There are some serious gremlins in the kinja, tonight. I’ve been unable to post much of anything.

Ha, I wish. W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939.

Cheto Hitler is friends with the architects of this. Let’s never forget that. I would not be at all surprised that Herr Asshat’s victory has emboldened Putin and Assad.

Yes. Going forward.

This is the partnership America voted for...

Thanks for the links. This is objectively terrifying. We already face substantial criticism from conservatives (both within and outside academia) and our funding is already limited. Congress has already restricted government funding (i.e., National Science Foundation grants) for specific fields, namely political…

It’s more than a blacklist. He’s not just after the people, he’s after the data. Control the data, control the “facts.”

Here’s the list itself. It’s a travesty. And dangerous.

Oh my god...

Can you link me to any articles about this? This is terrifying and basically my worst nightmare. I’m a liberal academic who basically exclusively studies both political ideologies and other social justice related topics that can be easily categorized as a part of the “liberal agenda”. If this happens, I am screwed.

Even our local PBS news org had dozens of comments online along this line of thinking - the fake “reasonable” position that every possible accusation, no matter how baseless or strange, should be investigated to the fullest or else it’s totally possibly probably maybe true - and I just don’t understand the trend. Is…

Was just gonna post something similar...

This must appear on all Trump articles from now on. Let this replace the gif of Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off the US

I’m sincerely terrified that I am going to end up on some blacklist. What I teach is generally considered non-political, but these insane Trumpkins are going after everyone at this point. Shades of Mao, tbh.

Yup. Conservatives complain about black lists against them. They don’t want to admit that universities deal in facts, not lies.

Good god, this is beautiful. Thank you.

Fun fact, you know who else believes in climate change? The DOD and they think it’s a security risk. So I suspect that while Pruitt will do his best to make childhood asthma in my hometown in WV even more of an issue than it already is, the climate scientists working as defense contractors will be safe and maybe all…

Honestly the worst thing we could’ve done was label it way back in the day, ‘global warming.’ It gave all these word magicians the ability to convince regular people that it isn’t true, which is what they want to believe.

I think what Trump means by open-mindedness is that thoughts rush in one ear and out the other, so his mind is very vacant, er, “open.”

This is perfect.