Links for you. Science:

Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
Drop Whatever You’re Doing Right This Instant, There’s Big Spider Web News
A Surprise Flu Variant Threw Off the Vaccine. Get Ready for a Brutal Winter
Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus
Remnants of Lost Continents Are Everywhere. Now, We Finally Know Why.
Scientists Make Genetic Breakthrough with 39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA

Other:

The Majority AI View
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Inside the Credit Card Battle to Win America’s Richest Shoppers
Democratic governors form a public health alliance in a rebuke of Trump
SNAP Benefits Update: Trump Admin Says ‘Everyone’ Will Have To Reapply
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ (Summers should be expelled from the Harvard faculty for this)
The voters Mamdani added to the Democratic coalition in New York
America’s Smartest Man
Whatever happened to U.B.I.? Guaranteed income in the A.I. age
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’: AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
Selling a Defective Dream: How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.
Federal agent opens fire after traffic stop, chase in Southeast DC
RFK Jr.’s Georgetown Neighbors Are Trolling Him With Window Decorations
A new unifying issue: Just about everyone hates data centers
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Ex-Disney star makes the ‘most evil’ app ever. It barely even works
Indiana Republican called out by Trump on redistricting is swatted
How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and supporters
AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us
RFK Jr. calls for unity after supporters attack Trump aides (lmfao)
Federal agent shoots at car during D.C. chase, police say. The shooting marks the second time in a month that a Homeland Security agent has shot at a car while patrolling with D.C. police.
‘Tread Carefully’: What a $112 Million Verdict Could Mean for Local Police Working With ICE
The Blast Radius of Jeff Epstein
The Unraveling of the Justice Department
“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means and functional medicine: Legitimizing quackery
It’s pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder