Links for you. Science:

Giraffes just silently went to the list of endangered animals facing extinction
The Terrible Destruction of Pinyon-Juniper Forests
What A Holiday Government Shutdown Means For U.S. Weather Activities
Ethnicity is Just an Estimate – Yes, Really!
Saving Florida’s Friendliest Native Bird Matters (scrub jays were also a classic study system)

Other:

I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. (excellent; dysfunctional suburban culture)
The Mommy Party (excellent)
Benefactors and Malefactors
Why did nobody mention that Beto O’Rourke’s wife is a billionaire heiress?
IF YOU THINK THAT WAS BAD…
Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases
Sen. Jeff Merkley Wants to Stop Congress Members From Insider Trading By Banning Them From Owning Stocks
Oh God! A Speaker From Brooklyn?
The Real Reason Why Some Bernie Sanders Fans Have It In For Beto O’Rourke (for the record, I’m leaning Warren for now)
Still Gonna Jam
Going Out With Class (still waiting for the radical centrists to be angered by this attack on a fellow Democrat…)
The Malaysia Scandal Is Starting to Look Dire for Goldman Sachs
Two Roads for the New French Right
A NY Times Reporter Spoke At An Event Organized By Alabama Dirty Tricksters
The Balloon Man of Georgetown deserved his inflated reputation
Sarah Sanders has ‘struggled’ to find a new job as the White House press office becomes ‘Night of the living dead’ (boofuckinghoo)
Hidden crisis: D.C.-area students owe nearly half a million in K-12 school lunch debt (Jeff Bezos could pay this off?)
Computer scientists study security threats to smart homes
The President* Is So Hopelessly Compromised
NYS Senate Dems say thanks, but no thanks to Simcha Felder’s return to Democratic conference (good. Now fuck him over as hard as possible)