#funding — Public Fediverse posts
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Mistral Raises 3 Billion Euros in Europe’s Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads Mistral's Series D at a 21 billion euro valuation, the biggest equity round ever completed by a European technology company.
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Mistral Raises 3 Billion Euros in Europe’s Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads Mistral's Series D at a 21 billion euro valuation, the biggest equity round ever completed by a European technology company.
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Mistral Raises 3 Billion Euros in Europe’s Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads Mistral's Series D at a 21 billion euro valuation, the biggest equity round ever completed by a European technology company.
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Mistral Raises 3 Billion Euros in Europe’s Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads Mistral's Series D at a 21 billion euro valuation, the biggest equity round ever completed by a European technology company.
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Mistral Raises 3 Billion Euros in Europe’s Largest Tech Round
Samsung leads Mistral's Series D at a 21 billion euro valuation, the biggest equity round ever completed by a European technology company.
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Spanish minister bids for top UN labour agency post amid US funding crisis
Spain has officially nominated its Labour Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda Díaz, to run for Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). If elected, Díaz would become the first woman to lead the Geneva-based UN agency in i…
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/117232339734925880
25 years ago I visited (as a prospective intern) a community mental health center in Salt Lake City, UT. I was blown away by what I learned: it seemed to be a financially solvent CMCH providing housing to almost all their clients who needed it. Most CMHCs are constantly struggling for cash, turning people away, and underpaying their staff who are a self-selecting group of -professionals willing to take a pay cut so they can serve the people who need to be helped.
The director told us that, several years earlier, they had hired a finance person who convinced the execs to take a risk: instead of renting apartments as needed for their unhoused clients, they bought some units. They saved money pretty quickly (possibly due to cultural/geographic factors difficult to replicate elsewhere; IDK) and bought more housing units. By the time I visited they owned several apartment buildings. They rented some of the apartments at market rates, which allowed them to give sliding-fee rents to clients who needed housing; apparently, plenty of clients got free housing. After a few years, he said, they were housing nearly all clients who needed it, and of course the treatment success rates went up, because not having to worry about housing is great for mental health, keeping jobs, childcare, etc. Many clients' incomes grew, so they started paying more rent and increasing the organization's ability to provide services, including more housing.
Someone in our applicant group asked something like "do you have some buildings for clients and others for non-client residents?" He said no, they were mixed, and (a) the non-client residents, who knew that many of their neighbors were struggling with mental health and substance use, seemed quite happy to live in the units; they were priced affordably in the market, for one thing; (b) the clients benefited by living in "normal housing" instead of being sequestered in "low-income" or "mentally ill" apartment complexes. Many people reportedly formed lasting friendships and the clients seemed to do better, overall, with mixed-income neighbors.
I think (? long time ago, hazy memory) he said they had become one of the larger real estate owners in the Salt Lake Valley, and the CMHC had a significant investment fund that they used for services most CMHCs can't afford.
I only know his spiel, so I only know the PR from 25 years ago (approximately 2003), but for a grad student working in a standard underfunded CMHC, damn was that ever impressive. I've often wondered (a) how much of the spiel was PR vs reality, and (b) how realistic this would be for other CMHCs. If even half of it was non-bullshit, it's deeply impressive.
I didn't get the SLC placement, sadly. The CMHC I worked at right then, in Columbus, Ohio, had two separate CEOs led out of the main offices in handcuffs within two years, allegedly for embezzling and other stuff. We were not the same.
Edit: conciseness
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https://www.europesays.com/people/219057/ Schumer: Funding on the way for aging infrastructure at former Plattsburgh Air Force base #ChuckSchumer #funding #Infrastructure #NewYork #PlattsburghAirForceBase #PLATTSBURGHTOWN #schumer #wcax
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/89805/ Schools closing for A66 funerals ‘obscene’ – Kemi Badenoch | ITV News Tyne Tees #A66 #Acklam #ClevelandPolice #Conservative #crash #DavidSkaith #funding #funeral #GreatNorthRun #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #KemiBadenoch #Labour #levy #LucyPowell #Middlesbrough #Newcastle #NorthYorkshire #policing #politics #PrideOfBritain #racing #running #Scarborough #SouthBank #SouthShields #teesside #TheoRae #TouristTax
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New study: "Shortly after major policy changes to US science funding began in early 2025, we surveyed 916 young biomedical scientists – PhD students and postdoctoral researchers – about their career intentions and expectations…Barely half of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22% from how they felt six months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21%."
