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Botany

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Wed May 27, 2026, 12:59 PM 3 hrs ago

Burning America to the ground. Closing the USDA's Beltsville, MD. station has 2 goals:

1) The USDA’s research station in Beltsville, MD has worked for the common good* for something
like 100 years and with Trump and our current iteration of Christo Fascism where cruelty and hurting
a large % of American citizens is the goal. Shits like Thiel, Musk, Miller, Trump, most of the SCOTUS,
and fossil fuel industries see cruelty as good tool to reach their goals. This will also weaken America
and that makes Trump’s boss Vladimir Putin happy.

From Wiki:

* Among its research programs are Air Quality; Animal Health; Crop Production; Crop Protection and Quarantine; Food Animal Production; Food Safety; Climate Change; Human Nutrition; Integrated Farming Systems; Manure and Byproduct Utilization; Methyl Bromide Alternatives; Plant Biological and Molecular Processes; Plant Diseases; Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics, and Genetic Improvement; Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products; Rangeland, Pasture, and Forages; Soil Resource Management; Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology; and Water Quality and Management. (Protection of pollinators
too along with the development of the Roma Tomato too).

B) The closing of Federal Operations in and around D.C. are designed to hurt African Americans
because for generations one of the best ways to a middle class lifestyle is to have a good federal
job. I smell Stephen Miller all over these cuts this is not about bringing the USDA’s experts to
the farmers but it is targeted to hurt the black middle class in and around D.C.. I am willing to bet
anybody that hurting the black middle class is part of Project 25-25.

USDA reasserts plan to shutter Beltsville, part of reorganization to move thousands of federal jobs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reaffirmed its plans this week to “decommission” the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center as part of a shift of D.C.-area workers and research to other facilities around the country, a plan that has the potential to move thousands of jobs out of the region.

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It comes as the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service announced plans Thursday to close down the 6,500-acre Beltsville center, which has a nearly century-long history in Prince George’s County.

https://marylandmatters.org/2026/04/25/usda-reasserts-plans-to-shutter-beltsville-taking-thousands-of-federal-jobs-with-it/

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