Links for you. Science:

How RFK Jr. upended the public health system
The Quiet Power of Program Officers
Identification and genomic characterisation of BA.3.2: a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage from southern Africa
Inside NASA’s Mission to Defend Earth From Deadly Asteroids
NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed
‘She has no expertise’: the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth Høeg’s tenure at the FDA
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.

Other:

Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy (important)
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed
Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail
We Are the Bad Guys (not sure I agree with the casus belli, but still interesting)
Marjorie Taylor Greene bets the Republican troll era is over
Who’s Responsible For Elon Musk’s Idiot Chatbot Producing On-Demand Child Sexual Abuse Material?
What Did They Think Would Happen
If Greene’s feelings of betrayal can be turned against Trump, so be it
The right hit peak incel in 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Floods X With Sexualized Photos Of Women And Children
What the chief justice won’t tell you about the dire state of the judiciary
‘Something’s Wrong There’: Nancy Pelosi Sounds Alarm On Trump’s ‘Mental Incapacity’
Marble, ice sculptures and optics: Trump’s remote presidency draws scrutiny
Goodbye to Trump’s First Year
She provides the raw material to Trump’s influencer machine
In a Year of Violent Tumult, the Sports World Was Silent
Maryland studied its complicity in lynchings. Are reparations next?
Don’t Give Up Hope! Even 2025 Had Bright Spots.
National Park Service to spend $54 million on landmark D.C. fountains
“I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.
What Is It All About Then
Home builders hoped for a boom in 2025. They didn’t get one.
The Free Press
He exposed myth of the South’s ‘Lost Cause.’ His death shook Richmond.