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This says it all. What more do you need to know about who Trump and the Republicans actually care about?

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Man I love living in a country where I have a spot that I'm pretty scared might be cancerous but since I work 2 part time jobs and have no insurance I can't do a goddamn thing about it :) hope I'm wrong I guess!

USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

James Baldwin wrote “if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” The instinct to throw some group under the bus as protection is not only morally wrong but always politically stupid. This is what the center-facilitated assault on trans rights has wrought.

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

Super contagious, and also wipes out your prior immunities (viruses and vaxes) so it leaves you vulnerable even to things you’ve had before! You have to have all your shots again post-measles!

Harmful Algal Blooms can destroy crops, ruin tourist seasons, and cause major respiratory problems. Without NOAA, you're on your own.

NOAA also monitors sun spot activity. Those lucrative bailouts to Starlink aren't going to make a lick of difference if they can't track solar flares.

The microbiome paradigm, endosymbiosis, PCR, all of that came from exploratory deep-sea research.

You have no idea how much of the modern world exists because Bob Ballard stuffed some tube worms into a bottle of vodka.

Do you like modern medicine? The last 50 years of medical advancement owes its existence to NOAA and NSF-funded exploratory research into the deep sea that fundamentally redefined our understanding of what it means to be alive on planet earth.

The NOAA teach-at-sea program is one of the best training opportunities for US primary school teachers in the country. Spend time on a research cruise, get first hand science experience, and bring it all back to the classroom.

Amazing.

No NOAA, No Seafood.

Vibrio is the number 1 cause of food poisoning related mortality.

You think you're going to eat raw oysters in a warming world without NOAA climate data? I sure as hell ain't.

In the town of Oxford, MD, NOAA is the largest employer. Without the Cooperative Oxford Lab, the town ceases to exist.

NOAA installed a tide gauge for the town so they can better respond to nuisance flooding.

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.

There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

To summarize:

-They stopped almost all USAID work

-Then they conceded that some programs actually saved lives & granted waivers for those

-Then they promised a “careful” 90 day review of everything

-Then they cancelled 90% anyway within just weeks, including many they had just deemed life-saving

Everywhere I’ve ever been, you could always just walk in whatever bathrooms there were. It’s not like they card at the door. The social stigma against being a creepy pest is all that ever stopped you, and that doesn’t change because trans people exist and need to use the bathroom sometimes.

I love being so poor that I struggle to pay bills every month and frequently have to borrow money and literally eat less food than I need and I somehow owe the fucking government over $600 for my taxes. I am panicking. And it was such a good day, too.

Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

Democrats are out with messaging that the Republicans didn’t play fair, which, first of all, grow the fuck up, and, second of all, Republicans just voted to kill Americans by stripping them of healthcare and food. Maybe talk about that. People will die because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.

It is absolutely incredible to watch what Musk did to Twitter play out in the *EXACT SAME WAY* with the US government.

Come in like you’re an expert when you don’t know a single fucking thing. Fire everyone, destroy the entire infrastructure, leave a burning pile of shit, pat yourself on the back.

I saw guidance saying "mask up if you're somewhere where people don't have a choice about being there... pharmacies, hospitals, etc"

I hate to break it, but... baristas, janitors, customer service reps, retail workers, &t... none of them have a choice about being at work either.

Really irritating to see people assuming that because this caller is from West Virginia, he voted for Trump. In the call he states he’s a Democrat. I have family in WV and they’re all Democrats who are pretty scared right now

“Transgender” and “Queer” have been removed from Stonewall Monument page - News Is Out The Stonewall National Monument website has removed “transgender” and “queer” from its page, sparking backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates.

This is inexcusable. Trans and queer people WERE Stonewall. They put their bodies and freedom on the line for all of us. newsisout.com/2025/02/nati...

What are we really saving?