Links for you. Science:

The horseshoe crab has protected our health for decades. Now it’s time to return the favor.
Nearly 160 U.S. Troops Sick With Flu In Texas After Hegseth Axed Vaccine Mandate
The bobcat is the only wildcat in Mass. So why are so many people sure they’re seeing mountain lions?
This Controversial Substance Is Suddenly Being Called A Health Product By RFK Jr. — Doctors Aren’t Celebrating (Kennedy is insane)
‘A weird result from an already weird hominin’: Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are female
COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side EffectBenefits, Especially in Older Adults
A New Antibiotic Idea From An Old Source

Other:

AI is driving an already expensive housing market nuts in San Francisco
Shock and Awe in Moscow
Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
Those World Cup “Hydration Breaks” Have Fox Rolling in Dough
‘Every time you turn around, there’s a new price increase’: US small-business optimism plummets
Trump Still Has a Bad Case of Obama Envy
The Media Keep Making This Mistake About the Iran Talks
How the Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Verdict Threatens the Anti-Trump Resistance
Legendary TV Director James Burrows Dies At 85
He despises Jews, admires Hitler—Now, he’s starring in videos for a Tenn. candidate for governor
Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Keir Starmer Proves that Triangulation is a Dead End
Reflections on the Reflecting Pool
It’s The Corruption, Stupid. A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country’s richest technofascists.
Vandals used box cutter or knife to cut 290 or 300-foot “slit” in lining of Reflecting Pool
Obama, Trump, And The Outmoded Politics Of Indirection
Vandalism at the Reflecting Pool? Yes—It Was Committed by Donald Trump
New photos show first look at Kennedy Center facade without Trump’s name
The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine. It’s easy being green.
Trump Blames Vandals for Reflecting Pool Problems. Internal Records Tell Another Story. The documents do not indicate that the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally.
Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax. The GOP base would love to arrest people who laugh at them
Fixing the Democrats’ Toxic Brand Starts With Being on the Ballot
A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees
Mosquitoes, already? Blame cars
Elon Musk ordered to give deposition as ‘vote buying’ scheme bites him
Georgia Goes MAGA in the Republican Senate Primary
The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
The Banality of Peter Thiel’s Evil
Apple is charging you more and blaming AI data centers. That’s a big deal.
How a New York Primary Wound Up at the Center of the AI Storm (Bores lost)