06/23/2026
BREAKING: HUGE WIN! Trump abandons his plan to blind our eyes and ears in the ocean after massive public outcry, protecting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of critical scientific research!
Finally, some GOOD news…
The National Science Foundation has reversed it’s decision to dismantle 900 deep-sea monitoring devices, worth $386 million, called the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
These sensors track ocean circulation, marine ecosystems, climate change and extreme weather, producing data freely available to the public and informing more than 500 scientific publications.
The project was slated to run another 15 to 20 years, but Trump, in his infinite idiocy, wanted to pull them all out of the water to ensure that we can’t track the effects of climate change.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Effective immediately, NSF will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance. While the Endurance Array has been removed from the water, we are developing plans to redeploy the equipment after servicing,” said the NSF in a statement.
This is a huge reminder that our voices MATTER. When we make our fury heard, we can achieve the changes we want to see in policy, even in a Republican administration.
Never stop fighting!