kremlin in their praise of him. And yet, the truth about Durov’s actions appears to be at odds with the legend.
The Apalachee High School shooter reportedly complained that trans people are accepted in society. Right-wing media claimed the shooter was trans.
Tyreek Hill’s unsettling question should bother us all
The Circulator’s death doesn’t have to leave riders, workers stranded. Transfer services to WMATA
Pediatricians scale back on COVID shots
House Republicans are back—and holding the government hostage
A Post-Google World: Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it’ll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.
Trump’s rhetoric on elections turns ominous
Donald Trump’s New “Voodoo Economics”
mikethemadbiologist
Retired generals defend Harris, blame Trump on Afghanistan withdrawal: report
Trump arranged for a withdrawal. Biden ordered the withdrawal.
It was the Pentagon’ responsibility to plan and carry out the withdrawal or tell President Biden why it could not be done at that time.
The group of 10 former generals and admirals are trying to cover up their abject failure and incompetence.