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‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget
Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower-income people
https://www.theguardia…

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way:
GOP governors.
Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation,
red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care
— even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar hole…

GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States - KFF Health News
In 2017, when President Donald Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors helped turn Congress against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, Republican governors — whose constituents stand to lose federal funding and health coverage — have gone quiet on the health consequences.

When your function expects a path fragment string as a parameter, you MUST specify, explicitly, if it should have a leading, trailing, or neither forward slash.
If you do not say *explicitly in the docblock of that exact function/method*, then you are wrong and your code is wrong and I will curse your name every time I am forced to use your broken code.
#Programming

Trump demands pharma companies slash drug prices in next 60 days (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5430571-trump-demands-pharma-companies-slash-drug-prices-in-next-60-days/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p109#a250731p109

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-3…

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

#GiftLink
DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44FHrsk

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later:
The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
👉 Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm election
To pay for the tax policies,
which confer their greatest benefits on the wealthy,
Republican lawmakers have looked to slash programs that are both popular and widely used,
discomfiting even some within their own ranks.
💥The savings from the safety net cuts still are not enough to of…

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.

US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-economy-trump-federal-reserve-68a15f89d68793a6cf88a522ff33246c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p62#a250801p62

Surprise, surprise.
This is not an industrial strategy.
Whatever it is, it isn't fit for the coming era of energy descent and ecosystem collapse.
Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ljnr

Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry
Plans to slash energy bills by up to 25% for over 7,000 UK businesses will be announced alongside other plans to boost growth.

Arago, which is developing a photonic chip, codenamed JEF, that is designed to cut AI energy use by ten times at a comparable cost, raised a $26M seed (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/08/arago-raises-2…

Arago raises $26M to slash AI energy consumption with breakthrough photonic chip
Arago, a deeptech startup pioneering a new class of energy-efficient AI chips powered by light, has raised $26 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its photonic processor, codenamed “JEF”. At the core of “JEF” is a proprietary photonic technology that processes data using lasers instead of transistors. By using photons, light particles that generate much less heat than electrons, this chip can deliver the same performance as top GPUs while consuming 10× less …

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

SLASH: Self-Supervised Speech Pitch Estimation Leveraging DSP-derived Absolute Pitch
Ryo Terashima, Yuma Shirahata, Masaya Kawamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17208 https://

SLASH: Self-Supervised Speech Pitch Estimation Leveraging DSP-derived Absolute Pitch
We present SLASH, a pitch estimation method of speech signals based on self-supervised learning (SSL). To enhance the performance of conventional SSL-based approaches that primarily depend on the relative pitch difference derived from pitch shifting, our method incorporates absolute pitch values by 1) introducing a prior pitch distribution derived from digital signal processing (DSP), and 2) optimizing absolute pitch through gradient descent with a loss between the target and differentiable DSP…

The IRS is rescinding layoffs at its civil rights office, an early target in its plans to slash its total headcount.
IRS Commissioner Billy Long, in a memo obtained by Federal News Network, told employees in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance that the agency is “reversing” reduction-in-force notices they received in April.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

Trump's plan to slash 'woke' foreign aid, NPR funds clears House as Senate battle looms (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-plan-slash-woke-foreign-aid-npr-funds-clears-house-senate-battle-looms
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p115#a250612p115

The trailing slash problem of #WebDAV is just an instance of how file systems are too weakly typed. Operations on a file system should come with clear expectations of what is being accessed, not #POSIX's wish-wash "it's a file-like thing so interact with it and that interaction might fail" …

Dozens of peaceful protestors, including disabled people in wheelchairs,
were arrested last Wednesday, June 25, in Washington, DC,
while protesting Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,”
which will slash taxes,
dramatically increase funding for war and immigration enforcement,
and make devastating cuts to vital, popular programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

‘These cuts are death sentences’: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ passes Senate
“These cuts are death sentences... If this bill is passed and its rules are codified, this will cause mass loss of insurance for many people in need for years to come."

Political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls
“the best research ecosystem in the world.”
Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia,
while others opted to stay in India.
As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas,
expel foreign students and slash spending on research,
scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarm…

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake to below 10% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its €4.1B Just Eat Takeaway deal (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…

According to a report published late Saturday night, the Senate version of the GOP budget bill would leave 💥 11.8 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.
Federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare would be reduced by more than💥 $1.1 trillion over that period
— with more than $1 trillion of those cuts coming from Medicaid alone.
The fresh estimates make official what many analysts had already predicted -- and some Republican lawmakers had feared.
The size an…

Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.

Plan to slash DHS intel office faces multi-front pushback - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/07/trump-admin-faces-multi-front-pushback-reported-plans-cut-most-dhs-intel-bureau/406563/

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-environmental-regulation-rollback
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p63#a250722p63

DOGE built an AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations,
with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration,

The tool, called the
“DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations
to determine which can be eliminated as they are no longer required…

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

NIH Director Struggles To Defend His Own Plan To Slash $18 Billion In Medical Research (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nih-director-struggles-defend-billions-budget-cuts_n_68433f27e4b004bd540a815a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p158#a250610p158

Polls show the so-called “big, beautiful” budget bill championed by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress
is becoming deeply unpopular
as more people learn about the deadly consequences of proposals to slash the health care safety net.
However, the legislation’s massive investment in Trump’s mass deportation campaign -- including billions of dollars to deploy 10,000 additional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents nationwide
has received far less attent…

Trump’s ICE Agents Are Arresting US Citizens. GOP Budget Would Hire 10,000 More.
Billions of dollars for ICE and border patrol in Trump’s budget bill would supercharge the chaotic crackdown.

Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which could limit low-income students' college access (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pell-grants-trump-cuts-rcna211715
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p77#a250608p77

The White House intends to send Capitol Hill a second request to claw back congressionally-approved funding
— this time💥 targeting the Department of Education,
according to a White House aide.
Less than a week after congressional Republicans approved the administration’s first rescissions package -- to slash $9 billion for public broadcast and foreign aid,
the White House aide said Tuesday that lawmakers would soon receive Trump’s next round of desired funding cuts to…

Overall #California officially tallies over 30,000 total job losses in first 4 months of year as #DJT admin economic policies took effect. Steepest #federal #employment

Bay Area hit hard by federal job cuts
The U.S. government’s quest to slash the federal workforce has jolted the job markets in California and the Bay Area.

House Republicans who voted to pass Donald Trump’s tax bill last week
💥know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion
🔥and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad.
And people already hate this law.
So instead of saying that,
Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for:
👉They just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!

The GOP’s New Lie After Cutting $1 Trillion From Medicaid: We Gave It More Money!
“We are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely said of Trump’s tax law, which will strip health care from millions.