Strikes have to cause acute disruption to people's lives... one of the impossible things about defending research and universities is that, although the effects are devastating, they are slow and hard to measure or make simple causal attributions about.
Trump's approval ratings have been steady over weeks of illegal attacks on civic institutions and government agenices... only market downturns are starting to impact it. This is not a country that is going to resist autocracy.
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When sanitation workers go on strike, there’s an immediate need not being met—with stinky reminders.
If no one does research for a week…the impact is subtle and years down the line.
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