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In just the first three months of his second term, Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. His administration has fired thousands of government scientists, bringing large swathes of the country’s research to a standstill and halting many clinical trials. #News

Proposal to dismantle NCAR would have space science impacts A proposal by the Trump administration to dismantle a leading atmospheric science center would also have implications for space science.

The only dinner worse than one where Elon Musk fights Nikola Tesla while William Shakespeare and Ben Franklin look on is one where Katie Miller and Queen Victoria try to carry on a conversation while Stephen Miller sits silently next to them, eating mayonnaise. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.

One example of many. Seems to me it will be hard to reset US research when and if the current mess is over. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/s...

So, this is all very encouraging. Please let us have intelligent leadership before it's too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

Après moi, le déluge, eh? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/c...

I guess we’re supposed to use our imaginations.

DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files. They’ve been redacting Trump’s name all year in 24 hour overtime shifts and it still wasn’t enough time.

A useful compilation, I think. I really have no idea how much of what he says he actually believes versus makes up on the spot. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Not good news. For example: -- Arctic surface air temperatures Oct '24 -Sept '25 were warmest recorded since 1900. -- March '25, Arctic winter sea ice lowest annual maximum extent in the 47-year record. -- Acidity and elevated toxic metals compromise river habitats. arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

Seasonal blooms.

Just minding our own bizness, that's all. I had tamales the other night but neglected the ritual, am I in trouble? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

""Judge Saris ... said the Interior Department had not provided a “reasoned explanation” ... Instead, she said, the “agency defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered in deciding to stop issuing permits was the president’s direction to do so.”" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/c...

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Regarding the orange one's latest outrage, which you can read about elsewhere - what would be appropriate activities to "celebrate" his birthday? Talk-like-DJT oratorial contests? Shooting contests where you have to nick a target just so? Prizes for the tackiest interior decoration ideas?

I think I'm on the "Well, maybe" side, but all for an article that gets to use the phrase "trampled by turtles". www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/s...

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...

RFK Jr. and his anti-vax ACIP are responsible for doing harm to generations of Americans living in the shadow of his anti-science leadership, and Hep. B is just the tip of the iceberg It's time for Congress to impeach and remove RFK Jr. No ifs, no buts. Enough is enough. #ImpeachtheQuack

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Overall trust in scientists and medical professionals is still rather high (Pew 2024). And only about 7% of American/Canadian respondents in a study (Gravelle 2022) are stridently anti-vax. MAHA is platforming views of a very small minority, to erode the majority.

How big will it be, and how golden? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

I'm partial to this one. theonion.com/historians-p...

If he's not a racist POS (he is), he thinks acting like one will get him his kingship. "He described Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who came to the United States from Somalia as a refugee and became a citizen 25 years ago, as “garbage.”" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Preaching to the choir, I imagine, but maybe you need a little motivation. I usually do. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

As we’ve been saying for months, X’s new location feature is exposing what we’ve been warning about, many of the loudest MAGA accounts aren’t even in the USA. We’ve been tracking this behavior and helping people learn how to spot bot activity, and this update has made it easier than ever to see.

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Whoops! 😂

If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.

So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible. But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.

The rhetoric Trump is pushing is extremely dangerous. He has now reposted a comment from a user that said: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!”

The Trump administration announced new efforts today to roll back key parts of the Endangered Species Act, aiming to reinstate changes from his first term that were previously halted by a federal court.

This is a terrible, ignorant, shortsighted plan. International waters include the Great Lakes, groundwater is drinking water, fresh waters run to the ocean, and cleanup is a long process. Please let’s not move backwards.

Good canid! Clever canid! Would a dog figure this out? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Let's hope there are no parallels... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

This is a really sad story, but very well told, I think. If you've ever had a missing family member, I hope your story turned out better. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Learning by doing, I guess. Or is chaos the goal? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

“Americans proudly say that we live in the longest-lived democracy in the world,” Judge Wolf said in the interview. “But that should teach us that all the others failed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

A federal judge issued a stark warning about what he called an “existential threat to democracy” in a forceful first-person essay published Sunday. He revealed that he resigned from the bench to freely speak out against Trump,

We get it! You’re evil and you suck!!

This is the US now. We're the bullies, the bad guys, the villains. Threatening our allies to get our own way. Trying to destroy green energy initiatives. Deplorable.

Visit Albania! It's not Shelob's, alas. Just many many little creepy crawlers. www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...