The #SLS project is about $6 billion over budget and six years behind schedule , according to a #government audit, with reports suggesting it is “50-50” whether Mr Trump scraps the programme. In a city where around 10 per cent of the 225,000 population work for the government, there is concern among residents that they could be in the eye of the #Doge storm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/04/06/alabama-rocket-city-heart-us-space-travel-musk-doge-demise

"It’s far more an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity that a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society."

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity
/8

"It’s not a moment for national pride that [Maya] Angelou’s [I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings] is being purged from a military academy.

And it is a moment to acknowledge that the attack on DEI by the Trump administration, and by many on today’s right, is not some kind of good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of the DEI industry over the last couple of decades."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegseth-maya-aneglou-naval-academy-caged-bird-sings-dei

"There is a curious 'coincidence' about the firing of the Director of the National Security Agency and his top career deputy and the Trump Sneak Attack on the global stock market that resulted in nothing less than the Economic Pearl Harbor we are finding ourselves in today."

~ Malcolm Nance

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism #NationalSecurity
/6

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/we-are-under-attack-trumps-economic

"His tariff regime isn’t based on material calculations; it’s not really meant to shift wealth to oligarchs, or to enrich billionaires, or to boost US industry. Instead, tariffs are a response to his own endlessly repeated self-aggrandizing fascist lies.

The rest of the world is out to get us. We must conquer them. It’s a story Trump likes to tell himself."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #democracy #MAGA #fascism #authoritarianism
/5

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/how-fascism-explains-trumps-tariffs

"When we see the charts of a straight downward trajectory, they also summarize what’s happening with cancer and Alzheimer’s research, academic freedom, national security, basic rights, the rule of law, America’s standing in the world, and so much more. If we could measure each, they would all look the same.

Trump’s chaos, extremism and incompetence are destroying them all."

~ David Pepper

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #fascism #authoritarianism
/4

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/trumps-stick-up

"For the past few days everyone has understandably been focused on tariffs and the destruction of the world trading system. But in the long run, and maybe much sooner than that, the dire impacts of tariffs may be matched by the havoc Trumpism is wreaking in other areas."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #democracy #MAGA #Project2025 #fascism #authoritarianism
/3

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-quack-industrial-complex

"This time, he has a plan, just as he had a plan—that even I mocked at the time—to win by targeting disaffected young white males in a way no major party ever had."

#Trump #tariffs #destruction #government #democracy #MAGA #Project2025 #fascism #authoritarianism
/2

"Tens of thousands of #protesters mustered in cities and towns across the country on Saturday to sound off against the #Trump administration's cuts to the federal #government and its policies.

Carrying homemade posters and chanting "Hands Off," the protesters came out to the more than 1,200 rallies nationwide despite rain in many cities"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/huge-crowds-gather-hands-off-rallies-nationwide-protest/story?id=120523176

“This mass mobilization day is our message to the #world that we do not consent to the destruction of our #government & our #economy for the benefit of #Trump & his billionaire allies,” according to the event description for the #HandsOff protest. “Alongside #Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, & protesting to demand a stop [to] the chaos & build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-05/rump-protests-kick-off-in-l-a-and-around-the-nation

"Opponents of #DonaldTrump and billionaire #ElonMusk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration's actions on #government downsizing, the #economy, #HumanRights and other issues.

More than 1,200 #HandsOff demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including #CivilRights organizations, #labor unions, #LBGTQ+ advocates, #veterans and elections activists."
https://abc7.com/post/us-politics-hands-off-protests-president-donald-trump-billionaire-elon-musk-underway-united-states/16131309/

"And then today, across the country, millions of people turned out for #HandsOff protests...

In #SanFrancisco, where Buddy and I joined a protest, what jumped out to me was how many of the signs in the crowd called for the protection of the U.S. Constitution, our institutions, and the government agencies that keep us safe."
-Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2025

@markmccaughrean

The names/trademarks/insignia are definitely protected.

But I thought the content - images etc - couldn't be. Everything created by the US government and its agencies is ineligible for copyright - or at least that's been the common understanding.

The policy page you point to even seems to confirm this:

"NASA content – images, audio, video, and media files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format – generally are not subject to copyright in the United States."