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By scooby

 This is a good video that goes into some of the NASA budget cuts:


https://youtu.be/si6paqM2_ug?si=A42L1ot-J_caWAFv

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Anonymous said…
This is also a good article that goes into the cuts in science funding in general:

https://www.science.org/content/article/100-days-that-shook-u-s-science
5/16/2025 7:07 PM
Anonymous said…
This is another good article about the Republican plan to tax university endowments:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/05/13/endowment-taxes-could-climb-21-percent-under-new-bill
5/17/2025 5:28 AM
Anonymous said…
Here's some articles discussing the defunding of PBS and NPR, explaining in particular the Republican claims of supposed political bias:

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs

https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/no-defunding-npr-not-first-amendment-violation
5/17/2025 5:43 AM
Anonymous said…
This is pretty interesting, evidently Harvard's grants are being systematically defunded and there are threats to its tax-exempt status:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/feds-continue-effort-to-defund-research-at-harvard/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283718/gov.uscourts.mad.283718.59.5.pdf

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-5366009/higher-ed-war-heats-up-as-trump-threatens-harvard-s-tax-exempt-status

Although “NIH generally will suspend (rather than immediately terminate) a grant and allow the recipient an opportunity to take appropriate corrective action before NIH makes a termination decision,”5 no corrective action is possible here. That is because, upon being made aware of systematic institutional failures to address deeply rooted antisemitism and racial
discrimination, the University has refused to take appropriate action.
5/17/2025 6:08 AM
Anonymous said…
Trump hates California so much it makes me wonder if he will target ending University of California and UC LLC contracts with the federal government - specifically the M&O contracts involving LANL, LLNL, and LBNL.
5/17/2025 7:39 AM
Anonymous said…
How are these "scientists" going to repay their student loans once they are defunded? We need some sort of debtor's prison where they can work off their debt to society, but what useful work can they do now that we have chatbots?
5/17/2025 11:40 AM
Anonymous said…
11:40 -- Perhaps Neuralink offers a solution : we could transform them into humanoid robots with a hybrid chatbot / human mind and create a new improved scientific workforce. There was something like this in the "Terminator" movies in fact. Medical experiments of course, could be cruel and unusual punishment, especially for something as minor as unpaid student loans,,but I'm sure the Supreme Court would sign off on it. And Elon Musk could simply pay off their debt if they agreed to work for him, which they would gladly due since he would control their thoughts to a large degree.
5/17/2025 5:45 PM
Anonymous said…
Here's another article about Harvard, they no longer will be allowed to have international students:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses-student-and-exchange-visitor-program-certification-pro

5/22/2025 1:20 PM
Anonymous said…
Trump has tweeted out another threat to Harvard, to take away 3 billion more in Federal funding and give it to trade schools:

https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/trump-considering-pulling-3b-from-very-antisemitic-harvard/
5/26/2025 2:16 PM
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