"The Continuing Crisis, Part XVI: Get the Hell Out of Your Building", Derek Lowe, Science

"I have been fielding a lot of calls from journalists (US and European) who ask me to explain what’s going on with the Trump administration’s actions towards federal scientific research. And I explain to them that it’s very simple: they want to destroy it."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-xvi-get-hell-out-your-building

#Science #NSF #HUD #scottturner #governance

During a visit Tuesday by HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Houston Mayor John Whitmire touted the city’s plan to install backup power generators across dozens of municipal buildings along with his efforts to remove homeless people from public spaces.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/06/24/524826/trumps-housing-secretary-visits-houston-amid-protests-as-mayor-touts-resiliency-and-homelessness-plans/

#CityOfHouston #Housing #Houston #HoustonMayor #Local #News #FederalFunding #HoustonHousing #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #ScottTurner #StormRecovery #USDepartmentOfHousingAndUrbanDevelopment

Well, maybe THIS #Trump #HUD Secretary is not comatose, I suppose. But not better that he is a shucking and jiving Silas Green (some of you may not understand that history) performing puppet.
Another Black football player bought by the #GOP for it's vile purposes. Black faces in high places mean nothing.

#ScottTurner #BlackHistory

TLDR: There is a law that #MoscowMitch McConnell can't break or violate, the law of gravity.

NYPost: McConnell slipped down a small set of stairs as he was leaving the Senate chamber after voting to confirm #trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner, according to multiple reports.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/05/us-news/mitch-mcconnell-falls-down-stairs-while-exiting-senate-chamber-after-hud-secretary-vote/

#gop #hud #ScottTurner #magat #KY

Former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner confirmed to lead HUD
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/turner-confirmation-hud-secretary

* TX House Representatives 2013-17
* HUD executes housing laws, incl. helping low-income people find homes & combating housing discrimination

* Turner a skeptic for gov assistance to alleviate poverty
* welfare: “one of most destructive things for the family” <-- Ch. Koch/libertarian billionaire playbook 101

#USpol #ScottTurner #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #BlackConservatism

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/senate-panel-advances-turner-for-hud-on-party-line-vote-00200209

#ClassWar #HUD #ScottTurner

ProPublica: #Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor
#HUD #ScottTurner
https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-turner-hud-nominee-trump-public-housing-texas

Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick Has a History of Fighting Housing Assistance
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-hud-secretary-pick-has-a-history-of-fighting-housing-assistance/

#ScottTurner #HUD #PresidentMusk #DonaldChump #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #GOPWeirdos #RacistGOP #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

What to know about Scott Turner, Trump’s pick for housing secretary
https://apnews.com/article/housing-secretary-trump-scott-turner-nfl-727417b56d0e1f85a40eaf5f7d13d42f

* (R-TX) Texas House of Representatives, 2013
* lg. group Tea Party-supported lawmakers
* Prestonwood Baptist Church associate pastor
* chair, center for education opportunity at America First Policy Institute
* think tank set up by Trump1 staffers to lay Trump2 groundwork

#USpol #ScottTurner #HousingSec #AFPI
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #Christofascism #TeaParty

[thread] Scott Turner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turner_(politician)

* businessman/politician/fmr football player
* pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
* prev. Exec Dir White House Opportunity & Revitalization Council
* Nov 2024 Trump nom. Turner as Sec. Housing & Urban Development in Trump2 administration

Comment: same dept. HUD prev. run by notorious transphobe Ben Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

#USpol #ScottTurner #HousingSec #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #antiLGBT #BlackConservatism