#defunding

Dry as toasttoast@sfba.social
2025-06-19

Question I wish journalists would ask Peter Thiel: You have been one of JD Vance’s biggest backers, and you have been working very closely with this administration. You also lost a boyfriend years ago to an apparent suicide, so why wouldn’t you do everything within your power to influence the Trump administration to keep the LGBTQ suicide hotline open? Do you want others to go through what you went through? #thiel #maga #lgbtq #selfharm #defunding #vance

Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltdcomics@social.lucentinian.com
2025-06-01
Richard Rathenickrauchen@c.im
2025-05-24

@mcnado

This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".

Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.

The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Resist

2025-05-19

Harvard University @harvard.edu is being affected by #Trump #MAHA #HHS #Defunding policies. Whats the Immediate operational damage? 1. Research “bloodbath.” More than 350 grants at Harvard Medical School alone were cancelled in a single wave, forcing labs to draft shutdown plans and lay-off staff.

2025-05-13

Just called my #Congressmen #Knott, #Tillis and #Budd. Only Knott had someone I could talk to. Left #VMs for other two. Asked for statement on US Rep quoting Joseph Goebbels, ethics for a #President accepting gifts from #foreign #gov, about ethics of a #potus using crypto, #defunding #school #lunches but funding #military #parade. Person was nice and said "Well I haven't discussed those topics with the #Congressman, but I'll pass it along." Really? No one is talking about this shit?!?

Christof Maupin, ArtistPastPresentArts@mastodon.art
2025-05-11

An update on fascist de-funding and attempts to re-write history at museums, libraries and other cultural institutions, and more. Important stuff! youtu.be/7ng_X-TJwss?si=jT4wFa #fightFascism #defunding #DefundingLibraries #DefundingMuseums #cruelty #MeidasTouch

Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltdcomics@social.lucentinian.com
2025-05-03
🍄🇪🇺ashtime🇪🇺🍄ashtime
2025-05-03

A riddle for today: public media,baring journalists from buildings, people&expression, ,setting up camps,giving more money to the rich,allying with ,purging research&tought, threatening neighbouring countries with , defending in , organising a huge parade in the capital on the birthday of their - if it is not which country is it?

2025-05-02

While I think a lot of observers make too much of the supposed ideological differences between the "populist" white nationalist faction, and the pro-billionaire techno-fascist contingent in the Trump regime, it's hard not to notice that some of the DOGE recommendations and other funding cuts look like class warfare made literal, with expected casualties. In a move that makes precisely zero sense from a perspective of protecting Americans living through the early stages of climate catastrophe, the Trump regime has ordered the closure of twenty-five science centers that monitor water levels to combat flooding and drought.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US

"The Trump administration has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don’t run out of water.

The United States Geological Service (USGS) water science centers’ employees and equipment track levels and quality in ground and surface water with thousands of gauges. The data it produces plays a critical role across the economy to protect human life, protect property, maintain water supplies and help clean up chemical or oil spills.

The targeted centers are part of a larger network, and the Trump administration based its decision to make cuts on leases near expiration, not scientific reasoning, said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit that is tracking the issue."

I think I do a pretty good job of distinguishing the things I know, from the things I suspect, here on this blog; so perhaps what I'm about to say here is speculative, but please note that my observations are absolutely informed by people like Elon Musk openly articulating his belief that we're in a racialized war for the future of humanity, which is going to happen on Mars apparently. That noted, it's hard for me not to notice that an absolutely huge portion of the regime's slash and burn agenda is clearly a targeted type of quite literal class warfare; they're actively burning down anything that keeps poor and labor class people alive, while funneling money directly to billionaire tech-fascists, increasing military funding, and rapidly expanding a fascist police state. The result of these policies on a long enough timeline will quite obviously be the deaths of more labor class people, and a further entrenchment of power for the ruling class reactionaries; and suggesting that might be intentional would sound like a conspiracy theory if the billionaire nazis surrounding and populating the Trump regime, guys like Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance and so forth, didn't keep saying the quiet part out loud.

Finally, while I'm not sure this is newsworthy, I couldn't willingly write up this story without marveling at what I'm sure one of the wildest things quoted from The Guardian in the paper's long history:

“It’s not being done with any thought about human life, it was just ‘this seems so woke so let’s get rid of it,’” Bennett said. “People think water is free and comes out of your tap whenever you want, but it’s not that simple.”

Yeah, water is "woke" is a thing now apparently; may whatever gods you believe in have mercy on our souls.

#Fascism #Trump #Flooding #Drought #Science #DOGE #Defunding #ClassWarfare #Billionaires #Nazis

Dorian Santner 🇦🇹Dorianix@graz.social
2025-04-01

Since decades US #universities (like MIT, Harvard and Stanford) lead most international #rankings.

The #radical and #extremist president #Trump will change that.

Currently by #defunding Harvard.

nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/trum

Well this finally happened after years of resisting the format I finally found a situation that warrants making a pod. So here is our radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between #censorship, #defunding and #repression. Specifically in contemporary #Germany

Episode One: #Policing #Education

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

pinecast.com/feed/radio-agains

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-27

🎪 In today's episode of "Guess-What-Gets-Defunded-Next," the US administration has decided that $11B for and mental health care is better suited for the imaginary budget surplus. Because who needs mental health when you have chaos? 🤪💸
npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-53423

Everything, everywhere, all at once — but not the movie. This is how cybersecurity experts describe a scenario where a foreign adversary shuts off critical infrastructure all over the country #Cybersecurity #Infrastructure #Threats #Hacking #Defunding #Swisher #Podcast

Is America Ready for a Full-Bl...

2025-02-01

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Gerd_BrodowskiGerd_Brodowski
2025-01-05

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„DW's (…) findings indicate that the defunding of Zochrot and New Profile are part of a larger pattern of cutting federal funds for human rights organizations that have been critical of the Israeli government's policies and the ongoing war in Gaza.“

dw.com/en/germany-defunds-2-is

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