Links for you. Science:

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber: President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
A surge in bee deaths is hurting Texas beekeepers — and could affect the price of produce
Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer’s research
Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens (“We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children,” she said, “so that we can save yours.”)
The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say: Federal employees are speaking out after the Trump administration slashed staff and office space for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
Clownfish Fatten Up Their Best Buddies To Upgrade Their Homes

Other:

Trump Orders Permanent Govt Shutdown – No, Really… (it is amazing how this isn’t being covered)
Kingsley Wilson, the newly-appointed DoD Deputy Press Secretary, believes in a thoroughly-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory. I’ve mostly only seen this theory promoted by mask-off neo-Nazis. (this is who movement conservatives are now)
This Is Uvalde
Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? His “First Accuser” Says New York City Deserves Better
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries. Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting. (mind you, these are people with no government experience–it’s not as if they worked for years and rose through the ranks)
The Third Memo
Democrats Can’t Just Play Dead: The public is frustrated with Trump and Elon’s DOGE-ification of government. It’s time for party leaders to stand up.
New deputy FBI director Dan Bongino previously called for imprisoning Democrats (he seems nice)
NOAA firings in Seattle include orca-saving employee of the year
Trump Abruptly Walks Back His Directive To Fire Thousands Of Federal Employees
Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say
Newsom orders California state workers back to the office (BOOOOOO!!!!!)
Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
America is Trapped in a Burning Tesla. Surprise! The madman stuff wasn’t an act
If Laws Are Being Broken, Why Aren’t People Being Arrested?
CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!
DOGE Taketh Away From the Many as Trump Pays Off Crypto Bros With New “Strategic” Fund, Above All, Crypto Czar David Sacks
The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying
Ignorant Musk calls Social Security a ‘Ponzi scheme.’ He’s coming for your money.
The GENIUS Act: Setting the Stage for a Federal Bailout When Stablecoins Become Insolvent
It’s Up to Europe Now
‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
Power Cut
Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies