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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pus...

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Liberals are not a resistance force. They’re still class traitors. They fight to uphold the same exact capitalist system, the same institutionalized racism. Voting blue no matter who is what got us into this perpetual cycle of choosing evils. Libs aren’t ready yet to actually be the resistance.

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

The smartphones and Facebook/YouTube algorithms melted so many people's brains, it's NUTS. You really have to fight to stay connected to anything even close to actual reality and there's no payoff for doing it, just the despair that comes with seeing so many people living in literal fantasy worlds.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

You Don't Actually Need To Pick A Team There’s this weird assumption that Americans are under some kind of moral obligation to take a side side either with Trump or with his pretend opposition in the Democratic Party, and it’s just silly nonsense. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-dont-a...

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If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

We just want to say that we are in awe of all of you. You are the ones history will remember—a resistance rising against tyranny. From the moment Trump took office, laws have been broken left and right. We shouted from the rooftops, and it took relentless effort just to have our voices heard.

submitted 5 days ago • 219 comments

And some still want religion taught as science in public schools… 🤦‍♂️ Maybe we should focus on real education, not biblical indoctrination.

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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

submitted 6 days ago • 327 comments

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

submitted 7 days ago • 226 comments

I LOVE all these posts about how America is "No longer on the side of Democracy!" What was your first clue? Vietnam? Iran? Cuba? All those Banana Republics? When we started couping anyone we wanted to? America doesn't tolerate Democracy IN AMERICA. Who's side do you think we're on?

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One perspective on the egg problem: Why not take this as an opportunity to stop eating eggs all together? They're bad for your health. They're bad for the environment. The egg industry is nightmarish for the chickens. Take this little bump as the universe telling us to get off that train!

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Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.

submitted 9 days ago • 332 comments