Links for you. Science:

Trump casts psychiatric and weight-loss drugs as threats to children
Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials
Encounter rates and engagement times limit the transmission of conjugative plasmids
Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts
Scientists have a new explanation for the last two years of record heat
Were you fired by President Trump? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies.

Other:

Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History. Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic. (excellent, must-read)
Why DOGE is unconstitutional: Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. Only Congress or the Supreme Court can stop him.
District residents shouldn’t pay for a new Commanders stadium
Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.
Is Elon Musk’s government role unconstitutional? What the Supreme Court might say.
Forced to flee Congo, USAID workers lost everything. They’re suing Trump.
A glimpse at Picasso and Pollock masterpieces kept in Tehran vault
Thousands Gather for Presidents’ Day Protest of Trump’s Discriminatory Orders and Cuts to the Federal Workforce
How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer.
Sacrificing ‘T’
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Your camping plans may be kaput as Trump targets national parks
This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it
The DC Area Is Not Seeing A Surge Of Homes Hit The Market Due To Federal Layoffs
Yes, Donald Trump could destroy the Kennedy Center. Or worse.
Looking Into This
Park Service deletes trans references on Stonewall Inn monument page
After We Amplified Warnings of Wildly Overvalued Unicorns, They Crash and Burn
Susan Collins Is Disappointed
Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men’s Chorus Concert
Move Fast And Break Things (lol)
It’s Going to Take Years to Train Another Generation of Federal Workers
There’s More To Life Than Obama And Biden Should the next Democratic president be an Obama-style “neoliberal” or a Biden-style “post-neoliberal”? Probably neither. Do these categories even exist? Barely.
Trump’s Latest Executive Order Is a Big Step Toward Authoritarian Control
Va. lawmakers worry about data centers. But they’re leery of acting.
Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”