Fossil duel
Trump often blames popular resistance to his policies as bad polling, but the size and scope of the Hands Off protests were far too large to be the product of faulty data. / Strength in Numbers
The Israeli military walks back its account of killing 15 Palestinian medics after video contradicts its claims that the victims' emergency signals were not on. / AP
Related: If you are in the US military, you are about to be asked to betray your own values. / How Things Work
According to a researcher, authoritarian regimes tend to break down when elites turn on each other when faced with an economic crisis. / Bluesky
Unrelated: Billionaire hedge fund manager—and Trump booster—Bill Ackman calls Trump's tariffs "a self-induced, economic nuclear winter." / BBC
Now that a second death has been recorded in the Texas measles outbreak, it increases the likelihood that we're going to see more. / STAT
Related: "The generation of physicians who are currently, for the most part, treating patients haven't actually seen what a measles case looks like other than from a textbook or a video." / The New York Times [+]
Trump is offloading the cost of disaster response to cities and states, which could drive them to invest more proactively in climate adaptation and other risk mitigation. / Energy & Environment News
ICE Air flight attendants say in case of a water landing they're instructed to ignore passengers and "make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off." / ProPublica
The National Park Service's Underground Railroad webpage is being literally whitewashed—sometimes not by direct order, but by low-level NPS workers seeking to comply with what they believed Trump wanted." / The Washington Post [+]
"Are we at the point where universities across the country must have presidents who are agreeable to President Trump or else risk calamitous cuts to their federal funding?" / Balkinization
US cuts leave Democratic Republic of the Congo—a country of more than 100 million—down more than 70% of humanitarian aid, cutting off potable water and HIV drugs overnight amid simmering conflict. / Think Global Health
See also: "You don't improve global security by allowing the World Food Programme to run out of funds to feed 2 million desperate people in the Sahel." / Financial Times
International standards organizations are said to be a current of anticapitalism in the corporate stream. / The MIT Press Reader
Splitting more than atoms: Physicists form factions for and against a new, bigger, budget-hungry Large Hadron Collider. / The Guardian
Economists consider switching from "gross domestic product" to "net domestic product." One big difference: Counting depreciation of natural resources makes petrostates appear less wealthy. / IMF, Climate Home
As states like Texas enact fossil-reliant energy strategies, a stark reality: New gas turbines are wildly expensive and difficult to procure right now. / Canary Media, Gas Outlook
Winter ice long visited by a dragon spirit no longer freezes; Shinto devotees blame climate change and disharmony with nature. / The New York Times [+]
See also: According to the company behind the initiative, de-extincting mammoths is a win against climate change—but it's almost sure to fail, and the money burned getting there would be better spent on actually fighting climate change. / Ars Technica
A forbidden workplace romance ends with a Major League Baseball player marrying the mascot—or, rather, the woman in the costume. / People
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