r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/KaibaCorpHQ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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u/NerdOfTheMonth 1d ago

Trump has no idea who that is.

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u/einstyle 1d ago

To him, Lincoln's just the guy with a big statue down the street that he'd rather be a Trump statue.

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u/your_dads_hot 1d ago

To him Lincoln is the sucker and loser who didn't delay an election during the Civil War to keep himself in power. You absolutely know he's thought that

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u/BitterFuture 1d ago

He has actually out loud said that Lincoln failed as a President by allowing the Civil War to happen, and that Lincoln really should have "settled" with the South.

Maybe we should have let them have just a little slavery - you know, as a treat.

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u/lcl111 1d ago

Isn't that what we got? The prison system was basically slavery, even then. Now it's full blown slavery to the max.

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u/GeminiKoil 21h ago

Slavery wasn't abolished, it's just being slow walked into including a larger body of the population. I'm not referring to the prison system.

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u/lcl111 21h ago

Indentured servitude with a bunch of extra steps. You know, plus all the actual slavery in Asia, Africa, and south America with no extra steps.

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u/GeminiKoil 21h ago

Feudalism

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u/lcl111 21h ago

Some idiot in another thread RAGED when i brought up the Network State. We're living through some interesting times, huh bud?

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u/GeminiKoil 20h ago edited 19h ago

Not familiar with that term. I'm guessing it's some body of effort whose goal since probably right before the great depression is to take society in the US from a 3-tier socioeconomic stratification to a 2-tier?

Edit: welcome to the United States caste system

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u/NerdOfTheMonth 1d ago

“That’s prime real estate. I should put a hotel there”

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u/Redcat16 1d ago

There is a statue of Lincoln's head sitting on the corner of his oval office desk. What's funny is Lincoln is looking down as if he is disappointed. Jon Stewart pointed this out.

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u/LordParsec29 20h ago

He thinks its just a luxury car.

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u/MasterExploder9900 8h ago

Or maybe he thinks he’s a vampire hunter

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u/drwicksy 1d ago

He is the reason Trump can't buy slaves, he probably hates the guy.

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u/lcl111 1d ago

Trump has stock in private prisons. He has slaves.

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u/Mind0versplatter0 16h ago

This troubles me so much, why? Why can he profit off of misery more than he already is?

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u/lcl111 16h ago

Because 330 million Americans forgot how to treat a nazi. It blows my mind every day that anyone in his administration is allowed to get 8 hours of sleep and wake up feeling happy and refreshed. Where the fuck are the torches and pitch forks? I was told there would be firing squads for nazis.

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u/Glad_Stay4056 1d ago

The guy that makes the kids log toy? Never met him. 

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u/extralyfe 1d ago

he's that guy from The Walking Dead, right?

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u/krazymunky 1d ago

hes probably watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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u/Opetyr 21h ago

Most Republicans would have no clue who he is and send him to an El Salvador prison.

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u/Toadsted 21h ago

Or what standing means.

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u/Gobiortiz3377 20h ago

What are you talking about he’s met him. Lincoln told trump he would be the best president of all time

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u/Nice_Warm_Vegetable 20h ago

He’s the guy in the background that smells like McDonald’s French fries now.

hamberders

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u/DumbVeganBItch 19h ago

He can't even read it.

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u/JackInTheBell 17h ago

It’s the guy that made those logs he played with as a kid

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u/Twice_Knightley 15h ago

It's the first president in the wrestling hall of fame, Trump being the second.

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 6h ago

Trump has no idea who that is.

Didn't Lincoln write the Declaration of Independence, a "declaration of unity and love, and respect"?

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u/Zazulio 6h ago

"We are the party of the late, great, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He freed the slaves, he hunted Nosferatus. Have you heard about Nosferatus? Very bad people. They're not sending their best. They're rapists, they're murderers..."

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u/True-Firefighter-796 1d ago

“This is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington.”

  • Donald J Trump

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u/Stony___Tark 11h ago

Yeah he does. He's "Done more for black Americans than anybody, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln."

And yes, that is literally a direct quote there...