Links for you. Science:

Is it really a super flu year? (UK based)
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC
Changes to NSF peer review
Well Dr. Stephanie Seneff, 2025 is Over. Did Glyphosate Turn Half of All Children Autistic?
How Ancient Indigenous Societies Made Today’s Amazon More Resilient
The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice

Other:

The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification: As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. (excellent)
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Trump’s favorite excuse in 2025: “I don’t know”
Turns out David Brooks didn’t really mean any of it
Defenders of “American” Civilization Have Never Encountered It
Demolition Man: The remaking of Trump’s Washington, DC
As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Neighbors are standing up for immigrants
Bari Weiss is Trump’s 60 Minutes stooge. She’s just one example of the larger moral corruption of the news.
Money Can’t Buy You
Top 10 reasons the GOP is screwed in 2026
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s decade-long push to seize power from the state’s democratic governor
Why JD Vance Can’t Ride Whiteness to the White House
He Said, Xi Said: A sobering conversation about the A.I. arms race between Washington and Beijing: what’s real, what’s overblown, and what China really wants.
How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
Hollywood’s Villain of the Year Is… Sam Altman
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
The ICE Storm: A candid conversation with L.A. police chief Jim McDonnell about the complicated reality of ICE raids, hyperbolic crime narratives, and preparing for the World Cup and 2028 Olympics in the second Trump era.
If Democrats Campaign on Stopping Scam Calls, They’ll Be Re-Elected Forever
“The Mini Mamdanis Are Coming”: Dan Goldman, the popular resistance-lib congressman repping downtown Manhattan and much of brownstone Brooklyn, was a star on MSNBC. But in a year in which his rival was just endorsed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Democrats fear he could be among the biggest names to fall in a Tea Party–style reckoning.
Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
Stop Defending Bari Weiss. It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
We Don’t Seem to be Making America Healthy Again
“Border security is the primary element of national security.”
Elon Musk warns ‘people will die’ after Mamdani taps Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner (lol who cares: “The FDNY’s two major unions both enthusiastically support Bonsignore’s appointment as commissioner, lauding her as having proven experience as an emergency responder who also led EMS through the crisis of the pandemic.”)
Patel to close FBI’s Hoover building permanently (taking the USAID building…)
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out