042 - Uncivil Disobedience
I read today how Google Maps now identifies the body of water between North and South America as the Gulf of America (sic).
What that indicates to me is we’ve reached the point where fear of retaliation is now motivating sources of information to bend to the will of a juvenile and overarching ego instead of facts. Pretty soon they’ll be telling the justice department to stop enforcing judicial decisions, and at that point it’s game over.
It’s going to take more than garden variety civil disobedience to fix this.
Twenty two states have taken the current administration to court over NIH illegal changes. These were blocked by the court. It is past time for some disobedience. (long article, sorry) https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/twenty-two-states-sue-to-block-new-nih-funding-policy/