Links 5/3/25

Links for you. Science:

Study Finds 96% of Gator Bites Are the Result of Risky Human Behavior
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods
The End of Disease
HHS Pulls Funding for GeoVax’s Next-Gen COVID-19 Vaccine
White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled

Other:

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So. Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality
Culling The Botched And The Bungled
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish: The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members.
The Market Is Discovering Trump May Be Crazy
“Abundance” is a book for an alternate timeline
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Musk’s DOGE mission goes off target with Republicans
Talking About What We Should Be Talking About
Harvard fights back against Trump: Institutional resistance finally rises up — and sets a new model
How Trump Courts Disaster, And Leaves Us Bracing For It
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next: Trump’s attacks on workers will soon become something even worse.
MAGA’s mixed messages on tariffs share one disturbing theme
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
The Current Perfidy in El Salvador Hearkens Back to a Huge Scandal Under Reagan (background here)
What Is Wrong With These People
Is the Press Next?
Can’t Trust The Mad King
Pope Francis, JD Vance, And The Cultural Significance Of Los Desaparecidos
Teased
Musk pushes dumb lies about paid protesters as Tesla sales collapse
The horse-racing industry needs workers on visas. Employers hope to still get them.
Abortions are resuming at a Wyoming clinic after judge suspends laws
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ALPHA MALE AESTHETIC
Too late to opt-out: Supreme Court ultimately can’t save the religious right’s futile book bans
U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false

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