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Read "American Science, Shattered"
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs,
upended lives,
and delayed discoveries
https://www.statnews.com/american-science-shattered/

American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

Typical #rail line reactivation in Poland:
1. For many years, reactivation is debated, meetings are held, studies are done — and nothing happens.
2. Suddenly funding appears, and preparations start.
3. Just before the work starts, some of the stakeholders start debating a New Better Route.
4. Mutual mudslinging starts, as some of the counties that already paid for the project, discover that the New Better Route omits them.
5. In the meantime, the railroad company proceeds with the original plan and doesn't care.

Larry Ellison Provides Personal Guarantee for Paramount's Bid for Warner (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/paramount-amends-bid-for-warner-discovery-with-new-ellison-guarantee-035b0ce8?st=YnNnDJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p57#a251222p57

NFL Week 12 top storylines: Shedeur Sanders' first start, desperation in Kansas City https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6823950/2025/11/23/nfl-week-12-storylines-shedeur-sanders-browns-chiefs-colts/

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

NFL Week 12 top storylines: Shedeur Sanders' first start, desperation in Kansas City https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6823950/2025/11/23/nfl-week-12-storylines-shedeur-sanders-browns-chiefs-colts/

Some good news for the start of the week-- a 290 million year old fossilized cloaca has been discovered, which is in fact the the earliest fossilized cloaca ever found. https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-fossilized-butthole-found-in-290-million-year-o…

Oldest Fossilized Butthole Found in 290-Million-Year-Old Reptile
Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on with its day.

One of the best discoveries of 2025, great DJ, great sets.
Listen to DJ Ellis Dee - Ibiza Stardust Radio 09 by Ibiza Stardust Radio on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/X0WL4ezMgHLsU…

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

The English-language edition of Wikipedia
is blacklisting Archive.today
after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.
In
course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS,
Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages
to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS.
The alterations were apparently…

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.