Ryan Schuetzler

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

In 2021, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said it is “ignorant” to believe cutting water to farms would help combat drought.

Farms account for roughly 80% of all water use in Utah, and cow-feed crops like alfalfa are particularly water-intensive.

Spencer Cox owns an alfalfa farm.

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

One of the most defensive responses by a sitting president to a question I've ever seen.

the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can

Screen shot of CNN site with a Saturday breaking news alert explaining that Trump launched a strike against Iran atop a CNN story from the same day headlined “Always a peacemaker”: How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

8 days ago millions of people marched against the President and held signs and listened to speakers and AFAIK not a single one of them (nor the people attacking them in RW media) mentioned a war against Iran because it just wasn’t a thing then.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

What a contrast:

On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.

On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Universities are not a branch of government

pure wickedness

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world.

The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.

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The payouts to Babbitt’s family, the pardons of J6 insurrectionists and war criminals, and the growing push on the right to exonerate Chauvin all show that the GOP will forgive any crime if they see it as defending the set of hierarchies they believe constitutes the real America.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

Opinion | Conduct oversight on Trump’s graft — or censure James Comer House Democrats must pressure Republicans to fulfill their constitutional duties.

No one assumes that a Republican-controlled Congress will hold Trump to account. Congressional Democrats need to start exerting pressure wherever possible to force the quislings across the aisle to exercise their constitutional power.
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"He's proud [to be a billionaire]. He talks about it all the time." The man has all the money you could need and still being rich is all he talks about. Of course he can be bribed. Money may be the only thing he legitimately cares about.

Half-baked opinions on being an AI Luddite Some half-baked ideas I've had about AI development and usage in 2025. Still refining my thinking, but I want to share.

I have a lot of half-baked opinions. Here's some thoughts on AI

www.schuetzler.net/blog/half-ba...

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24 Angry Men

14 Samurai

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.

Don’t Worry, We Were Prepared for Our Policies to Be Extremely Unpopular, Because They Are Very, Very Bad “Trump’s 41 percent approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower—including T...

Feels too true www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/don...