Links for you. Science:

A Closer Look at the Woolly Devil
The sex life of urban trees
Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans
The inside story behind the search for the origins of COVID-19. A big screen documentary movie, an announcement, and an exclusive excerpt from “Lab Leak Fever”, the definitive book unraveling the pandemic origin controversy (also see this)
Milk tested for bird flu reveals a scientific mystery
Marks Says He Was Forced Out of FDA for Trying to Protect Vaccine Safety Data

Other:

Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex
MAGA fan who gifted Trump Rolex loses ‘8 figures’ in market collapse: ‘Kamala, come back!’
Musk’s DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers
Simulacra for bootlickers
Trump’s Tariffs Will Flatten the U.S. Bicycle Industry
The World Is Finding a Plausible Alternative to Treasuries
Teachers and Workers
Trump’s tariffs make more sense with a ‘plantation mentality’: The Republicans and the billionaires share it.
Top ​House Democrat urges FBI probe of Musk’s China ties
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
Ignoring Patent Monopolies: Free Trade Retaliation Against Trump
You’re Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad. American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak
Federal Workers Say They’re Being Watched by AI for Saying Anything Bad about Trump or Musk
The Cost of Chaos
‘Elon Musk’ Was a Prolific Money Launderer for Hackers and Drug Traffickers. It Was Secretly the FBI
The False Promise of the “Mar-a-Lago Accord”
Republicans Are Obsessed with a Censorship Lie
‘It is a wrecking ball’: Former DOGE worker describes Musk-led government-slashing effort from the inside
Hooked on a feeling
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, Do Go Out of Business
Donald Trump has transformed the American story
Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.
Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited
How a $2,000 ‘Made in the USA’ Phone Is Manufactured
High school students post photo on social media standing in front of a Nazi flag