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The Trump administration is now pursuing "the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception," said Mary Ziegler. The Department of Health and Human Services recently unveiled an overhaul to its Title X grant program that promotes "natural family planning" over the birth control pill, IUDs, and other means of contraception. The administration is also expected to strip all remaining federal funding from Planned Parenthood, a major provider of contraception. Opposing birth control should be "a political third rail," as 90% of Americans support widespread access. But President Trump is under pressure from the "unwieldy political coalition" of social conservatives, MAHA zealots, and anti-immigrant extremists who want Americans to have more children. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's MAHA movement claims that contraceptive pills and implants are "artificial" and unsafe. Instead, his department is now promoting fertility and pregnancy; for family planning, it recommends the "rhythm method" and unreliable tracking apps. Taking a hostile stance toward birth control helps Trump appease religious conservatives before the midterms. "Contraception has gone from being politically untouchable to a real target on the Right."

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This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. 

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. 

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. 

Record-breaking temperatures. 

 A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. 

The response? 

Yank out the instruments and walk away. 

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. 

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. 

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.