Links for you. Science:

NIH funding in Pittsburgh: What does it look like?
Rare Pacific Sleeper Shark Spotted In Southern Hemisphere
Bird flu highlights need for federal communication
The surprising reason cities are losing the war on rats. A new study is the first to link rising temperatures with booming rat populations in cities around the world.
How NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders. The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

Other:

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
Don’t Believe Him (clock stopped twice a day and all that…)
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do?
Why Democrats Slept: Some thoughts on election narratives and Democratic Party quiescence in the face of a democratic crisis
Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous
‘Wheat Kings’
Primary Every Democrat: It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
‘Filled With Unmitigated Terror’: A Q&A with Nathan Tankus on what it means for Elon Musk’s forces to have commandeered some level of control of the U.S. payment system.
Trump’s Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise. Somehow, Democrats got badly caught out by the president doing all the things he spent the past two years saying he was going to do if reelected. (“…using my patented journalism technique of listening to what Republicans say they are going to do and then writing it down and publishing it to the internet.”)
Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
“Fear Itself” Is Palpable: It’s also weak, undignified, and demoralizing. And as FDR warned, it’s turning failure into a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Note to Democrats: We’re Freaking the Fuck Out and You’re Not Helping Us Enough
Why are the Democrats so spineless?
525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: ‘Not an Option’
Trump has words for D.C.
A Cyber Coup Is Taking Place In America
OPM’s Top Lawyer Is A ‘Raging Misogynist’ With A Plan To Break The Civil Service
The humble beginnings of National Airport (fascinating)
Nobody Voted for Elon Musk: A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
Reminder: DOGE Is a Fictitious Agency with Entirely Fictitious Power. And Yet…
Silicon Valley is learning what ‘crypto president’ really means
Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency
Trump to send Venezuelans back to Maduro’s repressive state
A Coup Is In Progress In America
I’m a blind federal employee. Diversity and merit aren’t enemies.
Donald Trump and the incredible shrinking Congress