Links for you. Science:

Spotted lanternflies are invading the D.C. region. Here’s what to know.
How vaccine policy has changed under RFK Jr. What to know.
Innovation Strikes In The Field Of Chimpanzee Rectum Adornment
Scientists Report Surreal Scenes In the World’s Most Northern Town
Humans Have Shifted Earth’s Rotation, Scientists Discover. Here’s How.
The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It’s Overwhelmed by AI Submissions

Other:

‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse (one gay prisoner was raped by the guards)
Bringing Back Nonvoters
A Party’s Brand Is Built on Trust. So Why Are Democrats Treating Their Supporters Like Marks? The Fundraising Frenzy Invades Text Messages
The Good Lord’s Porn Enthusiast
Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues
It’s the people, stupid. Connecting the dots between what’s happening in media (RIP institutions, long-live creator-journalists) and what needs to happen to the Democratic Party
‘Abundance’ Offers a Sounder Way Forward for the Left than Degrowth or Redistributive Progressivism. But the authors of this important book might have been more effective had they chosen a less confrontational strategy with their own side
Move fast and break things: The trouble with ‘everything-bagel’ Abundance is the gaping hole right in the center of it.
State Bar of California admits it used AI to develop exam questions, triggering new furor
Former CEO of Christian nonprofit pleads guilty to possessing child pornography (“Faith Votes”)
We Need To Talk About Sloppers
Tom Lehrer, 1928 – 2025
Be Kind Online
Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes
Fun Times at the Oklahoma Social Studies Textbook Adoptions
Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Oklahoma educators are not the enemy, but Ryan Walters keeps dragging them down
Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal
The Bitcoin Coup: How Crypto Accelerationists Engineered America’s Financial Collapse
The Base Isn’t Buying What the DCCC Is Selling— Small-Dollar Donors Are Ditching The Dead Weight
What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power. America is entering an age of retributive governing cycles.
Rahm Emanuel’s Disgusting Trump-Like Play For Attention: Mocking The Marginalized
Trump Is Teeing Up a Pardon of Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Think he wouldn’t do it? Really? Did you also think he wouldn’t pardon the January 6 insurrectionists?
Trump’s “Homelessness Solution” Isn’t About Help— It’s About Hiding The Problem… Or Worse
Rupert Murdoch May Want to Stay Away from Open Windows
How Trump’s Policies Crush the American Battery Boom
Columbia’s Capitulation
What Hulk Hogan Left Behind
Anti-deliverism