The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence.
As always great work. As always where are the other media outlets on this ? This needs to be front and center all the time in all possible forms. Also WTF is wrong with these people?
Blocking these grants and awards is an outrageous tragedy made more infuriating by the fact that these MAGA inquisitors have made their decisions based on a f'king keyword search. Really? They have all this IT talent supplied by Musk and the tech bros and the best they can do is CTRL+F in a pdf? Either they are not nearly as bright as they think they are and fail to consider context, or they don't care and blocking all grants and awards is the desired result. After all, the tax cuts for Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Buffet aren't going to be paid for out of thin air.
Tax reduction or elimination for the wealthy is the agenda, the only agenda. DEI is just a political lever, or sledgehammer to get stupid people to vote for morons up and down the ticket -- enough to tip razor thin margins to their side. Tax cuts aren't "paid for". The national debt is literally the shortfall of tax revenue versus expenditures. The rich don't want to pay their share of the obligation, so they use the economic and military strength of the United States to support the world's most risk-free debt instruments: US treasury bonds. That way, the rich can LEND money to the government, at interest, and never have to pay their hoarded wealth back to the people who generated that wealth with every dollar spent and every hour worked, purchases bought at retail and labor paid at break-even salaries. All of Elon's wealth is your money, our money. We paid it and we let him keep it. We are the fools.
My mom and dad did not raise a fool. I am a pacifist willing to pick up arms and fight tyranny. There are those who would do our country harm and there are those who will resist. History is full of these men who would take everything from the people. As B Franklin said, in paraphrase: It's our republic, if we can keep it.
True. But what call to arms will stop the global dominance of tyrannical, anti-democratic oligarchs? I'm old enough to have opposed the Vietnam war, but not old enough to have contributed to the fall of Hitler. What militia is there to resist the US Army or even the MAGA soldiers of fortune willing to slaughter millions of liberals on behalf of those oligarchs, whose only interest is the criminal acquisiton of wealth? I'm with you, Katy. But armed resistance is not presently an option, even though it's an option that fits their crimes.
I like your comment very much. With your permission, I would like to use it (credited to you, of course), on my substack. I titled it "What is the Purpose of DEI?"
Never have forgotten DT's ad against the Central Park 5's exoneration. Add that to Musk's rage at the empowerment of South Africa's Native population, and you can see where they found common ground.
Let us perform a keyword seartch on this word: "Diversity"
di·ver·si·ty
/dəˈvərsədē,dīˈvərsədē/
noun
1.
the state of being diverse; variety.
"there was considerable diversity in the style of the reports"
2.
the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
"equality and diversity should be supported for their own sake"
So a based on a keyword search funding would be halted on "diverse" applications of military weaponry, as well as "diverse" applications in brain research.
These supposedly "intelligent" DOGE people, are stupid, delusional fools! A Confederacy of Dunces!
These insanely ruinous moves by Trump are part of his allegiance to Elon Musk and Vladymir Putin for helping him win this presidential election. He would do anything they asked, and so he is:
He planned this move before the election as it occurred on Day One: "compliance with President Trump's executive orders prohibiting funding for "DEI," "woke gender ideology," and other topics." Russel Vought is the architect. Do we know his back story with Russia for following through on enacting actions that will destroy our country's historic rules of law--and all that truly makes America great?
Agree. As a die-hard Jimmy Carter-Democrat, I am usually the first to back the leaders but these two, both from my home state, gotta go. I'd rather see that tiny ancient woman from California in those ridiculous heels take the microphone than watch Schumer sleep and Jeffries far off stare. Midterms, baby.
Sorry, but neither the House nor Senate democratic leaders have any enforcement mechanism with which to address those ignore the courts on behalf of DJT. The only branch of government with the power and means to enforce anything is the executive with the Commander in Chief at the helm. Democracy is built on the trust that each branch will observe their roles and limits of power. When one branch, the one that controls the guns, refuses to play by the rules, what will the courts and congress do?
The COURTS can enforce their orders. They have civil contempt authority and can impose penalties on people who “aid and abet” violation of court orders. Musk is aiding and abetting; set the fine high enough to get his attention. The COURTS are letting them get away with it, not Congress.
