Links for you. Science:
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
WHO releases guidance for urgently needed new antibiotics
Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t
Surgeon general nominee now says Americans should get vaccinated for measles. Dr. Casey Means told Congress last month she supported the measles vaccine, but she declined to answer whether she would recommend it to Americans.
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info. State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
Other:
The Last Thing Trump Wants to Do Is Save America
Why We Are Failing in the Fight Against Antisemitism
Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin
Iran’s Hormuz blockade is its most powerful card against Trump and Israel. It won’t back down easily
The IRGC’s way of war
After rookie ICE agent’s paperwork error, man is detained for days
How God Got So Great
A top Trump aide resigned over Iran. Liberals should stay away from him.
The World Baseball Classic, Team USA, and the war problem
On the Wired renaissance: Katie Drummond is leading Wired magazine through its best era.
Sarah Michelle Gellar Breaks Her Silence on What Killed the Buffy Reboot: ‘Nobody Saw This Coming’
Black Women, Allies and Elected Officials Navigate HIV Prevention Landscape
How Eric Trump Became an Ally of One of China’s Biggest Crypto Companies
Chelsea Handler Says RFK Jr. And Cheryl Hines Sold Her ‘The Most Toxic’ Home (lol)
Federal judge in D.C. issues new grand jury policy after failed indictment of Democrats
Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad
Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously
Donald Trump’s Fake Makeover: Republicans, in a blind panic about the midterms, are pretending to course correct.
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog (the article really ignores the role the Republican Party plays in this; the fascist political formation is quite broad–it’s not just Trump)
Making Messes That Other People Are Supposed To Fix
Americans Are Stuck in Dead-End, Exploitative Part-Time Jobs
Judge reinstates 1,000 Voice of America employees, deems wind-down illegal
Chat Is This Good
MAGA Turns on Itself, and It’s Ugly
I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse.
Are They Done With His Bullshit Yet
AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
My Self-Driving Car Crash
Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s
The Colorado River’s Problems Are About to Get Deeper
What to know about the resignation of Joe Kent as Trump’s counterterrorism chief
Why Are We Still Doing This?
mikethemadbiologist
The 2008 crash was a typical “hey, I’ve spotted a loophole in the regs our bought and paid for legislature wrote to keep us in line” event, which the greedy assholes on Wall Street then used to suck as much out of the economy as they could before it nose-dived.
This time, a multi-national criminal syndicate headed by a man who’s still butt hurt over the collapse of the USSR has put kompromatted assets in the white house and congress and is using them to crater the entire US, both for revenge and to clear any obstacles to his restoring mother Russia to her rightful role in the world.
Plus, Netanyahu wants to make sure no one has the power to stop the creation of Eretz Yisrael HaShlema, and fundy Christians want him to succeed at that so Jesus can come back and kick everybody’s ass except for those saved by the blood of The Lamb. China’s probably in the mix, too, but dammed if I know how or exactly what they hope to gain. Like Country Joe said, “Whoopee! we’re all gonna die!”