Links for you. Science:

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
This disabled parrot has become king by learning to ‘joust’: Despite missing his entire upper beak, Bruce the kea is winning at life
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
We’re Training Scientists for a World That No Longer Exists
700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas

Other:

A Retrospective on Bidenomics: Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.
‘I Felt I Was a Monster’: IDF Soldiers Talk About the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Austerity creates fascism
I’m Not Like Those Other Crazy Democrats
Beacon Hill’s effort to restrict social media use by teens is clumsy and invasive
Charlize Theron Says It’s Clear Her Father Tried to Kill Her
GOP Food Stamp Work Requirements Hit Just as Jobs Dry Up
Amazon is behind on jobs promised for funding to build Virginia headquarters
Mom, Kids, and Nowhere to Go
They’re Not Wrong
Only half of Republicans are die-hard “MAGA”
Seems Bad
Orbán’s Fall & The De-Trumpification Fantasy
Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done
How Trump’s Anti-NFL Crusade Could Backfire
Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan: Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.
The Jon Favreau Doctrine: The ‘Mandalorian’ creator, director, and food truck impresario talks about bringing his ‘Star Wars’ streaming hit to the big screen, his complicated relationship with A.I., his thoughts on Lucasfilm, and how he’s leaning into the whole “space opera thing.”
Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The Talented Mr. Swalwell: Even before the misconduct allegations that precipitated his downfall, Eric Swalwell was an attention-seeking social climber whose professed progressivism may have been his greatest lie of all.
What If Being Decent Online Was Profitable?
Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms
Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’: Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
Why Sam Altman reminds me of Anton Chigurh
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data
Democrats Should Try Being an Actual Political Party Again
How Trump is pushing psychedelics reform through the health agencies
Never Mind Mamdani: Wall Street Doubles Down on NYC
Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
Optimism for Trump’s CDC pick is tempered by questions about RFK Jr.’s role (“She was the point person and essentially, the choke point, making it difficult to set up meetings and get information,” said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She was an intentional bottleneck that prevented the new team from getting basic information about how the department was operating.”)
The Takeaways from a 2026 Trump Deep Dive: Anatomy of a devastating WSJ story — and its larger implications.