Links for you. Science:

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Human interferon stimulated genes target ancient features of animal and bacterial viral replication
Humans nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago, researchers find. Human ancestors may have survived a 117,000-year bottleneck that pushed the lineage close to extinction.
Ancient DNA shared with Neanderthals may explain human language
Period 45: Adolescence and the organizing influences of sex steroid hormones
Here’s how I got rid of mosquitoes when nothing else worked
Pediatric penicillin allergy labels raise mortality, staph colonization risk

Other:

A Garish Spectacle of American Decline
Trump’s MMA Extravaganza Was The Ultimate Symbol Of Our Dark American Moment
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
Congrats. You’re About to Unwittingly Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire.
Washington Post Slapped With Massive Class Action Lawsuit for Alleged Price Gouging of Its Most Loyal Subscribers via ‘Surveillance Pricing’
DOE head says agency didn’t punish blue states. His lawyers admit it did.
US judge orders halt to Trump administration’s ‘censorship’ of park exhibits
Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody
Progressive Champions PAC is a GOP front
Trump Hits Shocking Poll Low as Aides Leak: He’s “Furious”
MAHA Doctors Promised Kennedy Would be the Savior of Vaccines. What Happened Next?
Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name From Facade (“But a gap in the tarps allowed a New York Times photographer to observe a worker pulling the letter “A” from the wall. There was no sound of power tools; the letter appeared to come off by hand.”)
The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot
In Rare Move, D.S.A Rebukes Mamdani Over Police Plans
The Screwworm Is Messing With America’s Beef
Washington National Opera sues, says Kennedy Center owes it $17M
GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security
GOP’s bogus claims of fraud pose a dire threat to democracy
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Leave it to Pete Hegseth to ruin D-Day
Democracy Chips: Taiwan pivots to the Lone Star State
What the DOJ’s investigation into Los Angeles elections is really about
The Texan Ideology
The Optimist’s Case for A.I. (this is a hate link, as the piece disingenuously conflates older machine learning techniques with what is thought of as ‘AI’; tons of stolen valor in the piece)
The Information Wage
Catch-47: Barak Ravid has become one of D.C.’s most well-wired reporters during the Iran war, leveraging a direct line to the White House into endless scoops about the negotiations between Washington and Tehran. But what happens when your best source is an unreliable narrator?
An Indian billionaire was targeted by Trump. Then he poured money into a startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr.
FBI makes arrest in alleged plot to attack White House UFC event with explosive-laden drones and guns
Very Bad Man, Bibi
US citizen says ICE detained him for 2 hours without explanation