It ’s awing to think that we ’ve all been active for a thousand class , our bodies swept by a burning wind into nothing but detritus and a lingering scream . Except we haven’t — it ’s just the remnant of the first workweek of the Trump administration , and a disconcertingly great number of horrible things have already happened .
So much has already gone wrong — ill - considered executiveorders , assholeson Twitter , mind - numbingpress conference — but it ’s been specially tough in the skill , health , and technology arenas . From the war on clime alteration to the wearisome undoing of the Affordable Care Act , we ’ve rounded up the thing our dear leader and his cronies fucked up in science and technology this week . Happy Friday !
If our planet could talk, it would be screaming into a pillow right now
If you were apprehensive about climate change , good news : allot to the White House , it more or less does n’t exist . The new White House internet site was recentlyscrubbedof any acknowledgment of mood change , and as of publication , there are still zero searchresultson the site for the term . Instead , the new governing body hastrotted outwhat it calls the “ America First Energy Plan , ” which promises to dismantle the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. formula , in addition to bringing back clean coal , which more or less does n’t exist .
The Environmental Protection Agency is under siege
On Monday , the Trump administrationorderedthe EPA to suspend all grants and quit public communications . Whilereportsemerged last night that the agency has now resumed its grant distribution , the back and forth does n’t coiffe a very consoling common law . The solar day after the initial purchase order came down , EPA employeestoldJalopnik that the bureau is “ under siege ” and there ’s “ a real common sense of dread . ”
Oh , and Trumpalso wants to cut downthe office ’s budget and workforce , so there ’s that , too .
Theodore Roosevelt is turning over in his grave
cornet was apparently feel a slight insecure about the fact that his inaugurationwasn’t quite as well attendedas former chair Barack Obama ’s 2009 ceremony . So he gotmadonline after the National Park Service retweeted a tweet making this comparison . The agency receivedmysterious ordersto stop twirp , though it was n’t long before it was back in business . It was laterreportedthat Trump in person call the head of the National Park Service to kick about the retweet and to demand further exposure proving that his crowd was bigger than the media claim .
In the meantime , Badlands National Parktweetedand then edit some facts about climate variety , which some took to be a subtle shot at Trump . More like Badass National Park , if you ask us .
Our new national healthcare plan may soon just be ‘Don’t get sick!’
Last week , Trump bless anexecutive orderthat set the wheel in motion for the end of the Affordable Care Act , one of his oftentimes - repeated campaign hope . Though the order was , as the New York Timesnoted , for the most part symbolic , it was predate by asimilar stepfrom the Senate . If the Affordable Care Act isrepealed , access to HIV discourse — which costs thousands of dollar bill without insurance — is under threat , as are bar and consciousness campaigns .
But he also had to fuck up foreign healthcare, too
Another terrible executive orderreinstatedthe “ global gag rule , ” which banish US aid - fund establishment from do or talk to cleaning woman about miscarriage . Union fund are already interdict from being spent on miscarriage , so the result of this is seemingly to foreclose women ( and , because of the nature of the programs , that really intend low - income women in get countries ) from even being told their healthcare choice .
The USDA got swept up in yet another gag order saga
On Monday , it wasreportedthat employees at the US Department of Agriculture had received an email forbidding them from releasing “ public - facing documents , ” including press release and tweet . By Wednesday , that order was reportedly lift , though one source told Gizmodo that some restriction remain .
Net neutrality might get neutered
It wasannouncedon Monday that Ajit Pai would lead the Federal Communications Commission . Under Pai , final neutrality protections are not expect to remain in billet ; he once warned it would recreate authoritarian regimen to interfere with their citizens ’ internet , so it ’s dependable to say he is Not A Fan .
Haha, what’s national security
Reportsemerged on Thursday that Trump is still using his former , unlocked Android phone . President Obama gave up his phone when he entered government agency , but apparently no one has been able to get through to Trump that he needs to do this , too .
YOU get an oil pipeline and YOU get an oil pipeline and YOU get an oil pipeline!
On Tuesday , Trumpsignedexecutive actions to push forward the building of both the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline , both of which have been strongly dissent by environmentalist .
That was hebdomad one . We ’ll be here with you for the rest of them , too .
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