The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.

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    24 hours ago

    This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

    The science office “is the heart and brain of the E.P.A.,” said Justin Chen, president of A.F.G.E. Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human health and the environment. Its destruction will devastate public health in our country.”

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      22 hours ago

      Sure, but they didn’t do it alone. If every last one of them voted for Kamala she’d still have lost. His popular vote would’ve been even worse but the electoral votes still wouldn’t have been close.

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      19 hours ago

      Thank the idiots who picked Biden over Bernie in 2020. That primary sealed America’s fate. The rest is just implementation details.

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      Or, more accurately, this is what the establishment Democrats were willing to accept to avoid having to stop supporting genocide or to embrace popular progressive policies.

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            Americans threw it. There is plenty of blame to go around, and guess what? That’s all anyone is doing now, pointing fingers at each other while the house burns down. Good job.

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              It seems to me that “Americans” are doing quite a bit to fight back. Can’t say the same for the Democrats. THAT is why I want fingers pointed in the right direction. They are still doing it.