Links for you. Science:

The last resort antibiotic daptomycin exhibits two independent antibacterial mechanisms of action
Three more possible cases of bird flu in LA County cats; 4 cases confirmed
Post-COVID Condition Risk Factors and Symptom Clusters and Associations with Return to Pre-COVID Health—Results from a 2021 Multi-State Survey
Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction
Improving a Fundamental Method for Comparative Genomics: Introducing OrthoHMM
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli causes significant urothelial damage in an ex vivo porcine bladder model, with no protective effect observed from cranberry or d-mannose

Other:

Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened? And how long will this ‘masculinity crisis’ last?
I survived polio and fear children will be in danger if Senate confirms RFK Jr.
Anti-vaccine group with ties to RFK Jr. saw another windfall last year, records show
When will the leaders of the white community acknowledge its pathologies?
Democratic Capitulation Is Contagious. Who’s going to stand up to Trump if his actual opponents have embraced “strategic silence” regarding all of his spiraling abuses?
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
25 MPH May Be Too Fast For City Centers: Higher front-end heights make the median pickup truck dramatically more lethal in pedestrian collisions compared to the median car
A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It’s Coming.
Return to Office Mandates and Brain Drain
ABC News Just Showed Trump Exactly How to Silence Journalists. A multimillion-dollar settlement proves corporate media will choose profits over press freedom every time.
Assad is gone, but a revolution that doesn’t free women is no revolution at all. The women celebrating the destruction of jails and dungeons will now be wondering why their own oppression cannot also be dismantled
The FAA Head’s Resignation is Another Massive Gift to Elon Musk
A low, low point for ABC News
Trump Will Likely Kill a Federal Reporting Rule That Revealed the Staggering Number of Tesla Crashes
Weakness Is a Provocation/ ABC News, billionaires, media orgs, and CEOs are surrendering to Trump because they think he’s a lame duck. They’re making a terrible mistake.
Democracy Democrats’ Policies Help Americans. The Right Wing Echo-Chamber Drowned Them Out
On Christmas Eve, 1988, a group of German criminals took hostages at an L.A. office party. The making of story behind DIE HARD is bigger than the Nakatomi…
Trump’s Budget Director Pick Would Restructure Government to Aggressively Push a Christian Nationalist Agenda. Russell Vought believes revolutionary statism, not conservatism, should define the right today
We suspected data centers were creating an energy crisis for Virginia. Now it’s official.
Who is Lindy Li? (a helluva grifter)
Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
Why “Die Hard” Is the 2024 Christmas Movie
Merry Slopmas! AI-generated Christmas classics that dwell in the uncanny valley are giving listeners the creeps.
Taking on Tulsi: Conspiracy theories are blinding Democrats to the real danger posed by Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence
2024 might be the year American democracy ended and fascism began