Links for you. Science:

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research
Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water
Scientists study 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten frozen in Siberia
The owl hunters: The deadly campaign to save an icon of the Pacific Northwest
Cases of ‘walking pneumonia’ up in D.C. region, part of national trend
Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency (he’s the James Watt of public health)

Other:

Dental supply stock surges on RFK’s anti-fluoride stance, activist involvement
Trump can’t take over D.C. If he tries, the city should fight him.
The X exodus – could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk’s social media platform? Even Google appears to trust X less, with one expert telling Sky News the search engine treats X competitor Bluesky as 10 times more important than Elon Musk’s platform.
Some Arab American Trump voters now have doubts
The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
Democrats won ‘highly engaged’ voters and struggled with everyone else in 2024
Trump voters f-cked around—now they’re about to find out
The Big Money
Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz
Why Is Elon Musk Really Embracing Donald Trump?
How a Washington, DC, Suburb Became the Safest Place in America
As Trump’s plans become clearer, reject these four dangerous ideas
Be Our Guest
Federal workers brace for Trump with morale ‘as low as it’s ever been’
They set out to help people leave Twitter. Now they can’t keep up with demand.
Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more
A New Museum Pays Homage To Go-Go, The Music Of The Nation’s Capital
The Democrats Need to Stop Giving Such a Damn: There’s no center worth capitulating to anymore. They need to fight and let the chips fall.
Mass Deportations – A Dark History Returns
Who uses libraries? Even in the stacks, there’s a political divide
Montgomery County was listening, but mostly heard from Chevy Chase
Come to Harm: Reconsidering the orthodoxies of addiction and treatment
Sherrod Brown Has Some Advice for His Reeling Party
You First
Republicans Are Worried Trump Is Wasting Political Capital on Matt Gaetz
The Big Donors
Don’t Let These Crazy Appointments Distract You from Trump’s Even More Nefarious Plans