Links for you. Science:

This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
America’s oldest natural history museum is closing this week — but not without a fight
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
White House Backtracks on Plan to Exert New Control Over N.I.H. Grants
Delays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccines
AI solved one of math’s hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)

Other:

Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
3 myths about working from home, debunked
Kennedy Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California (this is interesting, but needs to be read carefully because there is a lot of supposition)
Speak at Your Own Risk
Election of the Day: Isle of Man
Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
“What Kind of Person Would a City Like Wickhills Produce?”: A Conversation With Premee Mohamed (Wickhills is a very good book)
We Now Know the Word That’s Going to Bury Donald Trump This November
Stuck
Is Writing An Essay An Appropriate Punishment For Gang Rape? Cornell Is About To Find Out!
Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis
The openly gay candidate’s sex life is news. But this isn’t? Chris Gallant’s 16-year-old BDSM photos became a national story. The curious living arrangement of two powerful MAGA Republicans gets a very different treatment.
Richard Hanania Doesn’t Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism. Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.
OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting
Converse CEO Pledges Review Over Ad Critics Say Evoked KKK
MAGA candidate fumes after his relative deported: ‘That’s not right’ (LePage in Maine)
The Revolution Has Been Televised—It’s About To Fail. The task for Democrats now is to keep the wounded, zombie version of it from encroaching further or clawing its way back to power.
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
Trump using federal government money to pay for campaign ads
Poll: 70% of Florida voters oppose ending school vaccine mandates; 40% less likely to back Byron Donalds, Ashley Moody
The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People
RFK Jr.’s soaring bodyguard costs covered with money for fighting infant deaths: WSJ
Whatever Happened to Franklin Park’s Restaurant?
Trump’s ‘big deal’ on Greenland is more of the same
Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel. Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors
Fairfax County to start electronic monitoring for noisy vehicles in early 2027