Links for you. Science:

RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes
The CDC Has Been Gutted
RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract Cuts
America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away
Revealed: where rare and giant starfish hide from an enigmatic killer. The sunflower star, which can be bigger than a hubcap, escapes a wasting disease by hunkering down in fjords.

Other:

The American Age Is Over
Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s
‘Trump Take Nest Egg’: How 2025’s best meme evolved to take on our tanking economy. A popular Bluesky meme let inflation-weary consumers vent about egg prices. Now they’re using it to comment on a lot more, including tariffs.
HHS gutted programs to help people quit smoking. The impact could be deadly.
‘The terror is real’: Tech insiders are furious at Elon Musk but ‘afraid to speak up’ (the comments about how to run a company are interesting)
I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Federal jobs were seen as a gateway to the middle class for Black America, then came DOGE
It Is Long Past Time For Democrats To Start Pounding The Impeachment Drum
Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Impose Tariffs Is an Abuse of Power
Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy
No Personnel Is Policy: The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Nothing More than a Mafia Don Racket
JD Vance And Karoline Leavitt Are Evil, Lying Assholes. Debunking every word out of these MAGA Nazis’ mouths about the immigrants Trump ACCIDENTALLY deported.
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Here’s where prices could rise the most and least under Trump’s tariffs
DHS cuts funds for groups helping legal immigrants become U.S. citizens
Republicans weigh using the power of Congress to rein in Trump on tariffs
After GOP senators helped pass a measure to revoke Trump’s Canada tariffs, talks are underway to force a House vote. Senators also unveiled a bipartisan bill to limit his authority.
They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions. Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
Trump’s Buddies At Andreessen Horowitz Want To Help Buy TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space
Russell Brand’s rape charges expose the devil’s bargain between MAGA and “Christian” celebrities. There’s no depravity the religious right won’t overlook — as long as a famous person validates their politics
Social Security head called Gov. Mills a ‘petulant child’ in email ordering staff to cancel Maine contracts
Mike Johnson melts down after House proxy vote failure exposes MAGA’s “pro-family” lie
Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic
The misogynist agenda of “MAHA moms”