Links for you. Science:

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe (also see https://restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/)
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal. In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
A Short-Term View of Protein Sequence Evolution from Salmonella
Here is the email I just received from NIH terminating my grant to evaluate vaccine hesitancy in adolescents.
Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity
4 Ways Vaccine Skeptics Mislead You on Measles and More

Other:

Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team. DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says. (“But full access would allow them to change the data in the system.”)
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences. Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns: ‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’
House Republicans could face a major obstacle if they cut Medicaid: Their own districts’ health needs
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat. Executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have chilled industry
The Country’s Most Famous Houseplant Is Missing. What Did Trump Do With It? (Trump take plant)
Revenge of the Nerds: Senate Democrats’ corny but MAGA-baiting social media experiment may actually have been a masterstroke, with Cory Booker et al. finally learning to plagiarize Trump’s media playbook. (seems to have been panned by youngs, but liked by the olds)
Are You Aware That The Bad Orange Man Is Bad?
It mostly works: what is the “vibe” in vibe coding?
How DOGE’s cuts to the IRS threaten to cost more than DOGE will ever save
So the LA Times replaced me with an AI that defends the KKK
Why the “DOGE dividend” polls well — and why it shouldn’t
Think Small: End Billionaires
Tesla Sucs
Mass Layoffs: The Breakfast of Billionaires
Man, proud man
Wu and Pressley made me into a Bostonian: Their passionate defense of the city before hostile House Republicans should make all of us proud.
After Outrage, Trump Admin Backtracks on Requiring Maine Parents to Register Babies at Social Security Office
New Hampshire legislators vote to end state childhood vaccine buying program
The appropriate response to RFK Jr. is to destroy him
Greenland. Panama Canal. Canada. Gaza.
Media Matters sues Elon Musk’s X over ‘libel tourism’ legal assault
Banning “Enola Gay”: Pete Hegseth’s DEI paranoia knows no limits
Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship
Why do people with more money than their children’s children’s children could spend want more?
Remembering Kevin Drum
At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt