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Trump, Questioning Vaccine Safety, Pushes Major Changes to How Kids Get Shots  (Daniel Payne, Anil Oza, and Chelsea Cirruzzo, STAT)
At a White House event on autism, Trump baselessly linked vaccines to the disorder and urged major changes in how kids get their shots.

H-1B Visa Upheaval Roils Companies and Geopolitics  (Andrew Ross Sorkin et al., New York Times)
The Trump administration has clarified its new visa policy, but corporate bosses are still trying to sort through the fallout.

The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook  (Stephanie Saul, New York Times)
Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.

For His Friends, Everything  (David French, New York Times)
There’s a pattern to President Trump’s second term. He breaks the law and bullies his opponents — and yet he still wins. One of Trump’s most consequential victories occurred on Friday, when he reportedly reached a deal with the Chinese government to hand control of TikTok.
In the process, he defied a law passed by Congress and risked American national security. All to preserve access to a social media app while he negotiated a deal that benefited his billionaire allies, such as Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen.
The risks to U.S. national security are great. First, TikTok  vacuums up an enormous amount of personal data from its users. Under Chinese law, TikTok’s parent company could be forced to hand over its data on American users —data that, among other things, could potentially be used to blackmail prominent Americans.
Second, TikTok is wildly popular in large part because of its algorithm, and Chinese control of that algorithm means that one of our nation’s most powerful foreign rivals could flood the American public square with Chinese propaganda, or —more insidiously —it could subtly tilt the conversation in China’s favor or just continue to promote content that exacerbates American divisions.

Why AI Systems Might Never Be Secure  (Economist)
A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse.

One Vigilante, 22 Cell Tower Fires, and a World of Conspiracies  (Brendan I. Koerner, Wired)
Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era.

$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers  (Zeyi Yang, Wired)
President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent tech firms scrambling to get immigrant workers back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.

Inside Trumpworld’s Reality Distortion Field  (Jake Lahut, Wired)
In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, Donald Trump’s advisors were sure who was to blame. That law enforcement says they were wrong didn’t, and doesn’t, much seem to matter.

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA  (Stevie Glaberson, Lawfare)
The department’s accelerated DNA collection program is a civil rights and civil liberties nightmare. Consent is not the cure.