Links for you. Science:

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
RFK Jr. says vaccines aren’t tested enough. Experts say that’s baseless.
Scientists Simulated a Quantum Apocalypse. Then the Universe Disappeared.
In vitro resensitization of multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium and E. faecalis through phage-antibiotic synergy
What Did She See, At The End?

Other:

Health update (Kevin Drum was one of the original political bloggers)
Elon Musk, General Secretary of DOGE. The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.
How to stop Trump’s power grab
Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’
State Department removes mention of ‘armored Teslas’ from its 2025 procurement list, replaces it with ‘armored electric vehicles’ (combining the vehicle and the IED into one is more efficient)
Is the United States Still a Liberal Democracy?
The Trump Supporters Who Didn’t Take Him at His Word
The Emperor’s New Tariffs: Small, Ugly and Stupid: Trump is throwing a tantrum, but the damage will be real
Musk Claims To Know The Net Worths Of Federal Employees – But How?
The $400 Million Armored Tesla Story Is a Fake Scandal In a Sea of Real Graft and Horror
Using Rising Rent Debts as Cover, Bowser Works to Rob Many Tenants of the Right to Buy Their Buildings
The Hidden Costs of Musk’s Washington Misadventure
Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit
Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda: “We don’t have two years. You won’t be able to pick up the pieces.”
Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook. Federal workers say platforms they once used to communicate with their coworkers and friends increasingly feel insecure.
Health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters
Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards
“The Fraudsters Complain the Loudest and the Fastest:” Legacy Media Ignores Import of Gaza Condom Fact Check
DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad. The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
The Use and Abuse of Administrative Leave
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Bondi Diminishes Justice Department White Collar Enforcement
‘Civil rights fight of our time’: new film explores the battle over US libraries
For federal workers, Trump’s return-to-office order amounts to an unwelcome pay cut
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa. Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon