Who needs cancer research and health care and infrastructure?
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Who needs cancer research and health care and infrastructure?
In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
May 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
University leaders have not been especially vocal about the new administration *because* they were so worried about Trump just gutting the research infrastructure. And now they have done so anyway.
February 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
University leaders have not been especially vocal about the new administration *because* they were so worried about Trump just gutting the research infrastructure. And now they have done so anyway.
One of our “green new scam” research grants that USDOT terminated focused on making transit infrastructure more resilient to more frequent and severe weather events. But “climate change adaptation” was too woke, obviously, and doing this research is clearly unnecessary
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
One of our “green new scam” research grants that USDOT terminated focused on making transit infrastructure more resilient to more frequent and severe weather events. But “climate change adaptation” was too woke, obviously, and doing this research is clearly unnecessary
Trump is creating a police state, killing our research science infrastructure, trying to kick millions off Medicaid, ending programs that deal with the climate crisis, and you’re threatening the Democratic Party?
June 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Trump is creating a police state, killing our research science infrastructure, trying to kick millions off Medicaid, ending programs that deal with the climate crisis, and you’re threatening the Democratic Party?
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
If the GOP doesn’t want tax dollars going to food, healthcare, housing, ed, SS, veterans’ care, housing, research, science, art, infrastructure, transit, childcare, the environment, public broadcasting, diplomacy, regulatory agencies, or job training… WTF are we paying them for?
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If the GOP doesn’t want tax dollars going to food, healthcare, housing, ed, SS, veterans’ care, housing, research, science, art, infrastructure, transit, childcare, the environment, public broadcasting, diplomacy, regulatory agencies, or job training… WTF are we paying them for?
This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.
April 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.
“Unless they are ill, many adults interact infrequently with the medical establishment. When they do, they may get care in a variety of places — making it no one person’s job to ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations… adults often have to figure this stuff out themselves”
‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders v...
The process of keeping track of which vaccines are recommended — and avoiding paying for them out of pocket — has grown increasingly convoluted.
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October 27, 2023 at 11:43 PM
Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.
Another broad swipe at research and research infrastructure 🧪🦠
Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.
Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas
The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.
www.cbsnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Another broad swipe at research and research infrastructure 🧪🦠
Pro tip: when explaining the NIH cuts to friends and family, use "research infrastructure" rather than "indirect costs" or, godforbid, "overhead."
DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure.
It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."
DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure.
It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."
February 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Pro tip: when explaining the NIH cuts to friends and family, use "research infrastructure" rather than "indirect costs" or, godforbid, "overhead."
DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure.
It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."
DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure.
It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."
The post-Second World War federally supported research infrastructure that propelled American universities to global prominence is collapsing before our eyes.
February 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The post-Second World War federally supported research infrastructure that propelled American universities to global prominence is collapsing before our eyes.
Now the wildfire experts who became air traffic control experts are now grant funding/research infrastructure experts.
February 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Now the wildfire experts who became air traffic control experts are now grant funding/research infrastructure experts.
Does hobbling the nation's scientific research infrastructure fit in there?
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Does hobbling the nation's scientific research infrastructure fit in there?
It took decades to build America’s research infrastructure
It’s destruction is happening in a matter of weeks
🥺😢😔
It’s destruction is happening in a matter of weeks
🥺😢😔
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It took decades to build America’s research infrastructure
It’s destruction is happening in a matter of weeks
🥺😢😔
It’s destruction is happening in a matter of weeks
🥺😢😔
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
The Bike Lane Gender Gap: New Research Shows Women Ride More Where Protected Infrastructure Exists.
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April 21, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The Bike Lane Gender Gap: New Research Shows Women Ride More Where Protected Infrastructure Exists.
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Israel is also bombing Medical Research facilities and Bridges.
Its Gaza again.
Attempted Genocide. Eradicate culture, learning, civilian infrastructure so the people can never flourish ever again
Pure satanic evil. Its the Nazis personified.
Its Gaza again.
Attempted Genocide. Eradicate culture, learning, civilian infrastructure so the people can never flourish ever again
Pure satanic evil. Its the Nazis personified.
April 2, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Israel is also bombing Medical Research facilities and Bridges.
Its Gaza again.
Attempted Genocide. Eradicate culture, learning, civilian infrastructure so the people can never flourish ever again
Pure satanic evil. Its the Nazis personified.
Its Gaza again.
Attempted Genocide. Eradicate culture, learning, civilian infrastructure so the people can never flourish ever again
Pure satanic evil. Its the Nazis personified.
Slam down an infrastructure program of research labs, rail links, and airports and watch the blue pockets bloom
Gotta take a page out of robert moses and the redliners and carve woke into the physical fabric of the countryside. Demolish the car dealers. Build on golf courses. Hammer subway lines into Nassau and other red suburbs
June 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Slam down an infrastructure program of research labs, rail links, and airports and watch the blue pockets bloom
Imagine if *all* the work we do was reinvested in infrastructure research social programs education reducing work hours retirement environmental resilience mass transportation leisure
Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders.
Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders.
May 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Imagine if *all* the work we do was reinvested in infrastructure research social programs education reducing work hours retirement environmental resilience mass transportation leisure
Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders.
Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders.
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
April 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
This would have been a beautiful map had it not depicted the scope of Russia's sabotage on European infrastructure 2018-2025.
Take your time and decipher it.
From this report: www.iiss.org/research-pap...
Take your time and decipher it.
From this report: www.iiss.org/research-pap...
August 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This would have been a beautiful map had it not depicted the scope of Russia's sabotage on European infrastructure 2018-2025.
Take your time and decipher it.
From this report: www.iiss.org/research-pap...
Take your time and decipher it.
From this report: www.iiss.org/research-pap...
3/ They're playing chicken with the US's scientific infrastructure.
Such damage has swift cost. In $/¢–biomedical research returns ~$2.50-8 for every research dollar spent. And in lives, as fields like, say, cancer immunotherapy or vaccine development lose expertise and capacity...
Such damage has swift cost. In $/¢–biomedical research returns ~$2.50-8 for every research dollar spent. And in lives, as fields like, say, cancer immunotherapy or vaccine development lose expertise and capacity...
January 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
3/ They're playing chicken with the US's scientific infrastructure.
Such damage has swift cost. In $/¢–biomedical research returns ~$2.50-8 for every research dollar spent. And in lives, as fields like, say, cancer immunotherapy or vaccine development lose expertise and capacity...
Such damage has swift cost. In $/¢–biomedical research returns ~$2.50-8 for every research dollar spent. And in lives, as fields like, say, cancer immunotherapy or vaccine development lose expertise and capacity...
The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
www.ucs.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.