Links for you. Science:

These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit. And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery. (“It’s not yet a breakthrough,” said Philip Kranzusch, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School. “It’s a wrinkle on what we know in the field.”)
The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They’re One of Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries in Decades
Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why. In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress.
Dr. Vinay Prasad Created Long Lists of Randomized Trials for Other People to Do. Does That Make Him an EBM Guru?
Briny “Death Pools” Hold Clues to Early Life

Other:

The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse. End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?
Whites Only: The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.
DHS Witch Hunt Falls Apart as It Can’t Name a Single Noncitizen Voter. The Department of Homeland Security said it found 16,000 noncitizen voters in one state—but didn’t get a single name right.
Newsom Vetoes Bill That Would Ban Extraditions for Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care
This Is the Biggest Reason Why a Blue Wave is Probably Coming. Nothing makes voters angrier at the party in power than having less money in their pockets, and real disposable income is down.
Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced. What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
Supreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible Voters
RFK Jr.’s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access
Women Built MAHA. MAGA Bros Have Taken It Over.
AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time. They may disemploy us; they may wipe us out. But right now, their lack of profitability underscores our bubble case.
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Elites Need Some Emotional Distance from Social Media
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
The Paramount Settlement Started With Trump
A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop. The company deleted huge swathes of the site after we noticed. It’s still publishing complete nonsense.
Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks
My So-Called Alpha School: What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Accused of Touching Woman’s Hair on D.C. Metro. Bryan Betancur, 29, was taken into custody on Thursday in Arlington, Va., two days after he completed a sentence for the same offense in the District of Columbia.
Donald Trump abdicates as leader of the free world
US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home (‘voter fraud’ is self-projection)
Clavicular’s charges shows the real danger of MAGA manhood
Swing Voters Won’t Be Grateful If Democrats Capitulate. Independents aren’t abandoning Republicans because Republicans refuse to pass message bills, but because they’ve given Trump carte blanche. We’ll know whether Democrats understand this by December
Natalie Harp isn’t a joke — she is Trump’s dangerous enabler
Canadian citizen detained at U.S. border crossing, questioned for hours about voting
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100’ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way