Links for you. Science:

Ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why
The real problem with Tylenol (it’s not autism)–It’s Leana Wen, but she’s not wrong
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism
The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It

Other:

Stop Pleading, Start Threatening. Schumer and Jeffries need to stop playing dead (excellent)
The State of the Republic is Grim
Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay (no reason to think this is accidental)
Family Taken By Feds Downtown Separated In Detention Centers: ‘They’re Locking Up Children’
US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit
The Democrats Finally Grew a Spine. By daring Trump and the Republicans to shut down the government, the party is taking a stand six months after it should have.
Inside the Viral Kat Abughazaleh ICE Rally Tear-Gassing Video: “Fascism 101”
Musk’s X is ‘go-to platform’ for antisemitism, study finds
The Tyrant Test: A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
Trump: ‘Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?’
Ultra-Conservative GOP Rep Busted for Child Porn
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes
The “left terrorism hits 30-year high” headlines are a lie. A new study has the media inaccurately reporting on a statistical fluctuation in left-wing terrorism.
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
GOPer Quietly Admits Trump Cuts to Blue States Will Hurt MAGA Voters
We Are Not Peasants
Capital punishment: What it means that Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C.
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
California police pull over self-driving Waymo for illegal U-turn — but officers can’t ticket it. Officers stopped the vehicle but declined to write a ticket as “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot,'” San Bruno police wrote on Facebook.
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
GOP Leaders Silent After State Lawmaker Called for Rep. Jayapal to Be ‘Hanged’
Battle of the Sexes
Trump’s incompetence is bolstering China—and screwing US farmers
Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida. Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.
Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact
Trump Cut Biden-Era Energy Projects in Blue States. Red States Got to Keep Theirs.
‘It is their lifeline’: Lehigh Valley Meals on Wheels in limbo due to state, federal funding uncertainty (it’s bonkers, but Republicans have always hated Meals on Wheels)