Links for you. Science:

Denmark’s Floating Islands: Turning Urban Harbors into Havens for Bees and Birds
Why so salty? The not-so-invisible impacts of winter salt
The Man Who Stole Infinity
A bacterial ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae may explain its backboned phylogeny
Hawaii’s battle with rat lungworm disease shows California what may be coming
The Other Lab Leak Hypothesis: Is Lyme Disease Caused by an Escaped Bioweapon?

Other:

US needs a crisis-tested surgeon general, not an influencer. Having a large following, publishing a best-selling wellness book or launching a health start-up cannot replace clinical training, board certification and public health command experience.
Ultrawealthy Consider $500 Million Fund to Influence California Politics
Pete Hegseth’s manly act is backfiring
US Jewish leaders express alarm over new political conditions for synagogue security grants
Federal Judges Are Slowly Realizing They Can Treat Trump Like Anyone Else
Balcony solar is taking state legislatures by storm
War With Iran? A Blood Moon on Purim? For Some Christian Influencers, That Can Mean Only One Thing: The End Times
A new lawsuit claims D.C. is withholding money meant to help laid-off Circulator bus drivers
The Harlem Tiger: The Astonishing True Story of Ming, a 425-Pound Pet Living in an Apartment
Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate
D.C.’s lax utility oversight is costing customers
‘Sly stowaway’ UK fox finds new home at Bronx Zoo after illicit transatlantic trip
Wilson Building Bulletin: The politics of congestion
In unusual step, D.C. Council sues Mayor Bowser over budget documents
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (it’s really not the iPhone, but the laptop computer with good internet connection)
It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days.
War With Iran Puts Further Strain on America’s Pessimistic Farmers
Leftover ramen, too few Qurans: A ‘humiliating’ Ramadan inside ICE detention centers
Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate. Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
The Alarming Twitter Timeline of Trump Nominee Kara Westercamp
Trump Tells Kentucky Crowd ‘I Have Much Better Blood’ Because His Uncle Was an MIT Professor
Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota
The Great American Condo Crisis: If the U.S. wants to remain a nation of homeowners, it has no choice but to start building condos again.
Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency. An NBC 5 Responds and Telemundo Chicago Responde investigation found a school district is paying tens of thousands of dollars for the technology, that one mom says, is erroneously keeping her child out of public school.
When Pete Hegseth Says “Lethality” He’s Talking About Killing Iranian School Girls
Montana sent a Senator to Washington, not a bouncer
In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up
Why hundreds of people in L.A. are strapping cameras on their bodies to do chores
Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.
The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country?