#funding — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #funding, aggregated by home.social.
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Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.
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Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.
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Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.
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Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.
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Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.
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Pritzker announces $26M in grants to support independent grocery stores, combat food deserts | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2022/ #food #FoodDeserts #funding #GrantFunding #GroceryRescueProgram #GroceryStore #Illinois #IllinoisDepartmentOfCommerceAndEconomicOpportunity #IllinoisDining #IllinoisFood #IllinoisGroceryInitiative #IllinoisGroceryStores #IllinoisRestaurants #JbPritzker #NewStoresInFoodDeserts #StateFunding
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UK government’s proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say – The Art Newspaper
The UK government’s decision to grant regional mayors in England the power to introduce a “tourist tax” (Overnight Visitor Levy, OVL) has…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Artsfunding #BritishTourism #Funding #Museums #Museums&Heritage #Politics #Tourism #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/122195/ UK government’s proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say – The Art Newspaper #ArtsFunding #BritishTourism #Funding #Museums #Museums&Heritage #Politics #Tourism #UK #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom
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London’s unicorn boom is masking an early-stage funding crisis
Friday 11 September 2026 10:43 am | Updated: Friday 11 September 2026 10:49 am European tech is experiencing two…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #Business #founders #Funding #opinion #unicorn #vc #VentureCapital
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/122122/ London’s unicorn boom is masking an early-stage funding crisis #Business #founders #Funding #London #opinion #unicorn #vc #VentureCapital
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1197649/ AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’ #Careers #ComputerScience #Funding #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #Industry #multidisciplinary #Science #Society #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
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AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’
Artificial-intelligence researchers say that the idea of leaving academia is tempting, but some nevertheless resist the move.Credit: Jay…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Careers #computerscience #Funding #GB #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #Industry #multidisciplinary #Society #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Japan’s Algomatic Dynamics Laucnhes with $32.5M in Funding to Develop Physical AI, Robotic Hand
Insider Brief Algomatic Dynamics has raised $32.5 million from DMM.com in its first funding round as it prepares…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #AI #AlgomaticDynamics #DMMGroup #funding #Nihon #robotichand #Startup
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."
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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend
Deadline: November 30, 2026
The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.
The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.
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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend
Deadline: November 30, 2026
The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.
The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.
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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend
Deadline: November 30, 2026
The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.
The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.
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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend
Deadline: November 30, 2026
The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.
The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.
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Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend
Deadline: November 30, 2026
The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.
The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.
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EU unveils European Innovation Act to unlock billions for innovators
Europe could be on the verge of a major overhaul in how promising technologies move from the laboratory…
#Europe #EU #digitalinfrastructure #DisruptiveTechnology #electricvehicles #EuropeanUnion #Funding #HealthTechnology #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability
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Pentagon Drone Program Warns of Funding Lapse Setback
The Pentagon's drone program is at a critical juncture, with Lt. Gen. Steven Marks warning that a funding lapse could stall momentum gained since the program's inception over a year ago. Without crucial funds, including a potential $54 billion from the FY27 budget, the program's progress may start to wane.
#DefenseAutonomousWorkingGroup #Dawg #Pentagon #EmergingTechnologies #Funding
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https://www.europesays.com/people/?p=222145 EU announces $232 million deal with Greenland #EU #EuropeanUnion #funding #GREENLAND #News #Politics #UrsulaVonDerLeyen
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https://www.laviezine.com/1636483/uni-seoul-raises-rs-35-crore-series-a-funding-to-expand-korean-inspired-lifestyle-retail-brand-in-india/ Uni Seoul raises Rs 35 crore Series A funding to expand Korean-inspired lifestyle retail brand in India #funding #Gifting #investors #lifestyle #QuickCommerce #retail #seoul
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/418912/ Theta draws down over $51 million for South Africa project #capital #Debt #DefinitiveFeasibilityStudy #Development #drawdown #Finance #Funding #gold #Goldfields #SouthAfrica #ThetaGoldMines
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Three UK arts organisations receive new £100,000 Freelands Foundation education award – The Art Newspaper
The winners the Freelands Award, a new awards scheme launched to help boost education projects at arts and…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #CityofLondon #awards #education #FreelandsAward #FreelandsFoundation #Funding #Prizes #prizesandcontests
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Belfast goes to Westminster to secure investment to drive the city’s ongoing transformation
Date: 8 September 2026
Category: City regeneration and development
Lord Mayor of…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Westminster #bcc #belfastcc #belfastcity #belfastcitycouncil #belfastcouncil #Funding #grants #investment
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https://www.europesays.com/people/220952/ Hungary to Launch New Rural Development Programme Covering 2,174 Settlements #development #funding #Government #Hungary #HungaryNews #Infrastructure #municipalities #PeterMagyar #rural #Tisza #villages
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… less land without accelerating the #climate crisis and provide people with tastier, more affordable & healthier meat. But none of these benefits will materialise if food innovations stay in the development phase—strategic use of public #funding to support private #investment is needed.
