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Originally posted by THGRRI: Saturday, July 1, 2017 9:25 AM


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Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart

On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now
-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/
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Florida Lawmakers’ Climate Denialism Is Pure, Unadulterated Lunacy

Hurricanes Helene and Milton were both scarier than any Halloween movie you might view this month. Scientists say both powerful storms were fueled by climate change.

But for Florida state legislators, climate change is as fictional as Freddy Kreuger. This spring, Governor Ron DeSantis, with the state legislature, passed a law that deleted most references to climate change from state law.

The sponsors for this disappearing act were the dynamic duo of Representative Bobby Payne and Senator Jay Collins, whom I have come to think of as the Penn & Teller of Tallahassee. By removing the words “climate change” and “greenhouse gas emissions,” their law made the whole issue go “poof!” It was just like that time David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty vanish.

There’s just one teensy little problem: The Statue of Liberty trick was just an illusion. So was this. Outside of our phallus-shaped Capitol, climate change, as the recent hurricanes have made painfully clear, isn’t going anywhere.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/florida-lawmakers-climate
-denialism-is-pure-unadulterated-lunacy/ar-AA1sfSP8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=15676341f849403bb236c2b9907300ac&ei=124


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A friend and Purple Heart recipient sent this picture to me this morning.
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I think of this while watching career politicians and a deeply entrenched establishment get angry and whine when a courageous, decorated veteran is asked to serve his country as Defense Secretary. We have many pathetic people sitting in the chief seats. Time for a change.


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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 3:45 PM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:

Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart

On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now
-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/





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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 7:28 PM

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when Creationists write history?

Mike Johnson Attributes Prayer to Thomas Jefferson. But There’s a Problem.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-attributes-prayer-thomas-01422
8134.html

Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Mike Johnson read a prayer that he claimed was from Thomas Jefferson, despite there being no evidence the third president ever said it.

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Sunday, January 19, 2025 7:07 PM

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Science at NASA JPL evacuated due to California fire


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Monday, January 27, 2025 1:17 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by THGRRI:

Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart

On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now
-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/
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Monday, January 27, 2025 5:47 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Idiot, homosexual, DEI, pseudo-scientist and likely pedophile Tyson doesn't know what a woman is.

Now there's a an executive order telling stupid people like Tyson what a woman is.



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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:13 PM

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:43 PM

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JIM ACOSTA LEAVES CNN WITH HIS INTEGRITY






Old news. I already told you about his firing 2 days ago.


The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 6:32 PM

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He quit...

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JIM ACOSTA LEAVES CNN WITH HIS INTEGRITY



CNN Anchor QUITS ON LIVE TV over Network OBEYING Trump







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Thursday, February 13, 2025 2:11 PM

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During his first term as president of the United States (2017–2021), Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly politicized science by pressuring or overriding health and science agencies to change their reporting and recommendations so as to conform to his policies and public comments.


12 Feb 2025

US science in chaos as impact of Trump’s executive orders sinks in

https://physicsworld.com/a/us-science-in-chaos-as-impact-of-trumps-exe
cutive-orders-sinks-in
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Thursday, February 13, 2025 3:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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He quit...




No. He was fired.

They allowed him to pretend he had any dignity for the benefit of stupid people such as yourself.

2 months from now, you won't even remember he existed.

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Thursday, February 13, 2025 3:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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During his first term as president of the United States (2017–2021), Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly politicized science by pressuring or overriding health and science agencies to change their reporting and recommendations so as to conform to his policies and public comments.



CORRECTION: You fuckers politicized Science.

Now you're fucked.

You made your bed, Ted. Lie in it.

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Sunday, February 23, 2025 10:32 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary Employees at NASA
https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/statement-opposing-probationa
ry-layoffs

“Workforce changes should be in service of improving the agency’s ability to execute its mission. Indiscriminate layoffs do not serve this purpose.”

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Sunday, February 23, 2025 4:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Awww... poor babies.

The voting public has been through layoff after layoff after layoff their entire lives and don't have a nice taxpayer funded pension and healthcare program when they retire.

Fuck all of you government employees. You're going to have to actually start working for a living if you don't want to starve to death.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 5:24 AM

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NASA cuts off international climate science support | U.N. panel meets for first time without U.S. leadership

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-cuts-international-climat
e-science-support

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Friday, March 7, 2025 9:38 AM

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planetary science tv speaks out

but some also criticized Nye for his weirdness

Bill Nye Just EXPOSED Elon Musk LIVE On CNN


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Saturday, March 8, 2025 5:06 AM

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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent. "It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/white-house-may-seek-to-slash-na
sas-science-budget-by-50-percent
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 5:24 PM

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NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472224-nasa-may-have-to-cancel-m
ajor-space-missions-due-to-budget-cuts/



That's what SpaceX and private sector is for.

Fuck NASA. They haven't done anything of note since before I was born.



Here's a suggestion for them if they need to raise some money. Start calling up rich people and offering them space flights for a stupid price that only they could pay. You could probably keep funding NASA forever by doing this.

Do it now before Elon beats you to the market and you're boxed out of that as well.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 6:01 AM

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but it will be different to Bush-junior, Obama and Biden / Kamala they said

French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism
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Fuck NASA. They haven't done anything of note since before I was born.



Seems the Shuttle ideas was before you were born, after Apollo they gave Nixon this Spaceplane idea but it was all stuck in low orbit.
I remember I think maybe you told me your age, but I didn't file it away as I don't obsess over people but I've a general idea of your age
The ISS and Hubble are a big big deal, all those peoples and languages working in Space then Hubble descovering new science and the JWST which is re-writing books
I would say the Mars Rovers are up there...but China has started to catch up and does the same now. The grand tour with the Nuclear powered robotic craft 'Voyagers' are a big achievement although planning goes back to the 60s one of them still works and NASA picking up ‘Voyagers faint signals’.

some of the other visits to Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn have been very interesting but it should be doing more
if you look at what South Korea or Japan can do with their Annual budget then no doubts that NASA should do it better and cheaper
New Zealand can launch things to space and it doesn't even have a true space agency

the mistakes? Shuttle was very ambitious and overly complex

btw Starship also has no 'eject'

Space-X has no experience of driving 'Mars Rovers' and a lot of private missions have failed at the Moon, the Russians have also failed to do what the Soviets did in the 60s and 70s.

then Post ColdWar some people always thought the Russians would be friendly post ColdWar and be part of this happy world trade, space community, happy politics of nations.

Politics is what truly forced NASA to open up, and then Musk slowly starting to win doing successful launches but it political leaders wanting it done cheaper and allowing others to bid from the Private Sector
China has basically caught up with much of what NASA has done, it has even advanced in some areas and there is a risk of NASA losing races of science.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 7:46 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I am not worried at all about China catching up or surpassing us in the space race, as long as we maintain satellite dominance, which is the only thing that's going to matter for at least the next 100 years.

We're a million years from being able to do anything worthwhile with space exploration. There is zero ROI in a space race with China.

So what if they beat us to little bullshit milestones along the way? So what that they've managed to reverse engineer public and private code and they've figured out a way to sell tech at super cheap prices?

That's the thing. We can do that too. Let them take the reins in the space race that's been over for more than half a century now.

Let them piss away all the money on space now. If they figure out anything that's a game changer, we'll just steal it back from them when the time comes.



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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 8:05 PM

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More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/scientists-letter-trum
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 9:16 PM

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More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/scientists-letter-trum
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1,900, huh? Wow!

They're doing a lot better than the current Change.org petition begging Disney to bring back Firefly.

https://www.change.org/topic/firefly-en-us


We only got 124 people to sign it when Arrested Development was revived.

https://www.change.org/p/netflix-netflix-bring-back-firefly


You should have seen us back in the day though. We got way more than 1,900 signatures.

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 8:16 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Bretton Woods system of monetary management has come to an end


Here's how Trump calculated tariffs. The math has baffled economists

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/trump-tariffs-calculation-formul
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Monday, April 7, 2025 10:54 AM

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Bannon

Economic numbers, its more battleships? tanks and army boots??

like 'Risk' the strategy board game of conflict and conquest for two to six players

could be the new best pals with Russia cos its time to take Greenland, Philippines, Canada...Defense, Defense, Pivot!

You had country after country, and company after company saying, hey, we want to come in and talk. Maybe we don't understand the formula, but we understand there's a problem and you're not going to tolerate it anymore.
https://gettr.com/post/p3jnweofe53

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 10:27 AM

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A University of Chicago economist says the White House cited his work in calculating the tariffs, and made a math error. To cause them to balance the trade deficit with each country they should be one-fourth the size.

https://x.com/NPRinskeep/status/1909448756665233577

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