Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
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Fucking Joe Biden and his stupid-ass boring policies! Burning down the country out of spite? That's great copy! Sure to sell lots of newspapers! Great job @nytimes.com!
Not that they HAVEN'T ALREADY, but they are so full of themselves thinking they are invulnerable, they are going to cross every line so hard even the clueless will be screwed and revolt. Can't happen fast enough.
This comes about two months into his forty-eight month tenure as president, or 1/24 into the presidency. We're making progress! If his presidency was the length of a 3:09 pop song, like "Roxanne" by The Police, we... still would not have heard Sting say "Roxanne"...
When will this madness stop? Not until members of Trump's Cabinet are hospitalized after drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food.At that point, they'll see how important these scientists are.
No. This has been a Republican aim for 50 yrs. They finally have the power to do it all. None of this is new. It's Bush II, it's Reagan, Hell,Clinton helped do some of it. It's an ideology, not a person.
Exactly. Why are we allowing this to happen? He and all of his whacko appointments should be eliminated not the EPA. They serve us supposedly. He wants to be a king? Kings can be overthrown.
Let’s protect our Earth by restricting ourselves only to current, common knowledge. New science will do nothing but speed up the extinction. The less we know about our own impact, the better, because if we knew what was happening it would hurt our feelings.
And once Party Media have persuaded the imbeciles & scoundrels that the shit in the ground, the water & the air isn’t causing sickness & death because it’s not being measured - they can get on with blaming Muslims/Mexicans/Hispanics/Jews/Gays/ Women/uppity Negroes/Trans - (delete as applicable….)
They’ll bring them back when a sane administration is voted back in ( provided we don’t lose our tenuous democracy), and it will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny to get things running efficiently again.
Scientists work for the government for its mission and job security, and it requires a lot of continuity in institutional knowledge. It would be a mess to build again from scratch.
Trump is the vessel but this is the Republican party. The congress is composed of rich corporatists, dingbat mouth breathers and own the libs synchophants. And of course they're backed by the MAGA cultists and a bunch of others that don't pay attention to what's happening.
These goons think they own us, that they control us, but we run the show. We push the buttons. We drive the cars. We cook the food. We deliver their every want on a platter of our bones.
The people who want someone like Trump in power want to keep the world addicted to fossil fuels for generations to come.
They will buy the Congress to make certain they will NEVER be held accountable for the toxic nightmare they leave behind.
Welcome back to the days of big industry polluting your environment for corporate $$$. Old enough to remember burning rivers, Love Canal toxins, PCBs in water, DDT killing raptors. Welcome to poisoning by PFAS. Glyphosate and 6 PPD. That is if we survive anthropogenic climate change.
It's like watching Americans go back in time. Giving up on science/equality and everything that making your life's safe. and your news papers report it as just one of them things
MuTrump trash departments, attack career officials, and unlawfully seize government data and assets, in a painful and destructive privatization scheme. MuTrump will fail to improve the government while doing major damage to the effectiveness and legitimacy of the state & cherished institutions.
The EPA's mission has been changed under these fascist ghouls to making it cheaper to buy a car and run a business. It's absolutely crazy watching a country led to destroy itself by morons.
Just more harm to the world and especially Americans… having clean/safe water and food and air are not “entitlements” or “fraud”… it’s what we want our tax money to help with!
Americans, I hope you like breathing toxic air and consuming other random poison in your food and drinking water because it seems that's what you voted for.
Is anybody organizing folks as they get DOGE'd? The probationary employees, the FBI lawyers, USAID, EPA, and all the others? And the folks getting laid of at universities, foundations, and other knock-on effects?
Lmao, only room for rapists, traitors, grifters and Trumpistan. Idiocracy was right all along ! Keep up the good work Americans, you are ok your good way to hell/Russia like.
Remember the syfy 80s V: The Series where aliens arrived and the first thing they did was either remove scientists or brainwash them to hide the truth.
#donaldtrump is the president of the USA or the Trump Organization? Many devastating incidents - planes, wildfires, nasty mother nature - have gone unmentioned! Hey?
That is precisely their intention. They are following a proven formula to take a country away from its people and turn it into an expansion and enforcement machine for the regime. 11
ive been hearing maybe lead is good actually. too many people demonize lead. my grandfather he knew lead, his initials were L.E.D and thats pronounced lead. its in my blood. im paid for by several lead mines
It is called the Environmental PROTECTION Agency. Zeldin and camp are doing just the opposite. More pollution, disease and toxins. BAD for us and the planet!
