Links for you. Science:

This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like
This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (biology is amazing and unpredictable)
Some Spiders Savor Sacrificial Somersault Sex
Why Does The Red-Lipped Batfish Look Like That?
Scientists Discover Vast Underground ‘Anomaly’ on Mars
Red Dwarfs Are Super Stars
This Little Bird Is in Big Trouble—and Trump Is Making Things Worse

Other:

5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
Will Moderna’s Cancer Vaccine Be Good for People, or Profits?
The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media’s Reporting on Abortion Case
The Pirate of Pornhub
Democratic Candidates Have Embraced Unity. Dem Pundits? Not So Much.
You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits
Trump Is Waging War on Haitians
Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax
Fortress NYU
NYT’s Embarrassing Anti-DSA Meltdown
Wiki Workers of the World Unite
The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
Most Democrats Don’t Want to Talk About Transgender Athletes. He’s Leaning In. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton. (the NYT editors are so angry this is working…)
The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems
How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Trump’s real estate career offers a hint of Kennedy Center’s future
Democrats aim to emulate Republicans in building state power
Infinite Hedge: The Polymarketification of American life
The high cost of MAGA manhood
Democrats’ Branding Crisis & The Groyper Media Myth
Pete Hegseth’s path to the 2028 GOP nomination isn’t a joke
How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?
Donald Trump has made the world go nuclear
Hard data and context are missing in Minnesota’s overblown fraud furor. Trump’s claims that this state is an outlier when it comes to fraud don’t hold up, and the politicized attacks must not go unchallenged.
Biden Family Grift vs. Trump Family Grift: Let’s Do the Numbers