Declarations of Dissent

 

Waste, fraud, and abuse

 

MAGA: Back to the dark ages

 We don't need no steenkeen science.

Agency priorities.

Also, we don't need no steenkeen doctors.

The Trump regime is going to set America back decades.  Our best and brightest are going to leave the country to work elsewhere.  

Trump 2.0 - No science here

The director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science.

“I believe that I have done all I can to advance the mission of the agency and feel that it is time to pass the baton to new leadership,” writes Sethuraman Panchanathan, a computer scientist who was nominated to lead NSF by then-President Donald Trump in December 2019 and was confirmed by the Senate in August 2020. “I am deeply grateful to the presidents for the opportunity to serve our nation.”

Although Panchanathan, known as Panch, didn’t give a reason for his sudden departure, orders from the White House to accept a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1700-person staff may have been the final straws in a series of directives Panchanathan felt he could no longer obey.

  Science

Too cowardly to say so.

The Trump purge reaches far

 

And, more agency firings...

Burn it all down.

Surely we won't need the rangers once Trump sells off the park lands.

And all I hear from Cory Booker is that "we" can't become like "them" so keep finding ways to work with them.  Which, in practice, is lie down and let them roll right over you.

Trump would be thrilled to watch California burn.

UPDATE 02/21/2025:

Trump 2.0 - Science is the enemy