Dumb people are scared of smart people. The imbeciles have been growing their ranks for 40 years. They can now impose their state of ignorance across the globe.
No they won't. They'll get cancer and they will die because the research program that would have delivered an mRNA vaccine that would have cured them was eliminated 10 years ago, and no amount of money can bring it back in time. These are really public goods!
No they won't benefit from new treatments that might have been. Neither will they be able to escape pandemics, a crashing economy and a weakened national defense.
Two sociopaths are going to make "tax cuts" not that fantastic.
The idea that other countries are going to just "pick up the slack" --starting where? Medical research? Addressing climate change? Providing global security beginning with Ukraine & Taiwan? Replacing all the aid that was once provided by USAID?
And they will suffer economic blows thanks to Trump.
Correct. This admin is appeasing rich donors from industries that want them to do away with all regulations regarding the protection of our health and the environment. It's all about the money, honey.
Hard to imagine how this is going to work out well for anyone. Destroy public health, the economy, the environment & national security - tax cuts aren't going to do much for anyone. Seems more like two sociopaths just want to burn it all down.
Because environmental rules slowed Donald’s developments and he bears grudges like no others. And a chunk of his supplicants are convinced faith is worth more than knowledge.
So let’s say there is an oil spill.
Or a chemical warfare terrorist event.
Or a nuclear reactor fails.
What then?
And why would anyone want to love here at this point?
And Molly Vaseliou says they are still committed to clean air and water. How the hell can they do that without the researchers and scientists. Do they really think we're all stupid enough to believe them.
What happens when an uneducated, uncouth man wins the presidency and rather than surround himself with the best and the brightest, he picks the dumbest and most partisan/radical weirdos. It shows.
He is surrounded by a well-organized army of flying monkeys, directed by the architects of America's destruction. Don't believe that radical weirdos can't efficiently and effectively strip us to bones.
A line from "The Dark Knight" (2008) keeps replaying in my head recently: Alfred (Michael Caine) speaking to Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale): "Some people just want to watch the world burn." The line refers to the Joker, a madman bent on mass chaos.
Congratulations, @nytimes.com All the sane-washing of Trump and all those articles about how (2-years older) Biden was over the hill helped elect a guy bent on destroying America.
ONE MILLION PERCENT. My friends/family are sick of me saying it but legacy fucking media has blood on their hands.
"But her emails" led to "Biden is too old" to "Harris isn't ready" but God forbid @nytimes.com actually mention trump talking about Arnold Palmer's cock at a rally.
Tim Walz calling republicans weird nerds was the most effective campaign strategy since Obama was running, and the DNC strategists got paid six figures to make them stop.
Trump and Musk firing thousands of scientists conducting lifesaving work seems bad. Do you think you could cover it with the tireless outrage that you applied to a woman's imperfect adherence to email server security best practices?
This is unconscionable. Only a narcissist without a brain, let alone empathy for future generations would find this acceptable. He’ll be dead in 10 years so why should he care…he obviously hates his own family.
The U.S. is already trailing behind other countries in scientific advancement, so it makes complete sense that the Trump Administration reduces the ability to improve that position. Trump logic defines stupidity at the highest level.
The Republicans should be deeply wary of this. In the UK, the Conservatives cut a lot of water quality oversight in the name of deregulation, and it's become the object of almost unanimous attack - from both the political left AND the right. It's not just liberals who need clean water and air.
Обезьян с бананами из нас сделает пьяный монгол( так обещали.
Вовка личный наш враг монгольский. Англии или Британии тогда ещё.
как Шекспир писал. Офелия убила сына от его "предка". Когда подслушивали "что вот женюсь и королём стану"
Насиловал он много как и сейчас. Сын был.
за это убивают детей
If you were Vladmir Putin and had a pee-pee tape of the sitting American President, you could get much worse return on your blackmail than this and still be happy. #kompromat
Imagine writing that whole ass article without mentioning,
in the current political climate,
that it is dictators that get rid of the scientists
as one of the first things they do to cement power.
What could go wrong??? But why are you reporting this? Your “ journalism “ is a major reason fat fuck is in charge now. Never a negative assessment of him, but dear god, democrats couldn’t have anything positive. So I blame you cowards for this
Respectfully disagree.
