Thought Police Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that our federal government has shed any pretext of democratic accountability and is lurching toward an unashamed billionaire oligarchy, cutting down agencies which were previously vital to the function of the US government, not to mention the wellbeing of its citizens. One of those agencies is the National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent government agency which previously supported research and education in the fields of science and engineering — such as studies on radiation's effect on severe storms, or the emergence and stability of continental fault lines. It likewise […]