The way Musk’s DOGE is going about agency personnel cuts is the equivalent of thinking we all need to lose 30 pounds & deciding to saw off legs arbitrarily. What Trump & Musk are doing will hurt millions of people in ways that we’re only beginning to see.
Couldn't say it better than Anat Shenker-Osorio 2/21/25: "Trump & the billionaires who bought him, Musk...are coming for your life & your livelihood...your freedom...your privacy...your information. And he is conducting a hostile takeover of our government so he can take our money.” https://youtube.com/shorts/iZuYdpmjpKU?si=Mmm_1Vtd7AE5sHV7 #Resist
Apparently rooting out "DEI" is far more important than rooting out cancer and other serious ailments. If we're ever allowed to resume reporting health statistics, it will show DEI obsession to be the leading cause of death in the U.S.
In the 15th Century the term "Witchcraft" was to used to defame and destroy anyone you had a grievance with.
Today in the 21st Century the term "Woke" or "DEI" are being used by people with a fascist agenda!
It's time to take the offensive and reclaim the terms by using them in the proper context that demonstrates the correct and positive aspects of these terms!
Excellent question about any Russian background for the 2025 Project's Russell Vought! Blocking the posting on the Federal Register of required meeting notices is a diabolical way to cut off medical grant funding.
The Dems need to be sounding the alarm on this, engaging voters across the political spectrum. They should be as direct as possible, asking their constituents if people dying of cancer and heart disease is what they want. It's one thing for the Trump administration to go after the people they don't like (migrants, people of color, the LGBTQ community), but it's another to have critical research halted over the DEI bogeyman.
Time for the Courts to drop the hammer and start "contempt of court" sanctions. Otherwise these court victories are worthless and we have become a nation without law.
My sister is a technical editor at a medical research hospital. She’s been trying to edit grant applications to remove words that are on the DEI trigger list. One of those words is “trauma”. Spinal cord injures are usually caused by trauma. Not “society was mean to me trauma,” but “I went through a car windshield and hit the pavement trauma.” In one of the grant applications she is editing, one of the sponsoring institutions is a trauma center. The place they take you after you go through the windshield. Of course none of this has anything to do with DEI, but DOGE doesn’t practice that level of nuance. So no more federal funding for spinal cord injuries as long as the clowns running DOGE are in charge.
This is not supposed to happen, we are supposed to have co-equal branches of government and when one checks the other, it means something. Not any more. If the executive does not obey the judicial, we are done. This puts everyone outside the law: mark my words, crime is going to go up. We the people see the leaders do this criminal behavior writ large, and what's to stop us from cheating on our taxes, taking something that doesn't belong to us, hurting someone we don't like?
Oh, of course the caveat being that if you are white and male, you have a get-out-of-jail free card. The rest, criminals at birth.
Defiance of court orders means that the DJT administration believes that the courts are too weak and have no way to enforce orders. They take Andrew Jackson seriously and literally.
DEI, which simply promotes equal opportunity (NOT equal results), has been turned into a bugaboo expletive. DARE a researcher survey to see if a disease might impact men and women, or Blacks and Pinks, differently. DEI! WOKE. Of course it has long been known that, for example, signs of heart attacks are quite different between men and women. The differences come from, well, "biological facts" truer than those proclaimed by executive order: different hormones, different genetics, different environments for different groups. We may well see research on cervical cancer stopped because DEI while research on prostate cancer goes sailing through.
What bets one of those keywords may be "breast," because, breast cancer is a "woman's disease." Hate to tell you incels, even manly men get it. I had a male friend die of it.
As always great work. As always where are the other media outlets on this ? This needs to be front and center all the time in all possible forms. Also WTF is wrong with these people?
Blocking these grants and awards is an outrageous tragedy made more infuriating by the fact that these MAGA inquisitors have made their decisions based on a f'king keyword search. Really? They have all this IT talent supplied by Musk and the tech bros and the best they can do is CTRL+F in a pdf? Either they are not nearly as bright as they think they are and fail to consider context, or they don't care and blocking all grants and awards is the desired result. After all, the tax cuts for Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Buffet aren't going to be paid for out of thin air.
