Links for you. Science:
Fly-arousing orchid and zombie fungus among 2025 botanical and fungal finds
A comparative, multi-study analysis of plastisphere resistomes, plasmid dynamics, and antibiotic resistance genes
Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black summer
Atmospheric physicists find error in widely cited Arctic snow cover observations
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
What is a Carnot engine?
Other:
How We Got Here
A Conservative Influencer Apologized for Her Anti-Trans Past. Elon Musk is Trying to Take Her Kid. Ashley St. Clair wrote an anti-trans children’s book, had Elon Musk’s baby, and got targeted by his AI. Then she did something almost no one in conservative media ever does.
Republican introduces bill seeking to make Greenland 51st state (fuck this guy)
Popularism!
The Cities That Saw Historic Murder Lows in 2025
An argument for a military coup (don’t really agree, but things are bad, and Congress, including Republicans, needs to step in)
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
Waymo passenger jumps out of self-driving car after it stops on rail tracks near oncoming train
Graham Platner Poll Shows Him Up by 15 Points in Maine Senate Primary
Synagogue arson suspect posted antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack
Trump Gets Up, Walks Away From Meeting To Stare Out Window At Ballroom
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration
Abolish ICE? America is warming to the idea.
“Stupod B*tch”: GoFundMe for Minnesota ICE Agent Is Chilling
My First 72 Hours in Minneapolis and How I Got an ICE Agent to Scream “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
The Left Needs Bureaucrats. After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
Depraved Murderous Liars
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
Abolish ICE—For Real This Time
Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me
This Is What ICE Descending on Minneapolis Looks Like
Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’
How ICE Crackdowns Set Off a Resistance in American Cities
ICE For Thee Not For Me
Stephen Miller’s Worldview Is Straight Out of “Starship Troopers”
mikethemadbiologist
Excellent content — provided clear guidance and very practical advice.