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35330Also see the summary in the Harvard Gazette.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/09/survey-of-young-researchers-raises-concerns-over-future-of-science-in-u-s/#DefendResearch #ECR #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The "Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) #PhD Programme for Health Professionals" will be selecting its 2027 cohort soon!
Programme information
https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/mltc-phd/The programme centres on fundamentals of MLTCs, combined mental and physical MLTCs, and prevention & management.
Projects
https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/mltc-phd/researchprojects/Our project focuses on defining clinically meaningful and sustainable outcomes for MLTCs
https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/mltc-phd/researchprojects/glasgow_projects/uofg10/#NCD #Multimorbidity #Wellcome #Nursing #Psychology #Funding #HRQL
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8月27日に、東京応化科学技術振興財団が『2027年度の「研究費の助成」及び「国際交流助成」並びに「研究交流促進助成」の募集のお知らせ』を発表。募集期間は2027年1月4日(月)-1月15日(金)。研究費の助成と国際交流助成は指定の化学系学会で推薦募集。指定学会: エレクトロニクス実装学会、応用物理学会、高分子学会、電気化学会、日本化学会、日本セラミックス協会、光化学協会、表面技術協会、有機合成化学協会。詳細は https://www.tok-foundation.or.jp/topics/20260827 に。
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8月27日に、東京応化科学技術振興財団が『2027年度の「研究費の助成」及び「国際交流助成」並びに「研究交流促進助成」の募集のお知らせ』を発表。募集期間は2027年1月4日(月)-1月15日(金)。研究費の助成と国際交流助成は指定の化学系学会で推薦募集。指定学会: エレクトロニクス実装学会、応用物理学会、高分子学会、電気化学会、日本化学会、日本セラミックス協会、光化学協会、表面技術協会、有機合成化学協会。詳細は https://www.tok-foundation.or.jp/topics/20260827 に。
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8月27日に、東京応化科学技術振興財団が『2027年度の「研究費の助成」及び「国際交流助成」並びに「研究交流促進助成」の募集のお知らせ』を発表。募集期間は2027年1月4日(月)-1月15日(金)。研究費の助成と国際交流助成は指定の化学系学会で推薦募集。指定学会: エレクトロニクス実装学会、応用物理学会、高分子学会、電気化学会、日本化学会、日本セラミックス協会、光化学協会、表面技術協会、有機合成化学協会。詳細は https://www.tok-foundation.or.jp/topics/20260827 に。
#TOKFoundation #Funding #Chemistry -
8月27日に、東京応化科学技術振興財団が『2027年度の「研究費の助成」及び「国際交流助成」並びに「研究交流促進助成」の募集のお知らせ』を発表。募集期間は2027年1月4日(月)-1月15日(金)。研究費の助成と国際交流助成は指定の化学系学会で推薦募集。指定学会: エレクトロニクス実装学会、応用物理学会、高分子学会、電気化学会、日本化学会、日本セラミックス協会、光化学協会、表面技術協会、有機合成化学協会。詳細は https://www.tok-foundation.or.jp/topics/20260827 に。
#TOKFoundation #Funding #Chemistry -
8月27日に、東京応化科学技術振興財団が『2027年度の「研究費の助成」及び「国際交流助成」並びに「研究交流促進助成」の募集のお知らせ』を発表。募集期間は2027年1月4日(月)-1月15日(金)。研究費の助成と国際交流助成は指定の化学系学会で推薦募集。指定学会: エレクトロニクス実装学会、応用物理学会、高分子学会、電気化学会、日本化学会、日本セラミックス協会、光化学協会、表面技術協会、有機合成化学協会。詳細は https://www.tok-foundation.or.jp/topics/20260827 に。
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Pakistan’s real tech strength
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to celebrate Pakistan’s progress at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026. Local drones, simulators and autonomous platforms on display are genuine achievements, and the government deserves credit for organi…
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Pakistan’s real tech strength
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to celebrate Pakistan’s progress at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026. Local drones, simulators and autonomous platforms on display are genuine achievements, and the government deserves credit for organi…
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Pakistan’s real tech strength
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to celebrate Pakistan’s progress at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026. Local drones, simulators and autonomous platforms on display are genuine achievements, and the government deserves credit for organi…
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Pakistan’s real tech strength
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to celebrate Pakistan’s progress at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026. Local drones, simulators and autonomous platforms on display are genuine achievements, and the government deserves credit for organi…
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Pakistan’s real tech strength
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is right to celebrate Pakistan’s progress at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026. Local drones, simulators and autonomous platforms on display are genuine achievements, and the government deserves credit for organi…
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"When governments and big companies borrow money, they don’t ask a bank for a loan. Instead, they sell IOUs to investors and promise to repay the money with a certain interest rate. If those IOUs are set to be repaid many years from now, they’re called #bonds".
"Rising prices make bond purchasers think that the nominal annual fixed interest they will get from the bond will be devalued over time by inflation, so the real return they get will fall. So bond holders will only buy bonds in the secondary market at lower prices to compensate. As we have explained above, falling bond prices means higher yields. Also governments issuing new bonds will have to offer higher fixed rates to attract new purchasers."
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/bond-bust/
#credit #debt #liquidity #liquidities #securities #deficit #currency #economy #obligations #macroEconomy #funding
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Friday, September 4, 2026
Germany begins production of 5,000 long-range drones for Kyiv . . . . . Russian commander shot just days after being linked to strike on Kyiv children's hospital . . . . . Germany announces $290 million aid package to repair Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/
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Saturday, August 29, 2026
Can Ukraine defend itself without more Patriot missiles? . . . . . A bridge, missiles, and billions in revenue: North Korea's role in Russia's war deepens again . . . . . Zelensky calls for Ukraine to launch 1,000 drones at Russia daily . . . . . Russia considers placing troops, weapons on civilian ships as it struggles to protect shadow fleet . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/saturday-august-29-2026/
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"There are a range of causes of #death, but the single largest cause is #suicide. I have written elsewhere about how the rise of suicide in young people, & young men in particular, is the result of #policy choices. For example, #funding #cuts to & rising #demand for #child & #adolescent #mentalhealth #services."
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How Many Employees Does It Take to Reach $100M ARR Now?
https://nazr.com/blog/how-many-employees-100m-arr
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Edit: raised $50 so far. Please help us get that other $700 covered ASAP? If you can't cover it all, any part of it you can cover is less still to raise.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if we can't raise Atha and Inara the $750 to cover immigration bureaucracy within the next week, a cascade of problems will unfold that jeopardizes the future of not only Atha and Inara, but also the entire project of the Vulpibus. Problems including a $500 fine imposed in court, points on the license, more expensive insurance, inability to get paid work in the USA and probably inability to leave the USA for any chosen reason too. Problems also potentially including deportation of Atha back to the UK.
USCIS made a mistake and they are leaving it to us to pick up the pieces, and fast.
Can you help?
@athamanatha on Paypal
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https://ko-fi.com/athakitsune
Wise also available on request.Other payment options than these may need specific arrangements.
#mutualaid
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Poland’s Top Court Upholds Funding Cut for Conservative Opposition PiS
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Thanks to Ukraine's new strategy, Russia's grip on Crimea is crumbling . . . . . Buryatia shows what happens when Russia runs out of volunteers . . . . . EU suspends its funding for Venice Art Biennale over Russia's return . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/wednesday-july-22-2026/
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“Who is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain?”
