Links for you. Science:

Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York State in Two Decades
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
What Trump’s inexplicable plan to mine the Mariana Trench could mean for the Pacific
Ditch the antibacterial soap this cold and flu season
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus (waiting for Plaguelord and HHS Secretary Kennedy to claim this means HPV is ‘natural’ and we shouldn’t vaccinate against it)

Other:

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Liars
Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’
That Could Be Me
THE DAMAGE DONE
So long, American exceptionalism: For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’
DHS rages after being called out for arresting ‘indisputable’ U.S. citizen
How the Internet Left 4chan Behind
ICE Agents Violently Detain Pastor on Christmas Eve
Republican Lawmaker Brags About Beating Up Santa in Weird Photos
The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
America’s other populist, socialist big-city mayor (the bit about power and Abundance is very good)
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
The war on disinformation is a losing battle
Can we compare Donald Trump’s health chief to Soviet science boss Trofim Lysenko?
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
Trump promised to lower prices — it hasn’t worked out that way
Musk prepares to buy another election and smear more trans kids. This time there are no excuses for falling into his trap.
Trump administration investigates Brown’s security after shooting
Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
‘Innovative’ approach to sea level rise is first of its kind in San Francisco Bay
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad (short video)
How Free DC became the face of the capital’s anti-Trump resistance
Democratic Centrists Want to Fight—and Prove They Will Take on the Establishment
The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go
Fear Of Retaliation Grips State Department Lawyers Meant To Advise On International Law
Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs
Bostonians love to hate the T. By American standards, how does it compare?
Leaked documents show Instagram’s plan to win back teens
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs
States sue HHS over move to dramatically limit gender transition care
Cypriot fishermen battle invasive lionfish and turn them into a tavern delicacy
Perry Bamonte, Guitarist And Keyboardist For The Cure, Dies At 65
Funny Times