Links for you. Science:

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery
The Disastrous First Year of RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. made promises in order to become health secretary. He’s broken many of them.
Measles Just Hit an ICE Facility. I’ve Seen What Happens Next.
America’s Healthier Past is no More Than a Myth

Other:

Drug Cartels Are Shifting Their Money Laundering to Crypto. Cops Can’t Keep Up
What the Democrats Need to Do Now. To win back working-class voters, they need to signal more clearly to working people that they are on their side. That means picking fights on their behalf with the bad actors who are making their lives harder—and the democracy-hating billionaires.
A.I.’s pandemic moment: A new hype epicycle reaches its climax
Bullshit Bots
America’s Most Powerful CEOs Are Awfully Quiet Lately
LGBTQ+ Identification Holds at 9% in U.S.
Democrats have the leverage in the shutdown over ICE
Recent special elections point to a blue tsunami this fall
Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America
Erika Kirk Faces Backlash Over Alleged ‘Inappropriate’ Texts With A 15-Year-Old: ‘Absolutely Vile’
Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump’s DHS deploys ‘less lethal’ weapons on protesters
No One Can Object To Bipartisan Commonsense Reforms
The Mark Kelly Case Is Bigger Than It Seems
Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations
Believing Their Own Bullshit
We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans
Rattled Broadsides
ICE Tried to Justify a Minneapolis Shooting. Its Story Unraveled.
Cars Are Expensive
97% of House GOP would let tariffs ransack America
Right-wing media turns on Kash Patel over Nancy Guthrie case
$1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets
Rank-and-File Dems to Leaders: It’s Time to Take the Gloves Off
Minnesota’s False Spring
The Politics of Permanent Disaster
A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party From Across The Pond
Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly. The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.
Diversity Is Our Strength
How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
AOC is pushing the Democrats to take her seriously. Munich could launch her rebirth. Once seen as an insurgent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a team player for the Democratic Party. Now, she wants to remake what that team looks like
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation