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Comments Flood OMB Proposal to Cement Political Control of Grants 
 
 Among other changes, the proposal from the Office of Management and Budget says political appointees, not peer reviewers, would be the primary deciders of who gets grants, and says officials could yank funding even after it’s awarded and research or another project has begun. Opponents in and outside higher ed say the…
Christine Lemmer-Webber: What happened to the fight for the Internet? 
 
 Net neutrality, SOPA... these battles for internet freedom had massive buy-in across the internet. 2012's Wikipedia blackout was especially memorable. It wasn't just the tech engineers of the world in that fight; family and friends who had never thought about the technical underpinnings of the internet were asking me…
I'm not sure where I first heard about Scott Galloway's Resist and Unsubscribe campaign but it has gotten some media attention . Today I've unsubscribed from: 
 
 Netflix 
 Youtube TV 
 Youtube Premium 
 Spotify 
 
 I think that covers all of the ways I was giving money directly to Big Tech. 
 I'm mindful of Cory Doctorow's warnings that "voting with your wallet"…
ABC has a contact form for show feedback. This is the message I sent: 
 
 I am writing to express my deep disappointment and outrage at the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. By bowing to FCC pressure and silencing one of the most prominent voices in late-night television, you have chosen to cave to authoritarianism rather than stand for free expression and the independence of the press. 
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Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall: It’s Not You. It’s the Food. 
 
 The Trump administration seems to agree to an extent. On Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy released a new report from the Make America Healthy Again commission, which correctly identified the rise in diet-related chronic disease as being driven by a food environment that is increasingly composed of highly processed foods. But instead of…
Robust US economy may not need Trump's big reforms 
 
 "Success for the Trump administration would be to do no harm to the exceptionally performing economy it is inheriting," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. On their face, the planned combination of tariffs, deportations, and deficit-funded tax cuts "will do harm. How much ... depends on how aggressively these…
Jacobin: How Big Oil Made It Harder to Fight the Los Angeles Fires 
 
 The new report, released Wednesday by the Climate Center, a think tank focused on California climate solutions, details how oil and gas companies and their allies used campaign donations, lobbying dollars, and legal pressure to establish a tax loophole that allows corporations to reduce their taxable state income by…
Larry Lessig and Maia Cook analyzed what would have happened in the 2022 election if people under 40 had voted at the same rate as people 65+. 
 


 While meat-based options remain available, the two daily Chef’s Specials are now always plant-based. So far, the program has been hugely successful, with over half of patients opting for the plant-based dishes and 95% saying they were satisfied with their choice. 
 
 
 Initially, the plant-based meals were only offered at lunchtimes, but they have proved so popular that the…
Guardian: Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds 
 
 The report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that, for each dollar, investment in improving and scaling up the production of meat and dairy alternatives resulted in three times more greenhouse gas reductions compared with investment in green cement technology, seven times more than green buildings…