by Josiah Mortimer and Max Colbert in The Byline Times on Substack
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“EXCLUSIVE: Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”
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“Little is known about Restore Britain’s funding. The far-right party, seen as a disrupter on Reform UK’s right flank, was only formally registered as a party in February, meaning further donations records will begin to appear in the coming months, should they cross the threshold for declaration.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/who-is-really-bankrolling-rupert
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #FarRight #RestoreBritain #Lowe #Musk #Funding #X #Crypto #DarkMoney #CromwellClub #Donations
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For biosciences researchers in the #UK interested in #FAIR and #OpenScience
BioFAIR Fellowship Programme - BioFAIR - https://biofair.uk/biofair-fellowship-programme-2/
#BioFAIR #UKRI #Funding #FAIR #Biosciences #Neuroscience #Genomics #Transcriptomics
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Community Foundation of Lorain County launches new LGBTQ+ affiliate fund amid funding and legislative challenges
The Community Foundation of Lorain County partnered with LGBTQ+ Lorain County to create a fund to suppor...
#cindy-andrews #community #community-foundation #community-foundation-of-lorain-county #cynthia-andrews #funding #grants #lgbtq+-lorain-county #lorain #megan-mikolay
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A quotation from George Orwell
Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics
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The Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfolio review driven by student demand and institutional focus. Provost Lois Agnew insisted the move was “not a cost-cutting exercise.” Taken at face value, some of these cuts are routine catalog maintenance. Fifty-five of the ninety-three programs had zero students enrolled. Twenty-eight were advanced certificate supplements to graduate degrees. The provost herself noted that Syracuse offered more than double the roughly 200 programs typical of peer institutions, and a university trimming a bloated catalog to concentrate faculty resources is doing ordinary academic management. Reasonable people can call that housekeeping.
The housekeeping argument collapses, however, when you examine which programs with actual students were targeted. The nine flagship cuts announced in late March struck Classical Civilization, Classics, Digital Humanities, Fine Arts, German, Latino-Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Jewish Studies, and Russian. Those are not random low-performers. That list reads like a table of contents for any serious attempt to understand Western civilization, global politics, and the moral architecture of the modern world. The zero-enrollment programs provide administrative cover for the cuts that carry ideological weight, and the 93 number does the rhetorical work of making nine consequential eliminations look like a rounding error.
Syracuse is a private university charging $66,580 per year in tuition, and it answers to its board, not to a state legislature. Its budget decisions are not driven by state appropriations in the way that a land-grant institution’s are. But Syracuse matters here because the pattern of what gets cut, and the institutional logic used to justify the cutting, is identical to what is happening at public universities that depend on taxpayer funding. When private and public institutions, operating under different financial pressures and different governance structures, independently arrive at the same conclusion about which disciplines to sacrifice, the question shifts from institutional management to cultural consensus. No single institution’s decision to trim its catalog would warrant concern. What warrants concern is that Syracuse, West Virginia, Nebraska, The New School, Miami of Ohio, Montclair State, Boston University, and Brown are all cutting the same kinds of programs at the same time, and the pattern always lands on the disciplines that teach people how to think, how to read difficult texts, how to argue, and how to question power.
The trail of cuts extends across the country. West Virginia University eliminated 32 majors in 2023, with humanities departments absorbing the worst damage. Boston University suspended doctoral admissions in the humanities and social sciences. The New School in New York, an institution founded in 1919 as a haven for intellectual rigor, is gutting Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research, cutting or pausing 23 majors and 16 minors. Miami University of Ohio put 18 humanities programs on the block. Montclair State University in New Jersey tried to dissolve its entire College of Humanities and Social Sciences before international pressure forced a partial retreat. Brown University and other Ivy League institutions canceled doctoral programs in the humanities for the 2026-27 academic year after federal funding dried up. Texas A&M eliminated its women’s and gender studies program to comply with a policy from the university system’s board of regents.
The numbers behind these decisions are stark but not mysterious, and they did not begin in 2025. Between 2012 and 2022, undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities fell 24 percent nationwide, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The percentage of bachelor’s degrees conferred in the humanities dropped from 16.8 percent in the 2010-11 academic year to 12.8 percent in 2020-21, per the National Center for Education Statistics. Fewer than ten percent of college graduates in 2020 earned a humanities degree. That decline spanned the Obama and Biden administrations. It was driven by the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis, by the explosion in student debt that made families desperate for vocational certainty, by bipartisan STEM-focused messaging from politicians of both parties, and by a culture that increasingly equated the worth of a degree with its starting salary. These are the statistics administrators cite when they announce cuts. Enrollment is down. Students are voting with their feet. The market has spoken.
