Links for you. Science:

Pricey Dam Project 7 Years In The Making Finished By Beavers For Free
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
There’s a Massive Tuberculosis Outbreak in the US
Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest
Scientists Discover “Zombie” Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine

Other:

In Trump’s actions, opponents see more than cuts — they see a constitutional crisis
Indirect research costs are complicated, wonky — and crucial to science
Layoffs hit contractors and small businesses as Trump cuts take effect (One source of anger towards Democratic incumbents will come from the Notorious P.M.C. If your electoral strategy counts on them voting for you, and then you can’t protect a bunch of them, that’s a very difficult political needle to thread.)
Democrats Approach Their Enabling Moment: If Democrats provide the decisive votes to fund this government, it will reverberate through history for all time.
The Pritzker Prize: With Democrats leaderless, some in the party are looking to the states, where ambitious governors often find their “laboratories of democracy” make great soapboxes, too. Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker, an all-but-certain presidential candidate in 2028, is one of them.
What is Elon Musk doing? Not slashing the budget. DOGE isn’t getting anywhere near $2 trillion in spending cuts. Here’s a plan that would. (leaving aside the Musk hagiography at the end, the scale of the problem is correct)
Tropic Thunder: Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz has a message for shell-shocked Democrats struggling to find the right resistance in Trump 2.0: “Don’t chase every flying monkey Trump hurls at us.”
This senator says Democrats need to invoke villains, namely Elon Musk (that this is considered controversial within the Democratic Party is not good. They still want to be junior members of the governing coalition)
The USAID Grenade
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Here’s how Democrats should fight back against Trump
It’s The End of the American Era. Period.
Anthony Mackie is finally starring in an Anthony Mackie movie
Democrats, Trump has given you a mission. Accept all of it.
The Eagles So Humiliated The Chiefs That Even Philly Fans Have To Believe
GOP senators terrified of crossing Trump, facing Musk-funded challengers
Trump signals that it’s okay to make bribes—and take them
Trump To New York: Drop Dead
“The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets”
Elon Musk is Working His Hardest to Make a Chinese Century. The Ketamine Koup will make America a mediocre backwater.
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
Venezuelans backed Trump. Now some worry he’ll deport them.
Musk’s ex-staff warn federal workers of what’s ahead: Long hours, firings
Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’: A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage. The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace.
U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest