Links for you. Science:
Ranchers may have to relearn how to fight an old enemy — the New World screwworm
Independent US vaccine body is planned after RFK Jr’s mass firing of CDC advisory panel
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body
Hungry Bacteria Hunt Their Neighbors With Tiny, Poison-Tipped Harpoons
Integrating Genomic Data into Public Health Surveillance for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms, Washington, USA
Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.5 Emergence, United States
Other:
Calls grow for Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of Padilla incident (when the head of the federal internal security forces says they are going to liberate citizens from their democratically-elected governments, the low bar for any elected official to clear is nonviolently disrupting them. It’s their fucking job.)
D.C. Police Spend Millions on a Surveillance System That Detects Gunshots and Targets Black Communities
Alpha Energy
Federal agent’s tattoo sparks questions of white supremacy following Vineyard raid
How Do You Measure Corporate Power? Count the Marines in LA
The Vicious MAGA Feedback Loop Feeding Trump’s L.A. Crackdown
Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump’s Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
Voices of Resistance and Insight on the Eve of NO KINGS day
Trump Wants to Rule as a Dictator. Make Him Do It.
Thousands in D.C. could lose health coverage under budget plan
Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
Wilson Building Bulletin: Could there be a timeout for the RFK stadium deal? Also: A local warrior ponders when it’s time to call it quits, and D.C. might get to vote on what time it should be.
How Iran Strikes Put Trump’s Impotence on Full Embarrassing Display
It looks like a golf cart, maxes out at 25 mph and could be your next city car
Here’s everything you need to know about the housing bills in the D.C. Council. And yes, we finally explain what the heck TOPA is.
The Newest MAGA Intellectual Hero Was Just Denounced as a Total Crackpot
Initiative 82 is not harming the restaurant industry
Private Equity Vampires Suck
Unfortunately, the Genius Behind Project 2025 Is Picking Up Where Elon Musk Left Off
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)
‘Who Can I Talk to That Has a Human Heart?’: New York Times doubles down on harming trans people
How the Right Abuses Tolkien
New data tool reveals access to built environment features across DC neighborhoods
Union-Tribune owners blocked editorial on ICE protests, says fired opinion staffer
Senate GOP Strips Contempt Provision From Tax Bill — But Still Lets Trump Be King
National Portrait Gallery head steps down following Trump attempt to fire her: Kim Sajet’s resignation comes days after the Smithsonian said it would review content across its museums, which the White House says is being influenced by “divisive, race-centered ideology.”
Thanks, Tariffs: Billion-Dollar American Battery Factory Put On Hold (Trump take car)
