Links for you. Science:

HHS Staff Response to the August 8th Attack
Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron Era is Associated with Increased Risk of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A RECOVER-EHR Cohort Study
Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness
Bottlenecks and Resistance Evolution against an Antimicrobial Peptide
New dinosaur species with foot-long claws discovered in Mongolia
A massive insect study may have made a huge mistake
Two killer whales are hunting great white sharks — to eat their livers

Other:

Lew’s Clues: Lew Olowski, the State Department’s newish head of H.R., is a RIF-happy, Christian evangelizing MAGA warrior with an axe to grind. Worse, according to his fellow diplomats, he’s just plain weird. (another affirmative action hire of a White Christian evangelical)
U.S. childhood vaccination rates fall again as exemptions set another record
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
The Epstein Files Backdoor
This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol
Money by Vile Means (an anti-crypto argument from a libertarian point of view; it does provide a good explanation of how bitcoin works)
Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
Trump’s demand that the Smithsonian erase history is equal parts terrifying and pathetic
Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers
Chinese towers and American blocks
The “Alt National Park Service:” On Plagiarism, Part 1
Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas
ICE efforts to poach local officers anger some local law enforcement leaders. An email to officers whose agencies partner with ICE has even some sheriffs who support the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown seeing red. (‘I was fine with sending immigrants to concentration camps, but poaching my deputies was a step too far…’)
Appropriations Senators Retain Vertebrate Status: Even Susan Collins voted to fully fund NIH and CDC and give no money to MAHA
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge (Trump take IVF)
US Rep. Bryan Steil met by hostile audience during raucous town hall
Most adults do not plan on getting COVID-19 shot amid vaccine policy changes
You can’t fight enshittification
Is Schumer a Flip-Phone Guy in an A.I. World?
If Trump saves Maxwell, he will destroy everything he promised
Caracas on the Potomac: Goodbye, reliable economic data
Kash Patel’s girlfriend slaps down conspiracies that she’s a secret Israeli ‘honeypot’ agent (it does seem it’s the rage for conservatives to have a girlfriend 20+ years younger than you)
Can an Ad Tier Solve Apple TV+?
Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Star, Dies at 79
How Trump Is Plotting To Disrupt The Next Election
This Is the Worst Supreme Court Decision of Trump’s Second Term
The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved
D.C. Council grants initial approval to the Commanders deal
How the George Floyd Protests Changed America, for Better and Worse (utterly brutal review)