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"U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators."
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"Grants managers at two of the U.S. government’s largest funders of scientific research have recently placed unprecedented limitations on the ability of U.S. scientists to publish with co-authors from other countries, researchers say. Units of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States. #NASA, meanwhile, is reportedly telling some grantees that papers co-authored with researchers in #China may have violated its rules."
#DefendResearch #Nationalism #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Stephen Colbert didn’t just change late-night comedy — he changed how Americans talk about politics, and that puts him among the all-time greats.
As the “Late Show” comes to a close, a Penn State comedy scholar looks back at how Colbert used satire to explain complex topics while still making us laugh.
The best satirists don’t just make people laugh. They help people understand power. And with that in mind, Colbert is among the best.
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#USpolitics #Colbert #satire
5 reasons Stephen Colbert is one of the most important satirists in American history
The greatest satirists do more than expose hypocrisy. They reshape how citizens understand power and civic responsibility.The Conversation
Make no mistake.
The dismantling of #USAID is *directly* tied to this large #Ebola outbreak.
Our surveillance and first responding teams and medics are gone.
It will all come back on us.
I just want to make sure American amnesia doesn't erase who is responsible.
#DOGE #Musk #CDC #InfectiousDisease #PublicHealth #USPolitics #GlobalHealth
most importantly, it looked like Paxton was going to win.
So, as he often does, Trump hitched his wagon to the side that was already going to win so he could claim the win for himself.
#Trump doesn't really care about all of that other stuff. He's spineless and oblivious to anything of substance.
He just wants the superficial chance to proclaim himself a winner again in front of his adoring crowd, and all of that factual stuff is just irrelevant annoyance.
Sometimes Trump's most ardent supporters admit that the guy has a pattern of hitching himself to whatever cause looks like it's already going to win, so he can claim the success of other people.
The primary results from yesterday seem to be a fine example of that.
The NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to boycott Southern colleges after the Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act. “The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice,” NAACP National President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement. Here's more from NBC.
#USPolitics #CollegeSports #BlackMastodon
NAACP urges Black student-athletes to boycott Southern schools after Voting Rights Act decision
The NAACP is urging Black student-athletes to withhold their college commitments in states where new congressional maps could be drawn.Bracey Harris (NBC News)
I've never heard of this guy before, but after listening to this short clip I can say with 100% certainty that he is an absolute cunt.
Boos for music executive Scott Borchetta from the students of Middle Tennessee State University when he talks about AI.
#Democrats #uspol #uspolitics
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Kansas judge blocks law banning gender-transition treatments for minors
Parents had sued to halt law, saying they had the right to make decisions regarding the health of their childrenGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Normal Island News
Muslim socialist destroys New York by taxing the rich, eliminating the deficit and improving public services
Newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani—better known as Muslim al-Socialist to everyone who remembers what America used to be—has single-handedly ruined the greatest hellhole on Earth in just 100 days, exactly as every hedge-fund manager warned he would.
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#NormalIslandNews #satire #Mamdani #USPolitics #mayorOfNewYorkCity #socialism
Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
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Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says.
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#News #Immigration #USPolitics #Immigrants #Trump #ICE #DHS
Don’t expect a historic breakthrough from Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping.
But after years of tensions between the U.S. and China, just getting the two leaders in the same room could be important.
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#Trump #China #USPolitics
Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now
Taiwan, trade and AI regulation are on the agenda. But will there be progress on any of these issues during Beijing sit-down?The Conversation
Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
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#News #Terrorism #Trump #USPolitics #Violence #Security #Extremism
Just don’t ask the racial mix of that 22%
#ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #trump #DonaldTrump #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #TrumpIsAPedo #epsteinfiles #epsteinfury #TaxTheRich
Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits
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Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits
The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez (Fortune)
Pardoned January 6 rioter sentenced to seven years for Virginia burglary
Zachary Alam spent four years in jail for his role in the Capitol attack before Trump pardoned him in 2025Ramon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
Ahh we’ve come so far in 90 years…
#ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #TaxTheRich #trump #DonaldTrump #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #TrumpIsAPedo #epsteinfiles #epsteinfury #TaxTheRich
Last year, the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial project froze the $WLFI tokens belonging to crypto billionaire Justin Sun, their largest token investor, with little explanation. Now he’s suing them for contract violations and fraud, and they’re suing him for defamation.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter
It’s a little rich that Sun is alleging that World Liberty is engaged in fraud, manipulating markets, and potentially violating securities laws after himself only just escaping those very allegations after investing more than $200 million into the president’s family’s crypto projects.
