Links for you. Science:

Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend
A family of linear plasmid phages that detect a quorum-sensing autoinducer exists in multiple bacterial species
Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies Explanation
Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen
Attachment and replication of clade 2.3.4.4b influenza A (H5N1) viruses in human respiratory epithelium: an in-vitro study
2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast

Other:

The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
The Transphobic Mask Is Off
LSU nursing grad, detained by ICE for 6 months, may self-deport: ‘I feel hopeless all the time’
Mob Rules: The Chicago Outfit’s second life as nostalgia—and as presidential politics
HUD Is Refusing to Enforce Anti-Discrimination Law—and Won’t Let Anyone Else Do It, Either
A middle-class family’s only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium
In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace
This church cafeteria is a soulful constant in an ever-changing D.C.
Brad Lander on What It Takes to Win as a Progressive
Is Gen Z the key to a manufacturing revival? Fall River thinks so.
The Shocking Confessions of Susie Wiles
Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban
Rural health providers could be collateral damage from $100K Trump visa fee
They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can’t find a job
Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis
Power Brokers: What’s really behind your soaring utility bills
The wobbly economy comes to Trump country. After a plant closure in deep-red Nebraska, residents face a painful disconnect between President Donald Trump’s economic message and their reality.
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
MAGA’s Manly Manufacturing Misfire
The Kill Switch: How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn’t Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is
Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed
Failing to challenge Trump on immigration, Democrats have given MAGA free rein to redefine American identity
Stephen Miller Loses It as Jury Acquits Man Who Towed ICE Agent’s Car
ICE Detains Woman Whose Lawyer Insists Is US Citizen. DHS Says She Isn’t