Links for you. Science:

Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Reveal Depth of Ties to High-Profile Scientists
With 42 news measles cases, US total tops 1,700
Lemurs Are Having a Mysterious ‘Baby Boom’ in Madagascar. Here’s Why That Might Not Be a Good Thing
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations (making the policy retroactive leads me to conclude that they are attempting to use this to destroy the current crop of researchers)
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents
Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

Other:

Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights (excellent)
JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source
Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash (it’s actually unclear if he is a U.S. citizen; he spent most of his life abroad)
Trump’s Shocking Brawl With Laura Ingraham on Fox Exposes His Weakness
The D.N.C. Ordered Workers Back to the Office. Its Union Isn’t Pleased. (hard to be the party of workers when you fuck over your own workers)
Open Letter From an Online Democrat
Great News: We Got Them to Agree to Their Own Deal
Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP
Tariffs could be coming for your Christmas tree (welcome to the War on Christmas, Comrade Adjudicated Rapist Trump!)
Katie Wilson, a Political Newcomer, Is Elected Mayor in Seattle
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation (Trump wanted Gaetz to be Attorney General, even after this statutory rape was known)
But, Atrios, Why Are You Focused On Larry Summers?
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit
Epstein emails reveal New York Times reporter’s connection to scandal
How DHCD Forfeited $35 Million in Federal Assistance for Affordable Housing and Bailed Out a Well-Connected Developer
Zohran Mamdani prepares to tackle Trump
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani: A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
Sorry, Nancy Mace. Donald Trump hasn’t “protected women”
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve?
Quit “sane-washing” Donald Trump
The President Who Cried ‘Hoax’. Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.
How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump’s Corruption
Metrorail’s signaling system is showing its age. Here’s why it needs a new one
Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein
The Eviction Kings
The Myth of China’s “AI Talent Pipeline”
Can School Parking Lots Become Havens for Homeless Families?
Plan to kill single-family zoning in Va. suburb survives legal challenge
Why D.C.’s dockless e-bikes are rolling slower