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Cantwell: "You're telling us in your testimony you want a tariff on semiconductors. I'm saying that the last administration and this organization here passed the CHIPS and Science Act so we could reshore semiconductors. You're not going to win the innovation economy by tariffing semiconductors."

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Because I’m an Aggie twice, I feel compelled to post this fact. 😍

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly what I’ve been thinking.

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Here's the breakdown of the $151.3 billion worth of US exports to China in 2022. With China imposing an additional 34% tariffs on all US goods, you can bet that US taxpayers will be subsidizing these industries, especially farmers, to the tune of billions of dollars. www.uschina.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Yes yes yes all of this. And no one, NO ONE, benefitted from black lung, asbestos poisoning and catastrophic workplace injuries. A golden age it was not.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

submitted 9 days ago • 947 comments

In my current vanpool we are listening to an audio book and they mentioned a fax. I asked the youngest person if they knew what a fax machine looked like and they said yes, it was the copier machine. Real teaching and learning happening. I didn’t say anything about the sound 😆

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Me talking to my Senator’s staff: What is Eric Schmitt doing about the tariffs and the market plunge? Staff: I’ll be happy to pass this along. Me: Pass what along? I asked a question. Staff: I’ll pass it along. Me: A question? No, I want an answer. Staff: Okay. Thanks. hangs up 😡

submitted 9 days ago • 366 comments

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1095 comments

Trump launched a trade war and ended up nuking his own economy. Two trillion dollars vanished—faster than his grip on reality. Calls it strategy, but it’s just ego in free fall, dragging the country down with him.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 9 days ago • 471 comments

Un dicho Mexicano… “ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente” Protect your peace

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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 9 days ago • 561 comments

18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥

submitted 11 days ago • 852 comments

Congratulations

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Thank you @booker.senate.gov for reminding us us of the truth and the power we all have.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Are we not going to stand up to save our libraries and museums? Everyone in my family has a library card? Does your? Are you a member of a museum? Now is the time. Today is our time to join them.

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Cory. Booker.

submitted 11 days ago • 148 comments

I wonder why too.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has cancelled the awards for faculty at HSIs for the FY 2026.

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Same with USAID. Every dollar invested brought back a minimum of $8 in trade relationships. When people are cutting costs today that will exponentially increase tomorrow, they're not balancing the budget. They're robbing your children and grandchildren.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

After all, who needs scientific integrity at NIH?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 14 days ago • 941 comments

When students ask me, as a historian of medicine, what I'm most afraid of, I tell them, "antibiotic resistance." Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries/inventions in history. Let's please stop attacking science. Thanks, bye.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Read this

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Social Security employee warns ‘people could be out of benefits for months’ as staffers who fix payment glitches exit

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

Not very good at all.

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Not good at all… my family members live in rural communities.

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This is utterly horrific. The person who will be conducting the wasteful HHS study of the nonexistent link between vaccines and autism is David Geier. This man is a fraud, having been disciplined for practicing medicine without a license a decade ago. You’ve probably never heard of him, but he and…

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Same thing could happen in Iowa and all the I states like Indiana and Idaho

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Some people LOVE to tell me that scientists have lost public trust because we were wrong about something, we communicated badly, we swore or cried or acted fallibly human, or whatever. That’s bullshit. Scientists lost public trust because disinformation campaigns like this stole it & eradicated it.

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments