Andrew Bennett (he/him)

There's always the burnt out Old Spanish Trail Motel: maps.app.goo.gl/76v7Leq9gh1V...

Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.

Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾
tucson.com/opinion/colu...

How much will your state lose with the new NIH indirect funding cap?

(From James S Murphy at Education Reform Now, link to article in 1st reply.)

US military budget: $850 billion

US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion

That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Sure thing - go for it!

Important thread - if you want to calculate for your own institution I made a little webapp: arbennett.github.io/nih_overhead...

Results for University of Arizona:

The most recent executive order to gut existing and future NIH research will have a huge impact on universities, communities, and their local economies across the U.S. if it's allowed to move forward www.science.org/cont...

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, unelected, drugged-up fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.

Agenda47: Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State | Donald J. Trump For President 2024 I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly ...

Not shutting up about how the impoundment/"funding freeze" constitutional crisis was a campaign promise that Trump made back in 2023 (if not earlier). This is not a surprise, why aren't Democrats prepared?

www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

As my inaugural bluesky post, proud to share some work we put out today!

Decades from now, the polite mainstream will claim the legacy of the protester who stands bravely against the jeering white boys - just like it currently claims the legacy of protesters who stood bravely decades ago.

But let’s remember where the polite mainstream stands in the moment.

would be nice if we took the risks of a culture of total elite impunity as seriously as we seem to take the risks of political backlash

appropriate answer to this is "no"

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every single election the dems have lost in my lifetime has resulted in a huge, generational setback to human welfare and democracy in the united states.