When a German Nazi Diplomat was killed by a Jewish person in 1938 the Reich reacted with a massive pogrom called the " Reichskristallnacht". Hundreds of people killed, Synagogues burned and shops smashed. After the killing of the Kirk Nazi:
Who will the regime target? Women? Trans and gay people?

Destruction of EPA
German here. My heart sinks to see how easy it is to dismantle a democracy if the wrong person is elected. Hitler never got the majority if votes. Trump did. How did it come to that?
Where is the real resistance?
Europe needs to pick up the pieces but it won't be easy.

That is exactly what we need right now, isn't it? I refuse to take sides. No good guys here. Iran denies the right of Israel to exist, and has been arming Russia and Hamas. Let alone oppressing women and men. Israel is equally menacing and this attack is completely wrong. This needs to stop. Now.

Fear and confusion mounted quickly on Thursday as international students, who make up more than a quarter of Harvard's enrollment, sought clarity or reassurance.

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” -Anne Frank, 01/13/1943

What bugs me about how this administration is their sheer rudeness. People out on the streets within a day, called fraud, journalists are called names, shouted down, insulted and politics using the methods of a mafia protection racket. Imagine we would all behave like that? What do we tell our kids?

I found multiple articles and a book I edited... bastards

Note: The turnout was 83%. That is democracy in action.
USA note.

Complete misinformation about what they "found" regarding Social Security keeps popping up! Every time I see it I'm going to post this.

These people are having fun. They are like toddlers breaking things and laughing about it.
Nobody stops the Far Right from campaigning. Germany has proportional representation, parties can form coalitions to get them over 50% and thus keep the Nazis out. Still democracy, you know.

2025 and 1984
Department of Truth
A convicted felon as president
A woman abuser as defence secretary
A autist nerd as cutter and slasher
A dog killer for homeland security
An election denier as general attorney
A vaccine denier as health secretary
A climate gene denier as energy secretary
....

Why is science important?
Many years ago, during the City boom time, I went to a pub in London that was obviously visited by many City people. One of the suits chatted me up and asked me: what do you do? When I answered that I am a scientist, his replied: “Poor thing”, and turned his back on me.

NIH shut down

I am a scientist and I see what is happening with great sorrow. I am also from Germany and have a deep knowledge of what happened to German science after the Nazis took over. It is very obvious that the Trump administration wants to shut down the voice of intellectuals and scientists