Links for you. Science:
Long COVID and Days of Work Missed Due to Illness or Injury by Adults in the United States, 2022
R.I.P. George F. Smoot (1945-2025)
Tylenol carries no added risk for autism
CDC takes down more than a dozen webpages on sexual and gender identity, health equity
NIH pulled off a ‘near miracle.’ Scientists say there’s still a problem. The National Institutes of Health is on track to give away all of its grant money to labs, but research on cancer, aging and diabetes is still being left behind.
Long overlooked small proteins in E. coli offer new insights into the bacteria
Other:
Inside DC’s Troubled Psychiatric Hospital: “This Place Is Actually Trauma-Inducing”
Note on Libel. And antisemitism
Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents
He helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him. Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
How Democracies Fall Apart
The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews’ concerns, says Zohran Mamdani
An Interview With the Little Girl—Now All Grown Up—Who Inspired Olivia the Pig
Trump Declares Everyone Who Doesn’t Kiss His Ass Is A Terrorist
John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey. The Justice Department’s political targets can thank the chief justice.
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart
Morgan Stanley warns AI could sink 42-year-old software giant (I’m no Adobe fan, but this is the dumbest reason to downgrade their stock)
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem
Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court
Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to Nexstar and Sinclair’s ABC stations
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
The wealthiest are boosting the economy, as consumer spending rises again
Donald Trump’s Corruption of the Law Is Destroying American Democracy
AI is taking on live translations. But jobs and meaning are getting lost.
The Democrats’ 2005 Dilemma: If you could stop MAGA, but only by turning back the arrow of progress, would you?
Rate of federal cuts may cost Maryland another 10,000 jobs, official says
Generation Lead
Trump’s War On Tylenol Is Even More Sinister Than It Seems. As during COVID-19, he’ll happily put human lives at risk for personal benefit.
To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems
If Trump thinks he has the power to do literally anything he wants to do, let’s see him keep the government open on his own
SEC: This Ponzi Scheme Involved Buying Modell’s Out Of Bankruptcy
Anti-Religious Politics
Don’t worry — Erika Kirk will never replace her husband
Kristi Noem issues a warning: do not criticize the regime
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
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