Links for you. Science:

Ohio’s Kroger gets $3 million ‘MAHA’ grant. Critics call it taxpayer-funded marketing.
The efficiency of information gain by natural selection
A New Kind of Chemistry
The phantom lighthouse: new research explains one of Australia’s strangest illusions
AI Generated Content and the Identification of Features in Time Series Data
Scientific Reports on hold in PubMed while NLM reevaluates journal
Pork Futures: How should we save our swine?
Congo Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,000

Other:

Please Let the Internet Die
Forget Banning Stock Trades. A Democratic Majority Must Tackle All Corruption.
Former Patient Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Senator Marshall
Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It’s Staring Into ‘the Void’
DoorDash’s $17B Acquisition of Instacart Points to a World Without Employees
George Pelecanos Shows Off His D.C. Roots Yet Again
Ask A D.C. Native: I’m an artist. Should I leave D.C. to make it big?
RFK Jr. may hate vaccines, but he loves mystery shots
Nearly half of people who applied for shelter at this D.C. homeless family crisis center were denied
Mark Ein closes in on control of Rock Creek Tennis Center, home of DC Open
Democrats Have a Bogeyman in Musk. They’re Hardly Using Him.
Agentic AI is myth set in motion
After decades of boycotts, Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out to vote. It could shape what comes next
‘Amateur morons’: Flávio Bolsonaro’s short-lived ‘president-elect’ claim met with mockery
Federal judge signals she may halt construction on Trump’s arch
The Supreme Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act is Mobilizing Black Voters. Look at Alabama.
We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much.
Stephen Miller Messed with Texas
No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.
How Republican lie that Abdul El-Sayed ‘publicly supported’ Muslim Brotherhood started with Laura Loomer
Cabinet Officials on the Campaign Trail? Ethics Experts Say Some Are Breaking the Law.
Let’s Talk About Alaska
Mike Rogers’s Wife Runs a Consultancy That Sells Government Access
A very abbreviated list of a few corruption scandals from the first half of Trump’s second term
Instagram shut down a No Kings account. Now Democrats want answers from Mark Zuckerberg.
U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution
Trump Rages as Leaks Show Aides Feeding Him Midterm Hopium
D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump’s proposed triumphal arch
2028 Won’t Be the 2020 Ideas Primary Again