Links for you. Science:

The ‘Parasite of Parasites’ Has Been Discovered in the Tropical Forests of Borneo. A newly identified species of fungus attacks the famous “zombie mushrooms” that control ants.
My Peer Review of The 1%. I wanted to like QED’s new 1% ranking. I don’t.
The fall of the theorem economy. How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
We Need to Retrofit the Planet. The Heat Wave Proves It.
More Than Half of CDC Centers Lack Permanent Leadership
Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research
Science, Interrupted: The Lasting Impact of Terminated Grants

Other:

Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second. Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.
Dead Country Fair
Falling Home Prices Are a Measure of Success, Not Failure
Trump wrecked America’s 250th in DC, but other blue cities will save it
Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents. President Trump’s earnings in office are at a level once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president.
Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address Marking America’s 250th Birthday
Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
Trump administration moves to gut energy efficiency rules for home appliances
Moral Leadership
Dem Colorado gov nominee calls out DSA candidate for antisemitism comment
Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier
IRS agrees to stop stealing workers’ pro-union decorations. The National Treasury Employees Union sued the agency earlier this month after multiple instances in which management confiscated and disposed of flyers and other decorations from employees’ workstations and communal bulletin boards.
U.S. warned Iran about Israel’s aims to assassinate leaders
The Incumbent Democrats at Risk of Losing to Progressive Challengers
DALLAS DING-DONG: Shocking moment member of Egypt World Cup team is violently pushed by US cop in fiery altercation while meeting fans
Altercation between Dallas police and Egpyt staff goes viral, DPD says they were called
Afraid of getting booed, Trump bails on World Cup
Elon, Elon, what a killer
New York Times Badly Misleads Readers on Trump Accounts
Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
The DC Bar Is Refusing to Investigate Chief Justice John Roberts Over a $10 Million Scandal
What Is Roberts Up To?
Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal
Of Course a Confederate Flag Showed Up at the Great American State Fair
Most Metro Fare Evasion Cases in D.C. Are Thrown Out
You Can’t Solve Half a Problem
The Great American State Fair feels rushed, simulated and oddly sterile
Centrists Concede Patriotism to the Right
Big Tech: AI Data Center Opposition Is An UnAmerican Criminal Conspiracy
Big, If True