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New executive order puts all grants under political control

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Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MuskyMelon@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the end the US will look like late stage USSR, with apparatchiks having to sign off everything, years of waiting time and mile long waiting times to have a chance to get whatever the supermarket currently has in stock, and it’s never what you actually need, so most people have to use facebook marketplace to barter goods

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Look at the Pythia rat to see how badly this affects real science. Unreality makes it quite difficult to observe reality

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every fucking day these pieces of shit show us new and creative ways of destroying this country.

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    • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are gleefully enshitifying everything that made America great.

      MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN

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    • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And everyday, they are getting away with it…

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      • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “The only thing nec­es­sary for the tri­umph of evil is for good men to do noth­ing.”

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because Congress is letting him.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And the citizens are letting Congress do it.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because the United States is a genuine dictatorship. The only thing that matters is spat out by royal decree.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Congress the rubberstamp org ?
      Why do we even need that,
      to sell positions has favour to the king ?
      obviously nobody believes in that parasitic institution
      Why do the Russians keep the Duma ?
      To shove the edicts of the king
      down the throat of the population ? The broken remains of the “country” need to face it
      FEDUSA is dead

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        thats how the nazi ran thier congress, hitler has the congress rubber stamp, of course they both can make death threats agains tthem too.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.

      Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.

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  • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This doesn’t belong in this community, does it?

    Guess Trump is OK with China being the dominant scientific force in the world though.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      MIT gets plenty of grants.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

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    • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

      It’s actually much worse than that.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

      Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.

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      • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.

        Like ivermectin?

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.

      Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you don’t get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won’t get rid of them anymore.

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    • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Trump literally controls the national guard. Good fucking luck…

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s too late. All the delusional gun-slinging second-amendment-spoiting idiots can think they can overthrow a government somehow.

        The last chance to stop this was 13th of June last year.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.

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  • memfree@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn't to say they won't change that definition).

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  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aka: a Politruk

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