Tax reduction or elimination for the wealthy is the agenda, the only agenda. DEI is just a political lever, or sledgehammer to get stupid people to vote for morons up and down the ticket -- enough to tip razor thin margins to their side. Tax cuts aren't "paid for". The national debt is literally the shortfall of tax revenue versus expenditures. The rich don't want to pay their share of the obligation, so they use the economic and military strength of the United States to support the world's most risk-free debt instruments: US treasury bonds. That way, the rich can LEND money to the government, at interest, and never have to pay their hoarded wealth back to the people who generated that wealth with every dollar spent and every hour worked, purchases bought at retail and labor paid at break-even salaries. All of Elon's wealth is your money, our money. We paid it and we let him keep it. We are the fools.
My mom and dad did not raise a fool. I am a pacifist willing to pick up arms and fight tyranny. There are those who would do our country harm and there are those who will resist. History is full of these men who would take everything from the people. As B Franklin said, in paraphrase: It's our republic, if we can keep it.
True. But what call to arms will stop the global dominance of tyrannical, anti-democratic oligarchs? I'm old enough to have opposed the Vietnam war, but not old enough to have contributed to the fall of Hitler. What militia is there to resist the US Army or even the MAGA soldiers of fortune willing to slaughter millions of liberals on behalf of those oligarchs, whose only interest is the criminal acquisiton of wealth? I'm with you, Katy. But armed resistance is not presently an option, even though it's an option that fits their crimes.
I like your comment very much. With your permission, I would like to use it (credited to you, of course), on my substack. I titled it "What is the Purpose of DEI?"
The underlying reason for anti-DEI policies, anti-Affirmative Action policies is OVERT RACISM. We are now beginning Jim Crow 2.0.
Never have forgotten DT's ad against the Central Park 5's exoneration. Add that to Musk's rage at the empowerment of South Africa's Native population, and you can see where they found common ground.
If you are referring to me, permission granted.
Sorry! I wasn't clear. Yes, I was referring to you. And thank you!
Let us perform a keyword seartch on this word: "Diversity"
di·ver·si·ty
/dəˈvərsədē,dīˈvərsədē/
noun
1.
the state of being diverse; variety.
"there was considerable diversity in the style of the reports"
2.
the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
"equality and diversity should be supported for their own sake"
So a based on a keyword search funding would be halted on "diverse" applications of military weaponry, as well as "diverse" applications in brain research.
These supposedly "intelligent" DOGE people, are stupid, delusional fools! A Confederacy of Dunces!
These insanely ruinous moves by Trump are part of his allegiance to Elon Musk and Vladymir Putin for helping him win this presidential election. He would do anything they asked, and so he is:
He planned this move before the election as it occurred on Day One: "compliance with President Trump's executive orders prohibiting funding for "DEI," "woke gender ideology," and other topics." Russel Vought is the architect. Do we know his back story with Russia for following through on enacting actions that will destroy our country's historic rules of law--and all that truly makes America great?
Schumer and Jefferies both need to step down. The Dem’s need leaders with a backbone and a megaphone.
Agree. As a die-hard Jimmy Carter-Democrat, I am usually the first to back the leaders but these two, both from my home state, gotta go. I'd rather see that tiny ancient woman from California in those ridiculous heels take the microphone than watch Schumer sleep and Jeffries far off stare. Midterms, baby.
You can't negotiate with MAGA.
Sorry, but neither the House nor Senate democratic leaders have any enforcement mechanism with which to address those ignore the courts on behalf of DJT. The only branch of government with the power and means to enforce anything is the executive with the Commander in Chief at the helm. Democracy is built on the trust that each branch will observe their roles and limits of power. When one branch, the one that controls the guns, refuses to play by the rules, what will the courts and congress do?
The COURTS can enforce their orders. They have civil contempt authority and can impose penalties on people who “aid and abet” violation of court orders. Musk is aiding and abetting; set the fine high enough to get his attention. The COURTS are letting them get away with it, not Congress.
The Courts are powerless when the Justice Department and the FBI are part of the coup. Who is going to enforce a court order?
