Links for you. Science:

Scientists Discovered Bats Group Hugging and It’s Adorable
A ‘Warp’ In Our Solar System Might Be an Undiscovered World: Planet Y
See how much longer summer is in your town
13 Years Without Rain. How Drought May Have Toppled the Maya
Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism

Other:

Yep—Trump Is Still the Most Racist President of the Last 100 Years
Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
Republicans are trying to cheat their way to a House victory. Will it work?
I guess I could have just said “fuck Murc’s Law” and left it at that, but oh well.
If Democrats are going to win they need to stop saying things Republicans say they say
A Summer Afternoon in Washington D.C. How it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away.
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” (“soft secession” is a horrible name though; federalism is better)
Latino residents of D.C. neighborhood feel they are paying the price for Trump’s “crime emergency”
Make Bureaucracy Great Again
Gavin Newsom has broken every Republican’s brain
Remake America
Ministry of Violence
Distracted From Distraction By Distraction
Royal Flush: It seemed as if it couldn’t get worse for Prince Andrew. The new book roiling the U.K. proves otherwise.
Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
Why Republicans keep saying slavery was great
The Useful Idiots in the Media Abetting Trump’s D.C. Takeover
Power at any cost: It’s Trump Capitulation Disorder.
Zuckermuskian solipsism
Trump’s Takeover of D.C. Is Not a Distraction. It’s the Whole Point.
ICE Raids Broke Los Angeles’ Economy. Shouldn’t ICE Pay for That?
Will Trump’s Anti-Fun Goons Kill The Best Government Social Media Account Ever?
Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge
Bullet Points: Arguments about Arguments edition
Trump’s federal takeover is disrupting Washington, DC’s ailing economy
Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants are unpopular. Here’s how pundits got it wrong.
What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?
Trump’s Military Occupation of DC Crashes Into Reality—Literally
Age Limits for Politicians
‘A new political era’: fresh Democratic faces seek office to prevent their party from ‘sleepwalking into dystopia’
The Third Algorithm. ChatGPT and other generative AI isn’t about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse