Links for you. Science:

RFK Jr. fires ‘Washingtonian of the year’ from CDC vaccine panel
The 10,000-mile march through fire that made dinosaurs possible
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory. The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs

Other:

Lindsey Boylan on Andrew Cuomo’s Abuses of Power
NO REAL CHANGE, PLEASE — WE’RE CORPORATISTS
The Times endorses sexual harassment
They Always Call You Unrealistic
A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation
I Went to Trump’s Military Parade. Everything About It Was Wrong. (Charles Pierce brings his A-game for this)
Why is Kristi Noem’s bone-chilling pledge of a “regime change” in Calif not getting media coverage?! (and Sen. Padilla was right to interrupt her)
Abundance Has a Theory of Power
‘Star Wars’ “Looks Terrible” in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version
Elon’s Battle of the Broadbands
Forcible Removal of US Sen. Alex Padilla Signals a Dangerous Shift in American Democracy
Aging in America Is About to Get Worse
Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
Man Accused Of Killing Minnesota Lawmakers Once Preached About Abortion And Sexual Orientation
Trump Made His Supporters Endure Misery To Attend His Military Parade
Sen. Alex Padilla’s crime? Being Mexican in MAGA America
Who Sent The Memo
How the Right Has Decided Vance Boelter Is a Lefty.
One Of The Lads
Sincerity Wins The War
Utah Senator Mike Lee Needs to Learn to Shut Up
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security. The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.
Signs to police ‘negative’ history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Thousands of D.C. Lawyers Unite to Unleash Hellacious Windmill Dunk on Pam Bondi’s Brother’s Head
What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?
FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium
Demonstrators Are Trying to Make Sure ICE Agents Can’t Sleep
Ghoul of Law: Law enforcement are the primary enforcers of violence
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests
Mamdani’s Economic Populism Closes Gap With Big-Money Rival Cuomo