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Under #Biden US national labs found themselves hamstrung by micromanagement, demands from the administration that resources be diverted away from #science while regulators repeatedly shut down programs much to the chagrin of our International partners.
It's been a breath of fresh air that the new administration has allowed us to actually get back to work. I don't even care if they know what they are doing, at least they are no longer interfering. Science is getting back on track now.
Regardless of everything else that #Trump might be getting into, and maybe it's just because he's just that incompetent, at least the US is getting back on track with its scientific endeavors. Our experiments are getting back up to speed after years of crippling bureaucracy, and we can start making progress again.
There's a lot to complain about with Trump, but I am very glad to see that the expectations for science are living up to what I'd hoped.
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Prison #Washington #Law #Migrants #Immigration #Trump
Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/
Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders
* decision comes w. some risk. 🏳️⚧️🙏
#USpol #Boston #LGBTQ #SanctuaryCity #TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
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It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research.
#News #Climate #NIH #Health #ClimateChange #Research #Government #Trump #RFKJr
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.
Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #EPA #PFAS #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #Trump
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
In Chicago, a sanctuary city, immigration rights advocates say ICE has unlawfully picked up at least 22 migrants, creating warrants after some had already been detained.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Law #Migrants #Immigrants
Holy shit
#DeSantis admits that the #WorkerShortages created by anti-#immigrant laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing #ChildLabor protection standards.
#USpol #law #immigration #economy #Trump
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html
The #Trump admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old #YunseoChung, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State #MarcoRubio to remove people deemed threat. She's lived here since childhood.
Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.
The #US is seeking to deport a person w/a #GreenCard since she was a child because she went to a #protest.
#law #immigration #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
This is beyond…
#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
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Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.
#News #Consumer #Business #Law #Meta #Tech #Trump #DOGE #Musk
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #University #Research #DEI #Trump #Diversity #Rural
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law
Meanwhile, in Germany…
(It's an InterCity Express train, a.k.a. ICE)
#train #trains #transit #deutschland #germany #europe #DonaldTrump #trump #president #US #USA #UnitedStates #america #graffiti
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#LisaMurkowski will never be looked at as someone w decency again. She's a ghoul. She is #maga
"This Awful Mistake Will Haunt Her for The Rest of Her Life"
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RESIST! FOXTROT DELTA TANGO - F*CK DONALD TRUMP MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS
https://www.teepublic.com/user/prometheus31
#trump #foxtrotdeltatango #fucktrump #mundussinecaesaribus
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
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The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/national-institutes-health-nih-canceled-grants-research
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.
#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
#News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post