Weekly Reading (7/12/24)

LGBT troops on Ukraine's front line fight homophobia at home (BBC)

How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War (The New Yorker)

Imagine texting this stuff in public at an institution with a history of antisemitism like Columbia: Columbia Removes Three Deans, Saying Texts Touched on ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ (NYT)

‘This is going to be a disaster’: inside the Tories’ chaotic election campaign (The Guardian)

The Koch Brothers Are Getting What They Wanted: The Supreme Court Is Gutting Environmental Protections (Slate)

This is huge: ‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules (Nature)

An incomplete list of broken heat records this year (PBS)

Another Red-Blue Divide: Money to Feed Kids in the Summer (NYT)

The Torah I Learned at ACT UP (Life Is a Sacred Text)

Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study (NPR)

The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree (LitHub)

Jessie Winker Is Up to Something (Baseball Prospectus)