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ignoring the dangerous belief of an “objectively superior worldview,” *hot* maga people commonly look like incenstuous outcomes.

White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent “It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…

"Losing this much money, this fast, has no precedence in NASA's history. It would force terrible decisions, including turning off scores of active, productive, irreplaceable missions, halting nearly all new mission development, and decimating the country's space science workforce." 🔭

US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict

The question we must now ask: How much damage does the US want to do to Ukrainians?
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Talked to someone who worked for USAID until recently. Unsurprisingly, a passionate, kind and intelligent person.

Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.” “N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.” He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read.

The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally Immigration enforcement officials sought home addresses for 700,000 people and also asked for skilled auditors to investigate businesses.

This story is tough to summarize in a catchy way, but I'll try: The DHS asked the IRS to share the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, and the IRS said no because that's not legal. Nixon was nearly impeached for a similar move.

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Webpage for NOAA's external affairs team. At top is pink salmon colored box with text that says all external affairs people were fired.

Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired.
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

This was my last post on ded twitter, I deleted my account several days later… after joining in 2016 to advocate for the survival of democracy following the election of a Kremlin Agent who I investigated for … there is only one way we survive now, and it isn’t through elections.

Treasonous

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

In the world conservative media’s crafted, they are the righteous ones…

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target

Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

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i’m so so scared for all people and things.

Yeah. To put it into perspective, if Trump is permitted to rearrange the post office, he is also permitted to rearrange the lower federal courts however he likes. Both are spelled out as "The Congress shall have Power" in Art I, Sec 8.

And there's more too, like armies and the militia, second pic.

By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

This will be a dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

Grotesque, not surprising.

anti-government republicans do this to every element of government they dislike, want to privatize.

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

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What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Donald Trump’s actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead: Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

This woman had a ‘Project 2021’ via her 100+ plans in 2020. Addressed lobbying, climate (land & sea), racial inequity writ large, trump’s usurpation of law, judicial impropriety, economic injustice, rational firearm regulation, and gathered experts to design a m4a implementation reality. Here we are

When I left Twitter I had a 1M followers and 100K tweets. You know what happen to me when it was all gone? Nothing.

To the Twitter refugees who I see fretting about losing contacts and content by deleting Twitter, trust, you'll be fine. They have convinced us that we need them. Nope. They need US.

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination.

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Gen Z finds democracy dull because it knows so little about history A basic grounding in events is vital if young people are to realise the power and privilege of the ballot box I was heartened and terrified to read David Mitchell’s article (“Here’s a shock, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect”, New Review). What made his…

Gen Z finds democracy dull because it knows so little about history

Google is scamming us all 🥲