Links for you. Science:

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump
Trump’s funding cuts set back research on important health issues by years, Harvard scientists say
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge (this story really bends over backwards to play down the reality that these therapeutics are needed only because fucking dumbasses won’t vaccinate)
Could bats help us fight the very diseases they give us?
Homecoming of Discovery: MSU welcomes back Jeff Barrick and the landmark Long-Term Evolution Experiment
I developed mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr is endangering US public health

Other:

Play Chicken and Win
Serving ‘dead time’: D.C. teens needed rehabilitation to keep the city safe. They languished in a violent detention center instead.
Dissolve The People
Will Trump run again in 2028 and will the SCOTUS sign off on this?
A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would have required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.
How Extreme Can Democratic Governors Get to Stop Trump? Blue state leaders have considerable power at their disposal to confront the threat of the administration’s authoritarianism. But some lines have never previously been crossed. (this is good, but it ignores how effective mass mobilization in support of local and state officials could help those officials assert their power)
Trump energizes conservative Christians with new religious policies
Shrinking IRS faces major task to implement ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ passed by Congress
D.C. Circuit holds that the legislative power is vested in Congress
This physician-scientist is taking on Trump on behalf of disadvantaged communities
How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism
Trump’s Confederacy rises again. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem all that lost anymore.
Bondi’s phony Obama probe exposes Trump’s fears
Nazis are having a moment—and they’re thanking Trump
Adulterous alcoholic wife beater keeps getting forgiven, because Jesus (what passes for Christian evangelicalism is a shitty theology)
A founder said her $200 million newsletter empire had over a million subscribers. Her own records tell a different story. (oddly enough, a ‘fake it until you make’ influencer lied about her financials…)
Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE. NIH officials called immigration authorities after scrutinizing the patient’s identification presented to security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
A.I. Bubble Bust Theories
Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows.
Saikat Chakrabarti on AOC, Pelosi, and Ousting Useless Democrats
Trump is rushing to build his ballroom. A review process could take years.
Occupied Capital
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him: An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.
Donald Trump Is Mostly a Crypto Billionaire Now, Group Says
Plunge in Conscientiousness Among Young, a Critical Quality for Personal and Societal Success
Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually. Or why Matthew Yglesias has no clue what he’s talking about
Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner puts crucial health data at risk
Last one-room schoolhouse in Massachusetts is mostly empty on Cuttyhunk Island, and it can’t be closed
Now Free of MAGA, He Sees the Epstein Scandal as ‘An Opening’ for Others