Science, research, and services aren't just a spigot you can turn on and off. It could take years, even decades to undo this damage depending on how long it continues for. - ThreadSky

joycewhitevance.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Science, research, and services aren't just a spigot you can turn on and off. It could take years, even decades to undo this damage depending on how long it continues for.

Reposted from Marisa Kabas

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected]
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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brainthink.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Any organization that gets gutted in this way never recovers. Even in the private sector. It just doesn’t happen.

What Trump and his Republican sycophants are doing is willfully reducing the United States to a second world nation, but they believe they’re “saving” it.

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM.

tspofcourage2025.bsky.social•1 day ago

Throwing science, research & services out with the bath water is throwing the 99% under the bus. We can’t just sit back & complain while they try to erase us!
Join/support fighters for humanity & the 99%:
@indivisible.org
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social
@aclu.org
@booker.senate.gov
Protests matter
ACT

amstermom.bsky.social•1 day ago

People are in clinical trials right now, and the trials have just stopped. Even if they are resumed eventually, the months of data from before the cut-off has just lost its validity, meaning months or years more before anyone can determine the value of a potential cure.

elsurf.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This is absolutely nuts

lfseligson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

This is devastating

carenaak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dem candidates (and the party) should be working on plans to restore our essential government services when they retake the majority.This is something that can’t wait until they’re back in the majority. Do it now, while Trump’s illegal power grabs are being challenged in the courts.
Ready Day One!

benfranklinskite.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://resist.bot/petitions/PWNZSH

cjh22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nice job- thank you!

calialicia.bsky.social•21 hours ago

In the words of the great 1980s philosophers, Cinderella, You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone 🎶

aprilmuttz.bsky.social•1 day ago

This just brings tears to my eyes. I want someone to explain why, in detail, why.

ccsocal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention traveling and relationships abroad🤔

klomeliruns.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. There are scientists that only survive on yearly grants they win to shoestring together a job, by doing projects that win that funding. Millions of these small ppl creating local benefits to their communities were wiped out. No one will remember their existence in the big picture

pollydestefano.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This will ruin us for a generation…or more.

bzule.bsky.social•1 day ago

Many decades. Trust is gone. It will be hard for the agencies to recruit top scientists without job security. Scientists won’t put in work to win NIH grants if they can be canceled when administrations change.

ibitpichu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Science and research is a plant that grows 🥹

beckyward.bsky.social•1 day ago

The damage is already substantial.

haggis222.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Find a protest near you on Saturday, April 5th!

https://HandsOff2025.com

manalee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good idea not to get sick in America and expect government information or help.

sueinsf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not too mention the very specialized expertise gained from years of experience. People aren't interchangeable widgets. The regime has done untold damage. Just devastating!

sueinsf.bsky.social•1 day ago

"to mention" not too! 😤

dpc1zspeaking.bsky.social•1 day ago

So they gave gutted all these divisions and expertise and they claim
This is making America healthy again? How ignorant does one have to be? This is folly

feedpeople.bsky.social•21 hours ago

R Kennedy Jr must be fired NOW! Millions of Americans are now at risk for disease and a cut to longevity from this crazy nut job. Those Republican Senators who approved Kennedy will have to deal with their karma for their cowardly vote. They have destroyed our healthcare potential for decades.

scienceintheend.bsky.social•1 day ago

All of these actions generate void where the training opportunities and mentorship should be.
It is a long and difficult slog to be a successful scientist.
What bright, energetic kid would choose that path now?
What parent would encourage them to?
All so a billionaire can have a seventh yacht

susanleslie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Key: "depending on how long it continues for."

neilc-atl.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s a lot easier to tear stuff down than to build it up. He’s doing irreparable damage

poetdevotee.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And NO ONE knows where all the money has gone. ELUMP has cancelled THOUSANDS of contracts worth MILLIONS of dollars. Where is the money? Where has it gone? No one knows. Where is the fucking money?

I think Elump is sending it out of country. Maybe to Russia?

Follow the money!

mac1934.bsky.social•14 hours ago

this will especially cost us for a long time to come

ladygf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Insane!

profbobhowarth.bsky.social•1 day ago

It will take many, many years to undue this damage needlessly caused by unthinking DOGE agents under Elon Musk. I doubt most Americans will ever understand the depth of damage. Among other things, the best US students are no longer thinking about working for or in the US. Many are looking abroad.

stansburyj.bsky.social•1 day ago

#sciencematters

vernbob.bsky.social•1 day ago

MAGA/GOP wants to kill America! 😠

copydan.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the long term, what will kill more people: Trump's COVID response or gutting these offices and stopping research?

madramblings.bsky.social•1 day ago

4 years from now are they all going to contact each other and say "Hey! We're getting the (research) band back together!". Like, how well do (science) reunion tours turn out?

deadlinedemocracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds great for folks aging now. Sounds even worse for young folks. The world is being destroyed as we watch.

drbruceherbert.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The same concerns lie with Universities. It takes many years to develop the knowledge and skills to conduct cutting-edge research. Too long out of it and the world has passed you by.

bandedhawk.bsky.social•1 day ago

It will probably take longer. Talent is going elsewhere, so you know, reduced in-country expertise, and it won't be easy to entice scientists back.

unforgetableme.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/unforgetableme.bsky.social/post/3lluia6dkrc26

Brought to you by the authors of Project 2025.

sarasmirks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Department of Clinical Bioethics
-Christine Grady, Director
this a direct reaction to Fauci. and it destroys generations of work to protect the rights of clinical research participants

maggie88.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you picture years of research, people in medical trials for efficacy of drugs, Petri dishes of research dying and losing all their valuable information, fridges of virus studies just rotting? Trump and Elon did that!

campoe.bsky.social•23 hours ago

My God! And all the trickle down impact of this is yet to show. Much like all the other cuts on all the other agencies.

brainthink.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It won’t be a trickle. It will be a deluge.

When the next epidemic hits, we’re fucked.

rfdude.bsky.social•1 day ago

Much of it will never be undone, because if we didn't have the politicians with enough backbone to say FUCK NO to this happening in the first place, we sure as hell won't ever have politicians with enough backbone to fix it.

Never.

Our Golden Age is over, killed by indifference and greed.

attikusfinch.bsky.social•15 hours ago

What if this is intentional. To crash the market, destroy/dissolve the fed so crypto (already independent of the central banks) can become THE currency and economy. Thiel/vance/Yarvin all want this new world with new “network states”, crypto, no laws and them as its little kings. It’s a global play

mysticlee123.bsky.social•1 day ago

America...making Europe great again!

gs314.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Exactly

lizzielooksup.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Ugh. That's a depressingly long list.

level90.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They don’t care. If it does not obviously name an immediate buck they consider it not a ‘proper’ job. Money is all they care about. The probability is that federal spending will increase downstream to cover the fall out from these ‘savings’

doreen418.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Dr. David Kessler says “maybe, maybe we have a week to stop the damage…’

He saved our sorry butts from AIDS and COVID. Geez laweez…

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm afraid I will greatly need them but they won't recover until long after I'm dead.

lenday.bsky.social•19 hours ago

America is in for a world of hurt. Putin is loving it.

bmorelisa.bsky.social•1 day ago

I keep thinking of the university students planning to go into public health & research.

donlovemargaret.bsky.social•21 hours ago

thank you Joyce
🍁🛶❤️💙💚🔬⚖️🌻🌻🌻✊

hughjacks-again.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Who does trump think is going to manufacture all the crap we can’t afford now?
I was at a grocery store yesterday, I’m still disturbed by the prices. F. eggs look at beef! We needed real help not whatever this is.

comen-tator.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is nothing like giving the enemy (disease) a cease fire so they can regroup, change their battle plans and come back at you stronger and from some new angles that you didn't have any plan to combat!

caquail3.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even if we undo damage done to our gov’t,education, science,tourism,rule of law,economy,etc.,Trump has destroyed future trust in the US.The whiplash suffered from Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump has destroyed trust that Americans won’t choose to shoot themselves,and the world,in the face again in ten years.

dewterium2.bsky.social•22 hours ago

SO much of the damage being done right now can be described this way. I'm old enough I probably won't outlive the consequences of this era.

democrataz.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Thank you!

ukwebfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pretty sure death was the plan all along knowing you can't just wiggle your nose to create science like Bewitched.

fairydogma.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are so fucked if this doesn't end now.

auntiecassie.bsky.social•1 day ago

We probably won't live to see the America we had 3 months ago. 😔

gcthoreau.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pretty horrifying. :-(

elbowroomier.bsky.social•20 hours ago

There’s already an exodus of them to EU.
And a poll found over 75% are seriously considering leaving.

rainmargaret.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why aren’t any Republicans asking questions about why this is being done? And how the research and services are waste????

danfell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Such an important point.

truth-n-science.bsky.social•1 day ago

*different federal agency <

truth-n-science.bsky.social•1 day ago

it is very damaging. it has happened in smaller bits and pieces over the decades and we're still recovering from those, so i don't see us surviving this next round.

yvettejr718.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe it’s time people in Republican districts went to Washington D.C. and told their Senators and Congressional representatives what they think of their leadership (or lack of).

potatobiker.bsky.social•11 hours ago

And again, if Dems are ever voted back in, they will immediately be punished for not fixing it all immediately. People will again elect destruction because rebuilding took too long.

sronczy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for sharing and this is so bad.

radiumsapphire.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They only care about shutting it off. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

dscrad.medsky.social•22 hours ago

If you are over 60, you will not live to see the rebuild and resurgence of American Science.

salbr29891.bsky.social•1 day ago

So what can we do about this?

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