Links for you. Science:

You Recovered From COVID, But Did Your Brain? New Scans Raise Questions
Moloch’s Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Why Adopting Denmark’s Vaccine Schedule Would Be Dangerous for American Children. The comparison driving HHS policy is methodologically flawed and ignores fundamental differences in healthcare systems, disease burden, and public health philosophy.
Borax Lake Chub: Conserving a High Desert Survivor
Commissioner Makary Brings the Quackery
The role of heavy metals in the co-selection of plasmid-borne metal and antibiotic resistance genes from industrially contaminated sediments.
Flu cases are surging and rates will likely get worse, new CDC data shows

Other:

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?” (this was not only predictable, it was predicted)
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
Trump’s war on democracy is failing
Trump Judicial Nominee Has Some Complicated Thoughts About Disabled People Getting Married
Release the report!
Salim Adofo Used ANC Funds for Political Purposes, D.C. Auditor Says
Commanders stadium project sparks debate over public transit and traffic solutions
Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street
Wilson Building Bulletin: The aftermath of McDuffie’s resignation
A house of mistakes: what Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ gets radically right—and dangerously wrong—about nuclear war
Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy
Mountain Brook woman killed in mass shooting at Brown University
Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks. The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
MAGA Infighting
You can stream all of the NFL now. It costs a small fortune.
Cory Mills appears to be the first active arms dealer to serve in Congress. That’s probably because companies owned by members of Congress aren’t legally allowed to export weapons—but his does.
A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
ICE Says U.S. Citizen’s Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked Them. (the only one who isn’t completely awful–still mostly awful though–is the one who reads actual news)
Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims
MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
The White House ballroom will never be built
The Horns and Whistles Work
How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
What’s going on with Donald Trump’s health?
Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits
Podhoretz
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts