For all the scientists who voted for Trump (and I know many of you), I hope the war on DEI was worth it.
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Sam Stein
Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."
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I’ve been oscillating between feeling disillusioned & feeling galvanized..
“Just because you’re not interested in politics doesn’t mean that politics isn’t interested in you.”
Same reason my white Southern farmer father gets told a lot about “them” (the rest of us) by his neighbors.
Fuck them if they did vote for him - not just for the cuts to nih and nsf but for the racism, anti-trans hate, for Ukraine, for usaid, for the arrests of immigrants, for everything.
But I know there are plenty—even at Berkeley. Scary. 🫠
Destruction, in the long run, may actually work in their favor, according to what they value, which is not what we value.