Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

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      A big chunk of the country prioritizes racism over almost anything else, and lives in the Fox Cinematic Universe, where this kind of thing gets mentioned once at 3am so they can say they covered it, and then never again.

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    The only hope that gets me through these announcements is that, should we make it through all of this without turning into ruin, the pendulum is going to swing so hard in the opposite direction that agencies like this and the national park service will not only have their funding restored, but increased to what it should actually be funded at in the first place.

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    Just hope some or all of the researchers accidentally back up all data onto their own devices for posterity.