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@dan_aykroyd I gotta watch this! You are such a gem.

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@RobertMSterling @BPD1776 My 8 year old son LOVES his Floafers!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.

The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.

Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.

On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."

That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.

The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.

The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.

Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.

Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"

Now there's no board to answer to.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"

That's the actual question.

Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.

RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.

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@NASA @AstroVicGlover One Earth. One Family.

[NASA @NASA]

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

[Kristen @kristengough]

@SecRubio Read that Bible - it’s Easter

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

The world's largest unmanned cargo drone, China's Changying-8, successfully completed its maiden flight on March 31.

Max takeoff weight: 7 tonnes
Max payload capacity: 3.5 tonnes

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@vecnavoid @Scaramucci @LindseyGrahamSC 😭 heartbreaking 💔 #stopthegenocideingaza #endIranWar

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@FermoWorld Conman

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@ElizLanders @POTUS Good reporting

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@ElliiiT @FoxNews 😆 🤪

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@pete_elite54220 Sending 🩵 from Louisiana to Hunter Hess ⛷️ #lovewins

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@heraskevych Support from Louisiana, 🇺🇸

[Yarema Dukh 🇺🇦 @yarko]

@BBCSport How hard is it for @BBCSport in a 106-word post to mention that it is Russia that invaded a sovereign European country?

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wore a helmet with images of people killed in the war in his home country during a Winter Olympics training session in Cortina.

Heraskevych had promised before the Games to use the event as a platform to keep attention on the conflict.

"Some of them were my friends," said Heraskevych, who was Ukraine's flagbearer in the opening ceremony.

He told Reuters that many of those pictured on his helmet were athletes including teenage weightlifter Alina Peregudova, boxer Pavlo Ishchenko and ice hockey player Oleksiy Loginov.

The 26-year-old said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had contacted Ukraine's Olympic Committee over the helmet.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

With yet another court loss, all five ongoing offshore wind projects that were irrationally and arbitrarily stopped by the Trump admin have been ordered to resume work.

The decision was supposedly based on new “classified information” that the courts rejected. I have repeatedly asked to see that classified information and have been stonewalled. The reason seems clear: it was all a bogus pretext to stop the offshore wind projects.

It’s hard to explain how dumb this decision was – these five projects are underway, have created tens of thousands of jobs, billions in investment in American manufacturing, and would power 2.5 million homes and lower energy prices for everyone.

But Trump owes the oil industry, so he chooses them over the American people – yet again.

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Lawful refugees receiving dignity, thanks to a federal judge. No thanks to Trump & Stephen Miller’s ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas..even if it requires traumatizing children & wasting tax payer money.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

BREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status.

https://t.co/DofME8ihWt

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@LindseyGrahamSC One of the reasons that we were able to adopt our Honduran daughter is because of the empathy of a sanctuary city. #NewOrleans