Links for you. Science:

Sperm Whales Live in Huge, Distinct Clans Spread Across The Ocean
A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming
How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers
The emergence of JN.1 is an evolutionary ‘step change’ in the COVID pandemic. Why is this significant?
What a hand-cranked drill just revealed about the West’s ‘megadrought’

Other:

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional (not shopping there anytime soon)
What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
How lock-in hurts design
Why affordable housing can’t pay for itself
Donald Trump Is Losing It. Will the Media Make It a Story?
Texas’s Slow- Motion Secession
The Post-Jan. 6 Far Right Poses An Increasingly Severe Threat To The LGBTQ+ Community
Trump Forces Terrified Republicans to Bend the Knee Yet Again
The Material Stakes Of The GOP Assault On Democracy Become Obvious
A rural community fights to keep education options after college closes
This Will Go Down as the Week the Trump Meltdown Began
We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
Will Ferrell’s road-trip doc could be the biggest in Sundance history (gift link)
‘On par with cancer and heart disease’: Experts, patients warn Congress about the burden of long COVID as the government blows through $1.15 billion without finding a cure
Trump’s White House clinic improperly handed out narcotics, report finds (gift link)
N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says. The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers. (gift link)
Greg Gutfeld’s sexual obsession with AOC accidentally reveals the insecurities of the MAGA man
Far-Right Extremists Are Organizing an Armed Convoy to the Texas Border
An ‘Official Organization’ on X Is Just Openly Glorifying Hitler Now
Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal (“In 2017, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Trump’s health plan would raise the number of uninsured by 32 million within a decade; that number would probably be larger today.”)
Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds
How Big Pharma Is Fueling a Radical MAGA Agenda: Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint is an assault on women’s health care. It would also end Biden’s Medicare drug-pricing plan
The collapse of California’s news industry is so severe it’ll require taxpayer support to rebuild
Hamas video shows terrorists beheading Israelis on October 7 – CNN
OK Tasks Stochastic Terrorist With Censoring Children’s Education