Links for you. Science:

List of terminated HHS grants (pdf; as of Mar. 25)
Acting NIH director dismisses four neuroscientists from advisory boards
Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH starts cutting COVID-19 research
FDA approves first new antibiotic for UTIs in nearly 30 years
Who Is David Geier, the Man Leading Federal Autism-Vaccine Study? Discredited researcher, vaccine skeptic was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license
Tests show emotional, behavioral problems in adolescents with long COVID

Other:

‘A Small Group of People Wanted to Do Away With Social Security From the Beginning’
Democrats turn solidly red state Senate seat blue—for first time ever
10 things Democrats would do about leaked war plans if they were the GOP
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse. Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. (moving to… Java?)
Leaks, and the leaking leakers who leak them: A Trump saga – on Signal
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
Treasury Plans ‘Substantial’ Layoffs as Part of Musk’s DOGE Push
U.S. Attorney Ed Martin Better Watch His Mouth in D.C. Donald Trump’s pick to prosecute crimes in D.C. faced questions and healthy skepticism during his appearance at the Anacostia Coordinating Council’s monthly meeting
Rep. Lauren Boebert hints Trump administration is working to rename DC the ‘District of America’: ‘Next up, you know it may end up being the ‘District of America’ that we’re working on’, Boebert scolded at opposition lawmakers
WHITE HOUSE SPIN: PLANS TO KILL PEOPLE AND DESTROY TARGETS WITH BOMBS ARE TOTALLY NOT “WAR PLANS” (updated)
The reappearance of Neil Gorsuch’s sporadic textualism
When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron
X Ad Sales Expected to Grow for First Time Since Musk Deal
The Pluralistic Ignorance of the Trump Opposition
Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online (wonder if Hegseth’s is something like “crushinpvssy1488”)
Andrew Tate accused of violently attacking girlfriend during sex (found a violent rapist immigrant)
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections
Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police Crackdowns During Turkey Protests
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public. A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
Turtles All the Way Down: On bottomless bad faith and a way forward
Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?
The Needle: District of America? Edition
Residents grill D.C.’s new MAGA prosecutor in first public meeting
Framing
Radically downsizing the government will only hurt the public
The disappearing of Rumeysa Ozturk is something I never thought I’d see in America
Cis woman ‘fired after customer accused her of being trans’ says it felt like a ‘stab in the back’
House in no apparent rush to close $1.1 billion hole it blew in D.C.’s budget