Links for you. Science:

How pollution can increase the risk of osteoporosis
Americans are not getting seasonal vaccines ahead of the holidays
Why we can’t just name a quasi-moon ‘Moony McMoonface’
Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows
Raw milk recall in California expands after tests detect more bird flu virus
Trump’s pick to lead NASA: A billionaire who wants to privatize space

Other:

HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism. Questions are important and needed, but we must not resort to rewriting history.
Centrist Democrats should stop blaming progressives for Harris’s loss
Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys. Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.
Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else.
Yes, Denial Of Care Improves Profits For Health Insurers
Online sleuths are racing to catch the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer. Volunteers in a crowdsourced manhunt are scrambling to identify the gunman, even as some online seek to lionize him for what they suspect is vigilante justice.
Every Cop In The Nation
Maryland seeks D.C.’s Air National Guard squadron in RFK deal
Choose your fighters well
Inside D.C.’s struggle to rein in ticket scofflaws
District of Columbia says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black ZIP codes
Americans’ many contradictions on Trump’s agenda
Scandals Are Sinking Some of Trump’s Cabinet Picks. But a Big Question Remains for the Senate.
The beating heart of D.C. home rule. The city’s indispensable advisory neighborhood commissioners are one part of local self-government that has exceeded even the lofty visions of 1973. (I have mixed feelings about the ANCs; some are very good and some are quite awful)
Warhammer maker Games Workshop enters London’s top stocks index
Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office. In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations
Social Media Has Little Sympathy for Murdered Health Insurance Exec
How a Midtown shooter got away — and how the NYPD could use technology to find him
Surprise: RFK Jr. Used to Sell Bottled Water With Extra High Levels of Fluoride
Who Is Allowed to Kill in America?
Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO
Maybe Don’t Trust Your Life Savings to the Hawk Tuah Girl
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn’t ruling out advertising
‘Fire everywhere’: Shock as firebomb rips through synagogue ‘jewel’ in Melbourne’s south-east
Tulsi Gabbard’s views on Russia shaped in part by Kremlin propaganda outlet, ex-aides say
Bluesky already delivering more referral traffic than X for some publishers. The Boston Globe and Guardian have both reported seeing more traffic from Bluesky than Threads.