Bitter Salad News

 

• Thanks to Mary Sturges and Leslie McNeill for help with today’s links.

  TOP STORY: 

  Hundreds of Thousands Will Die (New Yorker) — Interview with Dr. Atul Gawande.

LESLIE’s LINKS:

• We’re Relearning What Pandemics Do to a Society (NYT)(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/opinion/pandemic-cycle-chaos.html)

• DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread (Wired) (https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/)

• The Upside-Down Line That Tells the Story of the Stock Market Now (NYT)

  (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/business/sp-500-stock-market-trump.html)

• ‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed (HuffPost) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-biden-pardons_n_67d7ba6be4b041fe9a9c90c5)

• Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans (NYT)

  (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/chuck-schumer-book-tour-postponed.html)

• DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts (NYT) (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html)

• Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants (KFF) (https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/)

• Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE (NYT)(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/social-security-doge-ssa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.eClI.r8nJVMof_cw_&smid=url-share)

DAVID’s HEADLINES:

• Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 400 Palestinians and shatter ceasefire with Hamas (AP)

• Trump officials test limits of courts’ power to constrain their actions (WP)

• US judge questions Trump's deportation of Venezuelans (Reuters)

• White House official says 137 immigrants deported under Alien Enemies Act (WP)

• Trump administration says South African ambassador has to leave the US by Friday (AP)

• How a Columbia Student Activist Landed in Federal Detention (NYT)

• White House threatens ‘dire consequences’ for Iran if Houthis strike (Al Jazeera)

• Trump says Ukraine-Russia peace talks looking at ‘dividing up certain assets’ (CNN)

• DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong? (NYT)

• Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. (Barron’s)

• Americans increasingly worried about tariffs despite Trump’s assurances, new poll shows (Guardian)

• How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices (Atlantic)

• The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities (Grist)

• Elon Musk's Boldest Move Yet: A Tesla Robot Is Heading to Mars--And It's Just the Beginning (GuruFocus)

• Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein (Guardian)

• Delays cast a cloud over Apple Intelligence (Axios)

• ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry (NPR)

• A neuroscientist makes the case that AI can think (WP)

• JD Vance’s French Horn Solo Booed At Kennedy Center (The Onion)