Links for you. Science:

Treemble: a graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images
A scientist’s search for dragons and damsels
Project Debug: Why Google wants to release 32 million lab-bred mosquitoes in California and Florida
Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline. Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as well as more adults refusing tetanus shots.
HHS Refuses to Say What an Anti-Vaccine Activist Is Doing at the Agency
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
As Ebola Spreads, Scientists Race to Find Vaccines and Treatments

Other:

Tom Steyer for California
Nearly 6 in 10 DC-Area Rental Listings Are Offering a Concessions (the economy is bad here)
Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace
Pogroms, American Style: The Trump administration’s attack on immigrants isn’t about rule of law, crime or jobs. It’s racism and sadism all the way down
The Case for Climate Champion Tom Steyer in the California Governor’s Race
I Didn’t Want To Go To My Party Anyway
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Exorbitant cost of ‘partner investment’ revealed for UFC White House event
Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad
Apple Is Officially Coming for Meta’s Privacy-Invading Lunch With Its Own Smart Glasses in Late 2027
AIPAC didn’t fund Connie Chan. Here’s what actually happened.
How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
The Democratic Party’s Internal Machinery Is Breaking Its Brand
There is no art to Trump’s Iran deal
Putin on the Fritz
Trump’s latest move to restrict voting rights
‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like
Trump’s big beautiful income tax dodge
What Is the Current US Healthcare Situation?
How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI
The NBA’s Newest, Cheapest Owner Shows How Billionaires Ruin Sports
Sometimes Stopping Extremism Means Getting Your Hands Dirty
I rode Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
Inference Is Unlikely to Ever Be a Low Marginal Cost Operational Node, & the Other Reasons Why the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs Ought to Fail
Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite citizenship claim, gets a U.S. passport
Cultural Wasteland
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Utility bills in D.C. are rising. Here’s what to know.
Trump’s Insurrectionist Slush Fund ‘Dead for Now’ Amid Furious Public Backlash: “If Trump and Republicans are truly abandoning this corrupt scheme, they should have zero problem banning it in law,” said US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The DOJ came after Daily Kos. Here’s the full story.