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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • They’re not doing research for Harvard, they’re doing science research for the public which was competitively assessed and awarded.

    That’s how the US has chosen to fund science research for over 50 years. It was considered a public good and has easily been one of best public investments that we’ve made during the period.

    America has been at the pinnacle of science, medicine and education largely through this partnership with Universities. trump and company are pissing that legacy away in an effort to destroy higher education in the US, which they believe to be an impediment to them instituting authoritarian rule.

    They’re happy to loot the country and burn it to the ground so long as they can rule over the ashes.











  • When is someone going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS?

    Such as?

    Democrats don’t have meaningful power at the moment due to that unfortunate last election, so they can make noise to bring attention to things, but not much that they can actually do.

    People are protesting and making noise, so that’s a start, but we need more.

    Sounding alarms about these sorts of things are good if they get more people pissed off so they get off their butts and start making noise themselves. No one else is going to save us.

    …and yes, Dems should do more to slow down and block what they can in congress, but none of the stuff the the doggy folks are doing require legislation. I mean, what they’re doing is illegal in many ways, but nothing is going through congress to enable it. It’s more that the maladministration is just not enforcing the law when it chooses not to and if Dems had a majority in at least one wing of congress, they could at least hold hearings with some (minimal) teeth.