Search results for tag #funding
"Trump administration drops court fight to cap #NIH payments for research overhead costs."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/trump-administration-drops-nih-indirect-costs-court-challenge/
In April 2025, a federal district court judge ruled against the 15% cap. In January 2026, an appellate court upheld the ruling, and gave the Trump admin until April 6, last week, to appeal to the Supreme Court. The admin chose not to appeal
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
"For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Judge Rules That #RFKJr Overstepped on #Transgender Care
The ruling provides temporary relief for 21 states seeking to stop the #Trump admin from ending federal #funding to #hospitals that provide #gender-transition care.
#law #LGBTQIA #bigotry
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
From #ElizabethGinexi:
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements
"In 2024, #NIH published 756 funding announcements.
In 2025, it published 120.
In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14…
This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
I've accused #DOGE of terminating #NEH grants (and other grants) by using dumb keyword searches to look for prohibited words. It turns out that DOGE used dumb #ChatGPT prompts instead. Like this one (quoting verbatim): “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html
#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Trump tries bribery.
"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html
"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."
#Arizona, #Brown, #Dartmouth, #MIT, #Penn, #USC, #Texas, #Vanderbilt, #Virginia
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Forgot to add this important response last week:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/governor-newsom-no-state-funding-for-sell-out-universities/
"Governor #GavinNewsom today [Oct 2] issued the following statement in response to the White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which ties access to federal funding to radical conservative ideological restrictions on colleges and universities: IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY’LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #California #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking comments from the nine universities that received the Trump threat-bribe.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-white-house-sent-its-compact-to-9-universities-heres-what-their-administrators-and-faculty-are-saying
(#paywalled)
Summary: Large faculty groups at each institution urge administrators to reject the deal.
Administrators are saying little beyond the fact that they received the letter and are discussing what to do about it -- with one exception.
The exception is UTexas, where the chair of the Board of Regents, Kevin Eltife (a retired Republican State Senator), said Texas is "honored [to be] named as one of only nine institutions in the US selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'. We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #MIT just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President #SallyKornbluth to faculty, dated today.
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. After #MIT said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
(#paywalled)
"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. "Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/trump-invites-all-colleges-to-join-compact-after-mit-s-rejection
(#paywalled)
"The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter…Trump has said that colleges who reject the deal will face investigations into compliance with federal laws, but the extent to which federal research grants or student aid eligibility will be predicated on acceptance of the accord remains murky."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. If you've heard that Trump "offered" his compact to all US colleges and universities, and your institution didn't receive the Trump letter, here's why. Trump didn't use letters. He used this Truth Social post:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115362973187528235
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that, "A source at the Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that a Truth Social post from President Trump was intended to be an invitation to higher ed. 'We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,' wrote the source, who declined to go on the record."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-welcomes-any-institution-to-sign-onto-compact-outlining-his-priorities
(#paywalled)
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Dartmouth has not yet made a public statement rejecting the Trump compact. But two Dartmouth sources "who asked to speak anonymously…said they participated in a meeting with President Sian Leah Beilock in which…she said 'she would not sign the compact as written.'"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/dartmouths-president-balks-at-trump-compact-sources-say-as-feds-expand-offer-to-any-institution
(#paywalled)
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Brown just rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Brown President Christina Paxson.
https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf
"Brown’s existing agreement with the federal government expressly affirms the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech -- a principle that is not reflected in the Compact."
h/t #WilliamCross
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Penn just rejected the Trump pact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from UPenn President J. Larry Jameson.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/announcements/update-penns-response-compact-academic-excellence
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. The U of Southern California just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from #USC interim president Beong-Soo Kim.
https://we-are.usc.edu/2025/10/16/update-from-interim-president-kim/
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. The U of Virginia just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 17). Here's the public letter from #UVa interim President Paul Mahoney.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/community-message-interim-president-paul-mahoney
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Dartmouth just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 18). Here's the public letter from Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock.
https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/dartmouths-feedback-compact
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. The U of Arizona just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 20). Here's the public letter from #UArizona President Suresh Garimella.
https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. From Barbara Snyder, President of the Association of American Universities (#AAU), on the Trump compact:
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/statement-aau-president-administrations-higher-education-compact
"Federal support for higher education must never be tied to ideological alignment with any administration."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Vanderbilt has not yet accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But Chancellor Daniel Diermeier just released a vague and inconclusive open letter on where it stands.
https://t.e2ma.net/message/tu4xiq/5vxmu1ke
"Last Friday, Vanderbilt participated in a discussion with members of the administration and other university leaders about shaping a productive process for providing such comments. We expect to share our input with the administration through that process. Our response will be grounded in our long-held principles and values…Vanderbilt believes deeply in the power of constructive dialogue."
The letter is undated (why?) but the Chronicle reports that it was made public on Oct 20.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/compact-live-updates-more-colleges-weigh-responses-as-deadline-for-feedback-looms
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Like Vanderbilt (above), #WashingtonU has not not accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But also like Vanderbilt, its Chancellor, Andrew Martin, just released a vague and inconclusive statement on where it stands (Oct 20).
https://andrewdmartin.washu.edu/washu-to-join-conversation-about-the-future-of-higher-education/
"We believe it is in the best interest of our university, and higher education more broadly, for us to participate constructively, share our experience and expertise, and help inform policies that strengthen the nation’s research and education ecosystem…We firmly believe meaningful progress will best be achieved through open, ongoing dialogue."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #WashingtonU has now rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Chancellor Andrew Martin (Oct 22).
https://wustl.app.box.com/s/f3wwjqkrq9x1ovyz28d3r3cxmo8kwlk9
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #SyracuseU will also reject the Trump compact, according to an Oct 22 statement by Chancellor Kent Syverud to the University Senate. Apparently there is not a public letter announcing the decision.
https://dailyorange.com/2025/10/syverud-declines-trump-compact-senators-pass-portfolio-review-resolution/
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. "#NewCollege of #Florida Is Ready To Be The First To Sign President Trump’s Higher Education Compact."
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/861953402/new-college-of-florida-is-ready-to-be-the-first-to-sign-president-trump-s-higher-education-compact
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. The University of Kansas provost says that #UKansas will not sign the Trump compact.
https://www.kansan.com/news/ku-won-t-sign-trump-s-higher-education-compact-was-never-invited-to-provost-says/article_aaea8512-a72a-4c9f-b45e-44f38dd835d4.html
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #ValleyForgeMilitaryCollege just offered (Oct 28) to sign the Trump compact. Here's the open letter from its President and Chairman of the Board to the Trump Dept of Education.
https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/10/vfmc-letter-trump-admin.pdf
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Five faculty from five institutions argue that "Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy."
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-20/college-university-trump-law-professors-compact-opinion
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Universities
"Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository."
https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2026-009
"Since the start of the second #Trump administration, we have seen a progressive removal of #climate, environmental, and socioeconomic #data from federal websites, with further threats to dismantle data infrastructure looming. This essay represents a short personal account of the data rescue efforts of the #NASA #Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (#SEDAC), which was run by Columbia University’s Integrated Earth System Information (#CIESIN) since the late 1990s."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #NASA #OpenData #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
I've just contributed to @postmarketOS - we need opensource phones in order to get our privacy back. Consider supporting them too: https://opencollective.com/postmarketos
The #SCOTUS ruling comes despite a series of short-term wins on the court’s “emergency docket” that have allowed #Trump to push ahead with extraordinary flexes of #ExecutivePower on issues ranging from high-profile #firings to major federal #funding cuts.
#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics
Despite a deadlock over #DHS #funding, #Republican lawmakers left town & left #Democratic & #Trump admin negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
When a disruptive #GovernmentShutdown nears, the Capitol is usually occupied by lawmakers struggling to avoid an embarrassing halt in govt services & the accompanying political fallout. Even if a lapse is a certainty, members of #Congress typically want to look like they are trying to avert it.
Not this time.
Nearly ⅔ of the #funding is unspent money allocated to state & local #PublicHealth departments in #California.
“These grants are being terminated because they do not reflect agency priorities,” a spox for the #HHS said. About 2 dozen of the grants were aimed at curbing #HIV & other sexually transmitted infections [#STIs].
