New York Times gift articles

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23895057

The amount in some flu vaccines is roughly equivalent to the amount of mercury found in a three-ounce can of tuna fish.

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overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23894594

For 50 years, automakers have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles or pay fines. The Republican megabill would set those penalties to $0.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.

A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23838767

1. It is epically regressive
2. The hyper-regressive tax cuts you haven’t heard enough about
3. A war on the I.R.S. could make the bill even more costly.
4. It is another “skinny” attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Like almost all the rest of the NYT "climate solutions" coverage, they avoid talking about efforts to end the use of fossil fuels.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23847639

Supporters of tax breaks for wind and solar are fighting to retain them in the G.O.P. tax bill. They’re facing a conservative effort to kill them entirely.

David Keeling would take over the workplace-safety agency just as it is considering rules to protect against extreme heat. His former employers, UPS and Amazon, have opposed the rules.

I'll note that this is a different Keeling from the one the graph showing the increasing concentration of CO~2~ in the atmosphere is named for

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23808670

Extreme heat is making air pollution worse, scientists say. And President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks could drive air pollution even higher.

Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23763679

The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.

In practice, this means that immigrants will be shipped to places where they will be sold as slaves

Dated: 2025-06-22. Added: 2025-06-22.

A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.

Both Vice President JD Vance and Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, acknowledged questions about the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade nuclear material.

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.