Links for you. Science:

Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority.
Release the Forecasts. These Funding Opportunities Are Ready to Go. NIH Is Holding Them Back
Jay Bhattacharya Called Test-Negative Study Design ‘Crap.’ Here’s How We Know Whether Vaccines Measured With It Are Effective
Here’s How Freaked Out You Should Be About the Hantavirus Cruise Ship
Canadian Muskoxen Hit by Double Punch of Novel Diseases and Climate Change
A supervolcano nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago, but humans did something incredible
A ‘triple whammy’ of chaos has triggered a downward spiral in Antarctica, scientists discover

Other:

This Is Getting Dangerous
Democrats Can’t Let This Antisemitic Sex Therapist Win Her Runoff
A Terrible Omen: Democrats just chose not to respond to an element of a Republican coup d’etat.
Sen. Rand Paul’s Son William Hurled Antisemitic Insults at Rep. Mike Lawler
The Strip Mall Where Clarence Thomas Hides His Wife’s Money
Where Are All The Data Centers?
Coachella threatens Dearborn animal shelter over upcoming ‘Pawchella’ fundraiser
Most TN House Democrats stripped of their committee assignments
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
How Prediction Markets Are Taking Control of Everything
The Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Is a Dangerous Joke
Supreme Court faces new criticism for redistricting decisions so close to the 2026 elections
Sundown, you’d better take care
Kash Patel Created a “Payback Squad” Just to Help Trump
No Need To Be Goldfish
Kara Swisher shaming a room full of Nordic journalists for still using X: “I am bigger than all of you combined”
State media control influences large language models
At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views
Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
Louisiana [Republicans] could put removed Confederate monuments on display at state parks
At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing
USDA Plan to Jack Up Line Speeds at Meatpacking Plants Seems Like a Terrible Idea
Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry
Pennsylvania’s Crucial Swing Voters Say Congress Is Failing Them
Here’s What I Told the DNC Autopsy. The report may never see the light of day—so the Harris campaign’s head of digital offers his candid breakdown of what worked, what failed, and what Democrats have yet to learn. (a very different perspective, but one that misses some elephants in the room)
Can The Jumper Be Hacked? Inside Basketball’s Next Arms Race
So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an ’emergency’
Elon Musk’s anonymous online BFF spreads his ideas and attacks his enemies