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… less land without accelerating the #climate crisis and provide people with tastier, more affordable & healthier meat. But none of these benefits will materialise if food innovations stay in the development phase—strategic use of public #funding to support private #investment is needed.
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… less land without accelerating the #climate crisis and provide people with tastier, more affordable & healthier meat. But none of these benefits will materialise if food innovations stay in the development phase—strategic use of public #funding to support private #investment is needed.
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Hungary to Launch New Rural Development Programme Covering 2,174 Settlements https://www.byteseu.com/2350147/ #development #funding #Government #Hungary #HungaryNews #INFRASTRUCTURE #municipalities #PeterMagyar #rural #Tisza #VILLAGES
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Booky McNooks: Orkney’s Portable Library Kits
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/?p=162668 EU announces $232 million deal with Greenland #EU #EuropeanUnion #funding #Greenland #news #politics #UrsulaVonDerLeyen
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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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Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390132
#HackerNews #Omacom #Foundation #Launches #with #$8M #omacomfoundation #launch #funding #news #techforgood
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If #schools don’t complete a review & terminate any arrangements deemed “problematic” in the next 2 weeks, they face losing #funding. The purported goal is to protect taxpayer-funded #research from theft & exploitation, the #Pentagon said.
“The Department of War has zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, said in a news release.
#Trump #law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #China
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"Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Meritocracy #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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“When you mix science and politics, you get politics:*…
Agronomist and political operator Trofim Lysenko (left, giving a speech at the Kremlin in 1935) and U.S.S.R. dictator Joseph Stalin (right) purged geneticists who did not renounce Mendelian genetics. A new funding framework proposed in the United States could similarly quell certain areas of scientific inquiry, many scientists and activists say.Tina Hesman Saey on a looming threat to the U.S…
Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political reprisals against those who opposed the views of dictator Joseph Stalin and his followers — and the dubious science they endorsed — led to the starvation of millions, as well as to decades of lost progress in fields from agriculture to molecular biology.
Now, scientists are warning that history could repeat itself — but in the United States.
A new proposal from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would put political appointees in charge of funding decisions traditionally overseen by scientists. In recent years, the federal government has funded about 40 percent of basic science research in the United States.
The OMB’s more than 400-page proposed rule change would let political appointees decide how to hand out federal research funds and who can get them. It would cut funding for collaboration with scientists in other countries and restrict scientists’ ability to communicate their findings. What’s more, it could prevent research on matters that President Donald Trump’s administration has deemed “not in the national interest” — such as studies on health disparities, mRNA-based vaccines and research that doesn’t recognize biological sex as a strict binary.
The new rules would also give OMB the power to rescind previously approved research funds. The proposal “poses a sweeping threat to federal grantmaking and the responsible stewardship of American taxpayer dollars,” the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science Foundation said in a report. In addition, it would impact nonscientific grants supporting services for mental health, housing, education, veterans and Tribal nations, affecting the health and well-being of millions.
So far, OMB has received more than 98,000 comments on the proposal. The public comment period closes July 13. It then will be up to OMB to decide whether to keep the rule as is, revise it or scrap it.
These far-reaching measures are already drawing parallels to dark moments in scientific history. Some researchers say the recent mass firings, policy changes and grant cancellations at federal research institutions, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, closely mirror what happened in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin. “A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science,” the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine wrote in June.
Its editorial invoked the example of Trofim Lysenko [see here], an agronomist and astute political operator who rose to power in the 1930s Soviet Union under Stalin.
Until the 1930s, “the Soviet Union was a real powerhouse in the field of genetics,” says Lee Dugatkin, an evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Then, Lysenko came along. “This guy was your sort of classic charlatan,” Dugatkin says. “He had the equivalent of a mail order degree in agriculture, but he was quite good with the press, and he started to basically spread this idea out there that he was capable of dramatically increasing crop yield, particularly wheat.”
Lysenko’s supposed innovation was a process called vernalization and amounted to soaking seeds in freezing water. The resulting plants — and all their offspring — should be resistant to the U.S.S.R.’s famously cold winters, Lysenko reasoned.
