Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Re:Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at... by ck2 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:12AM (#48335353)

if the Dems don't also take back the Senate, this country is done

it will take longer than this decade, maybe even next, to restore the brain loss and faith in secure jobs for research

basically this country will just become a highway of non-stop warehouses, alternating ICE prisons vs "AI" datacenters

science, medicine, all research and development just gone to other countries

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Re:Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at... by platevoltage on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:32PM (#48338031)

Ever notice how there really always just enough Democrats in the senate to tank a progressive bill? The Senate needs to go honestly.

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Re:Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at... by culi on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:02PM (#48339012)

When the constitution was first written up, senators were all appointed. People had to fight to amend the constitution to allow us to even vote for senators. And the presidency was definitely not meant to have as much impact as it does today. The whole thing seemed drawn up to give the "vibes" of a democracy while protecting elite interests. In fact James Madison basically explicitly admits this in Federalist No. 10. He supposed that true democracy would result in people voting to redistribute wealth and, the founding fathers all being bourgeois, that just wouldn't do.

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