The way Musk’s DOGE is going about agency personnel cuts is the equivalent of thinking we all need to lose 30 pounds & deciding to saw off legs arbitrarily. What Trump & Musk are doing will hurt millions of people in ways that we’re only beginning to see.
https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/FireMuskPoster_8.5x11.pdf
Asked whether it was trained on data from the federal government obtained by DOGE, Musk’s Grok 3 AI responded that “it’s plausible that data DOGE accessed could have flowed to xAI projects like Grok 3.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/musk-data-ai-00205259utm_campaign=wp_power_up&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Couldn't say it better than Anat Shenker-Osorio 2/21/25: "Trump & the billionaires who bought him, Musk...are coming for your life & your livelihood...your freedom...your privacy...your information. And he is conducting a hostile takeover of our government so he can take our money.” https://youtube.com/shorts/iZuYdpmjpKU?si=Mmm_1Vtd7AE5sHV7 #Resist
Our rrresearch indicates that most men don't need that third leg anyway AND without it many experience a signifcant weight loss.
And if you buy that, I also got a pre-owned yacht with a bridge raising appliance right chere.
Apparently rooting out "DEI" is far more important than rooting out cancer and other serious ailments. If we're ever allowed to resume reporting health statistics, it will show DEI obsession to be the leading cause of death in the U.S.
In the 15th Century the term "Witchcraft" was to used to defame and destroy anyone you had a grievance with.
Today in the 21st Century the term "Woke" or "DEI" are being used by people with a fascist agenda!
It's time to take the offensive and reclaim the terms by using them in the proper context that demonstrates the correct and positive aspects of these terms!
Excellent question about any Russian background for the 2025 Project's Russell Vought! Blocking the posting on the Federal Register of required meeting notices is a diabolical way to cut off medical grant funding.
The Dems need to be sounding the alarm on this, engaging voters across the political spectrum. They should be as direct as possible, asking their constituents if people dying of cancer and heart disease is what they want. It's one thing for the Trump administration to go after the people they don't like (migrants, people of color, the LGBTQ community), but it's another to have critical research halted over the DEI bogeyman.
It's insane and hurting real American people by design!
The cruelty is the point.
Time for the Courts to drop the hammer and start "contempt of court" sanctions. Otherwise these court victories are worthless and we have become a nation without law.
My sister is a technical editor at a medical research hospital. She’s been trying to edit grant applications to remove words that are on the DEI trigger list. One of those words is “trauma”. Spinal cord injures are usually caused by trauma. Not “society was mean to me trauma,” but “I went through a car windshield and hit the pavement trauma.” In one of the grant applications she is editing, one of the sponsoring institutions is a trauma center. The place they take you after you go through the windshield. Of course none of this has anything to do with DEI, but DOGE doesn’t practice that level of nuance. So no more federal funding for spinal cord injuries as long as the clowns running DOGE are in charge.
How you even have the energy to keep at this is mind boggling... I can barely read the words each day... Thank you as always
This is not supposed to happen, we are supposed to have co-equal branches of government and when one checks the other, it means something. Not any more. If the executive does not obey the judicial, we are done. This puts everyone outside the law: mark my words, crime is going to go up. We the people see the leaders do this criminal behavior writ large, and what's to stop us from cheating on our taxes, taking something that doesn't belong to us, hurting someone we don't like?
Oh, of course the caveat being that if you are white and male, you have a get-out-of-jail free card. The rest, criminals at birth.
Fish rots from the head down and corruption (based on this administration's picks) has been uncorked.
Oh, the law only applies to the rest of us, not the super rich.
Defiance of court orders means that the DJT administration believes that the courts are too weak and have no way to enforce orders. They take Andrew Jackson seriously and literally.
So he’s ignoring a court order and there’s nobody to stop him.
DEI, which simply promotes equal opportunity (NOT equal results), has been turned into a bugaboo expletive. DARE a researcher survey to see if a disease might impact men and women, or Blacks and Pinks, differently. DEI! WOKE. Of course it has long been known that, for example, signs of heart attacks are quite different between men and women. The differences come from, well, "biological facts" truer than those proclaimed by executive order: different hormones, different genetics, different environments for different groups. We may well see research on cervical cancer stopped because DEI while research on prostate cancer goes sailing through.
What bets one of those keywords may be "breast," because, breast cancer is a "woman's disease." Hate to tell you incels, even manly men get it. I had a male friend die of it.