Links for you. Science:

How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled? Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.
The CDC Shooting Isn’t What Broke Me
Persistent virulent phages exist across bacterial isolates
A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals. New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is
The World Is Sleeping on Bird Flu, Expert Warns
Why a tiny green crab could be a big problem in Quebec

Other:

‘A Directive From Above’: Former NYT Editor Lays Out How The Paper Pushes Anti-Trans Bigotry (if this is correct, I’m really disappointed in a former ScienceBlogling; also makes it clear that the anti-trans activism was intentional and a combination of bigotry and Pulitzer hunting)
Grok Can’t Apologize. Grok Isn’t Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Why Minnesota child care fraud is MAGA’s new obsession
Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural Southeastern Colorado (does this plus a possible wave year knock out Boebert?)
‘Totally MAGA’: Bari Weiss pick to anchor CBS News is off to a rough start
Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers? Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.
Young White Supremacists Build a “Whites-Only” Town, But They Can’t Agree on Who Gets In
‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center cancellations aren’t about ‘Trump derangement syndrome’
Investors are buying close to half the empty lots in LA burn zones, report says
Reciprocity
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy
MECHAHITLER The CSAM Generator
The Post-American Internet
What to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care fraud in Minnesota
Trump Is the Jan. 6 President (day late and a dollar short for the NYT)
Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard
Killing in the name of… nothing
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
GOP redistricting could backfire as urban, immigrant areas turn back to Democrats
USPS quietly changes how postmarks work — and it could affect mail-in ballots
Why this isn’t the last we’ll hear of Marjorie Taylor Greene
Trusted providers are being unfairly swept up in Minnesota’s fraud crackdown. Payments to these social services centers are being delayed. If they can’t make payroll soon, some may go out of business.
It’s the ‘gold standard’ in autism care. Why are states reining it in?
Eight Epstein survivors call for Trump to be impeached over handling of file release
MECHAHITLER The CSAM Generator
TACO strikes again: Italian pasta becomes the latest product to have tariffs slashed by Trump
To Save Las Vegas, Pedestrianize the Strip
Private jets, armed security and ‘Bari pitches’ including jet-skiing with DJ Khaled: Inside Weiss’ chaotic ‘CBS Evening News’ reboot