Links for you. Science:

An Unreleased Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Already Sparking False Conspiracy Theories
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
Critics slam Trump’s purge of National Science Board: ‘Wholesale evisceration of American leadership in science’
Trump taps Fox News quack to be nation’s top doctor
“Ruthless Predator” of Red Tide Plankton Revealed in New Study
Roller Derby Players Share Shoulder Microbes
The Rise of the Vichy Scientists

Other:

There’s a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
The Supreme Court is Corrupt. This is What We Can Do About It. (video)
‘Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats
Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed. The Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering points in one direction only: Come 2028, Democrats have to declare a take-no-prisoners redistricting war on the GOP.
Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why.
Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship
Israel and Max Makoka Are Coming Home After ICE Arrests Galvanized Their Mississippi Community
Florida Republicans reject plan to weaken childhood vaccine requirements
Cool streets: Paris’s school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they’ll provide immense public health benefits to the city’s most vulnerable populations
RFK Jr. Has Met His Match in This California Congressional Hopeful. Pediatrician and former state Sen. Richard Pan is on a mission to make vaccines great again. (campaign website here)
Connecticut speed camera debate misses the speeding risk
Why Graham Platner Trounced Janet Mills in Maine
Time For The DNC To Sue CBS News For $20 Billion
John Roberts Is Either Dumb or Racially Obtuse. And He’s Not Dumb. (not racially obtuse, just racist)
SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wake-up call from a dream
Making America’s Houses Bigger May Have Been a Mistake
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
Elon Musk wasn’t stupid to buy Twitter
State Troopers Laughed at the Suffering of People They Detained. Footage of May 2025’s immigration sweeps, reviewed by the Nashville Banner, shows state troopers joking with ICE agents about people’s suffering
A Blaring Warning for the Democratic Party From Across the Pond
Doctor, wife of acting U.S. attorney general, appointed to NIH advisory council (of course, she has some crank beliefs…)
The 1 % of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions
The New York Times rarely quotes transgender people in trans stories. LGBTQ+ advocates say that the paper too often treats transgender people as subjects of debates rather than participants in the conversation.
We Bought an Orchestra. The rise of pay-to-play in classical music
FBI Redirected a Quarter of Staff to Target Immigrants Under Trump’s Deportation Push
The Top Cities Where Crime Guns Originate and How Local Leaders Can Take Action
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
More Thoughts on the Court’s Dire Corruption and the Necessity of Reform
Medicare portal database exposed health providers’ Social Security numbers
He Was One of the Texas GOP’s Biggest Donors. Where Did He Go?