Newspapers are large entities with lots of ppl working for them so it won’t be hard to find stories you wish weren’t written or were written better but the Times is the best paper in the country so trying to pin Shitler on them doesn’t seem fair (IMHO)
Have a good day!
Name a better newspaper that does a fraction of the things the Times does. Don’t think it’s possible.
Ppl across the spectrum have an unhealthy relationship with this company.
More foreign bureaus than any other, more $ to pay investigative reporters whose work takes months before it sees the light of day. That's how you got the Pulitzer series "Trump's Taxes." Say what you will about its domestic political reporting & some of its editors, but yes, it is indispensible.
Science, knowledge, education — and the very idea of truth that exists outside of what the Party tells you — is a direct threat to the authoritarian regime. Naturally, these are always the first things to go.
We are so fucked. People will start dying. Are probably already dying from the insanely stupid shit Trump and Musk are doing. What past leaders acted like them? There will be a breaking point. And it will be beyond horrific.
Total madness at work! They should at least retire the name of the EPA. Maybe they should call it the "Environment Destruction Agency" (EDA) or something like that.
This is exactly why Carville’s strategy of letting the sociopaths and sycophants rape & pillage while Dems duck and cover is wrong - it will take decades to rebuild the institutional knowledge repubs are destroying.
They are doing all these things that amount to political suicide because they dont intend to ever have to worry, about elections again. Right now they are getting all the money locked down, so when they fully coup, they can make sure they have control of every cent. We have till june maybe less
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E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants
https://nytimes.com/2019/10/31/climate/epa-coal-ash.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.ny3Q.lXgOxBht0Wrz&smid=nytcore-android-share
Oh...
Idiocracy is supposed to be a fictional movie not a friggin documentary 😳
The 🌎 wants him dead
I hope he gets hit by lightning ⚡
#happythoughts
It’s your patriotic duty that you owe your oligarch overlords.
If only powerful media organisations could have had some inkling this might happen, they could have warned people. Oh, right: the old guy stuttered…
https://bsky.app/profile/josiahhawthorne.bsky.social/post/3lknpse36kk23
We serve them what we choose to serve them.
So, what should we serve?
How shall we serve our loving masters?
Pollution
Toxic Waste
No clean water
No fresh air
Cancers
Maybe real life Zombies
Flesh Eating Disease
Having reached harmony with the Nazis they now seek to emulate the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Only the worst will do for our MAGAts.
Or maybe they do
They will buy the Congress to make certain they will NEVER be held accountable for the toxic nightmare they leave behind.
So they just won't catch cancer you see...
Two sociopaths are going to make "tax cuts" not that fantastic.
And they will suffer economic blows thanks to Trump.
Or a chemical warfare terrorist event.
Or a nuclear reactor fails.
What then?
And why would anyone want to love here at this point?
How apropos of 2025. #EPA #science #scicomm
Make America Dumb Again.
Make Americans Die, Also.
#usa is going to see a massive brain drain under #trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0sxwGlTLWw
"But her emails" led to "Biden is too old" to "Harris isn't ready" but God forbid @nytimes.com actually mention trump talking about Arnold Palmer's cock at a rally.
кто из невесток? и Байден помог Москве? Вовка лучший товарищ? ДНК надо выверять
как с мифа и Екатерина царица России...
Вовка личный наш враг монгольский. Англии или Британии тогда ещё.
как Шекспир писал. Офелия убила сына от его "предка". Когда подслушивали "что вот женюсь и королём стану"
Насиловал он много как и сейчас. Сын был.
за это убивают детей
сами как узбеки вы уже рейтингом.
in the current political climate,
that it is dictators that get rid of the scientists
as one of the first things they do to cement power.
Sure, blame the NYTimes for Shitler’s ascent since that makes sense.
Newspapers are large entities with lots of ppl working for them so it won’t be hard to find stories you wish weren’t written or were written better but the Times is the best paper in the country so trying to pin Shitler on them doesn’t seem fair (IMHO)
Have a good day!
Ppl across the spectrum have an unhealthy relationship with this company.
https://qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-underpins-both-the-alt-right-and-silicon-valley-technophiles
I want off this time line. OTP vp
Adios to corporate liability!
Love Canal? Go for a swim
Toxic air? Stay inside
Bhopal? Meh … there’s lots more people to step in
This is catastrophic.
Stock up on water testing kits, y’all.
Be prepared for Cholera and Lead on Tap.
America is becoming a 3rd World Country.
https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-issue-with-trump.html