Farjad📸

Photographer | Former Baby | 2006 Time Person of the Year | Peer Acclaimed Comedian | Pandemic Survivor | Mediocre Tweeter

[Farjad📸 @farjadk]

Hi help me find more Twitter photographers maybe? 🥺🥺🥺
Even a like helps if you can’t retweet

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

trump stomping all over american iconography is exactly what this place needs. break the illusion. this is what you are. a dave n busters country

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Iran's Fars News releases a statement following President Trump's post stating a US-Iran deal would be announced "shortly" earlier today:

"It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's posts are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the US, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements," Fars News says.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The Pentagon reveals Trump paused the strikes on Iran not for negotiations as he claimed, but because Iran is becoming rapidly more effective at tracking US air operations, improving its air defenses and becoming too strong at detecting signs of a surprise attack, per NYT.

Iran has used the ceasefire to successfully dig out all bombed ballistic missile sites, making them fully operational again. Iran also moved a large number of new mobile launchers across the entire country and adjusted tactics for any resumption of strikes, per a US military official.

Iranian commanders studied US fighter jet and bomber flight patterns with close Russian and Chinese help. The recent downing of an F-15E and groundfire striking an F-35 revealed American flight tactics had become "too predictable."

[✧ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✧ @upshine3]

name a humiliation ritual neurodivergent people are expected to accept as “normal“

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Wait no fucking way

[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.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Lol....And just like clockwork.

[BluByU @Udntnonutn]

trump just quietly wiped out the National Science Board.

Not a few seats.
The whole board.

Fired by email.
Zero explanation.

They oversee the National Science Foundation, the essential pipeline for billions in US research.

In case you don’t know what they actually do.

They-
Set priorities.
Help decide what gets funded.
Make sure it’s based on science and not politics.

That funding helped drive-
MRI tech.
GPS.
The internet.
Medical breakthroughs.

These seats are staggered so no one president can flip the direction overnight.

That guardrail is now gone.

Now it comes down to who replaces them and whether science stays independent or gets even more political.

We won’t feel this tomorrow.

We’ll feel it when the next breakthrough never shows up.

[Big Kahuna @TheMSeries1]

No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

This is like making El Chapo head of the DEA, or making Robert Kennedy Jr. U.S. Secretary of Health.

[brandon s. @b_cuse_]

We don’t have $736 million for our National Parks but we have $500 million to bail out Spirit Airlines?

[Nature Is Nonpartisan @NINP_org]

The National Park Service ran on a $3 billion budget and generated $56 billion in economic output in 2024. That’s over $17 back for every $1 invested.

With a record of 332 million visitors last year, Americans clearly care about their parks and expect them to be funded.

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

Weird way to say that Israel killed her

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

notice how they never say Lebanon has the right to exist

[Covie @covie_93]

Imagine beefing with the Pope all week and having your sycophants claim the Pope doesn't know the Bible only for one of your sycophants to come out here and quote a fake Bible verse from a movie.

Embarrassing.

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

Never has a dumber group of people been put in charge of the world than this one. The Trump administration is so moronic, you simply can't parody it. This is the closest we've come to the movie 'Idiocracy' becoming a documentary.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Trump 2 years ago ran on "Kill FISA", the illegal spying that is very unpopular.

Today, Trump is urging Congress to pass FISA, which he ran against, and continues the illegal spying on Americans.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The immense irony of the US now flat out refusing capitalism's basic rule of letting the best products win.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

The guy who just flew to Hungary to get involved in their politics tells the Pope, who is from Chicago, Illinois to stay out of US politics.

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Thanks to President Trump the gas in your car is now an appreciating asset. Every fill up is an investment. That's what real economic leadership looks like.