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Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work

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Re: Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work

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> ... from sharing their work They are banned from tweeting, not sharing research papers. If tweeting is thier only "work", then they should be disbanded altogether...

"Those “public-facing documents” include news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds and social media content, said Sharon Drumm, chief of staff of the Agricultural Research Service."

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Seriously, is this just all hot air? Or is this stuff really happening as reported? I'd be demanding a revolution to overthrow the US government if any one of a few things I've heard about recently happened... but it's a steady stream of unbelievable stuff and the narrative seems to be: This is happening. The End. Sure, there have been protests, but is that it? Is there no legal challenge? Has the great American demo…

Protests take time to organize and legal challenges take time to go through the courts. Meanwhile Trump is machine gun firing executive orders. As far as checks and balances are concerned, both the executive branch and both chambers of the legislative branch are Republican. So it falls to the judicial branch to provide those checks and balances and as I said earlier, legal challenges take time. The biggest mistake we…

> We need to remember it's darkest before the dawn.

I never understood this proverb, and find it utterly nonsensical. It's darkest at bloody midnight. Before the actual dawn, it has already begun to brighten up for quite a while.

It's not even midnight yet. This is day 5 of the Trump presidency. If you want to use the daylight metaphor, and if Trump is darkness, it's dusk.

Re: Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Protests take time to organize and legal challenges take time to go through the courts. Meanwhile Trump is machine gun firing executive orders. As far as checks and balances are concerned, both the executive branch and both chambers of the legislative branch are Republican. So it falls to the judicial branch to provide those checks and balances and as I said earlier, legal challenges take time. The biggest mistake we…

> We need to remember it's darkest before the dawn. I never understood this proverb, and find it utterly nonsensical. It's darkest at bloody midnight. Before the actual dawn, it has already begun to brighten up for quite a while. It's not even midnight yet. This is day 5 of the Trump presidency. If you want to use the daylight metaphor, and if Trump is darkness, it's dusk .

Technically 6 hours before is still "before"... the proverb isn't "it's darkest immediately before dawn"

Re: Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work

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Seriously, is this just all hot air? Or is this stuff really happening as reported? I'd be demanding a revolution to overthrow the US government if any one of a few things I've heard about recently happened... but it's a steady stream of unbelievable stuff and the narrative seems to be: This is happening. The End. Sure, there have been protests, but is that it? Is there no legal challenge? Has the great American demo…

I would have loved some checks and balances on Obama, Alas, he is the one that set this up. After enough presidents have unlimited runs, something has to change.
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