Former NIH Program Official for 22 years. Now fighting to defend science.
"Science: A New Golden Age is not so much a visionary document for remaking American science as it is a recipe for burning the existing house down." bigthink.com/starts-with-...
An honest look inside the "Science: A New Golden Age" reportScientists are livid over the OSTP director's official report to the President. Will it lead to a new golden age for US science, or end it?bigthink.comAfter Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter (Gift Article)The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.www.nytimes.comWatch the movie HEIST on YouTube. HEIST is an on-the-streets account of federal workers challenging the Trump Administration as it dismantles federal agencies and purges the federal workforce. It documents a pivotal moment in U.S. history - as events were unfolding. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
New documentary recounts ‘free-for-all attitude of cruelty’ toward axed federal employeesThe movie, which was filmed during the start of the second Trump administration, examines the human and societal effects of recent federal job cuts.www.govexec.comAmericans are struggling to pay rent, losing health insurance, and seeing high prices at the gas pump. Trump: Let them see that I just spent $5 million in taxpayer funds on golden statues. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Let Them Eat GoldTaxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded.www.theatlantic.com‼️ Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It. The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.www.nytimes.comThis site seems shady to me: grantedai.com/ai-grant-wri... Especially since NIH has a policy against grant applications being developed wholly through AI: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... This site also plagiarized one of my substack articles and presented it as their own as paid content! Thoughts?
Granted AI — Search and Apply for Every Grant in ExistenceAI-powered grant discovery across federal, state & foundation funding. Research 133K+ foundations and draft winning proposals — all in one place.grantedai.comPeople who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies for Obamacare are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients (Gift Article)More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.www.nytimes.comThe Trump regime is trying to usher in a “Golden Age in Science” where scientific research is run like a Trump family business, artificial intelligence is all that matters, profit is everything, and expertise is for chumps. www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...
The "new science golden age" looks suspiciously like a griftTrump wants to run scientific research like his family business.www.publicnotice.coThe Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars by improving medical practice. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
Trump administration has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcareCongress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants.www.cbsnews.comwww.propublica.org/article/fede...
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy DiscoveryA proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...www.propublica.org"It’s just a real hatred of the whole scientific enterprise." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Fire This TimeThe willful ignorance, it burnsopen.substack.comGift Lift NY Times: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.com🔥🔥🔥 www.science.org/content/blog...
Judge rules against use of obscure clause to cancel grants to states | AP News share.google/wD4VYtibEazn...
Federal judge bars Trump administration from using obscure clause to make huge funding cutsA federal judge in Boston has ruled the Trump administration can’t use an obscure clause relating to agency priorities to make funding cuts.share.googlewww.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review (Gift Article)Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.www.nytimes.comCan Trump and Vought get away with this extreme power grab? prospect.org/2026/07/14/t...
Trump’s Plan to Corrupt American Science - The American ProspectOMB’s Russell Vought would bring all federal research grants under direct political control, to align with ‘the president’s agenda.’prospect.orgI will be on the Majority Report Live at 12:20pm today talking about Vought's OMB rule. Link to watch: www.youtube.com/live/5tVesxB...
Trump Hijacks Science Funding; Minnesota’s Senate Race w/ Elizabeth Ginexi, Peggy Flanagan | MR LiveYouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Sederwww.youtube.com
