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Now the goal is clear.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Taking from NIH research to create a new MAHA agency? wapo.st/42gLz0Z Summary: Proposal: $47B NIH budget split into $27B for NIH (now only 8 institutes, from 27) and $20B for a new "Administration for a Healthy America" (incl. primary care, childhood chronic disease).
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
wapo.st
April 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Now the goal is clear.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
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They're already ignoring court orders!
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-t...
Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary
It’s quite a split screen: The president, vice president, White House deputy...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They're already ignoring court orders!
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
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"the courts are not going to save us. They were not designed for this"
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
From a DOJ litigator at a Super Bowl party rn:
“Don’t rely on the courts [to stop the coup]. The courts are not going to save us. They’re not designed for this.”
“Don’t rely on the courts [to stop the coup]. The courts are not going to save us. They’re not designed for this.”
February 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"the courts are not going to save us. They were not designed for this"
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.