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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Guardian gives some good context on trump’s public back and forth on Isaacman, but it’s disappointing not to see a peep about what Sean Duffy has done to NASA in the intervening months. NASA has been gutted. Climate science is, predictably, especially disfavored, but they’ve also dealt a major blow to graduate academia and really all of science in the US.

Maybe now that most of the house has been burned down, Isaacman can be trusted to funnel much of the public purse into SpaceX or other rocketry billionaires and focus on Mars like a good boy. It doesn’t matter if he once voted Democrat if it’s too hard for him to put the old priorities back into place even if he wanted to.