Links for you. Science:

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE. Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. (one of the key figures is a McKinsley consultant. Of course, she is…)
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
Trump slashed US cancer research by 31 percent: Senate report
“I Believe It”: Bhattacharya Pushes Lab Leak Conspiracy At Contentious NIH Town Hall As Staffers Walk Out
National Science Foundation Ends 196 Grants To Harvard Amid Feud With Trump
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago

Other:

Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal. The demise of Humphrey’s Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory
Congress Passed a Sweeping Free-Speech Crackdown—and No One’s Talking About It
The Joe Rogan Of The Left
Hate Trump? According to a Proposed NIH Investigation, You Have a Mental-Health Disorder.
Dem Friendly Media
More say Metro is safe from crime, especially higher-income riders
The People Who Love Trump Love Trump
Donald Trump’s War on Black People
Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is
The Attempt To Find A Democratic Joe Rogan Or Beat The Right Online Will Fail
Business As Usual
The Delusional Political Media Is Once Again Missing the Point by Obsessing over Biden’s Health
Why is Cory Booker still voting for Trump’s agenda?
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA BELIEVE — DECADES OF PROPAGANDA OR YOUR LYING EYES?
The MAHA Crowd Is Already Questioning Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis
Kristi Noem shows off her ignorance of basic constitutional rights
Too Much TV: Bob Iger Would Really Like The Women Of ‘The View’ To Shut Up About Trump
Capital Jewish Museum shooting suspect killed two ‘for Gaza.’ His victims were peace advocates.
The District’s transportation system taxes everyone’s time
The Era Of The Business Idiot
A worker’s party?
Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban
A huge Democratic victory in Omaha offers a lesson for the party
DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters. A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”
‘Hidden’ Provision in Trump’s Big Bill Could Disarm US Supreme Court
The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority: If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost. (“…the latest polling tells us less about Trump than it does about the catastrophic failure of not just Democratic campaign professionals, but also civil society and the media, to effectively inform voters of the consequences of the choice they had before them.”)
All hail D.C.’s robot toilets
The Real Path to Abundance