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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
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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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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
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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
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JIM ACOSTA LEAVES CNN WITH HIS INTEGRITY

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He quit...

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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.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472224-nasa-may-have-to-cancel-m
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Fuck NASA. They haven't done anything of note since before I was born.

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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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Originally posted by THG:
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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Originally posted by THG:
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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You are a wasted life Gilligan.

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You are a wasted life Gilligan.

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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
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Hey Jack, Trump's doing it again. I saw it coming and you did not. Guess I was right and you were wrong.

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Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/some-parts-of-trumps-proposed-bu
dget-for-nasa-are-literally-draconian/


"This budget provides no funding for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion and Nuclear Electric Propulsion projects," officials wrote in a technical supplement released Friday detailing Trump's NASA budget proposal. "These efforts are costly investments, would take many years to develop, and have not been identified as the propulsion mode for deep space missions. The nuclear propulsion projects are terminated to achieve cost savings and because there are other nearer-term propulsion alternatives for Mars transit."

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/some-parts-of-trumps-proposed-bu
dget-for-nasa-are-literally-draconian/


"This budget provides no funding for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion and Nuclear Electric Propulsion projects," officials wrote in a technical supplement released Friday detailing Trump's NASA budget proposal. "These efforts are costly investments, would take many years to develop, and have not been identified as the propulsion mode for deep space missions. The nuclear propulsion projects are terminated to achieve cost savings and because there are other nearer-term propulsion alternatives for Mars transit."

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/nasa-raises-the-odds-that-an
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Yup. Gotta get that next big terrifying thing we all need to be terrified of everyday on deck.

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