> The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research funding. The directive, issued with little explanation, has created chaos across the academic research ecosystem, part of a broader trend Nature described as an unprecedented assault.
Just normal budget cuts. Everyone, close your eyes and don't look at Columbia or Harvard or refusing foreign students (and requiring loyalty to the administration in your social media to be admitted) or deporting dissidents (now to South Sudan!)
And completely ignore that people are actively upset about the cuts to K-12, because it's not the focus of an article specifically about higher education. It's not like one of the top posts on HN when it happened was the announcement of killing the Department of Education. Or that the same people upset about the gutting higher education are upset about the voucher program designed to funnel taxpayer money to private and religious institutions while destroying the quality public education, furthering evermore the wealth gap.
You may even be shocked to find out that I also care about children and think they have an intrinsic right to food and that school lunches should be free and nutritious and tasty. If I don't include that in a footer on every post, will you accuse me of siding with Republicans - the party whose currently saying kids should get jobs while in primary school to pay for their food needs?
Utterly ridiculous and offensive.
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Someone already covered the prices thing.