His reasoning was based on a disproven idea in evolutionary biology called Lamarckian inheritance. French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his followers thought that things an organism experiences in its lifetime can be handed down to the next generation. The classic example is a giraffe that has to stretch to reach leaves producing offspring with long necks.
This idea ran counter to Mendelian genetics, which holds that genes — not environmental influences — control traits and are passed to offspring. Mendelian geneticists thought it would take five years to breed more cold-tolerant crops. Lysenko said he could do it in two to three years.
Stalin didn’t have time to wait. He was trying to get collective farms going and needed to increase crop yields to feed more than 150 million people. Large parts of the country had already suffered from famine in 1932 and 1933 and about 6 million people died. Some resorted to cannibalism.
Stalin embraced Lysenko’s quick-fix approach. That decision, says Michael Gordin, a historian of science at Princeton University, was “something that the majority of people at the time, and everyone since, considers the wrong side of the dispute.”
Lysenko was put in charge of a prestigious genetics institute and forced his scientifically unsound farming practices on the collective farms. His methods were disastrous.
Soaking seeds in freezing water hampered germination, leading to crop losses. Millions starved. Meanwhile, Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs. Many were jailed, and almost a dozen were executed or died in prison.
The Soviet Union lost its scientific leadership role and sat on the sidelines for important scientific discoveries of the 1950s and beyond. One, Gordin says, was the development of “massively” productive hybrid corn. The country also missed out on the discovery of DNA and the advent of molecular biology, putting Soviet genetics decades behind the rest of the world.
Soviet genetics did not recover from Lysenko’s influence until after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gordin says. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who thinks that … Russia is today, or Ukraine, or any post-Soviet successor state, is a leading molecular biology country.”…
The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: “Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science,” from @thsaey.bsky.social in @sciencenews.bsky.social.
See also: Idiocracy
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As we remember the past so as not to repeat it, we might recall that it was on this date in 1834 that the Spanish Inquisition (finally) ended. Authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, the Inqusition was initially led by inquisitors (Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín) who were appointed by the future Catholic monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It was originally (ostensibly) intended primarily to identify heretics; its aim, to maintain Christian orthodoxy. But it became an effective instrument of state power by replacing the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.
Over its course, the Inquisition prosecuted an estimated 150,000 people for various offences. An estimated 3,000–5,000 were turned over to the state for execution, particularly in the initial 50 years, mostly by burning at the stake. Other punishments included penance and public flogging, exile, enslavement on galleys, and prison terms ranging from several years to life. In many of these punishments an important motive was the confiscation of all the victims’ property.
As Monty Python observed, “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” And nobody expected it to last 356 years.
Burning of heretics at stakes (auto-da-fé) in a marketplace during the Spanish Inquisition. (source) #agriculture #culture #funding #genetics #history #Lysenko #OfficeOfManagementAndBudget #OMB #politics #research #Science #scientificResearch #SpanishInquisition #Stalin -
A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).
The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.
* See the judge's ruling.
https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Memo-opinion.pdf* Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
https://www.historians.org/news/federal-judge-rules-to-restore-national-endowment-of-the-humanities-funding-in-historic-case/#DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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yes #china has overtaken many other countries that are lead by #money #finance #lobby #corrupt #politics because not most #competent get elected but most #corrupt = obviously sooner or later end of #democracy #germany #economy massive #trouble mainly #banks not #funding #innovation and #dieselskandal (aka #corruption) of #ceo like #winterkorn #vw "September 2024, #criminal trial against former #Volkswagen #CEO #Winterkorn #Braunschweig court halted defendant unfit trial due to illness" #wtf
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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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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 -
Let's see if today in specific, we can raise $150. Can we do that, Fedi, please?
This is for basic needs at the #Vulpibus.
We're using Atha's accounts to keep it all together.
PayPal sucks but it is currently the most functional method. https://PayPal.me/athamanatha
Cashapp: $athamanatha
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Venmo: @Athamanatha
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IBAN, ACH, Zelle, cash, other methods available on DM request.Also if anyone has any online or offline paid work for any of us, let us know. We have a variety of useful and applicable skills, from DIY to systems design, from art to writing, from electronics to farm work!
If anyone has $thousands to throw at making a bigger and more lasting change to our lives, we can make that into an effects multiplier with our work at @vulpinelabs - let's talk!
Yes, capitalism sucks. Please also consider ending this stupid system.#buslife
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