Links for you. Science:

Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds (we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause…)
Plague is Scary but That Doesn’t Make It the Next Pandemic.
In Colorado, the Majestic Ponderosa Pines Are Dying
1 in 13 adults under 30 already had hidden artery plaque
What Do We Owe New York City’s Wild Parrots?
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
Trump’s Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Other:

Trump’s failure hides Project 2025 success
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
Abdul El-Sayed on Why Medicare for All is Non-Negotiable
Susan Collins’ time is up as Maine’s Houdini
Don’t Bet On The Fever Breaking. Democrats have to be ready to box Trump in, even if Republicans in Congress close ranks around him, the way they always have
An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
Metro’s Iconic Striped Pylons Are Off the Chopping Block
Modern Architecture Has a Beauty Problem
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
Cloudy John
Sam Altman Déjà Vu: A candid conversation with Gary Marcus, the machine learning founder turned A.I. skeptic, about why Altman’s U.N. warning sounded so eerily familiar, and what has—and hasn’t—changed since the two of them testified together before the Senate about the threat of superintelligence gone wild.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Can Publishers Survive the Agentic Apocalypse?
Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League
Steve Witkoff’s Ninth Circle
Montgomery County High Schools Are Navigating a New Cellphone Ban
Crypto’s Washington Winter
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
Sure Why Not
Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Is a Master of Mafia Diplomacy
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
You Can’t Build a Better Politics on Bad History. Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
The Reality Today Is That Foreign Policy Hawks Are a Minority in the Democratic Party
RFK Is Gloating That His Changes to HHS Are Permanent
My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants (Trump take salsa)
America Without the NFL