But he also has something of a point: after World Liberty Financial promised they were a solution to “debanking” and that “no one’s ever going to tell you that your account is shut down”, they proceeded to do exactly that to Sun.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Sun is also attempting a delicate balancing act: accusing the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial of fraud while simultaneously maintaining he is still an “ardent” supporter of Trump and his family. His strategy is to pin the whole thing on WLF co-founder Chase Herro.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
In World Liberty’s defamation suit against Sun, they claim that their ability to freeze his tokens was well known to him, and that claiming they installed a secret “backdoor” is defamatory. They also object to him describing WLF’s governance as a sham, and accusing them of treating the crypto community as “a personal ATM”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
In short: the two sides are suing one another despite likely knowing the true nature of the deal they agreed to. Sun admits the tokens he bought are unregistered securities, World Liberty admits they’re not decentralized and Sun shouldn’t have taken their claims to be seriously.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Senior GOP officials reportedly phoned up Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to get him to pressure a pro-crypto super PAC funded by the company he “divested” from to nix a planned ad spend in favor of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The crypto industry is ramping up polling to try to (once again) convince legislators who are up for re-election that they need to support the industry’s legislative agenda in order to win over voters. But two massively different poll results illustrate the dubiousness of these polls.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The DOJ and CFTC are going after a US soldier who allegedly used his access to confidential military information to profit more than $400,000 on Polymarket bets. They are not going after Polymarket, which is supposed to prohibit US bettors, and whose advisory board includes Donald Trump Jr.
“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino,” said former casino tycoon and current President Trump.
“I don’t like it,” said the man whose own social media platform has announced plans to launch a crypto-based prediction market feature.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Newsletter: Crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects, is now accusing the Trumps’ project of fraud.
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#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Issue 105 – The new boogeyman
A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraudMolly White (Citation Needed)
Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' redistricting plan, a blow for midterm hopes.
@politico reports: "The decision is a massive loss for the party ahead of the 2026 midterms."
#Virginia #Redistricting #Elections #USPolitics #Democrats #News
Imagine devoting your life to the FBI and then you end up having to make excuses for your drunken liar of a boss rather than catch serial killers or something...
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#KashPatel #FBI #USPol #USPolitics
FBI defends Kash Patel after report alleging he gifts custom whiskey bottles
Agency says FBI director ‘followed all applicable ethical guidelines’ in giving out personalized bourbon bottlesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
lol, the Rich are scared....
#ZohranMamdani #EatTheRich #Bezos #Oligarchs #EpsteinClass #USPol #USPolitics #NewYork
Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.
After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
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#News #PuertoRico #USPolitics #Law #Legal #Fraud #Election #Prison #Vote
Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.lisa.larson-walker@propublica.org (ProPublica)
I Reached Out to the White House Counterterrorism Czar for Comment. He Lashed Out on X.
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Sebastian Gorka accused a ProPublica reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery” about him. Here’s how basic beat reporting led to a broader story about the state of the U.S. counterterrorism mission at a critical moment.
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#News #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Security #Journalism
‘No one better to fight for us than one of us’: Minnesota flight attendant runs for Congress
Kaela Berg is running in a crowded field with a pro-union message and a vow to protect the state’s immigrantsMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
Sadly, this keeps coming up in case after case on this topic: NO the courts didn't ban mailing of abortion pills, and the banning of abortion pills is not what's going up to the Supreme Court.
What happened was that the FDA seems to admit that it acted in violation of law, and courts are grappling with how to respond to likely illegal agency actions as the legal process moves forward.
All of this other stuff surrounding RvW and abortion access are secondary to the core case about an agency acting illegally.
And that's acting illegal in the context of drug regulation at that. It's probably kind of imporant! but getting lost in the drama and sensational political rhetoric.
Critically, the situation in #Louisiana was already chaos as different courts said that the electoral map was both required AND forbidden.
The Supreme Court ruling brought some order to that chaos, but state officials are still trying to clean up the chaos that existed before the SCOTUS ruling.
This kind of thing has been a longstanding result of the VRA and its interpreters.
#USPolitics #VRA #SCOTUS
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
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From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.
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#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Elections #ElectionIntegrity #Midterms
