Links for you. Science:

Nanotech makes cancer drug 20,000x stronger, without side effects
Entry, replication and innate immunity evasion of BANAL-236, a SARS-CoV-2-related bat virus, in Rhinolophus and human cells
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe
Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI
Can Narcissists Actually Change?
Emboldened, Kennedy Allies Embrace a Label They Once Rejected: ‘Anti-Vax’

Other:

Congressional Democrats Are Just as Spineless as Ever
Right-Wing Critics of Antisemitism Keep Strikingly Silent About Trump
The Democrats continue to tolerate backstabbers
I Want You to Understand Chicago
Democratic Whip Dick Durbin
Kennedy Center chief sucks at his job—and hates it
Yell Before It Is Too Late
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE
He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century. Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now
Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
The Summer the Internet Found Empathy — And How Quickly We Lost It
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says
Inside Washington’s Controversial Addiction to Autopens
Waukegan alderman says federal agents pulled guns on him: ‘There were four barrels pointed at me’
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired
Off the Beaten Track: How is Life in China’s “Most Median City”?
Ethered
Only a Fraction of Republicans’ Much-Touted $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Can Help Struggling Hospitals Pay Their Bills
Good Job, Chuck
Bari Weiss wants to take down CBS News’ Standards and Practices unit for having ‘too much power’
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist’s Child Doesn’t Care About Sports Gambling
Is This the Haphazard End of Streateries in DC? (it’s a bad policy)
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
At a Loss for Words