Links 8/12/25

Links for you. Science:

Ancient human highways revealed beneath the sea
Driving a protective allele of the mosquito FREP1 gene to combat malaria
How your research can survive a US federal grant termination
Science Agency Staffers Speak Out about Trump Administration’s Actions
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Other:

Calling D.C. a ‘horror show,’ Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard
National Capital Region Delegation Statement On Trump’s Police Actions In The District Of Columbia
The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity
The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.
Trump has turned FEMA itself into a disaster
Speaking Reassurance to Power
What scrapping a $3 billion coastal project means for Louisiana’s future
A Love Letter to Music Listings
D.C.’s sole mental health crisis team for kids under threat in new budget. The Child and Adolescent Mobile Psychiatric Service, more commonly called ChAMPS, faces a more than 60 percent funding cut.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field. Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”
Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies at 97
‘Epstein’ is the language of America’s unheard. The elites still don’t listen.
Trump is creating a selfish, miserable world. Here’s what we can do
How Anti-Woke Went Intellectually Bankrupt
Sure Why Not (Josh Shapiro is not good)
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani
Bad Wolf
These West Virginians love Trump and food stamps—but they can’t have both
Momdani’s Master Class on How to Talk to Voters
DOGE types keep departing because without Musk, this place is no fun
The Real Reason for Zohran’s Success Should Rattle National Democrats
What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts? (unclear if this is something Trump requested, or if this is working towards the fuhrer)
Homeless people visited ER less after moving into King County’s hotels
A transit-first vision for RFK doesn’t end with Metrorail
D.C.’s ‘Two-Tiered Justice System’: How the RENTAL Act Threatens Black Tenants
Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody
This construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE.
Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene
A Democrat for the Trump Era

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