Who needs science? People 500 years ago didn't have science, and they lived to 30 just fine, with large numbers of dead kids, mass plague and other diseases, and generally suffered all the time. Good enough for today! What could go wrong?

Trump wants to entice companies to move to America & build things in America? What, tonka trucks?? No science leaders, no business.

Well, certainly the end of America's dominance of scientific discovery. If this war on science continues in gov and edu, we will see a scientific brain-drain the likes of which that hasn't occurred in history. China and the EU/UK will fill the vacuum while Putin is cheering on the sidelines.

Well, we can’t have anybody smarter than trumpf running around spouting wisdom, they make trumpf look bad!

Are you serious?

They should make it the First Church of the Immaculate Donald

We are a "vibes" only society now I guess.

Anti Science? So what eleventh century now?

Not the end of science. Maybe the end of American science. Oh well.

Confounds the Science! Oh, science is not important for Trump and his sycophants!

Move to 🇨🇦

I’m also open to blue states becoming part of Canada.

They wish!

This can not continue.

Always the same with this administration, no communication, no transparency and gross ineptitude. Let me guess, a DOGE boy is handling this.

Science ended the day RFKjr took office.

Sure because science is something, one of many things, trump knows NOTHING about and he's afraid others will know more than him.

Vibes is more fun than data.

Your oppression is their profession. Pathologically sociopathic

Oh, yes! A fascist must!

What's going on here??

Will they also quit teaching science in college? As a retired nurse, this is alarming. Good luck finding qualified medical professionals in the future once this country is done demonizing learning.

That’s just it. They want us to die.

GOP - Meh, what has science ever given us ?

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They rely on religion!

Christofascists like Youngkin don’t believe in Science.

It took less than 6 months for 1 orange maniac and his minions to turn the most powerful nation in the world into a banana republic.Soon we will be that pathetic 3rd world country that used to be somebody.But with crumbled roads and bridges,lower life expectancy as kids die of preventable disease..

It's been underway far longer.

No, the end of the former United States. Science will thrive everywhere else. Just not in the shithole ruins of what was the United States.

This also seems like a concerted effort economically to harm a Democratic / mostly Black city.

Wow

Not science. Just the US science. China and others will continue. Dark Ages don’t have to be global.

😤😤

Sad. Government full of idiots and bozos.

What is the end game to this chaos?

An evangelical caliphate.

A new dark age.

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Rubio said “FORGET INTELLIGENCE” That is what they are doing. Most ignorant administration in history.

America is in the shitter folks. That's the line. America is in the shitter and it ain't coming back.

No need for smart people anymore. Expertise is evil in the current administration.

Science ended on Nov 8 2016

The dumbest people are going to kill us all.

This entire administration can just fuck off.

America currently, went back to the Dark Ages. There is a reason humanity chose science over cult leaders. The truth lives on even after the lies die off.

Where are the philanthropic benefactors with all the ultra rich money…..

In Venice engaging in an orgy of self gratification and mutual masturbation with one another. Not one school, not one library, not one act of decency will come out of the feeding frenzy of the Bezos wedding week while they all sit around fawning over one another as the world starves and dies.

No science, no history, no education, no independent journalism. The coast is clear. Bring on the dictatorship.

Meanwhile Dems are waiting for what??

Maybe the Dems need to start thinking what would the Magas do against us then do that against the MAGAs.

Maybe we should have adopted those tactics a long time ago!

Not the end. A pause. We’ll have to build it back up when the Trumpies are gone.

That can’t be soon enough.

Science will transfer to other countries, move into college spaces or go private. America will lose ground on the international scale. All gains and credit will go offshore. But Trump has always preferred his people stupid.

Private doesn't work for discovery science. Investors want quick return on investment. Purpose of basic science is to understand how systems work. Out of that comes useful medical treatments, tools for research, etc, but not predictable early on.

Nicely said!

This is SOOO insanely stupid!

Is anyone gonna remember what Republicans did to us in '24? If we're lucky, we'll be able to vote them out in '26 & '28. But what if we're not lucky?

Another trump nightmare. 100s a day.

WTAF??? Talk a out SCIENCE DENIERS! Autocratic rulers deny experts and science

What?

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Stupid people are easier to manipulate and science is something smart people value thus the regime attacks all ways people can be educated from law firms, to media, to early childhood intervention programs. Keep ‘em dumb and they won’t know they are a pawn.

I'm gobsmacked. I can't wrap my head around this one.

WTF NSF should pack up and go to Canada

Along with California, Oregon, and Washington! "Canamerica" here I come. YES WE CAN!

I despise what the 🤡 is doing to our country!

Just sick sick sick.

At least in the good ol USofA. So much lost, sigh…

Its Project 2025 being implemented. It’s going on across the board. They make everything a litigation. That’s always been the plan. While they erode confidence on Judges after each lost law suit until they can replace all the judges with their people. It’s a hostile takeover from within now!

Yep!

The earth is flat…and that’s that! What’s your problem?😎

Somehow this all seems illegal somehow.... Not to mention stupid on the anti-science level. This is more proof that the evangelical extremists looking to bring about the End Times and install an autocratic theocracy have grasped power completely and don't care what anyone thinks.

