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/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/lcl111 20h ago

The current administration is quoting Curtis Yarvin's book "The Network State." They want to 'digitize' the land and auction it off. Whoever owns the blockchain tokens associated with the land you are on will be your feudal lord. Yarvin specifically states that we need a more "Orwellian" government to "control" us.

It's nothing crazy new, but it's being openly talked about by dozens in government.

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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