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Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

Worse, it is the culmination of fifty years of conservative schemes— building institutions like AFP and Heritage, taking over the Supreme Court, injecting big money in politics, rolling back law enforcement… And now, at last, exerting supreme political control over the entire US government budget.

And just as part of this radical restructuring of American society, they will impose a Lysenkoist regime of political control over science. (Trofim Lysenko’s bad ideas were chosen by a political actor, Stalin, and that led to mass famine and the destruction of Soviet biology.)

*entire discretionary budget is fair to say, I think, between the Roberts Court and Trump admin theories of removal/agency control, impoundment, and now control over funding.

It’s aimed at rolling back the New Deal AND Reconstruction. I just don’t have words for how massive this is. Now is not the time for small ideas. We have become used to outrageous things but sustain your outrage for this. It is about our lives and our families and kids. Let’s stand up.

For more about Lysenko, this book by Simon Ings js just outstanding. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_...