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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social

Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

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Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices

By Samuel Bagenstos A strong democracy requires a robust independent sector. Organizations and associations that stand apart from the governing state regime...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.” ☝️☝️☝️ That one sentence all scientists must read.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s the core of understanding and predicting what the Trump regime will do to science, universities, NSF, and NIH. The Trump Republican Party hates all of those institutions, because they are *independent and can assert what is true*.

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