Links for you. Science:

The power of one: Study finds solitary carnivores outkill group hunters
Hot queen conch seeks cool mates: Florida’s new ‘speed dating’ service to save endangered shellfish
Where did viruses come from? AlphaFold and other AIs are finding answers
Scientists make major discovery while working with scrap EV batteries: ‘The need for developing sustainable recycling methods is pressing’
COVID variant XEC sees rapid global growth: What to know about the new strain
Study forecasts more than 39 million deaths from antimicrobial resistance by 2050

Other:

Trump Knows What He’s Doing in Springfield. So Does Vance.
Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age: Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet
How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren’t True
Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-Abortion Content… If Trump Wins
Vance: Trump’s Health-Care Plan Is to Let Insurers Charge More for Preexisting Conditions. The concept of a plan is pretty horrifying.
Timothy Snyder Explains How Americans Might Adapt to Fascism Under Trump
Shut Up and Teach: AEI has a new proposal to silence academic associations
Suspect In Apparent Attempt To Shoot Trump Wasn’t Allowed To Have Guns. He Got An Assault Rifle Anyway.
The Real Reason the Harris Twang Is Driving Republicans Crazy
Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket
President Hoover was not a progressive, nor did the New Deal begin under his administration
Kentucky governor bans use of ‘conversion therapy’ with executive order
Trump’s anti-Haitian lies could cost Republicans the House
WMATA Board of Directors approves new Metrobus service for improved accessibility
Protesters outside New York Times demand newspaper ‘stop normalizing Trump’
Walking Faroe Islands (part two)–the mass transit system!
Pressed on grocery prices, Trump struggles to answer (again). The problem is not just that Trump struggled with a simple question about inflation. The problem is that he keeps struggling with the same simple question.
Toxic tactics: Understanding the online bad faith playbook
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Republicans—and Russia
Twitter’s Pre-Musk Plans Mirrored Elon’s Vision—Until He Abandoned, Trashed Or Ignored Them
Your AI code generators are your new net-negative developers
D.C. Police Continue to Disproportionately Target Black People for Warrantless Stop-and-Frisks
The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump’: The inside story of how the producers of “The Apprentice” crafted a TV version of Mr. Trump — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — that ultimately fueled his path to the White House.
Police in North Carolina Are Awfully Quick to Dismiss the Possibility of a Lynching
Biden’s green policies will save 200,000 lives and have boosted clean energy jobs, data shows
“Get this under control”: Mark Robinson’s anti-birth control tirade spoils Trump’s Project 2025 spin