Links for you. Science:

Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds
Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026
Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk. The person refused to even tell health officials their address.
Scientists just shattered a major exercise myth
Why this clinical trial is offering some young cancer patients hope
The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica

Other:

A rural doctor tries to puncture his red county’s media bubble
Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
Zohran Mamdani knows how to win. Not just in New York — Mamdani’s campaign shows how to inspire voters nationwide
A Third Trump Term Is Not the Charm
Video Shows Immigration Agent Punching Restrained Man After Car Collision Turns Into Confrontation
ICE Watch
There’s no mistaking what ICE’s new structure is designed to do
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
The nation’s largest employers are putting their workers on notice (throughout the 2024 election, on social media, I kept posting things like ‘too many have either forgot or never experienced what it was like to be an employee in an economy where 5% unemployment was considered too low. Biden was the first president in my life where employees weren’t getting completely screwed over by bosses.’ Oh well…)
In less than five years, Trump has played as much golf as Obama did in eight
Documented or not, Latinos are changing habits during ICE crackdown
Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer
D.C. mayor imposes citywide youth curfew after Navy Yard arrests
The Democrats’ problem in the Senate is not progressives
Unconcerned by the Prospect of Widespread Hunger the Right is Spreading Racist Memes About ‘EBT Community’ Rioting
What it’s like being wrongly charged by Trump’s Department of Justice
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway
FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use
ICE kept Durango family in windowless room with only chips and water after mistaking father for someone else
No One Is Having a Worse Time Than Bill Belichick
On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets
Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
Tesla May Have Sold a Million Fewer Cars Because of Elon Musk’s Toxic Politics
How D.C. Employers Are Stealing Millions from Their Workers. From construction sites to cocktail bars, wage theft in the D.C. area has allowed some employers to cut costs by up to 48 percent while workers struggle to make ends meet. (Attorney General Brian Schwalb is very good on this issue)
There’s one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech
It Is Trump’s Casino Economy Now. You’ll Probably Lose. (good, but a little inaccurate regarding Apple; it’s clear they’re pretty reluctant to jump on the AI bandwagon)
A Wave of US Layoffs Flash Early Warning Sign for Job Market (Trump take job)
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules (Trump is a goon)