Links for you. Science:

Memories without brains: Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?
Pneumonic Plague Infections in Modern Times Show the Black Death Isn’t Dead. A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the bacteria that spurred the Black Death centuries ago continues to claim lives
New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast
Increased vaccine uptake in US kids linked to reduced antibiotic prescriptions
Chagas disease–carrying kissing bugs establish new base in Florida homes
I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here’s what it taught me. I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

Other:

Is the Price Too Steep for D.C. to Bring Back the Commanders?
CECOT Family Members Rejoice and Worry as Relatives Finally Leave El Salvador (this is very good natural history of a former Trump voter)
Wilson Building Bulletin: Ward 8 and the case for ranked-choice voting
The (Muted) Impact of Tariffs on Inflation
A Eulogy to China’s Art Museums
ICE Again Gives The Law The Finger, Denies Member Of Congress Access To Detention Facility
All the worst MAGA guys are mad at Trump’s Epstein cover-up
This could be the final straw for MAGA
Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism (like creationists, their words have no meaning and are used as weapons)
EschewAnon
By refusing to release ‘the Epstein files,’ Trump forfeits being a victim of a conspiracy
Epstein, Grok, and the right’s epistemic collapse
What the FDA’s Stance on the New COVID Boosters Tells Us
The Wheels Are Falling Off Netanyahu’s Government
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
Residents at D.C.’s last operating migrant shelter told they have to leave, while some say they can’t find stable housing
Jesus Flipping Tables: Unpacking antisemitic readings of the “Temple Cleansing”
D.C. wants to stop kids from gathering at night
Sorry Trump, You Can’t Wish the Epstein Story Away
Trump Is Failing and Flailing—No One’s Ever Seen Anything Like It! (“It looks like Trump’s actions are self-destructive and inexplicable. But the most straightforward explanation is that these actions are the only option he has. He’s trapped and he’s desperate and doesn’t have any better options.”)
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
CBS cancels Trump critic Colbert’s ‘Late Show’—and faces sharp blowback
Event Planners Are Cancelling on Trump-Era Washington. Is This a Sign of Things to Come?
Democrats are using Trump’s playbook and going after Fox News
Pam Bondi Reportedly Created 1,000 Witnesses to the Jeffrey Epstein File
Representative Seth Moulton draws a primary challenge after criticism over trans athlete remarks
Inside the hot girl economy
Trump Is Caught in His Own Trap
Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
Are you ready for the Commanders’ trafficpocalypse?