The honest version of this argument acknowledges that the slow erosion of humanities enrollment has multiple causes, some of them economic and cultural rather than political. But honesty also requires recognizing the difference between a chronic illness and a directed killing. What has happened since January 2025 is categorically different from the gradual enrollment decline of the previous decade. The current political environment has transformed a slow erosion into an accelerated demolition, and the tools of that demolition are identifiable, funded, and coordinated.
What the administrators fail to mention is that the market, already weakened, has been deliberately broken.
Consider what has happened at the federal level. In April 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency terminated more than 1,400 open grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, totaling an estimated $175 million in undisbursed funds. State humanities councils, which receive nearly half of NEH’s federal appropriation, lost their operating grants overnight. The Connecticut Humanities council lost $1.5 million of its $4 million budget in a single notification. Pennsylvania Humanities saw over 60 percent of its budget evaporate. In May 2025, the Trump administration’s budget proposal called for the complete elimination of the NEH, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. A federal judge in August 2025 ruled the grant terminations “unlawful,” but by that point, staff had been laid off, programs had been canceled, and community institutions had already absorbed the damage.
The NEH grant cancellations did not empty a German class at Syracuse the following semester. That is not how the mechanism works. Federal humanities funding sustains the research infrastructure, graduate fellowships, and faculty positions that keep programs viable across years and decades. When you eliminate doctoral funding at the federal level, fewer graduate students enter the pipeline. Fewer graduate students means fewer qualified faculty five and ten years from now. Fewer faculty means fewer course offerings, which means lower enrollment, which means administrators can point to low enrollment as evidence that the program should be cut. The causation is real, but it operates on a generational timeline, and the people making the cuts understand this perfectly. They are planting a fire and waiting for the forest to burn.
Ideological targeting is explicit in the mechanism. Updated NEH guidance announced that grants related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, environmental justice, and “gender ideology” had been canceled as inconsistent with agency priorities. The administration did not cut the NEH because it cost too much. At $207 million annually, the NEH’s entire budget is a sum the FY2026 defense appropriation of $838.7 billion could fund 4,600 times over. DOD’s total FY2026 topline reached $961.6 billion, with the president calling for $1.5 trillion in defense spending for FY2027. The NEH was cut because it funded the kind of inquiry that produces conclusions the administration finds politically inconvenient. The fiscal argument is a costume worn by an ideological project.
In Nebraska, Governor Jim Pillen recommended cutting $14.3 million from the University of Nebraska’s $700 million state appropriation, even as the university tracked $178 million in lost federal research funding. Pillen, who received a campaign endorsement from President Trump and explicitly credited the president’s philosophy of “running government like a business,” proposed $500 million in total state budget reductions while simultaneously championing income tax cuts that had already created a $471 million budget shortfall. He called on the legislature to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the university system, claiming this would align higher education with “Nebraska values.” The logic is circular: cut taxes, create a deficit, blame the deficit on spending, and then use the manufactured crisis to strip from public universities the programs that most threaten political orthodoxy.
Syracuse, despite being private, faces a version of the same pressure. Its international student enrollment dropped from 12 percent of the incoming class in 2023 to 5 percent recently, costing millions in full-tuition revenue. The erosion of international enrollment is itself a consequence of federal immigration policy, visa restrictions, and the broader signal that the United States is no longer a welcoming destination for foreign students. When the government makes it harder for international students to study here, universities lose revenue, and then those same universities are told to cut programs because they can no longer afford them.