Horrors

The end of research, and many graduate students being able to afford tuition and fees.

😡😡😡😡

If you have a cool building, watch out.

Evidently, many consider the building HUD occupied to be ugly. But somehow, the department supposedly devoted to getting housing for poor people abandoning its ugly building and evicting other workers so they can be in a nicer building doesn't seem like a message they should want to send.

For that matter, if you have a beautiful daughter...

They can't have facts getting in the way of their delusions.

The end of the last area in which the US leads the world: science. That trickles down to things like military superiority — science gives us an edge, medically, militarily, agriculturally... without it the US is begging other countries for ideas, like Russia does. It's the dumbing down of America.

Trump is flushing America’s future down the toilet!

Of course they're being kicked out - can't have any ACTUAL scientists left hanging around to question things...

We need to pull back the $$ if they are not going to spend it on what it was authorized for. Each state needs to start demanding that all tax monies be collected by the state, regardless of the tax authority. The state can then distribute to the other authorities.

At this point why are we paying federal taxes? For what? For ICE agents is all I can see.

I worry about what we can't see. I suspect the majority of our tax $$s are going to support trump, vought, and buddies.

Do u have britbox? We started watching Outrageous and man, it hits home right now.

The continuation of stupidity.

Can someone help Trump make a connection between science and the bombers/bombs he enjoys playing with?

Wherefore the Enlightenment?

Apparently, MAGA isn't counting on support from sciencetists.⚛️

This is symbolic of everything they’re doing.

Trump regime is slowly killing US innovation system - www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Brain drain STAT

No science. No arts. No higher education. No museums, no history. No critical thinking. No religion but Christian national. No healthcare. No federal help. No legal recourse. No dissent. No legal representation. No voting except for approved candidates. No rights. No freedom. All going or gone.

This NSF issue is VERY concerning. Who even thinks that way? I just can’t get my arms around doing anything so thoughtless, unprofessional an ridiculous. 😳😳😳😳

Killing Americans. Who voted for this? MAGA? Did you? Really?

Looks that way.

And watch for one thing when they sit there and tell you that all of this will create new jobs. They usually look away or down when they say that and quickly change the subject. I wonder why...?

Not at all, thinking machines will be doing it using vast databases already created by humans that they may harvest from and build upon, with a few humans as support. AI-robots ARE replacing human intellectual and physical labor. Maybe they see displaced Americans in their strawberry fields.

This covers a lot. 👇 explodingtopics.com/blog/ai-repl...

HE'S DESTROYING EVERYTHING!

We need to march, strike and shut this country down for a day. Show them we mean business, because they aren't getting the message yet.

WTF. I can’t.

…and the pillock in the WH is allowing the dismantling of FEMA…Kennedy could shut down any up dates for new COVID and/or flu variations vaccines…ICE isn’t trying to just get gang/criminals that are undocumented, they just want numbers….

Trump Regime is returning us to the Dark Ages. We can't trust anything they say. Like RFKJr unilateral decision to stop COVID Vaccine in pregnancy despite high rate serious disease in infants (=>65 yo) & moms. We will lose future generations of scientists & take decades to recover! 😔😡

This is really, really BAD!!

They want to take us back to the 17th century beginning with RFKjr who is replacing germ theory for miasma as source of illness. 🤬

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Youngkin is a 💩y 🫏🕳️

I thought when Bush ended stem cell research we had seen the stupidest side of the USA. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This country is monumentally moronic.

How tf are people not outraged by this? So much for home of the brave

The end of top-notch science in the U.S. Nazis destroyed science in Germany, and it took many decades to recover, but never to recapture its prominence.

and let's name him, the smiling Glenn Youngkin supports killing science

Trump has killed science and Kennedy has killed health care with the help of the Republicans

These are the programs that made America great in the world…..

Just to be clear, NSF is the National Science Foundation?

HUD makes NSF homeless!

WTF

Needless waste.

The laws of physics don't care whether we believe them or not

They hate science because they don't understand it. I do actually want to see HUD survive any budget slashes, because my company works with it. But the Sec doesn't need to displace NSF for a swanky office.

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Is there any group of politically wise and ethical persons including scholars, lawyers, public servants putting together an Anti- 2025 Plan-section by section with action steps? A *cohesive* playbook of our own makes sense. Most all that Rs are doing is there in plain sight in the Maga playbook.

How much longer are we going to put up with this?

This is TOTALLY INSANE

As a former NSF fund recipient and researcher, I am disappointed and shocked, but not surprised given the Trump administration’s focus to make our great country the next and largest 3rd world country. Vote DEMOCRAT 🇺🇸 and let’s drive these cruel, miserable and greedy 🤡 into the swamps their belong.

Time for us millions to remove the under 1k dictatorship holding us hostage against our founding documents.👢👢🍑🍑🍑

I read this but can’t find anything to back it up. Do you have any sources for it? Please let me know. Saw it on @hcrichardson.bsky.social also.

Thanks so much!

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