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He nails it.

Fuck Marco Rubio.

The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to *half* its staff.

The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today. Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you were born white, male and in the United States of America, and you still managed to grow up and be frustrated and unhappy, it's you MAGA. It's you. IT'S YOU!

☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Washington! Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #washington

What happened last time we had a mad king? America doesn't do kings.

Remember, when you feel defeated. When you feel overwhelmed. When you feel like you can't keep track of it all. When you feel like it's hopeless. That is EXACTLY what the Trump Regime wants you to feel. We aren't whipped. You need to take a knee, you do that. We got this.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

The 2nd date with my now spouse was meeting up at the Boston March for Science in 2017. 1. Support STEM 2. Meet the love of your life It’s a win-win 🧪🧫❤️

NOT MY PRESIDENT #NoClownsOnPresidentsDay #Resist

We will fight the criminal Trump Regime on our own. youtube.com/shorts/1jjoe...

BREAKING: Utah BANNING firefighters, police, teachers, and other govt workers from negotiating for better pay and benefits for them and their families This is MAGA: 1) False promises to help people against elites 2) Destroy middle class workers and families -- to benefit elites

What Trump promised: - helping reduce cost of living - helping working class folks generally What Trump is delivering: - costs keep going up, up, up - working class folks losing their jobs - healthcare and medication costs explode - yet Elon Musk is getting MILLIONS in govt $

This 👇🏽 💯

At some point, we went terribly off course

🧪Now that many PhDs are looking at a future working at Home Depot, if you're lucky, maybe now is the time to say "We told you so." and get you to start paying attention to and speaking out against right wing pseudoscience. www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

Got word that several NIH employees in a group working on cancer clinical trials got terminated via email this evening. “The [cancer research] trials will literally not be able to function without us.” Trump and Musk are killing cancer research. 🧪

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“legislators must exercise their constitutional responsibilities to oppose unqualified candidates for important federal positions, constrain damaging actions by the executive branch and give science agencies the resources needed…This is not a fight that our country can afford to lose.” 🧪🩺

Donald Trump just quoted Napoleon. Napoleon was a dictator, who seized power in a violent coup at gun and cannon point. He then invaded all his neighbors, citing patriotic duty, resulting in 3 to 6 MILLION people dying -- obliterating his army and country in the process.

🧪 Dr. Lawrence Tabak, NIH's principal deputy director since 2010, has retired unexpectedly, effective February 11, 2025. His departure coincides with significant leadership changes at the NIH under President Donald Trump. 🩺💻

Super nice cancer #biomarker study! Low cost, and fairly sensitive, making strides toward a screening test for early-stage pancreatic #cancer. Doesn’t appear to be *quite* specific enough for use in broad populations but looks promising! Early detection in pancreatic cancer will be game-changer 🧪

📢 Hate Speech on X Has Increased Under Musk A new study finds that hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) remained 50% higher through mid-2023, while spam bots saw no decline - raising concerns about platform safety. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #SciComm #SocialMedia #Misinformation 🧪

Thinking of making all future maps for my papers small enough scale so I can include the Gulf of Mexico. 🧪

Potential game changer test. Prognosis for pancreatic is usually terrible because it is often stage 4 when discovered. 🧪

So, speaking as an astrophysicist, I can confirm that work on Solar Eclipses is 💯 “woke” science. Given that we no longer require human sacrifices to appease the gods, I can see how our new scientific methods might unsettle some lawmakers. 🔭🧪

You dumbfucks said Biden wasn’t “really in charge” and then you handed Trump’s presidency to Elon fucking Musk?

This 👇🏽 💯

Dear MAGA, this didn't have the effect you hoped. We thought you were stupid bigots before. Now we think you are sick, immoral, disgusting twats that shouldn't be allowed near children.

For anyone who suddenly claims concern about the national debt -- and claims Trump and Musk are doing something about it: The president who added the single biggest amount to the national debt ever in US history, $8.8 TRILLION? Donald Trump.

Breaking: SecDef Hegseth Announces a Major Policy Change That Harms U.S. National Security open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

So unelected private citizen Elon Musk held an unusual press conference in the Oval Office yesterday alongside two toddlers. His young son… And Donald Trump.

Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin & undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine & Europe. A major blow to US national security.