Links for you. Science:
America’s Coming Public Health Crisis
Iron Age DNA Reveals Women Dominated Pre-Roman Britain
Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
Fire-Whipping Los Angeles Winds Are at the Heart of a Climate Riddle
Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus
An Ancient Grapevine Uncorks Clues About a Deadly Plant Pathogen. Bacterial DNA isolated from a 120-year-old preserved plant cutting helped reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in grapevines.
Other:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Trump’s White House Return and the Republican Congress Put DC Abortion Access at Risk
Biden Had the World’s Most Powerful Perch—and Rarely Used It. It wasn’t just his age and infirmities. The president was non-confrontational, both at home and abroad.
Everyone Who Was Supposed To Protect You From This Failed Miserably
Trump’s other victory: How he shifted the conversation on immigration
A Trump-Voting Farmer’s Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster
THERE WILL BE BRUTALITY AND BOASTFULNESS, BUT APART FROM THAT, WE MIGHT HAVE A PAUL RYAN PRESIDENCY
The One Trump Pick Democrats Actually Like
Now More Than Ever, We Must Resist Trump
Everything you need to know about clearing snow (or not) in D.C.
DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything
How Long Can the Alliance Between Tech Titans and the MAGA Faithful Last?
Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
Clapping for Stalin
Progressive Group Launches House Recruitment Drive to Defeat Corporate Dems
Donald Trump is still not king. The greatest threat of the president’s second term is allowing him to proceed as though there is nothing that can stop him.
Trump’s honeymoon won’t last
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Insider trading allegations trail TRUMP memecoin as Bitcoin community fire criticism shots
The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.
Trump Forced Vivek Ramaswamy Out of DOGE for Being Too Irritating
My Many Failures
Who’s Laughing at Donald Trump Now?
Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration
Coup complete
MUSK WATCH: Musk’s ‘free’ month of internet cost most LA fire victims $349. The impact of Musk’s relief efforts did not match the hype.
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