Links for you. Science:

Why we don’t know what food is spreading the parasite sickening thousands. There’s a lag between when people consume the parasite and when symptoms appear, making it tough for those infected to remember what they ate to pinpoint the problem. (though Listeria infections suffer from the same problem; article does mention the genomic diagnostics difficulties however)
Two of Texas’s Deadliest Pests Are Bound to Clash. Will Anybody Win?
How Oregon cut pesticide-related bee deaths
The Heat Is On
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate criticglobal warming denialist.
Don’t ‘never-skill’ yourself with AI
The Trump Administration’s Existential Threat to Scientific Research

Other:

The Insurgency Will Continue Until Morale Improves. How Democratic voters began to question, and ultimately lost faith in, their party’s establishment: a comprehensive history. (excellent, must-read)
The Office Amenity That Actually Improves Teamwork (realistically, it’s office doors)
Trump Plans to Fence in Historic Space for Political Protests. Trump is moving to shut down all protests outside the White House. (when Trump closed Lafayette temporarily in 2020, that led to protests on the sidewalk & then to the tear gassing by St. John’s, which, in turn, massively swelled the size of D.C.’s BLM protests, so this might not have the result they think it will…)
Admitted killer wins GOP governor’s nomination in Colorado
Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were Deleted. A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
It’s Not the AI. It’s the Lawyer: We Don’t Have a Hallucination Problem, We Have a Serious Ethics Problem
Graham Platner sounded like a fighter, but in the end, the man from Maine was a petulant child
ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be.
Voters on SNAP are sad after voting for anti-SNAP party
Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
The Anti-Amazon
How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased
Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well
I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks
Candidates Need More Than Vibes. Graham Platner Proves It.
Trump’s Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society
Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve
Trump admin says it won’t use money earmarked by Congress to replace NYC housing vouchers
‘Troubled Teen’ Program Where Paris Hilton Was Tortured Is Finally Going Down
Pete Buttigieg Didn’t Have to Let Those CPS Officers In
Argentina’s Racism Problem. A song against Black French soccer players is a symptom of deep-rooted prejudice