Meanwhile, public money flows toward private and religious schools through a separate but philosophically parallel channel. The Educational Choice for Children Act, signed into law as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, created the first national school voucher program. Starting in 2027, individuals can receive dollar-for-dollar tax credits of up to $5,000 for donations to scholarship-granting organizations that fund private and religious school tuition. The program’s annual volume cap is $5 billion. The voucher money does not come from the same line item as NEH grants or state university appropriations. These are different fiscal streams. But they express the same governing philosophy: that public education, whether K-12 or higher, is an expense to be minimized rather than an investment to be protected, and that taxpayer dollars are better spent subsidizing private alternatives than sustaining the public institutions that serve everyone. Arizona’s voucher program alone cost the state $872 million in fiscal year 2025, and an audit found roughly 20 percent of those funds went to unauthorized purchases including personal electronics and luxury items. At least 45 percent of the students receiving aid in Arizona were never enrolled in public schools to begin with, meaning the state was paying for private education that families were already financing on their own. By the 2026-27 school year, approximately half of all American students will be eligible for some form of publicly funded private school voucher, according to FutureEd at Georgetown University.
The architecture of the current acceleration is methodical, and it operates on top of the pre-existing enrollment decline like an accelerant poured on a smoldering fire. Cut federal support for humanities research and programming. Manufacture state budget crises through aggressive tax cuts. Restrict international enrollment through hostile immigration policy. Redirect the philosophical commitment to public education toward private and religious alternatives through voucher programs. Then point to declining enrollment in humanities programs as evidence that the market no longer values them. Long-term erosion had multiple causes, some of them organic. Current demolition does not. Programs are being starved, and then their emaciation is cited as proof that they were never worth feeding.
When a university cuts Classical Civilization, German, Russian, Middle Eastern Studies, and Modern Jewish Studies, what vanishes is the institutional capacity to produce citizens who can read primary sources in the languages of the civilizations that shaped, and continue to shape, global affairs. A country that cannot educate its own people in the languages and histories of the Middle East, Russia, and East Asia is a country that will be governed by people who do not understand the forces acting upon it. That outcome has been engineered.
The humanities teach what cannot be automated: the capacity to hold contradictory ideas in tension, to read between the lines of political rhetoric, to recognize when a historical pattern is repeating, to distinguish between information and understanding. These are capacities that make populations difficult to govern through propaganda, because citizens who can parse a sentence can also parse a lie. The defunding of the humanities is, at its operational core, a campaign against the capacity for dissent.
The Syracuse provost wrote that the review aimed to create “a portfolio that is more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand.” Matthew Huber, who co-chairs the university’s Academic Affairs Committee, described the announcement as ominous and “pretty intent on cutting things.” A faculty census showed Syracuse lost 44 professors between 2024 and 2025, most of them non-tenured. When you eliminate the programs that train people to question institutional authority, and then you eliminate the faculty who teach those programs, what remains is an institution that no longer has the internal capacity to question its own decisions.
The public universities built this country’s intellectual infrastructure. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890 created the system of state universities that democratized higher education by making it available to people who were not born into wealth. Those institutions produced the engineers, scientists, teachers, doctors, lawyers, writers, and civic leaders who built the twentieth century’s most consequential democracy. The current project to defund, privatize, and politically capture those institutions is an attack on the social contract that made mass education a public good rather than a private privilege.
The country finds $838 billion for defense spending, $175 billion in defense reconciliation funding, and a proposed $1.5 trillion military topline for FY2027. Another $5 billion in annual tax credits awaits the wealthy who wish to subsidize religious school tuition. Funds materialize for border walls and deportation infrastructure and surveillance systems and weapons platforms that will be obsolete before they are deployed. What cannot be located is $207 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities, or adequate funding for the University of Nebraska, or a reason to keep Classical Civilization alive at Syracuse. The money was always there. The only question was what kind of citizen it would be spent to produce.
A nation that will not educate its own people is a nation preparing to be ruled, and a population that cannot read its own history is a population that will repeat the worst of it without recognition.
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Episode 107 - Aalyria's $1.3B Valuation - Google's New Space Internet! #google #aalyria #funding #fundinground
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Happy to have written a preLight with @Co_Biologists covering two preprints looking at funding and publications! A data science approach to analysing #funding decisions and #publications in #biosciences, unfortunately I'm not sure they told me what I need to propose for a successful grant or how I will win a fancy prize for my work. (1/2) https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/trends-in-nih-funding-and-breakthrough-prediction-from-pubmed/
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/10/democrats-trump-iran-war. "The #Trump administration didn’t even offer a public sales pitch, & polls show the #Iran attack is one of the most initially unpopular #military operations in modern #American #history. So it is far less politically risky for #Democrats to oppose this war - & to use their #congressional power to legislatively obstruct its #funding."
