Links for you. Science:

Quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States
Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year
Here’s how the wildlife trade is fueling disease outbreaks across the globe
Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro delineates adaptive changes selected during infection
Flu vaccine linked to 22% decline in risk of Alzheimer’s dementia
110,000-year-old discovery rewrites human history: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens worked together
End-to-end evaluation of pipelines for metagenome-assembled genomes reveals hidden performance gaps

Other:

America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy
Trump’s Bottomless Nihilism Is Eating Our Future
Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion
Robert White Calls for Brooke Pinto to Withdraw From DC Delegate Race After She Posts Very Personal Opposition Research
Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War
Our 2026 DC Council Democratic primary endorsements
Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
A Teenager Accused of Murder Was Released from Jail Three Days Earlier Because a D.C. Cop Didn’t Show Up For Court (but a woke Council something something)
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
The Board of Zoning Adjustment Hasn’t Had a Quorum For More Than a Month, Snarling Housing Renovation and Development
Why the AI backlash has turned violent
Virginia Governor Vetoes a Ban on Plea Deals That Waive People’s Constitutional Rights
127-year-old senator has plan for giving the SCOTUS a fresh-faced new look
Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers
JD Vance follows fascists and antisemites on X
What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
The most important number
‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat
Disability rights group condemns Graham Platner’s use of ‘retarded’ in interview
The high price of purging ‘waste’ from the federal workforce
ICE Doesn’t Need the Money. Republicans Want to Give It a Decade’s Worth Anyway.
Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled
With the Jeffrey Epstein story, Democrats should focus on facts, not conspiracy theory
But it’s *competitive* authoritarianism!
Ukraine Says Russians are Surrendering to Robots
Trump believes diet soda kills cancer cells, Dr Oz reveals
Call Their Bluff: If conservatives really think Orbanism and Trumpism exist within the rules of democracy, then let’s hold them to it! (Spoiler: they don’t)
A Real Delivery: DoorDash’s head of public affairs said on Tuesday that “no one is claiming it was a real delivery.” You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage.
The Great Divorce