The New Dark Age

[Sardines]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...9-lIhdQ1RBLC8za-EQ_aem_-dwrwc63iDDfZlpePtnW7g

The move is an escalation of Trump’s weaponization of American citizenship. While the president has enacted mass deportations for immigrants and looked to end birthright citizenship for the children of some immigrants, his threat to revoke the New York-born actor’s citizenship marks a new frontier.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday morning. O’Donnell currently resides in Ireland.

 

[Red]

This is real shameful. So many educational programs for children and adults. Shows like Nova and Nature. Masterpiece Theater. The recent second season of Wolf Hall, airing 10 years(!) after part one, was superb!

‘Devastating’: US public broadcasters condemn Trump cuts to key programs

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

www.theguardian.com

Public broadcast station leaders are condemning Donald Trump’s latest victory after Congress approved a bill to cancel all federal funding for public broadcasting programs including PBS and NPR.

The House signed off on the bill early on Friday morning, after Wednesday’s key decision in the Senate to pass $9bn in spending cuts, effectively slashing public broadcasting as well as foreign aid. The PBS president and CEO, Paula Kerger, said that the Senate’s approval of the package “goes against the will of the American people”.

“These cuts will significantly impact all of our stations, but will be especially devastating to smaller stations and those serving large rural areas. Many of our stations which provide access to free unique local programming and emergency alerts will now be forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” Kerger said.

“Despite today’s setback, we are determined to keep fighting to preserve the essential services we provide to the American public.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ote-trump-cut-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting
Similarly, NPR’s CEO, Katherine Maher, said: “Nearly three in four Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety.

Kate Riley, the president and CEO of the advocacy group America’s Public Television Stations, said the organization was “devastated that the Senate voted to eliminate federal funding to the local public television stations throughout this country that provide essential lifesaving public safety services, proven educational services and community connections to their communities every day for free”.

The head of Native Public Media, Loris Taylor, called the Senate’s decision “deeply troubling”.

Taylor, who heads a network of 57 Native radio stations and four T stations, had privately implored South Dakota Republican senator Mike Rounds to reject the package, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Following the Senate’s passage of the bill, which Rounds ultimately endorsed, Taylor said: “It poses an immediate threat to the survival of small, rural, and Tribal stations across the country. These hyperlocal stations, many of which are the only source of local news, emergency alerts, educational programming, and cultural preservation, operate with limited resources and rely on [the Corporation for Public Broadcasting] funding to stay on the air.

“Without this federal support, Native and rural communities stand to lose critical lifelines that connect them to the rest of the nation.”

 

[Red]

I want to reassert what this thread is about: the attack by the Trump administration on learning, education, science, medicine. In other words, human knowledge. It is a concerted attack. This thread has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the subjects raised by the laziest troll, who is apparently unable to figure out the subject matter of the threads he floods with nonsense. It should not be hard to recognize that “marching naked people, Russiagate, Rogan does Hillary, oil pipelines, and democratic socialist mayoral candidates” have nothing whatsoever to do with attacks on human knowledge and learning.

NEWS: Sanders Releases Report Documenting Trump’s War on Science » Senator Bernie Sanders

Trump Cuts Cancer Research by 31 Percent WASHINGTON, May 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a new report uncovering the far-reaching scope of Trump’s attacks on science and their impact on public...

www.sanders.senate.gov

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-trump-administration-dismantling-science-u-s

Executive orders, sweeping budget cuts, and other actions in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have had innumerable impacts on science in the United States and throughout the world. Science News staff members weigh in on how these changes have affected the funding and practice of scientific research, and what kinds of lasting impacts the administration may have on the global scientific enterprise.

Attacks on Science

Disappearing data. Silenced scientists. We've tracked threats to the federal scientific enterprise for decades.

www.ucs.org

From the Front Lines at Harvard: Battling Trump's Attack on Science

The survival of science and academic freedom in this country requires that we stand up and fight for the truth with all we have.

www.the-scientist.com

 

[Red]

@PJF, you wrote: “This thread and that Atlantic article are a load of crap.”

Then maybe you should have given some thought to ignoring this thread. Posting comments completely unrelated to the subject matter is lame, and lazy. One of your comments, yesterday, might have constituted a zinger for you, if posted in the Trump economy thread. Here, it makes no sense whatsoever. Not to mention the odd scene of seeing someone posting to a thread they consider “crap”. You’re only broadcasting your ignorance of the subject, and your own hatred of learning.

 

[fishonjazz]

@PJF, you wrote: “This thread and that Atlantic article are a load of crap.”

Then maybe you should have given some thought to ignoring this thread. Posting comments completely unrelated to the subject matter is lame, and lazy. One of your comments, yesterday, might have constituted a zinger for you, if posted in the Trump economy thread. Here, it makes no sense whatsoever. Not to mention the odd scene of seeing someone posting to a thread they consider “crap”. You’re only broadcasting your ignorance of the subject, and your own hatred of learning.

In his defense, he is an idiot.

 

[LogGrad98]

I want to reassert what this thread is about: the attack by the Trump administration on learning, education, science, medicine. In other words, human knowledge. It is a concerted attack. This thread has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the subjects raised by the laziest troll, who is apparently unable to figure out the subject matter of the threads he floods with nonsense. It should not be hard to recognize that “marching naked people, Russiagate, Rogan does Hillary, oil pipelines, and democratic socialist mayoral candidates” have nothing whatsoever to do with attacks on human knowledge and learning.

NEWS: Sanders Releases Report Documenting Trump’s War on Science » Senator Bernie Sanders

Trump Cuts Cancer Research by 31 Percent WASHINGTON, May 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a new report uncovering the far-reaching scope of Trump’s attacks on science and their impact on public...

www.sanders.senate.gov

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-trump-administration-dismantling-science-u-s

Executive orders, sweeping budget cuts, and other actions in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have had innumerable impacts on science in the United States and throughout the world. Science News staff members weigh in on how these changes have affected the funding and practice of scientific research, and what kinds of lasting impacts the administration may have on the global scientific enterprise.

Attacks on Science

Disappearing data. Silenced scientists. We've tracked threats to the federal scientific enterprise for decades.

www.ucs.org

From the Front Lines at Harvard: Battling Trump's Attack on Science

The survival of science and academic freedom in this country requires that we stand up and fight for the truth with all we have.

www.the-scientist.com

I think only you and maybe a couple other guys don't have the laziest troll on ignore. I don't even see his "contributions" to this thread at all. Not sure why we know he is a troll, it's been reported multiple multiple times, but we can't get him banned from the site. Disappointed in that honestly.

 

[Rubashov]

I think only you and maybe a couple other guys don't have the laziest troll on ignore. I don't even see his "contributions" to this thread at all. Not sure why we know he is a troll, it's been reported multiple multiple times, but we can't get him banned from the site. Disappointed in that honestly.

Ignore away biatch

 

[LogGrad98]

Ignore away biatch

You are far from the laziest troll. In fact you put so much work into it you're like a little lost puppy frantically nipping at people's heels. But you're just a little too mangey to be cute.

 

[Rubashov]

You are far from the laziest troll. In fact you put so much work into it you're like a little lost puppy frantically nipping at people's heels. But you're just a little too mangey to be cute.

Puppy? I'll take a ****ing bat to you sucka!!!!