Dr. Deb Houry, who served as the #CDC’s chief medical officer before she resigned in August, noted that #Congress had already appropriated the funds.
I donated to GNOME, and you should also contribute to the Open-Source projects that respects your freedom, your attention and your rights.
A photograph at the Bondi beach vigil today.
“#Political #LobbyGroup #Advance has been back in the headlines this week. It was revealed an organisation headed by the husband of the Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, donated A$50,000 to the group.”
When is this going to be addressed?
#RWE / #extremism / #funding <https://theconversation.com/right-wing-political-group-advance-is-in-the-headlines-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-stand-for-261164>
Alt...
“Minns says the “danger we must confront is the deliberate incubation of hatred” which includes “individuals who promote violence” sometimes cloaking it in “ideology or even the perversion of religion.”
source https://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/dec/21/bondi-beach-terror-attack-one-week-anniversary-day-of-reflection-reactions-sydney-vigil-memorial-nsw-protest-laws-police-powers-anthony-albanese-labor-sussan-ley-coalition-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6947b6158f087ccaa8450157#block-6947b6158f087ccaa8450157
The push to rename the station & the airport for #Trump comes as the president, who recently put his name on the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts in Washington, has been on a renaming spree & has appeared increasingly preoccupied with his “legacy” [ego].
The Trump admin began withholding #funding for the new tunnel connecting #NYC & #NewJersey, a $16B project, in October. The agency overseeing its construction moved to halt ongoing work on Friday as money was running out.
Again I say, I bet he pees on everything too.
Officials Pressed Schumer to Rename #PennStation & #Dulles International Airport for #Trump
Admin officials told the top #Senate Democrat that Trump would release frozen #funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
#law #MafiaState #EgomaniacalSociopath
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-schumer-penn-station-dulles-airport-renaming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The #Trump admin has pressured Sen #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) the minority leader, to help rename #NewYork’s #PennStation & Washington #Dulles International Airport after Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars in #funding he has frozen for a #rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
Top admin ofcls have told Schumer in recent weeks that the money would be released if he agreed to name the facilities in Trump’s honor, acc/to 4 people familiar with the private conversations.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
https://www.propublica.org/article/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-grant-guidelines-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Library #Museum #Funding #Government #USPolitics
Are you considering to apply to an Open Internet Stack open call from the @EUCommission ? You are welcome to join one of the matchmaking sessions on February 11.
The aim of the sessions is to facilitate people who are looking for consortium partners to apply for a grant together. There will be 3 sessions, organized per open call.
@EC_NGI will give a brief introduction, and then the floor is open.
Times, links & more info: https://nlnet.nl/events/20260211/OIS-matchmaking/index.html
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says a bipartisan #funding deal has been reached to avoid a government #shutdown as #Senate #Republicans try to set up a Thursday vote.
The deal, according to the minority leader, includes the separation of the 5 bipartisan appropriation bills that #Democrats had asked for & a 2-week stopgap funding extension for #DHS.
Senate #GOP leadership is now taking steps to schedule a vote for Thursday night.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied
"Some 10,109 [Ph.D.s] in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
“I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”
https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/
(We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see https://small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)
https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940504761958251
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation
"#NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-quietly-ends-financial-support-for-planetary-science-groups/
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"When data disappears: The impact of cancelled federal studies on student financial aid research."
https://www.pellinstitute.org/news-impact/blog/when-data-disappears-what-the-cancellation-of-federal-studies-means-for-financial-aid-research/
"In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet yet profoundly consequential decision to abruptly terminate major research contracts and lay off dozens of staff and contractors, [undermining] the nation’s ability to access credible, comprehensive data on college affordability, student success, and postsecondary outcomes."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Data #DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
The #Senate was racing to clear 3 measures that passed the #House last week with money for the #Commerce Dept & the #DOJ [maybe skip that one], as well as for #environmental programs.
Even some programs that have long been despised by #conservatives are instead set to sustain only modest cuts, including #VoiceOfAmerica, the National Endowment for #Democracy [#NED] & the National Endowment for the #Arts [#NEA].
#Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Planned #Spending #Cuts
Months after the partisan clash that led to the longest #shutdown in history, lawmakers have agreed on spending bills that look far different from what #Trump wanted.
#law #legislation #House #funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/congress-trump-spending-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Congress is quietly rejecting almost all of the deepest #cuts to federal programs that #Trump requested for this year, turning back his efforts to slash #funding for #ForeignAid, #GlobalHealth programs, #scientific #research, the #arts & more in a bipartisan repudiation of his #spending plans.
All told, while lawmakers have agreed to make modest trims to a number of programs that #Trump has wanted to eviscerate — & to zero out some others — the spending bills that they are now moving through #Congress reflect the political #reality that any #funding measure must be bipartisan in order to avoid a Democratic filibuster in the #Senate & become #law.
“These are bills that reject the devastating #cuts #Trump demanded in his deeply unserious #budget he sent to #Congress about a year ago,” said Sen #PattyMurray of Washington, the top #Democrat on the #Appropriations Cmte. “When just about every secretary came before our Appropriations Committee to advocate for those Trump #funding cuts, I made clear to them I planned to rip up his budget & write a new one — & that is exactly what we are doing.”
It is a striking pivot just months after the partisan clash last fall that led to the longest #government #shutdown in history.
Lawmakers are now in the process of negotiating & approving a series of #spending bills before a Jan 30 shutdown deadline. Appropriators in both the #House & #Senate have come to bipartisan agreements on 8 of the 12 bills that fund the government.
From Horizon Malta.
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility is an EU funding instrument supporting projects that make neighbourhoods more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful.
The Facility is structured around two components:
🔬 Research & Innovation (Horizon Europe)
Around €120 million per year to support research, testing, and demonstration projects that combine sustainability, social inclusion, and design quality.
1/2
"Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science."
https://www.science.org/content/article/congress-set-reject-trump-s-major-budget-cuts-nsf-nasa-and-energy-science
"The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. Today, lawmakers hammering out final bills covering the National Science Foundation (#NSF), #NASA science, and Department of Energy (#DOE) research programs unveiled an agreement to spend very close to current levels."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
The #Trump admin froze $10 billion in #grant #funding for #childcare & #family assistance programs in 5 states purportedly because of “serious concerns about widespread fraud” in state-administered programs.
All 5 states targeted — #California, #Colorado, #Illinois, #Minnesota & #NewYork — are led by #Democrats.
#PublicHealth #HealthCare #medicine #RFKJr #law #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Plutocracy #elitism #RevengePolitics
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/trump-freezes-child-aid-hhs-fraud.html
Would people have more money in their pockets to crowdfund companies or product development that they actually *want*, if all companies were cooperatives? Would corporate loans cease to be relevant?
#Cooperatives
#CooperativeBasesEconomy
#Funding
#Crowdsourcing
#ResearchAndDevelopment
#Startups
"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html
"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #NASA #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant #funding said the #NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, 👍without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or #DEI, or #vaccines.
The settlement provides an uncontested path for the agency while courts decide whether the administration can use its controversial analysis.
❌The administration did not agree to permanently ditch its campaign to evaluate health research funding decisions based on schools’ DEI programs.
⭐️NIH officials “will complete their consideration of the Applications in the ordinary course of NIH’s scientific review process, without applying the Challenged Directives,” the settlement said, adding that the agency would “evaluate each application individually and in good faith.”
The settlement was signed by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers and the attorneys general of Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's #Medicaid #funding in 22 states
A #US appeals court on Tuesday allowed the #Trump admin to enforce in 22 states a provision of his signature tax & domestic policy bill that deprives #PlannedParenthood #health centers of Medicaid funding if they perform #abortions.
#PPFA provides multiple services to #women & #families other than abortions including #cancer screenings. All of those services are at risk.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/court-allows-trump-backed-cuts-planned-parenthoods-medicaid-funding-22-states-2025-12-30/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Part of the underpinning of that plan is an unironic declaration by #RFKJr that gender-related treatments for minors “fail to meet professional recognized standards of health care.” In the suit, the states argue that the declaration is unlawful & a government overreach.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #healthcare #hospitals #funding #Medicare #Medicaid #Trump
“Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online,” #NYAG #LetitiaJames, one of the #states in the lawsuit, said in a statement Tuesday. “And no one should lose access to medically necessary #health care because their #federal government tried to interfere in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.”
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #healthcare #hospitals #funding #Medicare #Medicaid #Trump
A coalition of 19 #states Tues sued to block the #Trump admin’s plan to strip #federal #funding from #hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, a policy that would effectively shut down any #health care providers that failed to comply.
That plan, announced Thurs by “Health” Secy #RFKJr, would cut off all #Medicaid & #Medicare payments — which make up a major share of #hospital revenue — to any facility that provides minors with gender-related treatments in the country.
19 #States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors
The coalition of states seeks to stop a #Trump admin effort to cut off #federal #funding to #hospitals that provide such care.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransRights #discrimination #bigotry #GenderAffirmingCare #Medicare #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/states-lawsuit-kennedy-gender-care-hospitals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#US District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general that sued the admin after being alerted that their #states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
The cuts were unveiled after a separate federal judge in a different legal challenge ruled it was #unconstitutional for the #federal govt to require states to cooperate on #immigration enforcement actions to get #FEMA #disaster #funding.
Federal judge says #Trump admin must restore #disaster money to #Democratic #states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin’s attempt to reallocate federal #HomelandSecurity #funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal #immigration enforcement.
#law #judiciary #RevengePolitics
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-sanctuary-city-trump-fema-9c441d9cbe953a8ecd78123f0fe8a64e
"The Year That Changed Research."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/19/how-2025-changed-research-and-whats-ahead
Summary from @insidehighered: "A year of mass federal grant terminations and sweeping policy changes to the nation’s research enterprise broke many scientists’ trust in the government. And those changes offer insight into what may come next year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
The case has tested the govt's #power to sway the nation's oldest & wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting #colleges around the country.
Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in Sept that the #Trump admin's sweeping #funding cuts violated #Harvard's #FirstAmendment rights. The judge said the govt put #unconstitutional conditions on Harvard's federal funding & failed to follow federal procedures for the govt to sanction universities for “#CivilRights” violations.
The #Trump admin is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in #funding cuts to #HarvardUniversity, extending a standoff over the White House's demands for “reforms” at the #school.
The #DOJ filed a notice of appeal late Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought by #Harvard & the American Association of #University Professors.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #HigherEducation #RevengePolitics
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-128555783
#Trump is getting into the #fusion #power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm & #Google backed #TAE technologies, just days after industry representatives urged #federal #funding.
The all-stock deal announced Thursday is a bet on the power boom spurred by #ArtificialIntelligence #datacenters & adds to the Trump family's growing roster of ventures very much connected to his presidency from cryptocurrency to mobile services.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-combine-6-billion-deal-2025-12-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
"Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/
"The #Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research [#NCAR] in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading #climate research labs."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Could you get 1% of Firefox users to subscribe at $2/month (total, not per device or user or anything) to a proper community-owned fork, if that meant you could get rid of the stupid obsessions of Mozilla management, and make the browser the *only* thing the new organization worked on?
A million people, at $2 / month? You could fund a pretty good development team on even half of that.
Maybe it's unpossible. Maybe it's not.
The existing forks of Firefox basically depend on Mozilla doing the development, then the forks strip out whatever bits they object to and re-package it. That's not sustainable; if Mozilla makes one hard turn, suddenly that "just strip it out" becomes a mammoth task the all-volunteer forks can't keep up with.
Forking Firefox once, and getting a smaller, but focused, funded, and stable development team for it, seems like it might actually solve the problem.
3/3
The Americanisationof British political funding
The Tories and Labour have colluded to dominate politics, gifted the purse strings of vested interests, including those connected with overseas powers (Russia and the Tories for example) for years. Now #Reform are getting in on the act and are expected to be able to outspend the #SNP in Scotland and #Plaid in Wales, as well as the ‘big two’.
Reform (not that one) is essential.
#NSF #NSFFunding #funding #FederalFunding #GrantFunding #science #ScienceFunding #AntiScience #AntiIntellectual #USPol