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The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

submitted 6 hours ago • 55 comments

🧵Here are videos from yesterday’s raid in San Diego. All this for 3-4 people whose likely crime is a civil misdemeanor. Your screams at them MUST be relentless! Let them know they are not heroes, they are terrorists arresting hard working people. They are the criminals who work for the Trump.

submitted 38 minutes ago • 2 comments

Proposed to cut number of people involved in NSF activities by 70%. We are literally on the chopping board. Call your reps.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

submitted 19 hours ago • 144 comments

Each Friday night, I write up what happened in science & higher ed. - 1200+ pages of new (weird) detailed budget request - cancellation of pandemic flu & HIV vaccine efforts - more travel visas throttled - FEMA, “gold standard science” & more This was week 19: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

You can't kick millions off Medicaid without forcing hospitals across America to close, especially in rural communities. People who've lost coverage will delay care and eventually head to the emergency room, uninsured. Every Senator needs to vote NO on these Medicaid cuts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 66 comments

The Department of Energy (DOE) just made significant cuts to clean energy programs that would have supported economic growth and created thousands of high-quality American jobs. With increasing electric demands, the DOE must take on the challenge, not step backwards.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 11 hours ago • 294 comments

Abolish ICE is the moderate position at this point

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

Taco Bell ought to run a sale on chicken soft tacos every time the tariffs are delayed.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

🍊💩 doesn’t want a cure for cancer. pass it along

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

if any other country suddenly moved to expel half a million - HALF A MILLION - nonwhite immigrants, reporters would call that a crime against humanity. forced transfer of population falls under that designation; it's also one of the defining aspects of genocide. i'm incandescently angry over this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

submitted 17 hours ago • 96 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 15 hours ago • 947 comments

In case people are amazed/confuses/shocked/whatever by the devastating cuts proposed for US science, technology, and innovation, please remember that autocrats always go after three main targets: 1️⃣ Media 2️⃣ Courts 3️⃣ Academics It’s literally textbook and, yes, it’s happening in the US.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

In case you missed it, in all the bad news (as I did): the FDA is apparently not updating the covid vax (from JN.1, in the M. & P. vaxxes) to inc. newer strains, this fall. Yet another way to undermine confidence in vax efficacy, as well as the actual vax efficacy. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Survey of leading economists: "Imposing new US tariffs on steel and aluminum will improve Americans' welfare" |----------------------------- 28 strongly disagree |------------ 12 disagree | 0 uncertain | 0 agree | 0 strongly agree igmchicago.org/surveys/stee...

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

Earlier this year I wrote about the problem of "learned helplessness" online, where people think the only thing they can do if they don't like how something works is to yell at companies/gov't to "fix things." Some of the responses I'm getting to the post below... www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/e...

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Jake Tapper can go suck eggs.

submitted 22 hours ago • 579 comments

Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

submitted 22 hours ago • 352 comments

SCOTUS just gave the Trump admin the green light to deport 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua & Venezuela. These people entered LEGALLY under Biden’s humanitarian parole. This isn’t about “illegal immigration”— in Trump’s own words, this is about ethnic cleansing. #OnYourSide

submitted 23 hours ago • 77 comments

I see he's literally standing next to Trump doing a news conference right now, congratulations to everyone who wrote up "ELON STEPPING AWAY FROM POLITICS" in the newspaper.

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments