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NonilexAt the meeting Tues, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vera</a> Institute leaders said the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOJ</a> this month revoked $5M in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> that the institute was receiving to develop programs related to reducing recidivism rates & supporting victims of violent crimes, acc/to Nick Turner, head of the Vera Institute.  When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> members learned that the institute was no longer receiving federal funds, they started to wrap up the meeting, realizing it was no longer necessary.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictatorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a>

NonilexIt was unclear how many groups <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> aims to be involved in, but working w/more groups could represent a dramatic expansion of DOGE’s influence in the admin’s operations.…  Based on a transcript of the meeting prepared by the institute, DOGE reps seemed unaware that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vera</a> Institute recently lost its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> & of how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonprofit</a> groups that receive grants operate differently from govt entities that have independence from the executive branch.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictatorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColumbiaUniversity</a> Bent Over Backward to Appease <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWing</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProIsrael</a> Attacks — And <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Still Cut <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalFunding</a> Instead of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/outrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outrage</a>, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown. by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>. In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GazaSolidarity</a> encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentsForJusticeInPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentsForJusticeInPalestine</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoiceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishVoiceForPeace</a>. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available."The crackdown was just getting started. Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarnardCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BarnardCollege</a> one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech. "Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year. "Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#faculty</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWing</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProIsrael</a> narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety. "For all Columbia’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/appeasement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#appeasement</a>, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> and contracts to the university."'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/panopticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#panopticon</a>. And their funding was still cut.'"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporatize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporatize</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReWhiten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReWhiten</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEducation</a>. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriticalThinking</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicFreedom</a>. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk."There is no appeasing a political force like the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpianRight</a>, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zionist</a> worldview that, defying reason, sees <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a> in every call for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."Read more: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/jrNva" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/jrNva</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Appeasement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Appeasement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>

Lilith Gnosis<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TraitorTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TraitorTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewUnion</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=201c8249eb-nature-briefing-daily-20250204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-201c8249eb-51322800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=201c8249eb-nature-briefing-daily-20250204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-201c8249eb-51322800</a>

Chuck BerrayReal life consequences? How 'bout my wife's company that concentrates on renewable energy projects that save small villages in Alaska a ton money by helping them get get off expensive diesel generators, etc. will probably have to lay off people because of the grant freeze. She's already had stop work orders on projects that are/were in the works. Even if this ruling is ruled unlawful and temporary, there has been tremendous damage done. <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> <a href="https://alaskan.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a>

Houston Public MediaHarris County Attorney Christian Menefee spoke out against President Donald Trump's order freezing the release of federal grants and loans, which was set to take effect Tuesday afternoon before it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/01/28/512232/dem-state-ags-will-sue-to-block-trumps-freeze-of-federal-grants-and-loans/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/01/28/512232/dem-state-ags-will-sue-to-block-trumps-freeze-of-federal-grants-and-loans/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CityOfHouston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CityOfHouston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Court</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HarrisCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisCounty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Houston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Local</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/National" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#National</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CountyAttorneyChristianMenefee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CountyAttorneyChristianMenefee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrders</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalLoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalLoans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PresidentTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StateAttorneysGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StateAttorneysGeneral</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"As of 5 pm ET today, Trump will halt tens of billions of dollars in federal spending. ...This is not a conservative ploy to shrink the size of government. It’s a neo-fascist ploy to concentrate even more power in Trump’s hands."~ Robert Reich<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OMB</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalAssistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAssistance</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PowerGrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerGrab</a> /2<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/clearly-illegal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://robertreich.substack.com/p/clearly-illegal</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"A good swath of the American public may soon experience first-hand what it’s like to have all federal money for services, grants and assistance dry up overnight. Perhaps that will finally alert many to the true danger and cost of handing over the reins of government to radicals who want to remake our society entirely."~ Jay Kuo<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OMB</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalAssistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAssistance</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PowerGrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerGrab</a> /1<a href="https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-omb-funding-freeze" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-omb-funding-freeze</a>

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