Links for you. Science:

The Gold Standard Grift
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
Antibiotic Resistomes And Microbial Communities In The 18th-Century Urban Settlement And Slaughterhouse Environment
Can A Monkey Have A Pet?
We Need to Quarantine Aliens on the Moon, Scientists Propose
A Hidden ‘Dark Dimension’ Could Rewrite Our Understanding of the Universe
Anomalous Footprints Made 1.43 Million Years Ago in Kenya Bewilder Archaeologists

Other:

Why businesses lie about AI
The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it.
What Susan Collins Just Did on Trump and ICE Should Worry All Dems. She voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding. But now she’s taking credit for a new bodycam commitment from ICE. Democrats can’t let her get away with this.
Poetic License
Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?
NY looks to shut down Kalshi, have it pay $36 billion in new lawsuit
Why many conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell don’t actually make sense
The Guy Who Recruited Graham Platner Has a History of Sexual Misconduct Allegations Too
Zooming out: How’s the Democratic Party doing?
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Harvard Fought Trump’s Abuses. Yale May Fold. I Think I Know Why.
Baseball’s Labor History Is Repeating Itself Once Again
The Tate Brothers’ Should Be The Trumps’ Second Epstein Scandal. The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
Sophie Cunningham Is About As Edgy As A Beach Ball
I Can’t Believe They Were Lying About That
Is The Right’s Next Project Make Women’s Sports Girly Again?
Pat Oliphant, fearless Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, dies at 90
Katie Miller Responds After Cozy Relationship With Anthony Fauci Revealed
Four Years After AIPAC Boosted Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens, She Can’t Escape It
Here’s Exactly What ‘PDF’ Stands For — And The Surprisingly Interesting History Behind It.
‘I Tried, and I Got Crushed’: AIPAC Made an Example of Andy Levin. Now He’s All-in for Abdul El-Sayed
With ICE, America is becoming the country we created in Iraq
‘It’s Bigger Than Abdul’: In Dearborn, Beating AIPAC May Be the Real Prize
AOC Says Bill Targeting Sexual Abusers And Deepfakes Is Struggling Because Her Name Is On It
The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it
The Candidates Who Could Stop Trump From Stealing The Next Presidential Election
Most Americans loathe data centers. Construction workers love them.