Links for you. Science:

Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous. The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
Study suggests carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter may spread through the air
Three wild dogs have traveled farther than any African mammal
The South Can’t Shake This Record-Breaking Heat. Here’s Why
Few people with the flu isolate for the recommended period
Near real-time data on the human neutralizing antibody landscape to influenza virus in summer of 2026 shows antigenic advance of H3N2 subclade K region D mutants and H1N1 D.3.1.1 Sa mutants
Vaccine Integrity Project turns its eye to meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccines

Other:

Consider the Car Dealerships (excellent; I would add supplement dealers)
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
The Pageant and the Program: How the right buys a majority it does not have
Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo. Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat. (“If there’s some anti-Waymo movement, the best thing to do is to get everybody to poop in one at the same time. That would be the best.”)
Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States
Monuments To The Trump Presidency
On the sincerity of AI bosses
Trump Has Made More Trades Than All of Congress Combined
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don’t think these people should make policy.
Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes. Here’s who we should be listening to instead
They are titans. They may also be criminals.
See The Algorithm’s Dark Gleam In The Hunter Biden-Andrew Callaghan Crypto Scam Email Whoopsie
Snorts and Giggles Until Real Americans Take It Seriously
Bo French Sent a Tweet So Racist, His Own Party Finally Took Notice. It’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg. How a regulatory agency you’ve never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
Money creation does not cause inflation
Bill Cassidy pretends to have a spine on vaccines—far too late
Are we all going to die or is it just theatrics? The arguments against an AI apocalypse
Park Service quietly awards contracts to work on Trump’s takeover of East Potomac golf course
Short-Staffed: The nursing job crisis is raising an uncomfortable question: What happens when hospitals trade nurses for A.I.?
At trial, a tale of two Trayon Whites emerges
Who Investigates AI’s Cyber Attacks?
Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
Back Inside the Silicon Valley Class War
OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims
Trump administration moving ahead with signs outside Smithsonian museum. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said about a dozen signs would be installed outside the National Museum of American History warning of curators’ “personal viewpoints.”
Who Made America Poorer and Dirtier? The people in charge are really hoping you’ll blame someone else.
Photographer Exposes Trump’s Kennedy Center Plan—and It’s a Bombshell
Epic Trump Collapse Now Forcing His PAC to Spend Deep in MAGA Country
The Future of the Republican Party After Trump Is in Texas. The white male supremacists of the Texas GOP embody what the national party has become.
Trump’s Angry New Tirades on AI Wreck GOP Midterm Strategy. As Trump badly complicates GOP efforts to appear concerned about AI’s future, the author of a piece on his midterm challenges explains how he keeps wrecking the GOP’s message and game plan.