Links for you. Science:

How endangered wolves are getting help crossing the road
What to know about the bird flu outbreak as concerns about U.S. cases grow
Scientists Developed a Questionnaire to Identify if Your Cat Is a Psychopath
Avian Flu Has Hit Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows’
Blob-Headed Fish Sets New Standard Of Fishy Blobbiness
How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

Other:

Martin Niemöller was a not especially repentant anti-Semite and you should stop positively referencing him.
Breaking Democracy: How America Became Like Mississippi (what struck me was the awful, piggish behavior by the male poll workers)
The Loosies Have Returned: Let’s Celebrate the Best, Worst, and Weirdest in D.C. Politics in 2024 (the mainland colony, not Wor-Shing-Tun)
Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear: An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back. In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?
Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.
A Political Reckoning Will Come for Trump, Too
The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is Actually a Dangerous Scammer
The Wellness Women Are on the March. Behind MAHA, RFK Jr.’s alternative-health movement, is a legion of Instagram influencers with millions of followers.
Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes
The First Corruption Scandal of Trump’s Second Term Is Already Here. Donald Trump’s ties to shady crypto bros are only getting more troubling.
Choose Your Fighters
Elon Musk can easily use Donald Trump’s greatest advantage against him
King David: ‘Billionaires I have known’: The final installment
More than 120 homeless people died in D.C. this year, advocates say
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
America the Addicted: Gambling — on sports, stocks and crypto — is the new opioids
‘Pay-to-pray’: Trump reportedly charges supporters $100K to attend church service with him
The Alienation of Jaime Cachua: His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
The Opportunity Costs of Having a Big Debate
Panicked CEOs left ‘scratching their heads’ as Trump ignores their warnings
Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account
Why Elon Musk said a House Democrat ‘needs to be expelled’ from Congress
JD Vance appears to defend Germany’s far-right AfD party
Why Big Business May Wind Up Missing Lina Khan
People Left Twitter Because Twitter’s Product Sucks, Not Because of Purity Politics