Alexandros Labrinidis

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

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“An old rule in Washington holds that you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts. President Trump seems determined to prove that wrong.”

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change.

Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.

“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

“Firing the top statistical official sends a clear signal to others across the government that you are expected to compromise scientific integrity to appease the president… This puts us in dangerous territory far from an accountable and reality-based government.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

NSF slashes most career executive roles after shedding one-third of staff The National Science Foundation is initiating a reduction in force for senior executives, but offering them opportunities to stay at the agency.

Terrible short-term news for #NSF and even worse long-term news for the USA’s competitive edge on Science.

#NSF’s entire budget was $9 billion which comes to <$2 per MONTH for every adult in the US.

Countless discoveries were funded by #NSF, including Google.

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It doesn’t have to be this way.

NIH is shrinking the number of research projects it funds due to a new Trump policy NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

By entirely funding more awards up front, the NIH is on track to fund just 1 in 25 applications

Such a payline “would chase a lot of people out of science” former NCI director Ned Sharpless told us 🧪🔬

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Opinion | Trump, Obama and the Question of Treason President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed.

In accusing Barack Obama of treason, President Trump “is wrong on the facts and the law, and his sensational allegation serves only to demonstrate how completely he has degraded contemporary political discourse,” Jeffrey Toobin writes.

Safety is at Risk Warn NASA Staffers in Protest Letter Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

🔥From Time Magazine -

A 24% cut. Mars samples abandoned. Moon missions canceled. A $4B telescope locked in a clean room. Trump is torching NASA’s future, and hundreds of NASA workers are sounding the alarm.


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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump's newly released AI Action Plan.

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “common sense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models, saying that approach is “not doable.”

Resignations and a ‘dissent’ letter suggest Trump has put NASA’s future in doubt It remains an open question as to whether NASA and the U.S. space program will survive the Republican president’s second term.

NASA’s warning signs are flashing. Senior staff are resigning, and hundreds of scientists are pushing back against Trump-era chaos.

The time to act is now.

Support the brave #NASA employees speaking out here👉 zurl.co/MaPnN

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No wonder the Pedophile Protection Party shut Congress down early.

Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA

Staff at the National Science Foundation have sent their concerns about President Donald Trump’s administration to Congress. scim.ag/4f4Mc2u

A faux newspaper front page with a space shuttle launching into a blue sky. A burnt paper overlay reads “THE VOYAGER DECLARATION HAS LAUNCHED!” Below, bold text says “NASA JOINS THE RESISTANCE,” and a subhead reads: “NASA scientists join a growing rebellion against Trump’s science cuts.” At the bottom are the words: DISSENT, BRAVERY, RESISTANCE.

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨

🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED.

NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda.

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So instead of releasing the Epstein Files which contain all the evidence in the case, Trump is going to try and release grand jury transcripts that contain far less than 1% of the evidence, & secure a statement from Maxwell who has every incentive to lie for a sentence reduction.

Oh hello there! Just sitting here really beyond pleased that Donald Jr reminded us that those who do not release the Epstein files are SCUM!

I absolutely agree and appreciate his candor

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

So this is where we are at.

WTF CBS Paramount ?!

Another company grifting with the MAGA cult of Trump.

Bend the knee, kiss the swollen, orange hand.

Boycott the b*stards.

I stand with Stephen Colbert ✊🏻✊🏾✊

Watch. Share. Raise hell. 👇

He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.

Here’s the sick thing: all for tax cuts that the very rich won’t even notice because their accountants do the work and they just know if they can buy a new G5 or not.

Meanwhile:

This gap in biomedical research funding between FY24 and FY25, it's new therapies that won't see the light of day, researchers moving away from science, and the evisceration of American research universities, which were until recently the envy and a model for the world.

For those just waking up: last night Republicans voted against an amendment put forward by Democrats that would have forced the public release of all the Epstein files

NOAA and FEMA are being gutted and our infrastructure was designed for the weather of 100 years ago.

Immigrants are good for America and it's not a close call.

I am heartsick over the loss of dozens of people to devastating floods in Texas, many of them young girls at Camp Mystic in Kerr County.

To the families and communities affected—please know that people across the country are grieving and praying alongside you.