sober superman

connect. understand. live. love. grow. & have some fun with it all.

[sober superman @snguyen87]

@FineJojo2424 @_0Nestor Never underestimate the power of the bromance

[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.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis are seen arresting another teenager without verifying his identity first, and admit to it on camera.

In the video, the teenager calmly tells agents he can go inside and get his ID to prove who he is. The agents refuse. Instead, they say they’ll “take pictures at HQ”… and then force him into their SUV anyway.

That is deeply alarming.

Law enforcement is not allowed to detain people first and figure out who they are later without lawful justification.

Detaining someone without verifying identity, without probable cause, and without allowing them to present ID raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns.

You cannot seize a person just to “check” who they are.

This also mirrors what DHS has now openly admitted: that people are being detained first and sorted out later based on suspicion alone.

That means innocent people, minors, and U.S. citizens are being taken into custody without verification, without charges, and without due process.

If the government can forcibly detain someone simply to identify them, that is not law enforcement… that is unlawful detention.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

MTG just lit up her own party—brutally:

“Health care crisis? Ignored.
Wages? Flat.
Bills? Sky high.
And you think this wins midterms?”

She says her electricity bill alone is up $100 since last year—and blasts Republicans for abandoning “America First.”

When even Marge sounds like Bernie, you know the base is boiling.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

who the FUCK do we owe?

[DALÄ SHORT @drewscotty]

You know what airline hasn’t crashed yet in 2025??????

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

I don't have kids and live alone; I don't need a Costco membership. But I'm about to get one today. Sign me up!

[judas 🫁 @franknwren]

im genuinely so confused on what name this is actually referring to like someone please help me out

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

Exactly what I’ve been saying!! Yall so scare to change you let the actual devil into office.

[Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones_]

Everyday we get new announcements of Trump’s cabinet picks and this what I picture those meetings looking like

[Poem Heaven @PoemHeaven]

i hope you want more for yourself.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING NEWS:

Donald Trump says he will end automatic citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.

Since Trump's family is of German descent, and not Native American, we can deport him and his family to Germany.

[Beau DeMayo @BeauDemayo]

As it was in #2020, this will be my coping in #2024 #xmen #xmen97 #truth

[sober superman @snguyen87]

Shit aside, I feel magically charged right now.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

it’s consistently funny how once any of these rightwing influencers stop talking to random 19 year old college students they pick off the street they start flailing and stuttering immediately

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Don’t share this

[sober superman @snguyen87]

@PandasHoops5 If you touch me like this…