Links for you. Science:

DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
Iconic ocean-current system is safe from climate collapse ― for now
Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — VISION and IVY Networks, September 2024–January 2025
Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — Four Vaccine Effectiveness Networks, United States, October 2024–February 2025
Cambodia reports fatal H5N1 infection in a toddler
The US 2024-2025 flu season and the vaccine

Other:

Fact-checking the BOWSER Act, line-by-line
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce (they clearly committed crimes, stealing data before ‘DOGE’ even existed)
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.
From psychosis to sleep to drug resistance, these Pittsburgh research efforts are threatened by Trump spending cuts, orders
All or Nothing: How Democrats should play the shutdown showdown.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
Harsh findings on Trump’s aid freeze kept secret by USAID watchdog
Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video Emerges of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”
The Era of Purges
Egg Prices Are Soaring. Bird Flu May Not Be the Only Culprit.
The Rise of the New Romanticism
Gene Hackman Was a Colossus Who Knew How to Shrink Into a Role
Coeur d’Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company’s business license
IS THE GOP’S PLAN FOR GUTTING MEDICAID ALSO ITS PLAN FOR GUTTING DEMOCRACY?
The Republican Party’s Constituency Has Changed. It Isn’t Acting Like It.
Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help but Wonder What Is So Controversial’
The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To
JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion Nightmare
In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’: Many Americans still imagine rural areas as bastions of traditional families. That’s no longer the case.
SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs
Teens with disabilities were getting help with life after high school. Then DOGE started cutting.
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
The fine line: Should low-income drivers pay less when they break the law?
Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud