I am utterly ASHAMED of any American who does not stand up for science right now.

Well, he is incompetent. And drunk. And abusive toward women. But mostly, he’s incompetent.

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” thebulwark.com/p/a-permanent-…

Wish there was a way to convey to people supporting the admin’s cuts to the National Science Foundation and science funding more broadly that they’re in the process of destroying American science for at least a generation. Many genuinely seem not to understand this is happening.

This is how an autocracy is born.

We're now exactly halfway through the 90-day pause on April 2nd tariffs, and the only "deal" the Trump administration has done is slightly lowering the tariffs on British Aston Martins. Meanwhile, we're starting 50% tariff on the EU in a week. This whole thing has been a disaster

Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn trib.al/xOKEk2C

"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." ~Terry Pratchett

They want to cut $285 billion from SNAP, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

Corrupt to the core

Of course when they started realizing that their nakedly political attacks on science on the false pretense of protecting Jews were unpopular they started claiming to be the only true protectors of science

This right here. It was never about antisemitism, reproducibility, or any other ideal. It’s lawlessly. sacrificing yet another great strength of America for partisan politics

This is Kyiv. The indiscriminate killing of women and children at night in their homes is a clear violation of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols designed to protect innocents. These attacks are shameful. Stop the killing. Ceasefire now.

Hanania (under a pseudonym) wrote that "race mixing is like destroying a piece of art" and then kinda-sorta apologized for it. Now he posts about how Republicans are low IQ and liberals eat it up. But if you scratch the surface just a bit, the old bigotries are all still there:

Today I remember George Floyd, and my heart is with his family. 5 years ago as America reeled over his murder, the world joined in our anger and our grief. In a monumental movement we rose up for change. I will never stop this working to make this change real.

BREAKING: Goldman Sachs just announced that they expect the economy to slow because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. This is terrible.

This is the real headline. Defunding labs at Harvard is an especially stupid and gratuitous act of national self-harm. But a 2/3 overall cut is national research suicide.

It's simple: one side stands for peace. The other side stands for war and the rise of fascist authoritarians. It's our choice whether evil wins. The president & the GOP need to rebuke Putin, or all is lost.

Creating mass hardship is the point