2: Thanks to everyone who wrote or called your representatives to oppose the “Save Our Bacon Act” (anti-animal-welfare law). 4: Charity Entrepreneurship, the self-proclaimed “Y Combinator for charities”, has asked me to signal-boost their latest incubation round, dedicated entirely to farmed animal welfare. They say it’s the “best time ever” to start an animal welfare charity (partly because of an expected tsunami of new funding), and that you don’t need any animal charity experience (and maybe “outsiders are especially valuable”). 5: Two years ago, I wrote some pieces (1, 2) supporting a natural origins theory of COVID. The latest such poll came out recently, and they continued to favor natural origins at about the same rate as two years ago.