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Update. #Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate #EPA’s Scientific Research Arm"
nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology…The EPA’s plan… calls for dissolving the agency’s largest department, the Office of Research and Development, and purging up to 75 percent of the people who work there. The remaining staff members would be placed elsewhere within the EPA…Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA],…the top Democrat on the science committee, said that without the Office of Research and Development, the EPA would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science” when writing regulations and considering policy. She also said that the office was created by congressional statute and that dissolving it would be illegal."

The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2021. The agency presented plans to let go of 75 percent of its staff within its largest department: the Office of Research and Development.
The New York Times · Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research ArmBy Lisa Friedman

Slate: Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That

The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet

"...Last week, Reddit administrator Worstnerd shared a significant update to the social network’s content-moderation standards. As of March 5, “users who … upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.” They added that the company will “consider adding additional actions down the road.”...

Apparently saying ‘luigi’ is now against the rules too even though they never told us. All comments with the word ‘luigi’ get flagged as possible inciting violence,”

slate.com/technology/2025/03/r

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Update. "Scientists Say #NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub #mRNA References on Grants"
kffhealthnews.org/news/article

"National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA #vaccine technology from their grant applications…NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House."

KFF Health NewsScientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health NewsTwo senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.

Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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Multiple workers at #VoiceOfAmerica, an international #media broadcaster that operates in >40 languages, shared w/Reuters an email that placed them on administrative leave w/full pay & benefits "until otherwise notified."

The emails, sent by a HR executive at the #US Agency for Global Media, the #VOA's parent agency, instructed them not to enter their work premises or access internal systems.

Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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Update. Survey of US #librarians and #LIS faculty.
coloradomesa.az1.qualtrics.com

"Recent weeks and months have brought shifts to the pursuit of research across the United States, including funding freezes and budget cuts, executive orders regarding DEIA (and its variants) and other justice-related topics (e.g., environmental justice)…This survey aims to gather the perspectives of academic librarians and LIS-program faculty about the implications of these shifts (and executive orders) on research initiatives and, more broadly, academic freedom, researchers' freedom of thought/speech/expression within academia, and researchers' overall intellectual freedom."

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