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Washington Post: Opinion | The GOP tax bill may be the worst piece of legislation in modern history

The outlook is already dire for funding for infrastructure and scientific research.

Government is supposed to address the problems a country is facing. Global warming, infrastructure collapse, funding failures in education, research, the point of government is to ensure that a country is thriving based on its principles.

The GOP tax bill doesn’t address any of our country’s pressing problems. We’re suffering from a massive underinvestment in infrastructure, but instead of coming up with a way to fund these projects, we’re repealing the estate tax. Instead of better funding academic programs and scientific research, we’re cutting corporate taxes without fixing the loopholes that help corporations avoid paying taxes in the first place.

This disconnect between what the government is doing and actual governance is jarring, not only because it will put America further behind rising superpowers like China, but also because it erodes Americans’ trust in democracy. Why vote, why participate in democracy, why believe in democracy if it doesn’t solve our problems?

This tax bill isn’t just a bad bill. It contributes to an existential crisis in America that only continues to deepen.

Lobbying, to most people, looks like bribery — the lobbyist who refuses to contribute to the reelection campaign isn’t going to get a meeting, much less an ally.

No member of congress wants to feel bought. What they want to feel is convinced. It’s the lobbyist’s job to make the members of congress ‘feel’ like they’re making the right decision, not just the decision they were paid to make.

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including individuals in the private sector, corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or advocacy groups (interest groups). Lobbyists may be among a legislator’s constituencies, meaning a voter or bloc of voters within their electoral district, or not; they may engage in lobbying as a business, or not. Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying to influence legislation, regulation, or other government decisions, actions, or policies on behalf of a group or individual who hires them. Individuals and nonprofit organizations can also lobby as an act of volunteering or as a small part of their normal job (for instance, a CEO meeting with a representative about a project important to their company, or an activist meeting with their legislator in an unpaid capacity). Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.

More research below:

How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy Is Lobbying Good or Bad? Transparency and the Lobby Problem The Lobbying Problem and How We Can Fix It Corporate Lobbying: Bad for Business, Bad for America Influence & Lobbying Lobbying wiki Lobbying: The Scourge of Good Government What is shadow lobbying? How influence peddlers shape policy in the dark The American lobbying industry is completely out of control Lobbyists Explained Lobbyist Documentary Lobbyists in America 5 Crazy Facts About Lobbyists – End corruption. Defend the Republic

Lobbying, to most people, looks like bribery — the lobbyist who refuses to contribute to the reelection campaign isn’t going to get a meeting, much less an ally.

No member of congress wants to feel bought. What they want to feel is convinced. It’s the lobbyist’s job to make the members of congress ‘feel’ like they’re making the right decision, not just the decision they were paid to make.

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including individuals in the private sector, corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or advocacy groups (interest groups). Lobbyists may be among a legislator’s constituencies, meaning a voter or bloc of voters within their electoral district, or not; they may engage in lobbying as a business, or not. Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying to influence legislation, regulation, or other government decisions, actions, or policies on behalf of a group or individual who hires them. Individuals and nonprofit organizations can also lobby as an act of volunteering or as a small part of their normal job (for instance, a CEO meeting with a representative about a project important to their company, or an activist meeting with their legislator in an unpaid capacity). Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.

More research below:

How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy Is Lobbying Good or Bad? Transparency and the Lobby Problem The Lobbying Problem and How We Can Fix It Corporate Lobbying: Bad for Business, Bad for America Influence & Lobbying Lobbying wiki Lobbying: The Scourge of Good Government What is shadow lobbying? How influence peddlers shape policy in the dark The American lobbying industry is completely out of control Lobbyists Explained Lobbyist Documentary Lobbyists in America 5 Crazy Facts About Lobbyists – End corruption. Defend the Republic

On Genetic Engineering

Remember when I asked for ressources on this? You seemed kind of interested so here is some of the ones I liked - some are in Portuguese and one is in Spanish tho, long live Nuestra América.

I might update it when my friends send me their part of the project. 

Reading

YourGenome whole website (x)

National Human Genome Institute website which @cancerbiophd recomended to me - thank you again, it was a great start (x)

Nature: CRISPR gene editing is just the begining (x)

Wyss Institute: Gene drive FAQ (x)

Genetic Home Reference guide sheets (x)

Apostila de Biologia 7 do Hexag Medicina - pgs. 156-179 (x)

Uol: Tudo que você precisa saber sobre CRISPR (x)

Site do Conselho de Informação sobre Biotecnologia (x)

TED talks

TED Ed: How to sequence the human genome - Mark J. Kiel

TED Ed: The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen

TED: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA - Jennifer Doudna (who is one of the two women who discovered CRISPR-CAS9 by the way)

TED: Gene editing can now change an entire species forever - Jennifer Kahn

TED: What you need to know about CRISPR - Ellen Jorgensen

TED: How we’re harnessing nature’s hidden superpowers - Oded Shoseyo

Short videos

Unlocking Life’s Code: The Animated Genome (x)

Kurzgesagt: Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever - CRISPR (x) Are GMO Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & our food (x) Genetic Engineering and Diseases - Gene Drvie & Malaria (x) (They’re all very partial to defending genetic engineering, so you get just one side)

Crash Course: DNA: Structure and Replication (x) DNA: Hot Pockets & The Longest Word Ever (x)

N. Garcia:  Composición del genoma Humano (x)

Biologia Total com prof. Jubilut: Mosquito da dengue transgênico (x)

Documentaries

BBC: Playing God

PBS: Cracking your genetic code

GMO OMG (it’s a food conspiracy one I’ll tell you that but it’s intersting)