Links for you. Science:

As someone who ran a high containment patient care unit similar to those taking care of hantavirus patients right now for a decade & has taken care of viral hemorrhagic patients in multiple outbreaks, I have three quick points to make
“No Pain No Gain” May Be Wrong: Science Says Slow Eccentric Exercise Builds Stronger Muscles
Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next
Why the odds keep rising for the strongest El Niño in a century
Scientists Studied 906 Mafia Marriages and Found Something Surprising
Why Humans Are Obsessed With Numbers Too Big to Understand
6 tick-borne diseases that should be on your radar

Other:

Every Democratic Candidate Must Have an Answer for This Question. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is trying to drive the party to extinction. What do they plan to do about it?
Republican Judges Leave Democrats No Choice But To Escalate
Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago (and also see “When Correlation Repeats Across 50 States: The NAEP Evidence Behind My Senate Testimony. How Reading and Math Trends Shift After State-by-State Digital Adoption“)
Why Is Susan Collins Shaking? It’s not because of the major media coverage
How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention
Trump’s fruitless search for a goreable ox
An oligarch’s dystopian scheme to discredit journalism with AI
The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts
Why the Colorado River is once again facing a water crisis
The world’s most complex machine
This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children
Longtime NBA Photographer Nathaniel S. Butler Explains How He Sees Basketball
Graham Platner calls to end gas and diesel tax
AI is Hungry for Power and You are Footing the Bill
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
We fact-checked the attacks in the D.C. mayoral race
Former Housing Nonprofit Director Found To Have Diverted Funds for Six-Figure Bonuses
Meet the candidates running to be D.C.’s delegate to Congress
What Happens When Americans Realize How Miserable We Are?
Part II: Fact-checking the attacks in the mayoral race
No new Metro station planned for RFK Stadium site, but new Gold Line bus service proposed to handle crowds
Goldfish
Waymo recall follows San Antonio robotaxi flood incident
Edge Cases
Waymo issues recall to deal with a flooding problem
Not At Any Price
Fired former acting FBI chief says Patel tied job security to purging agents linked to Trump probes
Bronin stuns Larson, wins Democratic nod in CT congressional race (discussed Larson here)