The gutting of American science funding isn’t a big enough story in our news and it should be. It significantly reduces American innovation and economic competitiveness in the near-term and long-term and it isn’t even being done efficiently, if that were in fact the goal. I mean I’m sure it’s a victim of the “flood the zone” strategy, but this is going to hurt people in big ways. This is bad. Trump cuts roil National Science Foundation, alarming researchers: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5371720/national-science-foundation-budget-grant-cuts-turmoil
If Democrats do get back into federal office, give them time and space to fix what’s been broken. Stop the cycle of destructive impatience. It’s going to take more than 4 years to rebuild and repair damage from these last 100 days alone. Tune out the media and their distractions and the extremists and their promises of revolution and quick fixes. Nothing will be getting fixed quickly. Rebuilding foreign alliances and destroyed agencies like The Forest Service alone will take generations.
77 million buffoons thought this was the President we needed. Trump depicted as pope in AI-generated photo:
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Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope
President Trump earlier this year jokingly called himself a "king" after he moved to end the congestion pricing program in New York City.
16 Democratic Attorneys General have now refused to follow Trump’s anti-diversity, anti-equality, anti-inclusion orders. State attorneys general have important powers that protect your rights. Please pay attention to your state and local races and vote in them. It matters. NJ won't sign Trump letter that schools don't use DEI:
NJ won't sign Trump letter that schools don't use DEI
I think it’s more of a plutocracy than an oligarchy but they didn’t ask me.
He and his money aren’t going away anytime soon so don’t celebrate yet the DOGE scale back, if it’s even real, just yet. It’s going to take a lot of effort and time of our own to defeat this in any upcoming election. People really need to focus on the midterms and whatever elections are coming up locally. Elon Musk's Future as a GOP Donor as DOGE Role Scaled Back: What to Know - Newsweek
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Elon Musk's future as a GOP donor as DOGE role scaled back: What to know
Elon Musk is planning to become a Republican megadonor in the upcoming midterm election, several sources told Reuters.