Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

The #NIH is calling for public comments on its plan to cap the use of grant funds to pay #APCs. It seeks comments on five listed options and/or suggestions for other options.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html

The comment deadline is September 15, 2025. The NIH plans to start implementing its APC-capping policy on January 1, 2026.

#Funding#Medicine #OAintheUSA

Update. More evidence that #Republicans are joining #Democrats to #DefendResearch.

"Bipartisan senators seek to prevent #Trump from cutting #EPA science research office."
https://thehill.com/homenews/5418723-senate-funding-epa-science/

"A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific research office…This bipartisan pushback comes as the Trump administration said last week that it wants to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Research and Development ( #ORD)."

#Funding #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed #NIH funds."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/britt-leads-letter-urging-trump-administration-to-release-delayed-nih-funds-00476872

PS: The real news here is that these are #Republicans. "Suspension of these appropriated funds — whether formally withheld or functionally delayed — could threaten Americans’ ability to access better treatments and limit our nation’s leadership in biomedical science. It also risks inadvertently severing ongoing NIH-funded research prior to actionable results.”

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.

But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.

There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).

Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.

But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.

There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).

Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub

"E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html

"The Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA] said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so."

#Censorship #Climate#DefendResearch#Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html

"The Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA] said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so."

#Censorship #Climate#DefendResearch#Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

But in the years that followed, the strength of local #PublicTelevision & #PublicRadio stations in conservative states was often what saved the #federal #funding.

In 1995, #NewtGingrich, then the #House speaker, made one of the most aggressive moves since #Nixon to “zero out” federal support for #PublicMedia before he found it politically untenable.

#Trump#Republicans#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy

Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight
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After a ProPublica and CBS News investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detailed accounting of their expenses.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-overhauls-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Texas#Women#Family#Health#Nonprofit#Funding

From: blenderdumbass . org

I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/clarifying_costs_of_running_the_fediverse_with_jerry_from_infosec.exchange

#infosecExchange #fediverse #funding #donations #freesoftware #libre #opensource #activitypub #mastodon