Links for you. Science:

Are Peptides Just Snake Oil? Don’t Ask the FDA
Could the Oldest Human Story Really Be 100,000 Years Old?
ʻŌhiʻa Trees, Invasive Species: Years Of Research Could Be Lost. The Forest Service is looking to close its Big Island labs — the only ones of their kind, researchers say, that help protect the Pacific’s unique tropical forests.
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? (ban the authors from publishing in your journal)
Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year. The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewed effort to screen for disfavored terms and a loss of personnel are contributing. (“the N.I.H. introduced its employees to the “computational text analysis tool,” allowing the agency to comb through new grant proposals and existing projects for phrases suggesting a grant “may not align with N.I.H. priorities””)
Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought

Other:

Why voters say the Democrats are “weak,” in their own words
What Is Woke 2? Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.
A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss
This Isn’t Trading. It’s Theft from Your Retirement.
RFK Jr.’s medical racism is to be expected
It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. Who Killed the Florida Orange?
The National Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel. The FBI Director is a national embarrassment — and desperate to keep his job.
DC judge puts the brakes on removing 15th Street bike lanes
New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump
Metro’s board to vote on budget that calls for fully automated trains on the Red Line
Federal judge pumps the brakes on Trump’s plan to remove 15th Street bike lane
‘This is our f–ing city’: Backlash ensues after DHS uses Fenway Park photo in social media post
How Iranian expat Yegi Rezaian sees the Iran war. Rezaian and her husband spent months in an Islamic Republic prison before being freed to leave for the US. This year, she watched her adopted country bomb her native one.
New York City is beating the postpandemic shoplifting scourge
Chip Roy’s Deportation Nation: Banishing ideas, one immigrant at a time.
USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew. Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
Kash’s kayfabe lawsuit
The era of unilateral disarmament is over
Elder Care
FAFO and Other Things We Learned in the 2025-26 Redistricting Wars
This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans. Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.
Kalshi suspends 3 political candidates for betting on own elections
Waymo Is Not In The ‘Vision Zero’ Toolbox: Data. At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.
“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion
To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force
Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
Lawsuit: Blaze’s Crackpot Reporting Prompted a Wild, Unnecessary FBI Raid
The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark. Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger to the constitutional order.
Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it.