Linkage

• Reform Works: For The First Time EVER, Newark Cops Go An Entire Year Without Firing Their Guns, Being Sued (Techdirt) Police reform saves money and lives.
  
• Why cats are crazy for catnip (AAAS) Short version, it may have evolved to allow cats to apply the insect repellent chemicals present in the plants. 
• Absent Blood Oxygen Level–Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activation of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in a Patient With Persistent Cacosmia and Cacogeusia After COVID-19 Infection (JAMA Neurology) A mouthful, but the short version is that there is evidence of changes in brain function, not just something like effects on peripheral nerves.
• Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? (Aeon) This has been transparently obvious for years.
• Hunts Point Workers Went on Strike and Won (Jacobin) Employees at the largest food distribution operation went on strike and won.
• 'Peacock's' Weird Method of Streaming 'The Office' Drives Fans Back To DVD's (Cracked) The advent of easy and cheap streaming in the early 2000s led to a massive reduction of file sharing and the like.  Studios trying to extract every single cent are bringing it back.  (DVDs are a proxy for "piracy" in the story)
• Sen. Tom Cotton campaigned on his "experience as an Army Ranger" — but he didn't have any (Salon.com) Short version:  He took a course available to everyone with the word "Ranger" in the title.  Stolen valor is the technical term.
  

What crimes were committed when the Capitol was stormed?  A lawyer has the answers: