Links for you. Science:

For anyone wondering what porcupines sound like, here’s a clip of a smol porcupine called Kemosabe chomping on a piece of banana
Study identifies potential novel drug to treat tuberculosis
1 in 12 Utahns suffer with long COVID, health department study says (study here; about 3-4% of the population have had or still have what can be only described as debilitating disease)
A “Biosafety” Organization Partnering With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya To Guard Against Viruses Is Like A Zebra Teaming Up With A Lion To Promote Vegetarianism
This Is What 12 Years On Mars Has Done To Curiosity’s Wheels
Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda draws concern over possibility of international spread

Other:

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
The Striking Details That Jack Smith Used To Tighten His January 6 Case Against Trump
Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.
‘Jabba the Hut’: Recordings catch Senate candidate hurling slurs at opponent (the amount of pathological behavior that Republican candidates are allowed to exhibit is mind boggling)
Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike
A Toxic Explosion in Private Equity Payouts: Private equity barons just pocketed as much as $850 million from the company behind this week’s massive chemical blast in Georgia.
JD Vance Accidentally Reveals the Darkest Truth About Trump of All. It’s not just what Vance would have done for Trump on January 6. It’s what he’ll do for him in a second term that’s far scarier.
JD Vance’s family politics are incoherent. What does his vision of an ideal family have to do with the rest of us?
Trump Made Crass Jokes About Death of Rally Attendee in Leaked Recording
How Biden helped end a strike that threatened Democrats in November. With early morning Zoom calls and a surprising ultimatum, the White House brain trust averted a potential economic disaster weeks before the election.
Jack Smith’s Big New Jan. 6 Brief Is a Major Indictment of the Supreme Court
Whom does Trump plan to deport? Whomever Trump wants to deport.
“We Are a Relatively Easy Punching Bag”: America’s biggest publisher just hired a lobbyist to fight book banning. She’s got a plan.
Complete catastrophe: Carrie Frye, reporting from Asheville
North Carolina Republican Pleads To End Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories About Helene Disaster Recovery (leopards eating faces etc.)
Reports of Antisemitism in D.C. Have Increased Since the Israel-Hamas War, But Prosecutors Bring Few Charges (because D.C. is a colonial territorial government, these are federal prosecutors; D.C. residents have no control over who they are)
If Initiative 83 Passes, It Needs Money to Take Effect. But the Council Isn’t Guaranteed to Fund It.
‘They can control the weather’: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest doozy
JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US
American Dams Weren’t Built for Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods. Hurricane Helene brought dams in North Carolina and Tennessee close to their breaking point. Many US dams are decades old and weren’t designed for the impacts of climate change.
Trump’s decompensation was the big debate day story. Disoriented and incoherent, he hit new lows of unfitness.
Jack Smith’s unsealed Trump filing laid out key 2020 election lies. Fox News pushed many of them.
Someone is leaving bottles of urine by a street in Pasadena. Two filmmakers are watching
Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
The American News Media Is Derelict In Its Duty To Warn Voters That Trump Is A Fascist