Links 4/18/26

Links for you. Science:

C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses
A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall
A botanist searches for the seeds of the rare Death Valley Sage
RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Diet
The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

Other:

Patriarchal theocratic white nationalism is risen
Nick Fuentes’s Strategy is Working: Viral clips of the far-right white supremacist are growing his audience.
Viktor Orban’s problems undercut Trump’s new world order
Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI. The case that AI is already stealing young people’s jobs is based on a statistical mirage.
Trump’s Antifa Terror: Even as war rages across the Middle East, raising fears that Iran could activate sleeper cells in the U.S. and Europe, the Trump administration is quietly working to designate antifa as a top counterterrorism priority—despite the protestations of experts who say this is a pretext for targeting domestic dissent.
‘You Can’t Defeat the Robots!’: Baseball’s AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
Trump is taking charge of his own memorials
There’s No App for That
Evidence of insider trading on Iran war grows
Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Regime change in Cuba could benefit wealthy Republicans
Donald Trump Isn’t Sounding Like Himself. And that’s terrifying
America Is Used to Hiding Its Wars. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.
AI accused of ‘unjust exploitation’ as bots reprint entire books
The Epstein Emails Show #MeToo Never Stood a Chance
A Right to Full-Time Scheduling
MOAR BELOW!

Papers, Please: The toll of age verification laws on digital sex work
The Strategic Defeat of the United States
Think Nothing of It
The Secret Iran Intel That Terrified Dems
The Profession That Does Not Exist
Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran
On Elon Musk and Legal Arbitrage. A jaded lesson from revisiting a missed prediction
A New Approach to Algebra in 8th Grade Seems to Produce Big Benefits
Restricting Some Speech For Therapists is a Good Thing, Actually
The Generational Divide
There’s Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf
The far-right Christians pushing Trump’s war — to bring on the apocalypse
In Hungarian election, Trump and Putin are backing Viktor Orban
Trump admin proposing ‘catastrophic’ cuts to the National Park Service

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