Links for you. Science:

Scientists estimate higher rate of new-onset diabetes after COVID than in general population
A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
IQ2MC: A New Framework to Infer Phylogenetic Time Trees Using IQ-TREE 3 and MCMCTree with Mixture Models
Study highlights threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in cancer patients
Critical weather service scrambles for staff after DOGE cuts
dTOURS: Dense-region tagging for outbreak detection using ratio statistics

Other:

The Rise of American Bushido. Part I: The Cult of Lethality, Warrior Ethos, and Tactical Prowess Rolled into One (excellent, must-read)
Are those really ICE agents? (also very good)
Congress upended D.C.’s budget months ago — and still hasn’t fixed it
DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
The Darker Design Behind Trump’s $400 Million Plane
‘Andor’ Understood How to End Itself: The final arc of the ‘Star Wars’ series gave us the endings we needed—and knew where to leave some stories open.
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook (remember that conservatives define anything to do with LGBTQ people as ‘porn’)
The white rural reckoning
Joe Rogan claims banning Kanye’s ‘kinda catchy’ Hitler song ‘kind of supports’ what he says about Jews
Do any Trump voters regret their choice?
Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
A Syrian Village Fights To Save Aramaic, the Language of Jesus
NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage
CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop
Poor Democratic Governance
D.C. pole vaulters and skateboarders hope they aren’t forgotten in push for new Commanders stadium
Regarding “white genocide,”: If you liked Brooklyn Bridge Claude, you’ll love White Genocide Grok
What to know about the changes coming to Metrobus this summer
Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
Is This the Year We Doom Civilization?
Major MAGA restaurant owner loses staff when ICE comes to town
D.C. Residents Could Be Left in the Dark Without An Essential Federal Utility Assistance Program
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession. An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.
In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
Elon Musk gets devastating news as the ‘anti-Tesla’ catches on (the protests are effective)
Your DOGE check is not in the mail
Musk’s Grok AI chatbot says it ‘appears that I was instructed’ to talk about ‘white genocide’
Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless