

lfralston
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lfralston posted an update 6 days ago
My apologies for my earlier post about the “50501” call for protest. I’m hearing from various local activist groups that this is extremely fishy and should not be considered safe or legitimate. Mea culpa, and next time I will do my due diligence first before putting people at risk!
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Looks like this event actually happened and got some news coverage, even a Wikipedia page.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/trump-protests-50501-project-2025.html
Saw some articles on Newsweek, abc news, USA Today also.
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lfralston posted an update a week ago
Road to Zero coalition receives Stop Work order. From an email received today:
“NSC Road to Zero Resources are Temporarily Unavailable
We regret to inform you that as of Jan 30, 2025, the Road to Zero Coalition has received a Stop Work Order from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We are seeking clarification from NHTSA on…
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Thank you. I’m pondering how to connect researchers who can’t work right now because of the halt, for mutual sympathy & support if nothing else.
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I mean, he’s an administrator–he may not have a science/health background. But you would think an administrator would be aware enough to go, “Wait a second. In a regime that doesn’t believe in expertise, that thinks the truth is whatever they say it is, that any credential can be bought–what need is there for higher education?”
BobMorris -
I work in a college of public health.
Today our provost spoke at our faculty & staff meeting. He showed slides of enrollment growth, plans for new facilities, graphs of continually increasing federal funding for research (most of ours comes from the NIH).
You would have thought the 2024 election had never happened.
During the Q&A I waited for…
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