Links for you. Science:

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins
Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health
Working Under RFK Jr. at the CDC Is a Living Hell
Woodpeckers Use Tennis Player ‘Grunting’ Trick To Drill Trees
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic
Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree

Other:

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
The Shutdown Is Over. But for Federal Workers, the Anxiety Persists.
Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself. When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn’t.
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
Once Again, Senate Democrats Show They Don’t Get Who They Represent
This DOGE Whistleblower Is Running for Office
They’re Not Hiding It and It’s Not Irony
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
Cue the rebellion: The Democratic base is enraged at their party’s capitulation — and that’s a good thing.
Did Democrats Win the Shutdown After All?
The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes. Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
But What Did They Win
Paramount sees hundreds quit over return-to-office order
Happy Exploding Whale Day! (America is already great!)
Epstein Was Tipped Off About Journalist Digging Into Him by Then-NY Times Reporter: ‘I Told Him You Were One Hell of a Guy’
The Democratic Shutdown Capitulation: A Perfect and Unnecessary Failure
Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Dividend Payments Would Explode the Deficit by Nearly $4 Trillion Over a Decade
Video shows immigration arrest in Southeast amid questions about DC police cooperation
The MAGA Revolution Is Eating Its Own
Did Schumer cave to protect the filibuster?
Mamdani the Party Builder: Partyism in action
Andrew Cuomo Photographed Kissing and Grabbing Lawyer Who Defended Him From Sexual Harassment Accusations
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
Graham Platner’s online history means he’d lose to Susan Collins, Dem poll warns
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Grocery Prices Are Way Down.
Committee To Save The World
Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein’s desire for “very young teen types” made him a pedophile (she has a fourteen year old daughter)
Fullerton police stop man pointing gun at female driver, only to learn he is ICE agent
Why Democrats won the government shutdown
D.C. is slowing e-bikes down, citing teen crime and speeding issues