Links for you. Science:

Conflicting advice on COVID shots likely to ding already low vaccine rates, experts warn
What’s in the junk?
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time. If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization.
Food Allergy Rates Are Falling. That’s a Problem for RFK Jr.’s Aluminum Vaccine Theory.
A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data (related paper here)
Bacterial immune systems as causes and consequences of microbiome structure

Other:

A Theory of Dumb: Why Are IQ Scores Suddenly Falling? (good, but it also could be explained by relatively recent changes in how the U.S. teaches reading)
Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC
The past-performance trap.
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
Hagerstown mother and nail salon owner set for deportation to Vietnam
Release the Trump-MBS Call About Khashoggi?
Pea-brained Texas GOP wants to hand-count ballots
The Professor and the Pedophile
Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say
Complete Compromises: DC roads’ safety crisis is DDOT’s own making
Key Bridge deaths could have been prevented, federal investigators find
Crypto World Wipes Out $1 Trillion as Bitcoin Plunges Anew
Gay former FBI official sues Kash Patel & Pam Bondi for Pride flag firing
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
How Right-Wing Superstar Riley Gaines Built an Anti-Trans Empire
The “Sober” RFK Jr. Has Allegedly Been Smoking DMT
Detransition is rare, but it’s driving anti-trans policy anyway
The Epstein Files Will Continue To Hurt Trump
President Piggy: This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
Weed Drinks That Get You Very, Very High Could Be Gone Soon
NJ GOP congressman’s former staffer charged in staged MAGA attack
John Fetterman’s Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure
The Department of Housing and Community Development Failed to Spend $1 Million in First-Time Homebuyer Funds
You’re Not Bad At Job Hunting—30% Of Job Postings Are Fake
Is CNN next on Trump’s media hit list?
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols (the Coast Guard has since reversed this decision after it became public. Now we need to know who made this decision)
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud (it’s always self-projection with these assholes)