Links 6/19/26

Links for you. Science:

New OMB rule could break science in the United States
Institutionalizing politicized science
The murder of expertise: Russ Vought as science czar would just about do it.
CEPI fast-tracks three Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine candidates
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires
OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.’s meddling
CrankGPT

Other:

FOX’S BRIAN KILMEADE: OBJECTIVELY PRO-POGROM
The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
All Top 20 Right-Wing News Websites Suffer YOY Declines in May Visits
AI Animal Videos Are Ruining One Of The Internet’s Last Good Things
Casting A Ballot Is Not Flashing A Gang Sign. It’s always, always, always about harm reduction; and few people have caused, or threaten to cause, more harm than Susan Collins.
I Tested the Best and Worst Seats at a World Cup Stadium
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch
Congress’s Transportation Reauthorization Bill Would Drastically Underfund Transit and Rail Projects
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
As Trump Pushes Deportations, a Skyrocketing Caseload Strains Immigration Courts
Leaked Audio Shows GOP Candidate Agreeing That Women Should ‘Prove’ Rape To Access Abortion
Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
Willy Rice, Florida pastor and abuse crisis skeptic, elected SBC president
Democrat labels Trump ‘sleeping’ in public a national security risk
The Supreme Court Is Illegitimate. The court’s conservatives ripped the mask off the institution in a brief, unsigned decision allowing Alabama to use a racially discriminatory congressional map.
Trump officials lay out aggressive timeline to build triumphal arch
Elon Musk Is About to Make Saving for Retirement Even Harder
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
The Social Costs of Immigration Enforcement in the New Era
Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why
Why D.C. probably won’t know who won on election night
Congress Fails to Reauthorize America’s Most Powerful Surveillance Law, Which Expires at Midnight Friday
‘This Is Oligarchy’: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins’ Reelection Bid
How ICE Affects Students
From NYCHA to the Garden, the Knicks’ Jose Alvarado is living a New Yorker’s dream
Skateboarders say they’re being pushed out of D.C.’s most iconic spots
141 Townhomes Break Ground at The Parks at Walter Reed (this doesn’t seem nearly dense enough)
Tulsi Gabbard’s humiliation is complete
Nike instructs federations to steam World Cup jerseys to fix shoulder seam issue (“That computational process was driven by performance data and incorporated elements of AI to work alongside the company’s designers as they crafted the kits.”

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