tomjcassidy.bsky.social
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Maybe it's autistic?
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Don't you usually send them?
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People that were on the tour of the Holocaust camps with Elon were amazed at his callous attitude about the experience. I guess a white supremacist has no feelings for anyone. Not surprising he spews hate.
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Must watch video about election fraud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKDw...
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THIS. The election was a fraud
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The idea that this sociopathic manbaby billionaire (whose empire was built on the back of financial fraud and just fraudulently bought a fucking election) gives two shits about fraud is just a foundational lie journalists shouldn't perpetuate
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We can only hope.
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www.axios.com/2025/02/21/s...
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As Brigid Cakouros, a terminated scientist, put it, “America is made up of so many different people contributing to it. There’s such a powerful global community that makes this country what it is...We’re going to lose that; there’s not a chance in the world that we’re not going to lose that." 10/
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The Trump admin is hacking away at every pillar of American scientific leadership: Stable science funding. Academic freedom. Many of the federal agencies and programs that support science and technology work. And all while countries like China are becoming their own scientific leaders. 9/
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This is why so many of the federal workers I spoke to were stunned by the Trump administration’s actions. Keeping the US the #1 science and technology leader has never been a partisan issue. No one predicted the wholesale assault on these foundations of American prosperity. 8/
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Being world-class at science is also critical to national security. If the US wants to secure its semiconductor supply chain, if it wants to prepare the military for climate change, if it wants to prevent the next pandemic, it needs top scientists. 7/
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Americans don’t just get innovations in return, either. US scientific leadership plays a huge role in bolstering US *global* leadership. It has long been a hugely successful diplomatic and soft power tool for deepening relationships with allies and stabilizing those with competitors. 6/
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But it’s not just about the money. The government helps attract the best minds to the US. It helps the best minds in the US go safely overseas to do field work. It brokers agreements to foster international science collaboration. It tracks and aggregates data to support life-saving research. 5/
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Better healthcare, better drugs, better consumer tech.
I cite @mazzucatom.bsky.social’s research: Pretty much every major technological transformation in the US, from electric cars to Google to the iPhone, can trace its roots back to basic science research once funded by the federal government. 4/