To CDC

Id love to read this article by Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH in NEJM but alas it is out of reach to all but the wealthiest institutions

When the CDC Director writes an important article, I would hope it would be in a format that is made available to all tax payers.…

The point isn’t that Michael Mina or me or another individual can’t manage to beg, borrow or steal this article, it’s that government statements & taxpayer-funded research shouldn’t be behind a paywall.

Poll for men and women: should your spouse be able to ask for your phone and look through it?

For something I'm working on. Not bad IMO you can get pretty far by drawing just 3 lines.

New rule from the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania:

States agencies must issue permits quickly or refund application fees.

“The Department of Environmental Protection, which decides when developers can break ground, has reduced its backlog for new permits by 41%.”

Joe Biden is a decent human being jabberwocking.com/joe-biden-is-a…

New survey (very fast, ~1 minute):

This presents just one single face and asks you to rate it across five questions.

Please take a moment to take it and RT for a good sample!

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The Secretary of Appearing on Television continues to be excellent at his job

What should we make of the fact that Homeland Security’s website is down?

dhs.gov

Matthew Yglesias eenews.net/articles/whats…

High-voltage power line that would move tremendous amounts of wind power now in its second decade of delays due to…environmental reviews??

The extent to which environmental review is just a stupid racket totally unrelated to environmental goals is perennially underrated

The NY Post frontpage we were definitely waiting for

Perfect no edits

As a relatively recent undergrad and grad student constantly being warned about the seriousness of plagiarism (specifically including copying text without attribution), surreal to see how instances of that exact behavior are now to be hand-waved away as “duplicative language.”

There is nothing about the Claudine Gay story more newsworthy than Congress using our tax dollars to investigate and humiliate her.

Conceding every bad thing you might say about her, this is HUAC shit.

kfor.com/news/nexstar-m…

I think a lot of the same people who were saying we need a robust commitment to free speech three years ago are saying the same thing today. And they’re correct.

Couple Plans Return to UWS Under Daunting Circumstances buff.ly/3GlQ3rt

Joe Biden has done a good job as president.

Interesting dive on the hospital story by David Zweig

This is what we're witnessing – the dismantling of public higher ed in conservative states – and we've created the conditions for what's going on at UNC. How did anyone think we could get away with being nakedly ideological for years without any chickens coming home to roost? 1/