Links 5/28/26

Links for you. Science:

‘Highly problematic for a thousand reasons’: NIH employees criticize Trump-era requirement to scrutinize grants with words related to diversity
Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry send 54 to the hospital
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo. Dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections are suspected, an African agency said. Health experts were alarmed that the outbreak hadn’t been announced sooner.
Blumenthal, Grijalva Introduce Bill to Save Endangered Butterflies, Fish, Plants, Mollusks
An American Eel In The Chicago River? Angler’s Rare Find Raises Questions
Long a dream, it’s now real: a fast and accurate TB test that doesn’t need phlegm

Other:

Rollback: What Happens When Rights Were Never Really Law. (this is very good, though I disagree with the speed of possible remedy: Democrats would have to pack the court, and, to be safe, willing to strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction when they write legislation)
Donald Trump steals $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to pay off seditionists for trying to overturn the 2020 election in his favor
The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure. Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock.
Mapping the household-level transmission of monetary policy
Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
The Billionaires Are Afraid
Prosecute These Corrupt Bastards!
A Rather Obvious Callback By The Writers
Denial is a river James Comey should be dunked into
The Thing About Griping About Bluesky. Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.
Donald Trump Is Stealing Your Money
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns
Trump and His Advisers Clearly Haven’t Actually Read Thucydides
Majority of Noem’s Unreviewed Commutees Reoffend
Minnesota county charges an ICE officer in a nonfatal shooting during Trump’s immigration crackdown
People are using their laptops on BART. Officials think they know why
Inside The Investigation Of Eric Trump’s Kids-Cancer Charity
Five dead, including two suspects, after shooting at San Diego mosque
Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
The Pistons Did Everything Wrong
Palantir Gets an Initial $3.9 Million to Spy on Federal Workers
A puddle in a Brooklyn crosswalk has festered so long it’s developed its own ecosystem
A Different Kind of Fading President
American Jobs with AI Exposure Really Are Starting to Disappear, Data Show. It’s a slight drop so far, but a bleak trend nonetheless.
US moves to end job protections for hundreds of health department workers
Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG
My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon
In DC’s single-family zones, the legacy of the Federal Housing Administration’s Jim Crow era endures
When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

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