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Here in the United States in 2025, our society has endured a series of attacks on science, health, and the civil service in our country as never before. , after being , have over the first ~100 days of the second Trump administration. Hundreds to thousands of workers, including many scientists, have been terminated — without cause — from their jobs at federal agencies such as:

• the , which protects us from wildfires,
• , which monitors our climate and coastline,
• the (which is likely to be closed entirely),
• the , which safeguards our nuclear power plants, weapons, and waste storage,
• the and the , which are presently fomenting the largest vaccine-preventable disease outbreak in the USA in the 21st century,