Links for you. Science:

As measles gains ground in US, Texas offers lessons from its outbreak
The nature of mutation: a legacy of bacterial genetics
Make America Wormy Again
CDC Director Susan Monarez is ousted as senior leaders exit agency
Kennedy’s attack on public health must be stopped
Read three top CDC officials’ resignation emails. The end of an era.

Other:

Taking The Lead
RFK Jr. Could Blow Up the Vaccine Industry With One Simple Move
Trump orders elimination of cashless bail in DC (one of the few good parts of D.C.’s judicial system)
115 Dems
In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests. A single afternoon in court illustrated the new ways in which laws are being enforced after President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police. (crappy headline that ignores how judges find these arrests to be massive overkill and straining the judicial system)
YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
Trump, 79, Spotted With New Bruise on His Other Hand
Team Big Rich Oaf
The power we use and the power we give (kudos to Bump)
Trump Whines, Again Threatens NBC, ABC Broadcast Licenses For Doing Journalism
Enough of ‘Just Asking Questions’: Platforming extremists is killing democracy—and women
Many DC Restaurant Workers Fear Going to Work Amid Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. It’s not just undocumented workers. Many immigrants with legal status worry about being detained too.
The cultural contradictions of fascism
Fulton County commissioners disobey Georgia judge’s order to appoint members to election board (good trouble)
National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties. Service members say they’re glad to help the National Park Service. But some question if trash removal and groundskeeping are an appropriate use of the military.
Sincere Advice
Why Trump Is Capable of Anything
The Message Factory
Trump’s Homeless Encampment Clearings Are Just Shuffling People Around (they’re moving them into residential neighborhoods, which no one, not the residents, the homeless, or even the cops wants)
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial
Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, Dodgy Statistics, and Casino Capitalism
How To Argue With An AI Booster (looonngggg, but good)
Maine Democratic Senate Candidate Sits at Nexus of Spam PAC Network. Jordan Wood and Jake Lipsett have spent their careers in the Mothership vortex
Stopping Trump’s Dictatorship Is a Vital Message—and a Winning One
Back to brown: Metro unveils design for 8000 series cars
America Tips Into Fascism
As DC’s new top prosecutor, Pirro wants to prosecute some 12-year-olds as adults
Jesse Watters on Cracker Barrel rebrand: “The only thing that could’ve been worse, if they had made it Blacker Barrel” (this isn’t a dog whistle, it’s an air raid siren)
We’re becoming a Döner Republic
GSA launches search for new Alexandria office space to house displaced National Science Foundation