S. Keerthi
@skeerthi.bsky.social
Environmental scientist - Agriculture and Freshwater, Woman, Immigrant. Nature, good books and good food make life worth living. Personal account/ Views my own.
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Are you keeping up with the firehose of changes to science policy? You can, with our handy (and sortable) tracker. eos.org/research-and...
Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (@nytimes.com)
Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (@nytimes.com)
May 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Are you keeping up with the firehose of changes to science policy? You can, with our handy (and sortable) tracker. eos.org/research-and...
Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (@nytimes.com)
Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (@nytimes.com)
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"The propagandist does not start by trying to convince people to agree with him. The propagandist starts by convincing people that he agrees with them."
My thoughts on the pernicious power of the new Make America Healthy Again report conservechange.medium.com/making-healt...
My thoughts on the pernicious power of the new Make America Healthy Again report conservechange.medium.com/making-healt...
Making Health Propaganda Great Again
The Trump administration’s new “assessment” of children’s health issues is a Trojan Horse. Don’t let it in.
conservechange.medium.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"The propagandist does not start by trying to convince people to agree with him. The propagandist starts by convincing people that he agrees with them."
My thoughts on the pernicious power of the new Make America Healthy Again report conservechange.medium.com/making-healt...
My thoughts on the pernicious power of the new Make America Healthy Again report conservechange.medium.com/making-healt...
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Im just starting to dig into the just-released "Make America Healthy Again" children's health report (link below). I'll live-skeet my impressions, which are already very complicated. (1/n)
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May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Im just starting to dig into the just-released "Make America Healthy Again" children's health report (link below). I'll live-skeet my impressions, which are already very complicated. (1/n)
static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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The USDA is demanding grant rewrites favoring fossil fuels over renewables, leaving some rural recipients doubtful they’ll ever see the money they were promised:
Trump moves goalposts for farmers counting on clean energy grants
The USDA is demanding grant rewrites favoring fossil fuels over renewables, leaving some rural recipients doubtful they’ll ever see the money they were…
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April 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The USDA is demanding grant rewrites favoring fossil fuels over renewables, leaving some rural recipients doubtful they’ll ever see the money they were promised:
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"A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words 'climate' and 'vulnerable,' as well as the phrase 'safe drinking water." newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
newrepublic.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words 'climate' and 'vulnerable,' as well as the phrase 'safe drinking water." newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
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ALL Trumps decisions and their impact:
Trump Day 67: Tens of thousands of new layoffs, anti-American content to be removed from museums, unions restricted, Trump wants to stop funding for PBS and NPR, number of flights to/from Canada crashes & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-67... #trump100
Trump Day 67: Tens of thousands of new layoffs, anti-American content to be removed from museums, unions restricted, Trump wants to stop funding for PBS and NPR, number of flights to/from Canada crashes & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-67... #trump100
Trump Day 67: Tens of thousands of new layoffs, anti-American content to be removed from museums, unions restricted, Trump wants to stop funding for PBS and NPR, number of flights to/from Canada crash...
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 67.
reportersonline.eu
March 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
ALL Trumps decisions and their impact:
Trump Day 67: Tens of thousands of new layoffs, anti-American content to be removed from museums, unions restricted, Trump wants to stop funding for PBS and NPR, number of flights to/from Canada crashes & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-67... #trump100
Trump Day 67: Tens of thousands of new layoffs, anti-American content to be removed from museums, unions restricted, Trump wants to stop funding for PBS and NPR, number of flights to/from Canada crashes & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-67... #trump100
Apropos of nothing /s @ Big Science and Big Green orgs
a man sitting in front of a fire with the words open war is upon you below him
ALT: a man sitting in front of a fire with the words open war is upon you below him
media.tenor.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Apropos of nothing /s @ Big Science and Big Green orgs