Links for you. Science:

A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Has People Worried About NYC Rats. They Shouldn’t Be. The Andes virus on the MV Hondius can spread person to person. NYC’s rats carry a different hantavirus nobody tests for and a bacterial infection that’s surging.
Argentina Races to Find Origin of Hantavirus Contagion
Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging
Protein is being added to everything from Starbucks’ cold foam to Pop-Tarts. Here’s how much you actually need
Recent COVID-19 Vaccination and Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (big reduction within households)
Democrats just handed RFK Jr. billions more than he asked for. It was a big risk.
Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks

Other:

DOJ requests 1,500 more National Guard troops for planned DC ‘summer surge’
The Smithsonian’s most contested exhibition is back on view, mostly intact
The Christian right hijacks America’s 250th
FDA official key to vaccine schedule overhaul to depart. Tracy Beth Høeg said on social media that she was fired.
The Decline Of Pro Football Focus Is Bad News For Football Fans
She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.
Assassination conspiracy theories? Blame Trump
America’s worst Democratic governor frees election denialist as a personal favor to Donald Trump
A diminished Trump goes to China — for help
Who Is “Out of Touch?” Elites who can’t quite have it all.
Trump’s war against wokeness is not new
The law question
Rich Guy Quote Journalism
Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis
Jewish lawmakers face an explosion of antisemitism (I think the hate mail is largely just the nationalization of U.S. politics–now it’s easy for people from all over the country to send hate email–but the adoption of overt antisemitism by a group allied with Massie is new and very disturbing)
Louisiana rejects Gov. Jeff Landry-backed amendments again
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Ebola Spread Shows Deadly Cost of Aid Retreat
After USDA cuts, complaints over food safety spike
Dealing With Dem Delinquents
War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber-Optic Cable
House Democrats Have a Purge Problem
DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds
The Hollywood C.E.O. Gluttony Index
Hakeem Jeffries wants to redraw House maps from Oregon to New York. He’s willing to take on Democrats to do it
After Eight Years, Mitch Ryals Signs Off
Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism. And why “AI populism” is just “populism”
Hunter Biden could be among those that cash in as Trump drops IRS suit in exchange for $1.776B fund for victims of gov’t weaponization
Disney kills the 538 archives without explanation