Links for you. Science:
Ticks are migrating, raising disease risks if they can’t be tracked quickly enough
The crown jewel of American farm science is in Beltsville. Will Trump close it forever?
RFK Jr. Announces FDA Will Approve Leucovorin, a New Treatment for Autism. What Is It?
Global diversity, predictors, and predictions of AMR evolutionary pathways in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker: The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
Other:
D.C. residents are deeply disquieted by masked feds
The Latest New Democratic Think Tank Is a Dead End. The Searchlight Institute, founded by former senate staffer Adam Jentelson, epitomizes the careerist tendencies of white-collar workers on the Hill. (excellent)
This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
‘Treated and Streeted’: How The City’s Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway
Republicans see Trump as unusually resistant to bribery
RFK Jr. Has a Prescription for America: Pure Chaos
We Are All The Dixie Chicks Now
Members of Md. Black Caucus vow action to restore neglected graveyard
Major work, road closures start for project to create new plaza at Dupont Circle
FDA Commissioner Flagrantly Misquoted Harvard Public Health Dean at White House Autism Event
Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference
Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE
Democratic lawmakers demand answers from TV station owners over pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show
Apparent right wing terrorist attack at ICE facility in Dallas
Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch
ICE began shipping immigrants to this tiny California town. Chaos has reigned ever since
Jimmy Kimmel Rose to the Occasion
Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol (lmfao)
Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
Kennedy Center Audience Vanishes Amid Trump Takeover
Robert Redford Sounded the Alarm About Our Corrupted Politics Over 50 Years Ago
Homan $50,000 Bribe Allegation Deserves a Thorough Probe
Vive la Résistance
Trans Health Care “Skeptics” Lost a Key Ally—Now They’re Having a Meltdown. The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans “misuse” of his work.
Inflicting Pain
Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance. Staffers say center president Ric Grenell’s office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician. (BuT WhY ArEn’t pEoPlE AtTeNdInG ThE KeNnEdY CeNtEr?)
House GOP bill would put Charlie Kirk on US currency
How To Survive a Republican Power Grab. Texas Democrat Greg Casar spent his summer fighting for his job—and plotting a progressive revival.
Is the Jimmy Kimmel Saga a Sign that the Tide is Turning?
Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident
