Links for you. Science:

A new poll shows who Americans trust over the CDC (study, accessible to non-experts, here)
Tiny Teeth Reveal Early Spread of Proto-monkeys in North America
When Did Mosquitoes Start Specializing in Human Blood? 1.8 Million Years Ago
A macrocyclic peptide-based fusion inhibitor targeting SARS-CoV-2 Spike S2 subunit
Metformin not effective in treating long-COVID symptoms, study finds
How Stand Up For Science is trying to ‘pull every lever’ to win over the public

Other:

When Correlation Repeats Across 50 States: The NAEP Evidence Behind My Senate Testimony
Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats too want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.
Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible. Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.
If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
D.C. police department losing officers to expanding federal agencies
The Supreme Court Has Dawdled Too Long To Gift Republicans The Midterms
The banality of surveillance
Iran war enrages Make America Healthy Again movement
The State of the Church
With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom
How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
Is S.B.F. Possibly… Innocent? The imprisoned FTX founder is now taking a three-pronged approach to getting out of jail—claiming that prosecutors threatened his partners, Sullivan & Cromwell had a conflict of interest, and his crypto exchange was actually solvent all along. Oh, and he’s also sucking up to Trump. Will any of it work?
Ceding Ground: Mamdani goes soft on the NYPD
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
On the Democratic Party Style
Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns
Former DOGE bro is now running the Pentagon’s AI. What could go wrong?
Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers
Documents reveal web of financial ties between Trump officials and industries they help regulate
In South Dakota you’ll soon be able to challenge other voters’ citizenship
Why is The New York Times so weird about Mamdani?
Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits
Newsom picks a dogfight with Trump and RFK Jr. on public health
Feds face lawsuit over travel ban for foreign misinformation researchers
A brief history of the DC Streetcar
Grow-vernight scenario: Where OP has suggested more density is and is not on the table
Leaked Private Texts Reveal Wild Fishback Campaign Drama
The Creator of Wordle Just Came Out With a New Game, and It’s Hard
Kristi Noem’s $220M Homeland Security Horseback Riding Ad Dwarfed the Budgets of These 2026 Best Picture Nominees