alt.hn

7/22/2026 at 8:46:22 AM

White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207

by petethomas

7/22/2026 at 1:37:41 PM

do we have a word for the kind of crime where a person is found guilty of attempting to undermine the nation itself?

by conartist6

7/22/2026 at 2:52:36 PM

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=%2Fprelim%40title18...

  §2381. Treason

  Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States

  §2382. Misprision of treason

  Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both

Is our sitting President and his administration guilty of these crimes? Well, good question, but I do know that I feel a strong chilling effect over the idea of even suggesting that to be the case on the public internet, and that chilling effect itself may provide the answer.

by soulofmischief

7/22/2026 at 2:09:28 PM

Yes, but it's become a swear word along with the F-word.

by mindslight

7/22/2026 at 4:15:28 PM

Lol if Trump is convicted of treason because some researchers didn't get a grant

by eithed

7/22/2026 at 1:39:40 PM

Tree, son!

by fragmede

7/22/2026 at 12:23:38 PM

Another example of keyword driven policies https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diversity-documen...

I wonder how many grants were cancelled because some keyword matched but it had completely nothing to do with DEI

by ShinyLeftPad

7/22/2026 at 3:24:04 PM

The DEI grants shouldn't have been cancelled just because they were DEI either

by Larrikin

7/22/2026 at 2:10:05 PM

They should pass the pages through Gemini for classification first

by yieldcrv

7/22/2026 at 4:25:16 PM

With a nation this far endebted you'd think people might think it reasonable to question billions in grants.. Don't spend money you don't have is one of the best advices my parents ever gave me.

by _blk

7/22/2026 at 6:26:09 PM

> With a nation this far endebted you'd think people might think it reasonable to question billions in grants..

One might also question the wisdom of starting yet another ongoing war, or throwing piles of money at putting a president's name everywhere it wasn't asked for, or truckloads of money "renovating" national monuments only to have to throw more money at re-doing the job because it was half-assed by an unqualified crew, or literal tens of billions at ICE (kinda sorta) doing their job worse than ever before... Guess how much money's been wasted on all that?

by blooalien

7/22/2026 at 7:41:31 PM

Was another piece of advice that personal finance is absolutely nothing like running a business or country?

And of course your straw man is "this is just DOGE trying to save tax dollars", completely ignoring the premise of the article and all other readily-available information.

by cosmicgadget

7/22/2026 at 5:55:10 PM

Your parents didn't have the legal authority to print money. It's almost like running a household is different from running a business, is different from running a nation.

by saulpw