Links for you. Science:
Household Transmission and Genomic Diversity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in the United States, 2022–2023 (the kids and the grandkids murder their parents and grandparents)
Annual variant-targeted vaccination to prevent severe COVID-19 disease in cohorts with vaccine-derived and hybrid immunity
Do manuscripts by female evolutionary biologists spend longer under review?
Coalition Statement on the Impact and Safety of Vaccines
Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacterales in Municipal Wastewater Collections, Switzerland, 2019–2023
Deadly fungi are becoming drug-resistant. A new compound could beat them
Other:
CONFRONTED WITH A VULNERABLE TRUMP, DEMOCRATS JUST KEEP BERATING THEMSELVES (“…it’s obvious that Crow wanted to talk to Cottle about how much he thinks Democrats suck, just like Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emanuel and John Fetterman. And then they wonder why the party’s poll numbers are scraping the bottom.”)
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Trump is stoking fears about D.C.’s crime but the city is safer than it’s been in decades. In the past, fears about crime have produced regressive and punitive policies. Now is the time for D.C. to invest in preventative solutions.
How much money do motorists lose each year commuting on roads in Maryland?
As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In
Valnet Blues: How Online Porn Pioneer Hassan Youssef Built a Digital Media ‘Sweatshop’
In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA
RFK, Jr., Once Poisoned by Mercury, Is Silent as EPA Weakens Rules against It
As Tesla Falters, China’s BYD Pulls Ahead With 5-Minute EV Charging
U.S. Says Social Security Recipients Need to Visit Offices to Get Benefits as DOGE Closes Offices Nationwide
DOGE’s ‘AI-first’ strategist is now the head of technology at the Department of Labor
DC tests ‘intelligent speed assistance’ devices on city school buses
The Phillips Collection Captures the Timelessness of Alphonse Mucha
GOP congressman scared to attend town hall because of the Jews
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
GU Researcher Detained By Immigration Agents
Sovereignty Where Ya Can Find It: More Notes on Saving the American Republic
How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald Trump. Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges. He was bending the knee.
I’m So Proud To Be Deported From The USA
The Anti-Vax Culture War on mRNA Just Got Worse
ICE Deported a Venezuelan Soccer Star who was Tortured by Maduro’s Regime
Elon Musk Has Become Too Toxic for YouTube
Can America see Trump’s vandalism through his lies?
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
Pirate’s Booty founder stages Long Island mutiny, declares he’s mayor and tries to fire village staff (lol)
Hollywood Braces For Border Entry Crackdown
mikethemadbiologist
“In cohorts with vaccine-derived and hybrid immunity, modest but significant gains in protection against hospitalization and severe COVID-19 illness were conferred by the annual variant-targeted booster dose but not sustained beyond 6 months.”
This is making me feel really good about my medical tourism, got fresh Covid and flu shots in Australia just last week, 7 months after previous.