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appmanga

(1,565 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:49 AM 2 hrs ago

Video - Russ Vought is Destroying American Science

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If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, please watch the first 20 minutes, which is a thorough explanation of the fact this administration is totally fascist and authoritarian, and how its most effective and zealous point-person is outside of public view. Russell Vought has ruined and disempowered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and his main job as head of OMB is to break as much of the federal government as he can, and to dominate and dictate to whatever they allow to survive.

Without hyperbole, Russell Vought is the most dangerous person in this country.

ETA: if you want to make a comment to OMB in opposition, use the link below. After you make your comment, you'll be taken to a page that generates an email that will go to your members of Congress:

https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb_comment/

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Video - Russ Vought is Destroying American Science (Original Post) appmanga 2 hrs ago OP

Interview with Dr. Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. pat_k 1 hr ago #1

THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO (besides post about it online)... CousinIT 32 min ago #2

pat_k

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1. Interview with Dr. Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science.

Reply to appmanga (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:33 AM

1 hr ago

Stop Vought. Save Science. - A Call To Action With Dr. Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science.

CousinIT

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2. THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO (besides post about it online)...

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Mon Jun 15, 2026, 12:18 PM

32 min ago

1. CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER and tell them to TALK ABOUT THIS PUBLICLY and oppose it.
2. SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT. The deadline is around July 13th. You can do so anonymously.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001

SAMPLE comment - if you want a starting place:

I urge you to carefully consider the impact of this proposed regulation.

US federal research funding makes scientific and medical breakthroughs possible and improves the lives of all Americans. This rule will hinder innovation and stifle growth, pushing us ever further behind other countries in scientific advancements. It's another attack on scientific integrity and scientific independence that will come at the public's expense.

Research funding should be awarded based on merit (not political loyalty); that funding shouldn't be contingent on the whims of a President and his "priorities" at the expense of innovation and the public good; and that funding shouldn’t be withheld from individual researchers, organizations, and institutions because their work is associated with one of the administration’s "prohibited topics."

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