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#waronscience

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RonSupportsYou

"A public letter from NASA employees on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration: 'We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources'.”:
nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science
#Trump #WarOnScience #politics #greed

Nearly 300 people, some currently working at NASA, signed the formal dissent letter sent to the agency’s leadership.
The New York Times · Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public LetterBy Kenneth Chang
Jeroen SZ 🦣

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts | #USNews | The Guardian, by Nina Lakhani

Our ability to respond to #ClimateChange, the biggest existential threat facing humanity, is totally adrift,” said Sally Johnson, an Earth scientist who has spent the past two decades helping collect, store and distribute data at #NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and #NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
#WarOnScience

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · ‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cutsBy Nina Lakhani
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

In the For All Mankind timeline they'd be a season about nudging 3IATLAS into a Mars impact and kickstart the Terraforming.

In ours, Trump could be defunding the Martian satellites that could take a look at the interstellar visitor as it passes, because 'Fuck Science' is what the voters want apparently....

#3IATLAS#Mars#ForAllMankind
Doug Bostrom

"The grant cancellations, Young concludes, "Arise from the NIH’s newly minted war against undefined concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender identity, that has expanded to include vaccine hesitancy, COVID, influencing public opinion and climate change." The "undefined" aspect plays a key part in his reasoning. Referring to DEI, he writes, "No one has ever defined it to this Court—and this Court has asked multiple times." It's not defined in Trump's executive order that launched the "newly minted war," and Young found that administrators within the NIH issued multiple documents that attempted to define it, not all of which were consistent with each other, and in some cases seemed to use circular reasoning.

He also noted that the officials who sent these memos had a tendency to resign shortly afterward, writing, "it is not lost on the Court that oftentimes people vote with their feet."

#dei
#WarOnScience
#RememberInNovember

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEIBy John Timmer
RonSupportsYou

Brian Allen: "Condoleezza Rice just went on Fox & Friends and dismantled Trump’s war on universities and scientific research. When even Bush’s Secretary of State is side-eyeing your assault on knowledge and education, you’ve officially crossed into uncharted stupidity. This isn’t left vs. right anymore; it’s reality vs. whatever paranoid fantasy TrumpWorld is cooking up next."
#TrumpDestroysOurNationsFuture #WarOnScience #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics

RonSupportsYou

"With the welcome mat withdrawn (by Trump) for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences":
nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/a
Trump is ending "decades of innovation, economic growth, and military advances."
#MakeAmericaPoorAgain #Trump #WarOnScience #WorstPresidentEver #politics

The New York Times · World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump CutsBy James Glanz
RonSupportsYou

"Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours in protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to weather and climate research. The livestream started on Wednesday and is scheduled to run continuously through June 1, the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season":
youtube.com/watch?v=-Go-RCg3AjI
nytimes.com/2025/05/30/climate
#WarOnScience #Trump #WorstPresidentEver

YouTubeWeather and climate science needs your helpBy The Weather & Climate Livestream
RonSupportsYou

"The MAGA #WarOnScience Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting Started. The administration’s anti-science posture has three different sources. Each is extremist":
newrepublic.com/article/195801
"The proposed 2026 budget calls for a devastating 37 percent cut in funding for biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health and a 56 percent cut in science research funding through the National Science Foundation."
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #PutinsPuppet #politics

The New Republic · The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting StartedThe administration’s anti-science posture has three different sources. Each is as extremist as the last.
🌜Galactic Stone🌛

FACT : 100 years ago a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

History repeats itself.

#STEM#science#ScienceMatters
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)

“The report draws on HELP Committee Minority Staff’s interviews with dozens of federal scientists, workers, and experts to explain how Trump officials are suppressing what scientists can say, controlling how scientists work together, and erasing scientific data.”

#WarOnScience #WarOnPublicHealth #BernieSanders #Science #PublicHealth #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpWarOnScience #TrumpWarOnFacts

commondreams.org/newswire/sand

Common Dreams · Sanders Releases Report Documenting Trump’s War on ScienceTrump Cuts Cancer Research by 31 Percent
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