Links for you. Science:

Apparently Magpies and Crows Are Using “Anti-Bird Spikes” to Make Their Nests
Magnolias are so ancient they’re pollinated by beetles — because bees didn’t exist yet
CDC study highlights ‘uneven’ decline in resistant infections in US hospital patients
Kennedy’s Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms. The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
‘Mystery population’ of human ancestors gave us 20% of our genes and may have boosted our brain function
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research

Other:

Chuck Schumer Is Responsible
The Whole Senate Is Complicit
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest
Unemployment filings up 15% in DC, Maryland and Virginia
After Elon Musk Promised Cybertrucks Could Function as Boats, One Fell Into a Harbor for a Perfect Test
Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website. Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
It’ll likely be harder to vote in this state, thanks to Trump’s election lies
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die: The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
Bigoted UFC fighter welcomed at White House
Texas is running out of water. Here’s why and what state leaders plan to do about it.
Amy Coney Barrett Recusing Herself From a Case on Public Funding For Religious Schools Is Mighty Interesting
The Far-Right and the Crypto Scam: How Trump and his far-right allies are using these digital currencies as a strategy to rig the rules of the game in their favor.
FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs
Carville
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power
Trump’s Call to Annex Canada as a State Should Have Invoked the 25th Amendment
GOP leaders call on Sen. Eichorn to resign after arrest for allegedly soliciting a minor (this is the guy who tried to pass a “Trump Derangement Syndrome” bill)
Karoline Leavitt Is the Living Embodiment of Hamlet’s Line, ‘One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain’
‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration
How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices
Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence
There Was Never Any “Fascism Debate”: They Refused to Engage
Private School Parents Hurt Their Kids by Taking Free Government Money
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order