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#Physics Today looks at the human side of budget cuts that have cast off and dismissed so many US govt funded #scientists.

In "Silenced Science Stories" 50 artists made portraits personalizing the devastating disembowelment of research as #Drumpf admin and #DOGE operatives slash government support of vital US lab grants and work at #STEM agencies like #NOAA and National Institutes of #Health.

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/onli

silencedsciencestories.com

#Drumpf admin targeting of top universities does not spare #UCBerkeley whose #CalBear has been poked and probed by the President's fave pro wrestling doyenne now also in charge of the Dept of #Education.

Linda McMahon's #RWNJ minions have put the top #WestCoast public #university and research center under heat lamp of scrutiny for taking in hundreds of millions in donor dollars linked to foreign governments including #China, and a supposed culture of Title VI #discrimination against white and Jewish students. The President has personally targeted and threatened defunding the top tier #college for years, dating back to his first term.

Not only has the #campus been accused of the #CampusAntiSemitism trope but are dealing with 117 total issues laid out by federal authorities now seeking to #defund the public institution.

axios.com/2025/04/25/uc-berkel

Deep Devastating #DOGE / #Drumpf Admin Cuts to #AmeriCorps Grants Threaten Struggling Student Access To Many #NonProfit #Literacy And #AfterSchool Program Grants ...

#California Gov #Newsom Vows To #Sue To Stop Musky Cuts To Thirty Plus Year Legacy That Will Affect Many #CommunityOrgs From Senior Centers To Author Dave Eggers' Acclaimed #826Valencia With 3 Locations Serving #SanFrancisco Kids

mercurynews.com/2025/04/26/bay #giftLink #SharedLink #education #Drumpf

After officially ousting out lesbian black TV comedianne #AmberRuffin as confirmed host, the thin skinned US President himself is not even expected to attend next weekend’s annual #WhiteHouse correspondents’ dinner.

The #Drumpf admin has been particularly sensitive to negative press, threatening to jail journalists, and even ousting long time #PressPool members, including a ban on the entire #AssociatedPress org from events for continuing centuries of precedence and refering to the #GulfOfMexico instead of the President's preferred term “Gulf of America”.

krqe.com/news/politics/trump-n

As #tariffs went into effect #HiTech sector shed nearly 30k #jobs in March alone amidst industry wide employee purge. Large-scale #layoffs amongst first signs of #MAGA movement resurgence in #USA as #recession redux signifies dark days of #Drumpf admin policies.

Google alone just filed a #Warn notice of intent to lay off thousands of #Pixel phone workers as #BayArea #jobless stats show over 140,000 actively seeking work in dismal post-election #employment climate

sfchronicle.com/tech/article/t

Redefining the history of #Slavery in #America, the #DJT admin has put its anti-#DEI thumb on the scales.

Under new #ExecutiveOrder edict to reshape the #Smithsonian #Museum and the #NationalParks, curators of historic sites are ordered to rewrite history of #CivilWar, delete references to #HarrietTubman. Teaching visitors to historic sites about #UndergroundRailroad has been legislatively mandated since 1998, but recent #Drumpf era ommissions have been removing references to that, as well as #JohnBrown from #HarpersFerry and deleting mentions of #AfricanAmericans, the practice of slavery and any "divisive narratives" ...

wapo.st/4jdXL8m #GiftLink #SharedLink
#History

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@Bronwyn Don't think we've seen the bottom yet in this market but you don't have a lot of time to hold off. Early futures pricing was down 5% more earlier this evening but current futures pricing is basically unchanged from today's close.

They always say that you can't time the market.

That's not entirely true but if you want to maximize your investment, my guess is that if the market doesn't tank again tomorrow that will be the best time to place your order because it's likely to bounce back from the over-reaction to #Drumpf's tariff announcement, at least for a few days, before it heads down again.

If you want to hedge your bet, you can average in at $1k at a time, every other day, over the next 10 days.

Good luck!

Just learned of a new (to me) moniker for #DiaperDon that's a bit too wordy but it's so appropo that I'm going to use it occasionally from now on anyway.

It seems that in the 90's, #GraysonCarter, who was then the editor of #SpyMagazine and later the editor of #VanityFair, noticed that #Drumpf's hands seems too small for his body size, nicknamed him the #ShortFingeredVularian, which gives more meaning to #MarcoRubio's disparagement of size of the #FatOrangeMan's hands during their campaigns for #POTUS back in 2016.

I just learned this during Gràyson's interview on #TV on #SundayMorning on #CBS this past weekend but it has been mentioned in an article previously.

See:abcnews.go.com/Politics/histor

But, now, Rubio like all #Repubicans is just another #BrownNosed sycophant of the "Short Fingered Vulgarian. 🤷

ABC News · The History Behind the Donald Trump 'Small Hands' InsultBy ABC News

#DJT controversial public threats and exec orders targeting multiple #lawfirms ability to do biz reaps big reward from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP when top #beltway firm agreed to do $40 million worth of #ProBono #dirtywork assisting #Drumpf admin draconian deeds. Critics see the spineless surrender and kowtowing to #WhiteHouse threats as ugly admission we are in era of lawless #DC #RWNJ demagoguery.

washingtonpost.com/politics/20 #PaulWeissLLP