Links for you. Science:

Senate candidate El-Sayed wants to ‘grill’ RFK Jr., calls him the ‘most incompetent HHS secretary ever’
No. I was not paid to critique the Anxious Generation. I came to the conclusion that the science featured in it was flawed all on my own
Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back. A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.
Florida Sues Climate Modeler First Street Over Home Risk Scores
30,000-year-old bone found in French cave reveals vast genetic connections between people of Eastern and Western Europe during the Stone Age
Domestic travel poses growing risk for measles—and a new challenge for states. International travel used to be the main risk of measles cases in the US—not anymore.
First ever human case of livestock-related Shamonda virus identified in France

Other:

Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal. Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.
Video Shows ICE Agents Slashing Portland Couple’s Car Tire Then Driving Off
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
Trump Just Told Us How He Intends to Steal the Midterms
Trump tried to rebrand “AI” as “SI.” Right-wing outlets aren’t listening.
Pay to Say: Influencers Caught in NewsGuard Sting
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads
A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Hack Apocalypse Now
Jared Kushner Got Secretary of State Fired After Dictator Paid Him Off
Democrats Have an Islamophobia Problem Too. Centrist Democrats spent last year criticizing the party’s most visible Muslim candidate—and have done so again in 2026.
AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
Kash Patel Invests in U.S. Tech as FBI Investigates Chinese-Connected Cybercrime
Bombshell report exposes Trump antisemitism czar’s threat to choke Jewish intern
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86
Conservative influencers face identity theft charges over Minnesota primary
Patrick Stewart, a perceptive patriarch in ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men,’ dies at 86
In historic first, voters in five states will decide transgender youth rights. Five states have initiatives on the ballot to outlaw trans athletes in girls’ sports and gender transition treatment for children. Washington state could require genital exams for girls in school athletics.
ICE agents tackle and injure U.S. citizen student with disabilities, local officials say
Confused NYPD Abandons East Village E-Bike Raid. They showed up to harass delivery workers … but then changed their minds.
Brazil probes foreign financing, including group linked to Vance
Top 25 donors provided 1 in 6 individual contribution dollars
Oldest Recording of Louisiana’s Vanishing Creole Language Is Published. The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a language rooted in the state’s history of slavery and French colonialism.
Google Eats Its Own Tail (and Profits) With AI Summaries as Stock Price Plunges
America’s Truckers on the Brink With 221 Bankruptcies This Year
Disinformation videos, likely from Russia, are exploiting real people to malign Senate candidates
Good Enough For Journalism
Waiting On a New D.C. Trash Can? You’re Not Alone.
All My Apes Gone
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy. He planned to make good trouble. But he didn’t expect to be handed a Fox News mic.