Links for you. Science:
Coverage with Influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and COVID-19 Vaccines Among Nursing Home Residents — National Healthcare Safety Network, United States, November 2024
Crucial lessons for global health in Rwanda’s rapid response to Marburg outbreak
Masoala Elysium
Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’
EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo: The spread of scientific misinformation on the social media platform is making the ECDC think twice, its director says.
Giant Rats In Tiny Vests Trained To Sniff Out Illegally Trafficked Wildlife
Other:
Democrats don’t have a working-class problem. America does. Extreme income inequality and unchecked corporate power gave rise to FDR’s New Deal — Democrats should be no less ambitious now.
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History: A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job. (he seems nice)
Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
The Biden Administration Made A Big Decision On Ozempic, But RFK Jr. Could Tank It
With school vouchers, Republican leaders are going against their own voters
How A Recent Supreme Court Decision May Have Already Hamstrung RFK Jr.’s Big Plans
Trump has called tariffs ‘the greatest thing ever invented.’ Local manufacturers aren’t so sure.
Virginia state senator proposes legislation to curb hedge fund impact on housing market
Republicans don’t care if women die from abortion bans — but they don’t want you to know about it
A completely corrupt political prosecution
Why They Lost: The Harris-campaign leadership believes that the Democrats narrowed the gap on Trump that Biden left—but not by enough.
As a felon, Donald Trump can no longer travel to 38 countries
Why are People Still Dying Needlessly of AIDS? Politics – not Science – is to Blame
What happens if Republicans really do kill the Education Department?
Eliminating Marriage Penalties Through Universalism
The Democrats’ Defeat
Kash Patel’s qualifications to run FBI include writing Trump fan fiction
Pete Hegseth’s Mom Ratting Him Out Was Not Yet (!) Rock Bottom for the TV Host
Naming the Perp: Very Few People Cause All of the World’s Worst Problems
How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine
Is A Democratic Billionaire Better Than A Republican Billionaire?
How “Y.O.L.O. Joe” Can Beat The Lame Duck: Here is what Democrats could actually achieve in the months before Trump takes office.
‘Jeffries would be the next speaker’: How one state’s GOP gerrymander ‘changed the nation’
Americans want lower prices. Too bad: Trump wants tariffs.
X’s Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts
My hometown broke its 100-year Democratic streak. What can that teach us? Gratitude for Fall River, Massachusetts, drives me to learn from what provoked its rightward shift.
mikethemadbiologist
i loved the link to Wayne Maddison’s blog, and applaud any more arachnological encroachment on here!