Uhh… convince me this guy isn’t being sarcastic.
Uhh… convince me this guy isn’t being sarcastic.
That’s insane. They’re absolutely trying to destroy America’s science pipeline.
Thank you. Pretty sure this post is bs. Too many people want to believe it and have turned off their brains.
This is interesting - can you link to a piece that provides more details for folks without a background in this issue?
Oh I’m not, the story makes it clear that Tesla was very misleading about whether they had the data and whether it was accessible on the original car. All the more reason to point to those facts, rather than make the inaccurate claim that the car was programmed to delete the original data.
Hmm, if I’m reading the story right, what the car actually does is: 1. Copy all the key crash data to a single compressed archive file. 2. Send that file to Tesla 3. Delete the local copy of the archive file. The original data files on the car are still there (which is how the plaintiffs got them)
Apparently Vought is still mad at NIH for thwarting God’s Manifest Will that his daughter die an early, agonizing death. bsky.app/profile/moth...
Appears to have been reversed? Jfc, this guy is so evil he just tried to kill the whole NIH extramural program by personal fiat. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Apparently Russ Vought is so evil that even Trump can’t stomach it: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Not surprising. His path to anti-establishment fame came from his love of trying to prove himself smarter than all of his colleagues. Guess he wasn’t smart enough to figure out that only subservient yes men can last in the Trump admin.
This is a horrific betrayal of Congress and the American people. Totally illegal. NOAs for so many delayed awards, submitted over a year ago, were supposed to go out by the end of this week.
They’ve declared “DEI” to be illegal, without defining the term, so anything they want to get rid of they just call “DEI”. You can’t argue that the thing they’re attacking doesn’t fit the legal definition because there is none.
This whole line of argument is based on a self-deceiving underpants gnomes theory of what a shutdown in March could have accomplished. It would have played directly into Trump and Vought’s rescission strategy for defunding NIH and other key government agencies.
lol that’s a perfect summary. Great piece!
It has more legitimate geographic claim to continent status than Europe, the eastern border of which is just a random line drawn through the middle of Eurasia, partly tracing a minor bump of a mountain range.
They mostly already have official residences in Florida, the Bahamas, etc for tax purposes anyway.
People read “Trump voter base” and think he means rural whites are discriminated against in college admissions but the reverse is true - rural kids 100% benefit from DEI. It’s the kids of wealthy suburbanites (in many ways the real Trump base) that are held to a higher standard.
In the end it’s just more business for them.
The gators are a distraction, it’s about putting large groups of people in tents with no medical care, no a/c and a heat index of 110.
Nope. TACO time. But if one of the admin hawks can get Trump alone for a round of golf & afterwards long enough to make a few phone calls, all bets are off. He changes his mind daily on most key issues, and bombs can’t be un-dropped. United States.
Do you have a link to the transcript?
Asked for comment, a University of Michigan spokesman responded “lol, lmao”.
These guys have to be an op - no one could be that dumb.
Pretty sure that the last thing actual electricians and plumbers want is more electricians and plumbers.
The filter for the data shown (3x R shift or 3x D shift) seems to be the same for all 4 charts, but the ones displaying race have far fewer data points for unclear reasons.
But they are showing counties with the full range of % minority, not filtering for counties with high or low % and only showing those ones.
The counties shown aren’t selected on the basis of % black or Hispanic though. I assume that they didn’t have racial data for many counties, but I wonder if the sample they do have data for is still representative.
They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
Why are there so many fewer counties in the last 2 charts?
Sort of, but he goes on to say that he’ll vote for it if they don’t raise the (completely ineffective) debt ceiling too much, which proves he doesn’t really care.
“When they finished with the search there was a male officer standing outside who looked confused. He asked me why I was here to which I told him what had happened,” she said. “He told me, ‘Wow. You should not be here right now, you have Trump to thank for that though.’”
Former NSW police officer Nikki Saroukos, 25, urges travellers to avoid the United States after she was detained, strip-searched, and forced to spend the night in a federal prison while trying to visit her husband, a U.S. Army lieutenant stationed in Hawaii. Reason: “Packed too many clothes!”
As faculty at another university, I agree that this is part of a larger attack on all of higher ed, but it’s a little more than symbolism when all of their grants have been cancelled and ours (for now) have not.
I can’t remember - after those two Palestinian students were shot by a different murderous nutcase in Vermont, did you run the headline “Pro-Israel movement faces uncertain path”?
True, and “because the Trump admin has goons with guns and the Supreme Court doesn’t” is also a correct answer.
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.
They are systematically attacking or dismantling every system responsible for U.S. leadership in biomedical research.
Car companies make cars in order to earn money, yes.
50 mile battery range though - plenty of people could do all of their daily driving on electric.
Source: trust me bro
That’s cheap for anywhere I’ve lived.
No, I just feel very straightforward sympathy. Sympathy for Biden over his cancer diagnosis, and sympathy for the American people who now have to live under a president & administration that are dramatically worse in every meaningful way.
It’s a function of both the aggressiveness of the cancer and the age of the patient.
It’s worse but not that much worse.
Median life expectancy for all 80 y/o American white men is 7 years. Old people who get prostate cancer often die of other things first.
I think the real lesson is that in a democracy, measures that substantially injure a majority to protect a minority from even worse harm are untenable in the long term. I’m more willing to live with that if we at least see it for what it is, rather than pretending that there were no tradeoffs.
The best argument for remote schooling was always to prevent death or serious illness of older primary caregivers. You couldn’t get supposedly thoughtful anti-remote schooling people like Alec McGillis to even mention that tradeoff. Even if most kids were better off, a minority would be devastated.
Lmao
If it 1) were legal and 2) only applied to rich countries it would be fine, good even. But as is, it would make it effectively impossible to provide cheap HIV drugs (and many others) to developing countries. If it could get through the courts, which it can’t.
