Science In The Dark The Police State performance On Sunday, June 8, my partner and I were at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary museum in Downtown Los Angeles, attending part of a

my new piece in ZNetwork: "Science in the Dark"

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Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

I hope there are people backing up this public database before it is made to disappear... SAVE THE SCIENCE DATA is one of the most important resistance actions right now

www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

The State Operating System and Tyranny’s Backdoor On March 15, 2025, in a new executive order, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that endows the president with sweeping and unchecked authority

my new piece in the press:
The State Operating System and Tyranny's Backdoor

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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

and there will be no effective flu vaccine next year
(at least not in the US)

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

more on Trump's war on science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

Haha 😂 Trump appointees at USAID sent terminated employees a list of over 100 prohibited weapons they cannot bring when retrieving their belongings. The list includes firearms, axes, martial arts weapons like nunchucks and throwing stars, spearguns, and even dynamite.

Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an

fascism, the war on complexity, and the end of science

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Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an

got this published yesterday in Z Net

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every (required) "broad impact" section of an NSF grant has to contain some statement about educational value, which is expected to include some wording about broadening participation and underepresentation, so this will effectively terminate review of most current grant proposals.