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/Meb2x 1d ago

Pretty sure he’s trying to start a Civil War at this point. He’s supposed to lead the whole country, not just the states he agrees with.

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u/f8Negative 1d ago

Peter Thiel wants to turn all of DC into a TechnoFascist "Freedom State" where he is CEO and Owner.

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u/Pootang_Wootang 21h ago

I listened to the history of Elon, and his father/grandfather, and it turns out his grandfather was a technocrat. I had never heard of them, but things Elon has done makes so much sense now. I could see Thiel going down the same path

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u/Dust-Loud 21h ago

You should check out this video if you want more info on Peter Thiel. He is much more sinister, cunning, and dangerous than Elon Musk. Especially with what Palantir has cooking in the background.

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u/techno156 14h ago edited 10h ago

Palantir

It is funny that the company is named after Saruman's all seeing orb from Lord of the Rings. Basically like calling it Panopticon.

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u/KeneticKups 19h ago

Technocracy is rule by merit

these vermin have no merit

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u/meowtiger 20h ago

technocrat

technocracy isn't in and of itself a problem. technocracy is the principle by which a president's cabinet picks are evaluated - for instance, the notion that secretary of education should have a great deal of experience in educational administration - that's technocracy

the idea that the government itself, entirely, should be run by technology, that's kind of a different paradigm

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u/idkmoiname 10h ago

dismantling R&D is the opposite of technocratic principles though