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Big opportunity for tech creators and researchers! 🚀 Watch this video to learn about NGI Sargasso — transatlantic funding for Next Generation Internet projects via Open Calls (Horizon Europe). Get tips on applying and building cross-border collaborations. Don’t miss out! #NGISargasso #NGI #HorizonEurope #OpenCall #Funding #NextGenInternet #Tech #Research #Innovation #English
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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"With tensions already high in Minnesota after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer killed Renee Macklin Good, the Trump administration is ramping up the pressure on cities and states to cooperate with its immigration crackdown.
"The administration had already surged federal agents — sometimes accompanied by military troops — to Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Charlotte, Memphis, Washington D.C. and New Orleans."
#SanctuaryCities #Funding #ICE
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I'm co-managing Silvia's Project with @Dawed_for_Gaza. We are currently experiencing issues for sending money from #France (#bnpparibas) to #palestine.
For those who are managing #chuffed campaign, did you face long wire banking transfer or any sort of issues ? Any tips would help since beneficiary children really needs the money we've collected.
Thank you peoples for your time and help.
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Illegal!
#Trump to cut #funding to #states over #SanctuaryCities
Federal payments will be halted to states over their so-called sanctuary cities on February 1, Trump said Wednesday without elaborating on what funds or which states.
"Effective February first, no more payments will be made by the federal government to states for their corrupt criminal protection centers known as sanctuary cities," Trump wrote in a social media post.
#law #Congress #PowerOfThePurse
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-federal-payments-sanctuary-cities-end-february-1-2026-01-14/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Sublime Security Raises $150 Million for Email Security Platform https://www.securityweek.com/sublime-security-raises-150-million-for-email-security-platform/ #CybersecurityFunding #SublimeSecurity #EmailSecurity #emailsecurity #funding
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The list includes #GeorgeSoros’ #OpenSocietyFoundations; #ActBlue, the #funding arm of the #DemocraticParty; #Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to #Trump policies & the Coalition for Humane #Immigrant Rights [#CHIRLA], a Los Angeles-based group.
"The goal is to destabilize Soros’ network," a White House official said.
#law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propaganda #tyranny #fascism @indivisibleteam
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Mycroft Raises $3.5 Million for AI-Powered Security and Compliance Platform https://www.securityweek.com/mycroft-raises-3-5-million-for-ai-powered-security-and-compliance-platform/ #ArtificialIntelligence #CybersecurityFunding #compliance #funding #Mycroft #AI
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Mycroft Raises $3.5 Million for AI-Powered Security and Compliance Platform https://www.securityweek.com/mycroft-raises-3-5-million-for-ai-powered-security-and-compliance-platform/ #ArtificialIntelligence #CybersecurityFunding #compliance #funding #Mycroft #AI
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The #Vulpibus folks have had to get moving again. They really need all the #moneyhelp you can give them with #fuel and #food.
The good news is they have been making fast progress across unfriendly states and also a bit more progress on the Vulpibus itself and on the gene editing system design. The bad news is that progress could stall without your help.
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API Security Firm Wallarm Raises $55 Million https://www.securityweek.com/api-security-firm-wallarm-raises-55-million/ #CybersecurityFunding #APIsecurity #funding #Wallarm
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API Security Firm Wallarm Raises $55 Million https://www.securityweek.com/api-security-firm-wallarm-raises-55-million/ #CybersecurityFunding #APIsecurity #funding #Wallarm
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Guardz Banks $56M Series B for All-in-One SMB Security – Source: www.securityweek.com https://ciso2ciso.com/guardz-banks-56m-series-b-for-all-in-one-smb-security-source-www-securityweek-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #Endpointsecurity #IncidentResponse #managedservices #securityweekcom #securityweek #Funding/M&A #SeriesB #Guardz #MSPs #SMB