Links for you. Science:

RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore. America’s anti-vaccine era is truly beginning.
Judge orders NIH to restore research grants related to diversity
Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work
Imported fire ants invade new Virginia localities
Directed Evolution of a Pantoea Strain for Antibiotic Production via Interspecies Competition: A Reproducible Experimental Approach
In space, no one can hear you scream — but it still gets incredibly noisy

Other:

Andrew Cuomo isn’t an asshole who gets things done, he’s just an asshole
ICE detains Utah college student after brief traffic stop, raising questions. A sheriff’s deputy in Colorado briefly pulled over Caroline Dias Goncalves before immigration agents detained her. Now county officials are conducting a review. (interesting because the article doesn’t mention she’s a ‘Dreamer’ until the end; immigration isn’t playing out the way Trump, Bannon, and Miller thought it would)
How a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state’s largest worksite immigration raid
Trump’s Big Bill Would Let Him Expand His L.A. Immigration Crackdown ‘Everywhere’
A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache
Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing
AI: Not a Requirement to Live
Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment?
Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People’s Chats With AI
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
Against AI in images and writing: Creativity, humanity, and authenticity are essential for every one of us, and for our collective functioning as a society.
Another Mysterious Anti-Trump Statue Has Appeared on the National Mall
Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court (“A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?””)
‘Have you no decency?’ Read the scathing letter a Minnesota US Senate staffer sent to Mike Lee
We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
California proposal to make it a misdemeanor for officers to cover their faces prompts federal criticism
LASD shot LAPD with rubber bullets and tear gas during No Kings protest
‘No decency’: GOP senator can’t escape rage over his response to shootings
This Country Deserves a Better Class of Cynical, Pandering Centrist Politician. Andrew Cuomo? That guy again?
Why Abundance Will Have To Be Partisan. It must be defined, or it will be co-opted.
New York ‘Times’ Leads the Movement to Stop Zohran Mamdani
They Did Nazi It Coming: Antisemites Furious as Meme Coin Scheme Unravels
Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Kristi Noem’s Thugs Assaulted A Senator. NOW Will Democrats Treat Republicans Like The Nazi Filth They Are?
OPM seeks fewer top performance ratings, quicker discipline for poor performers
Senate reconciliation bill would give Trump ‘carte blanche’ to reorganize agencies, lay off feds
Truck carrying tank after Army’s 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC
Trump administration is using anti-trans orders to roll back sports opportunities for all girls