Links for you. Science:

Global health leader critiques ‘ineptitude’ of U.S. response to bird flu outbreak among cows
‘We’re Flying Blind’: CDC Has 1M Bird Flu Tests Ready, but Experts See Repeat of Covid Missteps
More COVID-19 patients died in understaffed hospitals, new data show
Face masks are less effective than sunglasses in masking face identity (paging NY Gov. Hochul and NYC Mayor Adams…)
Shadows of the coming Dark Age for science in the US
Another 36 house mice in New Mexico test positive for H5N1 bird flu

Other:

Technocrats
How Did Republican Women End Up Like This? The baffling, contradictory demands of being female in the party of Donald Trump.
What Trump Requires (gift link)
Drug Shortages Keep Growing. Older, Injectable Agents Are Among the Most Vulnerable.
NYC Congestion Pricing Pause Puts Over $15 Billion in MTA Projects at Risk
A tradwife drops a racist slur: Why the right’s trolling economy made Lilly Gaddis’ rise inevitable
The United States Tax Code Lives To Fight Another Day
After Supreme Court’s abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion
Could Amy Coney Barrett Be Distancing Herself from the Wingnut Faction?
Why so many Americans have misconceptions about crime trends
What Can’t You Say These Days? In “The Indispensable Right,” Jonathan Turley argues that the First Amendment has been deeply compromised from the start. (That first sentence, oof…)
Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Case
Donald Sutherland, Star of ‘MASH,’ ‘Klute’ and ‘Hunger Games,’ Dies at 88
Willie Mays Was New York’s Giant. And his time here was so much more than The Catch.
Willie Mays Was Baseball
The Supreme Court Wants More People to Die in Mass Shootings. This is the only possible conclusion after their decision striking down the federal ban on bump stocks.
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.
Michigan GOP state Rep. Neil Friske arrested after alleged altercation with a stripper involving a firearm
Jasmine Crockett wants to prove that Democrats aren’t weak: ‘Everyone’s so freakin’ polite’
The Conviction Bounce
Endless War, Not ‘Total Victory’: IDF Wants to Leave Gaza, but Netanyahu Has Other Ideas
Conservative legislator allegedly sexually assaults stripper, chases her down the street while brandishing a handgun, then invokes the Second Amendment (definitely read to the Luftwaffe part…)
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine. A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
Senate Democrats seek to nuke archaic law that could squash abortion rights
‘These Stores Are Unhealthy for Our Communities’