Links for you. Science:

An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA. On first glance, Dr. Vinay Prasad’s medical credentials sound impressive. But look closer and you’ll find a narcissistic attention-seeker peddling misinformation, whose views will cost lives.
More Texas children are getting vaccinated early against measles. Fear of babies contracting the contagious and potentially deadly virus has spurred the surge in vaccinations amid Texas’ historic measles outbreak.
Scientists Find DNA Proof of Swine Feces in North Carolina Homes
These birds carry a toxin deadlier than cyanide
Respiratory Virus Detection and Sequencing from SARS-CoV-2–Negative Rapid Antigen Tests
Bird Flu Is Now Killing Cats at a 90% Fatality Rate – Experts Warn It Could Jump to Humans

Other:

Pentagon promotes Kingsley Wilson to press secretary despite history of antisemitic comments. In social media posts, Wilson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories, including one about the Anti-Defamation League’s founding
We are Jewish students from universities Trump is targeting. He’s not protecting us: Democracy, not deportations, protect Jewish students from antisemitism
Reforging America: A new order for America must involve a comprehensive reconstruction of our political, economic, and civic infrastructure.
Biden Should Have Imprisoned Trump on Day One (“…it is better to have a Constitutional crisis when the fascists do not have control of the military than to have one when they do.”)
The Right’s Outrage Machine Takes No Beach Days. Republicans want us to believe James Comey is plotting assassination via Instagram shells.
Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection
If Not Impeachment, What? Let’s get some clarity from Democratic leaders…
Venezuelans who supported Trump now feel cheated: ‘They used us to win votes’: The Venezuelan community in the United States, which largely supported the Republican, is disappointed by the new administration’s policies against them, especially the withdrawal of protection for exiles
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’ (paper here)
Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He’s Making Up for It (Impeach him. Impeach him now.)
Tim Walz calls out RFK Jr on children’s health: ‘Just so blatantly false’
At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
DHS Secretary Thinks Habeas Corpus Is The Power To Deport People With No Due Process
Trump’s Big Beautiful Turd of a Bill: The crafting of this legislation says a lot about today’s Republican party. It also gives Democrats lots of opportunities. (Even Kristol gets it: “How is it possible that a [Democratic] party that has done pretty well in its management of the economy over the past three decades—and that has objectively done better than the other party on this front—gets no political benefit? Democrats have had a striking inability to get credit for good results.”)
Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism
American Corruption: The Founders would have hated Trump’s luxury jet. (Impeach him. Impeach him now.)
Andrew Cuomo, New York’s comeback contender (“The general public tend to view Cuomo as a tragic figure, they think of him as a person whose undoing was caused by the same fatal flaws — a need to be liked and in control — that led to his success in the first place… But not everyone is Antigone, or Hamlet or Jay Gatsby, right? Some people are just assholes.”)
Team Trump Investigating Why IRS Nominee’s X Account Followed Sexual Content
New York Times: Biden’s age is 10.9x more important than Trump’s Project 2025 (this was a choice made by the NYT editors and publisher)
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns
A cabinet of dunces: In the Trump regime, incompetence is a job requirement.
Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire (lmfao)
The famous 1930s Art Deco men’s room, with original Vitrolite walls, at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville.
How America’s Gaza Activism Devolved Into an Antisemitic Atrocity. This Washington D.C. shooting of two Israeli embassy employees was an act of terrorism, a result of the failed Gaza protest movement. It was only a matter of time
The Critical Sign That Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Might Be An Economic Disaster
I Do Not Buy Kasper Eriksen’s White Immigrant Fairy Story