Links for you. Science:

Thousands join Stand Up for Science rallies across the US
The Critical Need for Science Funding
CDC Ignores Years of Research to Launch Study into Vaccines and Autism
Thousands gather across U.S. and world in Stand Up for Science events
Why This Year’s Flu Season Is the Worst in More Than a Decade
‘It’s just chaos’: How California scientists are facing attacks on research by Trump and DOGE

Other:

A Little Agency Is Standing up to Musk with a Tell-All Lawsuit. If you want to know how DOGE is taking over, read this.
Axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing by DOGE
Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South. Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.
DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland
A Survey About Mass Shootings Is the Tip of the Iceberg (“7% of US adults have been physically present at a public mass shooting over the course of their lifetime; 2% have been injured.”)
JD Vance’s ‘Neofascist’ Reading List (weird in a bad way…)
Trump Is Planning the Biggest Heist in History. The “strategic crypto reserve” will be a giant rug pull scam
Sam Alito knows how the American government works. He just doesn’t care
Behind the scenes of Trump and DOGE’s chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California’s water
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
DOGE staffers bring U.S. marshals to small federal agency that denied them access
How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA
DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities
USDA Terminates National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI).
Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group
DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
The A.I. backlash backlash
How Did America Not See This Apocalypse Coming?
10 House Democrats will get nothing for betraying Al Green
We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public
Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
Hundreds of State Dept. Officials Sign Dissent Cable Urging Rubio to Stop Killing USAID
‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
A Nobel Prize winner decodes why people aren’t having kids. Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home.
She got her dream job at CDC back. But she’s already moving on
DOGE slashed dozens of federal contracts in Pennsylvania — and businesses are feeling the pain. Most of the Pa. contracts terminated were for minority or women-owned businesses.