Links for you. Science:

uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic
An open letter regarding Scientific Reports
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication

Other:

Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections. A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion. After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
D.C. residents air grievances about federal surge in Council hearing. Dozens of residents critiqued what they saw as collaboration between local police and federal immigration authorities
ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says
US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off
Concerns about crime in U.S. fall for second year in a row, poll shows
When SNAP benefits run out, ‘people can die,’ say health experts
These are all the same thing.
Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did
How AI turned the Boston Common ‘No Kings’ protest into fake news. Social media exploded Saturday with claims that MSNBC had aired “recycled footage” from 2017 as video from the Boston “No Kings” protest. But it turned out the footage was real.
How Chicago’s MMA gyms, cyclists and pet shelters are uniting to resist ICE
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
How States Are Getting Around Vaccine Mandates
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
The Shadow President: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case
Woke Universities
Judge’s order blocking removal of man from U.S. wasn’t received until after he was deported, DHS says
It’s Going To Keep Getting Worse
Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas
The Shutdown Is Pushing Federal Workers to Food Banks—Just as SNAP Is Set to Expire
Is Jesse Watters Fighting Democrats Or Mommy?
DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests
People Are Dying to Eat at Our Insufferable Pop-Up Restaurant
It’s Time to Address Violent Crime in Mississippi
The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally