Links for you. Science:

The wild turkey population has exploded in Mass. Here’s expert advice for living peacefully among them.
Marty Malarkey
Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it’s business as usual in California dairy country
Plagues, Taxes, Storms, and the Jet Stream
Is BlueSky the new “Science Twitter” for real this time?
HIV Denial in the COVID Era (Kennedy is an HIV denialist)

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There’s a huge tension building within public health over collaboration: can we work with the Trump Administration, at whatever few points of overlap in mission exist, to make people healthier? What this misses is the visibility and transparency of that play to the public, and its impact on trust (excellent, must-read)
RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
Don’t Let House Republicans Rewrite Trump’s Pandemic History
GOP effort to police trans bathroom use could extend to D.C. schools, agencies
I’ll Never Forget What Kennedy Did During Samoa’s Measles Outbreak
Coming after the CFPB
Meta scrambles to respond to upstart social platform Bluesky’s surge
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor
Texas education officials approve Bible-based lessons for K-5 schools. The optional curriculum for elementary schools aligns with Trump’s plans for a more conservative agenda in public school classrooms.
Get behind the M.U.L.E.
Trump picks Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon for labor secretary
This Old Tech: There’s nothing like M.U.L.E. on an Atari 800 to bring a family together
The fluoride fights are a decades-old cultural war America can’t quit. From Nazis to Communists to urban legends and scientific studies, fluoride skeptics have been at it for years.
OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time
Mandate? Fuller election results increasingly show GOP gains were small.
US grocery workers hit by rising prices: ‘We’re at the bottom of the food chain’
Trump and GOP eye new limits on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
D.C. Council clears funds for Nationals Park, Capital One Arena facelifts
Murderbot, She Wrote
Pam Bondi’s Ties to Scientology Explained
Trump team eyes quick rollback of Biden student debt relief
Change to Twitter Suggests Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Users Leaving for Bluesky
Republican Senator Worried About Atheist Teachers Reading Bible to Students, Wants to Replace Them with Religious Scholars
The Law Went Light on Trump—and Now America Will Pay the Price
Dem leadership missing in action as Trump tightens his grip