While most press headlines rightly highlight how Donald Trump has spent his second term destroying the nation's economy, international standing, and socio-political fabric in a Project 2025 agenda designed to return the nation to a pre-Progressive Era Gilded and Isolationist Age that deserves to remain dead and buried, the American Duce's corporate and Orwellian war on knowledge continues.
Here are some of the anti-science measures taken by Mr. Trump and his band of Know Nothings over the last ten days.
On July 9, the Trump regime, catering to its corporate patrons, relaxed a rule on protecting endangered species, allowing industrialists to pursue "farming, drilling, mining, real estate development" where these animals live.
Condemning Trump's move, Arizona Representative Adelita Grijalva posted:
On July 12, the anti-climate science administration reinstated a first-term reduction in the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah to "open about two million acres to oil drilling, uranium mining and other development."
President Joe Biden had issued an Executive Order rescinding Trump's first term executive order.
Miss President Biden yet.
This should not be surprising to people who should remember Trump's assertions that wind power turbines and solar panels destroy animal life, scare whales, and are not aesthetically pleasing to his overseas golf resorts.
National Resource Democrats in the House of Representatives released several posts against Trump's actions, including:
Arizona Representative Greg Stanton posted:
Senator Ruben Gallego posted:
Expect a lot of court fights in the coming months to stop Trump's rape of the Earth policies and destruction of humanity's heritage.
This is the Republican war on science, started in the George W. Bush Administration in its marriage with corporate interests, on steroids.
A recent review of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's book Regime Change shows how Trump's corporate donors have made several pilgrimages to the White House, demanding action against environmental regulations and sustainability projects like wind in this country and in Europe.
It is not just a war against climate science and clean energy.
It is the junk science being postulated by Pete 'No promotions for women and non-white males' Hegseth at the Pentagon in his drive to create super, probably white male, soldiers with his call for testosterone testing of military male personnel over 30.
A recent news report by Reuters shows that such a move, if actually mandated, could lead to rising infertility among those who get the testing.
The panelists on The View had fun discussing this last week.
Speaking of infertility, there is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been going around saying that there is "an explosion of infertility" in the United States because the sperm counts of teenage males in this country have dropped by 50 percent.
Fact-checkers are really having fun with that one.
What people are not having fun with is Trump, Kennedy, and their Orwellian "Make America Healthy Again" dumb dumbs peeling away regulations that have caused a surge in measles epidemics at the Florence Correctional Center- Concentration Camp, screwworms, and Cyclospora in contaminated food.
A lot of people in this country are making extra journeys to the bathroom because of Team Trump's anti-health and public safety policies.
On the measles outbreak, Arizona's Democratic Congressional Delegation penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Mark 'I'll arrest you if you do not do elections the way I want' Mullin, demanding to know what steps they are going to take to help the people infected with measles at the facility.
Commenting on the Cyclospora, Representative Greg Stanton posted:
Senator Ruben Gallego posted:
Mr. Trump and his white nationalist minions have also continued their war against history, replacing panels at Martha and George Washington's Philadelphia House that downplay the severity of slavery in the first President's lifetime.
Please watch the PBS Origins Video that delves into President Washington's mixed record on slavery and relations with Black Americans.
Again, while the nation is rightfully fixated on Mr. Trump's wars of choice on the American Economy, the working and middle classes, election infrastructure, and Iran, there is also his fight against knowledge, especially science and history, and his quest to make everyone uneducated and ill-informed individuals who will more readily subscribe to his big lie assertions in the other areas he is wreaking havoc on in the country and around the world.
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