Links for you. Science:

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research
Clean data, clear insights: making AI work for microbiology
Something in the water: how kelp is helping Maine’s mussels boom
Area Man Terrified of Subway To Run Space Agency
Mammoth-sized marmot spotted in Kamloops park
America Is Sliding Into the Abyss. Our science and health infrastructure lies in tatters. Once-dead viruses are roaring back to life. Many people will die. In other words, we’ve reached the point of no return.

Other:

Jeffrey Epstein, Trumpcare, And The Influencer Problem. What if the people Democrats want to reach aren’t terribly interested in policy per se? (Embrace the glonzo! This is why Democrats need to use narrative–Republicans are bad people)
Resentment against Albuquerque ‘deliveristas’ may have sparked viral Walmart ICE arrest
[Republican] Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year
Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?
Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire
Witness recalls “massive show of force” by Trump’s secret police
A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control (this was supposed to be impossible…)
Cherry farmer in The Dalles says ICE raid fears costing him workforce, profits
As the jokes fly, Alligator Alcatraz evokes racist trope of ‘gator bait’
Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over bans in sports
Border Patrol Agent Who Arrested U.S. Citizen In Pico Rivera Charged With Drunkenly Assaulting L.B. Cop
I’m Tall, Hot and Rich. Why Are Women Passing Me Up For Inferior Men?
Kristi Noem personally intervened to stop disaster response that was working too effectively
X ordered its Grok chatbot to ‘tell like it is.’ Then the Nazi tirade began.
Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Binance Aided Trump Crypto Firm Before Founder CZ Sought Pardon
Why Trump’s Admin Insists on Terrorizing Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The real story of how L.A. became the epicenter of America’s homeless crisis
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.
Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn’t Like
Sorry, Donald Trump: Many People Are Still Interested in the Jeffrey Epstein Case
Guilty Pleasures
Dan Osborn Is Ready to Mount an Even Bolder Campaign Against Our Billionaire-Dominated Politics
How $178 billion is creating a police state
The Kennedy Center is losing subscribers. What does it mean for the NSO?
Visionaries Without Vision. The small and dreary political imagination of billionaires.
Subminimum wage to stay in place for disabled workers
Brett Cooper: The MAGA girlboss Ben Shapiro can’t control
Parents push D.C. to expand Spanish immersion schools for older students