I guess FfvC got talking points from Vlad during his bday chat.
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Fine. If Putin surrenders he can join.
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Yoinked for a couple of other platforms that I comment on.
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Trump with Mark Carney: “The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in…”
Well, actually…
It was Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper who pushed for Russia’s expulsion from the G8 after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
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Well, Drumpf never let facts get in his way of disparaging the black guy or the handsome guy.
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“This has nothing to do with political party,” Johnson said in a statement. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”
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here’s some apparently very good news for scientific research and social equity all in one:
US judge declares Trump’s cuts to NIH grants ‘illegal’
Federal judge on bench for 40 years lambasts grant terminations as ‘racist’ and anti-LGBTQ.
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A Massachusetts federal judge has declared that cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants made by the administration of US President Donald Trump are “illegal” and “void,” and ordered that many of the grants be restored.
In a ruling issued on Monday, Judge William Young vacated the terminations that began in late February and said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily cancelling more than $1bn in research grants because of their perceived connection to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Young told the court there could be little doubt the cuts represent “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community”, according to quotes published on X by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney.
In April, a group of researchers sued the NIH, saying hundreds of critical research projects were halted due to an “ideological purge”. The plaintiffs argued that the reasons given for the terminations – connections with “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “gender identity” – were vague and lacking in concrete explanation.
Terminated grants included programmes focusing on women, racial minorities and the health of health of gay, lesbian and transgender people, but also included studies on cancer, youth suicide and bone health. The government has argued that the court lacks jurisdiction and that the NIH has discretion to set its own priorities. …
no doubt the trumpies will appeal this to the supreme court, but it’s really refreshing to see these rights explicitly addressed at a federal court level during these dark times
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Now do USAID!
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Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he’s never seen such discrimination in 40 years
U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration’s process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.
In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed.
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The view in front of him. No wonder he sat through it looking like a 3 year old forced to miss nap time.
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Same.
I thought it was a Canadian brand, but current ownership is a private equity group 
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“In November of 2023, private equity firm Centre Lane Partners acquired the appliance division of Instant Brands, restructuring it to emerge from bankruptcy in March of 2024 as a stand-alone company called Instant Pot Brands” (per Wikipedia)
ETA I owe @Dr_Faustus a cold fizzy beverage 
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Worst birthday party ever
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Heh, you caught the best part!
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Is that a real image? Because it rather looks like Bernie sat opposite in the classic Bernie pose from another image.
ETA - oops - non-USian orange fizzy beverages for @theophrastus
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Well okay, the weather really wasn’t right for Bernie to be dressed that way.
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