It’s a different drug in the same family as thalidomide and there have been many different clinical trials for different applications (used for several different cancers) many of which the drug company paid for. Also some cancers where the trial failed, so that was pure loss.
The price hikes seem indefensible, but the marginal unit manufacturing cost of a small molecule drug is always a minor component of “what it costs to make” compared to development and clinical trial costs.
They think there’s an opportunity for regulatory forebearance and grift with the current admin, which values fame and bribes, and couldn’t care less about scientific evidence and protecting patients.
Only if you care about academics and principles. But it’s a $2 million raise and all they’ll ask in return is complete obedience to the reich, er, regents.
Why wait? I don’t want him to miss a day of that glorious Gainesville summer weather.
A leader who exits at a moment like this is a leader we wouldn't want. #GoBlue
Santa Ono thought he fell into a plum job. He fell into a tough job at a tough time, and his departure is all the proof we’ll ever need that he wasn’t up to the challenge.
Or just promising that he won’t be required to fight for academic principles or grow a spine in his new gig.
This isn’t all they are doing in practice fyi. They are tossing out grant applications pre and post scientific review based on as little as having a letter of support from an unfunded international colleague.
Probably not b/c then they’d get a nationwide moratorium, not just in one Texas district.
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
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Lmao, how much money does he think Chinese people who work in iPhone factories make?
Really depends how many of those who backed away from the gov’t shutdown (a correct strategic decision) were just keeping their powder dry for a better opportunity vs actually being unwilling to fight.
Wtf?!
U.S. just lost one of the most accomplished and productive researchers in my field to an institute in Europe. The brain drain is going to be awful at every level.
It was pretty obvious from the language he used that their plan was to fly them out just after midnight.
But again, a shutdown would have prevented any new grants from going out at all, while Trump shuts down all the stuff D’s care about (while blaming them) and preserving ICE and other things he cares about. Oh and causing a huge court slowdown as well, limiting opportunities to fight back there.
Yes, and that’s why it made sense for D’s to hold their fire until voting on a budget proposal that actually explicitly cuts funding, rather than a CR that essentially preserved funding but with some squirrelly language that may not make much of a difference.
There’s nothing in your profile indicating that you are a federal employee, but I’m sorry for what is happening to you. It sounds like you are still doing work (presumably important) for the American people right now, and that would not have been the case in a shutdown.
NIH is currently functioning and issuing new grants, although they have a massive amount of catch-up to do after 1/3 a years worth of funding meetings were postponed. Shutdown would have stopped that completely.
I guess you’re not aware that many people are still employed by the federal govt, doing important things, whom Trump has not been able to fire yet. Many court challenges are ongoing and will be filed in the future. A shutdown creates an emergency situation that makes it easy to get rid of people.
As someone who employs people funded on federal grants (at risk of losing funding and being expelled from the country) and interacts with NIH employees as part of my job, I’m pretty confident that they were right and you are wrong.
I think this would have been my first-choice dorm in the college housing lottery, assuming the bathroom to student ratio is high enough.
He sucks and under no circumstances do you have to hand it to him, but every person with a platform who uses it against the incipient Trump dictatorship is a win for the cause of preserving American freedom and democracy. Once we win, he can STFU forever.
That’s a completely bad-faith representation of their argument. They think firings would have happened more quickly and extensively, with less public opposition and chances to fight in the courts under a shutdown scenario. You can criticize the strategy without being dishonest about motivations.
Can’t think of any recent events that might have increased regional hostility to Israel. I’m sure if anything like that had happened, Atlantic editors would have insisted that they at least be mentioned in a piece like this.
Shutdown would have ended with a massive L for Ds. Trump admin is overtly incompetent and cruel - Booker and Van Hollen just show that there are and will be plenty of opportunities to pick winnable fights.
What is this in response to?
It’s not an error if that’s how politics works and why they’re doing it. Also STEM is by far the bulk of the $$.
I don’t really understand how using the app supposedly pumps the coin, but if the app users are getting scammed that’s actually something better.
Can you elaborate on what you think they would / could have done differently if it had occurred to them?
Gotta protect the great American T-shirt manufacturing base
They’re fake.
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
You need HVAC guys to make sure the screw robots are comfortable.
Performative personal branding > actually winning
I have a hard time getting worked up about this. If Trump political appointees weren’t wasting time baking cookies, wouldn’t they be doing something significantly more evil?
Even your average caveman lawyer took one econ course in undergrad before going to cave law. “Why doesn’t Michael Jordan mow his own lawn…”.
Kennedy going to the funeral like a murderer returning to the scene of the crime
Most likely. But whenever Trump finally does the tariff walk back you can be sure his cronies will keep touting them right up to the announcement while quietly putting in their buy orders. No way to time this corrupt-ass market.
In books the cops always stake out the funeral in case the serial killer shows up
Ok but what if I self-identify as such.
Thanks. Maybe stick with appropriate plain-speak going forward.
His business isn’t viable without regulatory forbearance and probably subsidies, so he has to kiss Trump’s butt regardless of how little sense it makes.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Respectfully, this doesn’t crack the top 100 list of substantive complaints about the Trump admin right now.
Oh shit, TIL …
Roald Dahl wrote this letter about losing his daughter *39 years ago*. RFK, and the politics he promotes, will inflict this unimaginable pain on many parents, if they get their way.
The information I am receiving is consistent with the STAT story. The boards are being purged of women and minoritized scientists with no other obvious pattern. And for the cases where I have some information, the effects are not subtle...Boards going from 35% women to 10% women. 3/n
This is correct, and while the courts could potentially provide relief, Uni’s don’t want to risk it until they the admin takes actions that are unambiguously unreasonable & illegal.