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This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

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SCOTUS has entered the chat.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

More of this, please.

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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 19 hours ago • 147 comments

The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat They're making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureaucrats They're taking over the boardrooms and they're fat and full of pride

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s not hard, people.

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This isn’t surprising anymore, but if we’re making a list of white supremacists holding federal office, add this gem…

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Into my veins

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 627 comments

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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? If it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” —A. Lincoln

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Musk and DOGE are so dangerous and incompetent they fired more than 300 staff at the NNSA only to have to call them back when they realized they were involved with nuclear security. There is no Oops! with nuclear weapons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

One of the most important roles of the NSF is to support science and tech ecosystem in the US. This ecosystem drives basic science breakthroughs that industry can build on. It also supports the education of a skilled workforce so that actual tech firms don’t have to hire utter imbeciles like these.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1247 comments

I’m thinking, maybe Americans should stop going to Russia and giving Vladimir Putin a steady stream of new hostages

submitted 9 days ago • 334 comments

The Project for Awesome 2025 livestream will be February 14-16, but what is P4A? #P4A2025

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

The New York prosecutor’s letter is an example of superb legal argument and solid principle. (I know, a lawyer’s letter worth reading? In this case, absolutely.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 87 comments

No lie detected…

submitted 11 days ago • 533 comments

Just re-reading Altman's latest and trying to figure out how anyone with the authority to charge dinner for four at TGI Friday's on their corporate card could fail to realize that this unadulterated horse shit.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

"Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect." --SCOTUS (1975)

submitted 12 days ago • 452 comments

.. we ask that everyone in the global scientific community be attentive to these threats to accuracy, and to possible suppression of scientific evidence involving US federal agencies... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Opinion | President Trump attending the first half of the Super Bowl cost taxpayers $4 million. Here's why DOGE must lay off a bunch of federal workers making $75,000 so that the government can live within its means.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

Important PSA

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I’ve tried to understand this but there is simply no good reason at all. Rampant sexual assault remains a problem in the ranks but they don’t want “DEI.” It’s all such bullshit. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

submitted 13 days ago • 319 comments

Y'all see how the Eagles just beat the Chiefs ass. Very cutsey. Very demure. VERY DEI.

submitted 13 days ago • 94 comments

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

submitted 13 days ago • 168 comments

Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

This would throw entire regions into a recession, especially so if they apply to all federal grants. Prob cost UIowa more than $100M/yr The reason these overheads are needed is because the states no longer sustainably fund higher ed

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

submitted 14 days ago • 312 comments

Hey if you happen to know more about what’s happening inside DOE I’m all ears, signal is davelevitan.26

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"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold

submitted 15 days ago • 195 comments

This is the way.

submitted 15 days ago • 210 comments

Yesterday's announcement about NIH grant indirect cost funding being retroactively reduced has direct, potentially major impacts on Iowa and, specifically, #iadist89, on not only the jobs economy, but also the future of medical and scientific research.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/water...

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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

Rubio when asked about Darren Beattie:

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For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for. Yep. White South Africans. Beyond parody.

submitted 15 days ago • 130 comments

In light of today's devastating announcement of a 75% cut to NIH overhead, it scarcely seems newsworthy that couple dozen COVID contrarians are cosplaying PNAS. But two of them are slated to lead the NIH and the FDA. Is this how they'll stand up for science?

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 1680 comments

When the federal government abandons important areas of funding and leaves a gaping hole in the advancement of science, any prudent funder would fill the hole, not follow suit. I don’t know the rationale here but seriously WTF? Disclosure: HHMI paid my way through graduate school.

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments