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<\/a><\/p>\nNature: 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world<\/a><\/h2>\nOzempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier \u2014 the very types of study being slashed by the US government.<\/p>\n
Under President Donald Trump, the US government is gutting scientific research<\/a>. The National Institutes of Health has cut almost US$2 billion of grants<\/a> that were already approved, and the National Science Foundation has terminated more than 1,400 grants<\/a>. And the president has even bigger plans to eviscerate science. His proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would cut non-defence-related research and development by 36%.<\/p>\n\u201cThey have cancelled wholesale a wide variety of research efforts in midstream,\u201d says John Holdren at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was the science adviser to former president Barack Obama during both his terms. \u201cThey intend to now solidify it with cuts in the budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cancelled and threatened research is a mixture of \u2018applied\u2019 work that has stated applications, which can be commercial in nature, and \u2018basic\u2019 or \u2018blue skies\u2019 research, intended to develop new knowledge.
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\n(Nature more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 3, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nO\u2019Donnell noted that the Trump family has thrown itself into cryptocurrency ventures, forming World Liberty Financial with the family of Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East. In that context, she asked about billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Binance. Zhao is cryptocurrency\u2019s richest man. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering, resigned from Binance, paid a $50 million fine, and was sentenced to four months in prison.<\/p>\n
Trump pardoned him on October 23.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donnell noted that the U.S. government said Zhao \u201chad caused \u2018significant harm to U.S. national security,\u2019 essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around.\u201d She asked the president, \u201cWhy did you pardon him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, are you ready?\u201d Trump answered. \u201cI don\u2019t know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. And what I wanna do is see crypto, \u2018cause if we don\u2019t do it it\u2019s gonna go to China, it\u2019s gonna go to\u2014this is no different to me than AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sons are involved in crypto much more than I\u2014me. I\u2014I know very little about it, other than one thing. It\u2019s a huge industry. And if we\u2019re not gonna be the head of it, China, Japan, or someplace else is. So I am behind it 100%. This man was, in my opinion, from what I was told, this is, you know, a four-month sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
After he went on with complaints about the Biden administration\u2014he would mention Biden 42 times in the released transcript\u2014O\u2019Donnell noted, \u201cBinance helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of the Trump family\u2019s World Liberty Financial\u2019s stablecoin. And then you pardoned [Zhao].\u201d She asked him: \u201cHow do you address the appearance of pay for play?\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump answered: \u201cWell, here\u2019s the thing. I know nothing about it because I\u2019m too busy doing the other\u2026.\u201d …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJudd Legum: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Bloomberg: Alaska permafrost put at risk by climate change<\/a><\/h2>\nOn a blustery day in August, a team of five scientists watched with perverse fascination as saltwater from the Arctic Ocean lapped over the tundra of Alaska\u2019s Prudhoe Bay. They\u2019d spent more than a year studying the phenomenon that\u2019s increasingly common as land ice melts, but had never witnessed it firsthand. <\/p>\n
The thrill of catching the moment belied the planetary stakes of the scene. The Arctic tundra beneath the researchers\u2019 feet \u2014 specifically, the frozen layer known as permafrost \u2014 is a crucial part of the Earth\u2019s delicate climate balance. Over thousands of years, this permanently frozen band has locked away 1.4 trillion tons of carbon, roughly twice what\u2019s currently in the atmosphere. Frozen, that carbon poses no threat. But after millennia of stability, global warming is raising the risk that the store turns into a source of emissions instead.
\n(Bloomberg more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Terrence Goggin: Trump\u2019s racist origin is in the battle over \u201creconstruction\u201d in the post Civil War South; General Grant and President Johnson fought over it. Johnson lost. It reverberates to this day<\/a><\/h2>\nPart 3. General Grant refused a direct presidential order to disobey the Reconstruction Act setting a profound precedent and lighting tinder that still enflames
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James Eagle: We only call it a bubble after it bursts<\/a><\/h2>\nWe only ever see the outlines of a bubble when we\u2019re already inside it. The signs are there, the language softens, the optimism feels rational \u2013 until it doesn\u2019t. The dot-com boom offered a clear example: journalists spoke of a \u201cbubble\u201d only after it burst. Today\u2019s market, buzzing with AI-fuelled euphoria, may be setting the stage for another lesson in hindsight.
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Your Local Epidemiologist: Fall back, quiet respiratory season, SNAP expiration and good news<\/a><\/h2>\nThis week, we\u2019re talking about falling back<\/em> (literally and figuratively). From SNAP beneficiaries missing payments on November 1, to falling back on our broken health care system as open enrollment begins, to the time change messing with our health, a lot is shifting. We\u2019re also flying a bit blind when it comes to respiratory disease data, but I\u2019ve pieced together the best snapshot I can from different sources. There\u2019s also always some good news to share!
\n(Your Local Epidemiologist more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNewsNation: Trump admin says it will provide partial November SNAP benefits<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Liz Dye: Another Day, Another Fake MAGA Prosecutor<\/a><\/h2>\nOn Friday, the Trump Justice Department got a very unwelcome treat from Judge Lorna Schofield. No, not a Bit-O-Honey! It was an unsealing order<\/a> in federal court in New York. The DOJ tried every trick in the book to hide its harassment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, but the judge unwrapped the case anyway.
\n(Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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BBC: Israeli military’s ex-top lawyer arrested over leak of video allegedly showing Palestinian detainee abuse<\/a><\/h2>\nThe former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested, as a political showdown deepens over the leaking of a video that allegedly shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers.
\n…<\/p>\n
“I approved the release of material to the media in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army’s law enforcement authorities,” she said.<\/p>\n
That is a reference to efforts by some right-wing political figures in Israel to claim that the allegations of severe abuse of the Palestinian detainee had been fabricated.<\/p>\n
She added: “It is our duty to investigate whenever there is reasonable suspicion of acts of violence against a detainee.”
\n(BBC more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Allison Gill: A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith’s Final Report<\/a><\/h2>\nSarah Jones & Jason Easley: Republicans Have A Massive Jack Smith Problem<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Al Jazeera: Israeli air strike kills four in Lebanon, straining fragile ceasefire<\/a><\/h2>\nIsrael has carried out regular attacks on southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed with Hezbollah last November.<\/p>\n
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Decoding Fox News: Trump – CBS 60 Minutes Interview – What Was and Wasn’t Included in the Broadcast<\/a><\/h2>\nThis includes the full transcript – including questions and answers that did not appear on “60 minutes”<\/p>\n
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Borowitz: How Hardcore is Pee-Wee German?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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America – The Jesuit Review: JD Vance\u2019s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\u201cThey have cancelled wholesale a wide variety of research efforts in midstream,\u201d says John Holdren at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was the science adviser to former president Barack Obama during both his terms. \u201cThey intend to now solidify it with cuts in the budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cancelled and threatened research is a mixture of \u2018applied\u2019 work that has stated applications, which can be commercial in nature, and \u2018basic\u2019 or \u2018blue skies\u2019 research, intended to develop new knowledge. … Trump pardoned him on October 23.<\/p>\n O\u2019Donnell noted that the U.S. government said Zhao \u201chad caused \u2018significant harm to U.S. national security,\u2019 essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around.\u201d She asked the president, \u201cWhy did you pardon him?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, are you ready?\u201d Trump answered. \u201cI don\u2019t know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. And what I wanna do is see crypto, \u2018cause if we don\u2019t do it it\u2019s gonna go to China, it\u2019s gonna go to\u2014this is no different to me than AI.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sons are involved in crypto much more than I\u2014me. I\u2014I know very little about it, other than one thing. It\u2019s a huge industry. And if we\u2019re not gonna be the head of it, China, Japan, or someplace else is. So I am behind it 100%. This man was, in my opinion, from what I was told, this is, you know, a four-month sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n After he went on with complaints about the Biden administration\u2014he would mention Biden 42 times in the released transcript\u2014O\u2019Donnell noted, \u201cBinance helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of the Trump family\u2019s World Liberty Financial\u2019s stablecoin. And then you pardoned [Zhao].\u201d She asked him: \u201cHow do you address the appearance of pay for play?\u201d<\/p>\n Trump answered: \u201cWell, here\u2019s the thing. I know nothing about it because I\u2019m too busy doing the other\u2026.\u201d … On a blustery day in August, a team of five scientists watched with perverse fascination as saltwater from the Arctic Ocean lapped over the tundra of Alaska\u2019s Prudhoe Bay. They\u2019d spent more than a year studying the phenomenon that\u2019s increasingly common as land ice melts, but had never witnessed it firsthand. <\/p>\n The thrill of catching the moment belied the planetary stakes of the scene. The Arctic tundra beneath the researchers\u2019 feet \u2014 specifically, the frozen layer known as permafrost \u2014 is a crucial part of the Earth\u2019s delicate climate balance. Over thousands of years, this permanently frozen band has locked away 1.4 trillion tons of carbon, roughly twice what\u2019s currently in the atmosphere. Frozen, that carbon poses no threat. But after millennia of stability, global warming is raising the risk that the store turns into a source of emissions instead. Part 3. General Grant refused a direct presidential order to disobey the Reconstruction Act setting a profound precedent and lighting tinder that still enflames We only ever see the outlines of a bubble when we\u2019re already inside it. The signs are there, the language softens, the optimism feels rational \u2013 until it doesn\u2019t. The dot-com boom offered a clear example: journalists spoke of a \u201cbubble\u201d only after it burst. Today\u2019s market, buzzing with AI-fuelled euphoria, may be setting the stage for another lesson in hindsight. This week, we\u2019re talking about falling back<\/em> (literally and figuratively). From SNAP beneficiaries missing payments on November 1, to falling back on our broken health care system as open enrollment begins, to the time change messing with our health, a lot is shifting. We\u2019re also flying a bit blind when it comes to respiratory disease data, but I\u2019ve pieced together the best snapshot I can from different sources. There\u2019s also always some good news to share! On Friday, the Trump Justice Department got a very unwelcome treat from Judge Lorna Schofield. No, not a Bit-O-Honey! It was an unsealing order<\/a> in federal court in New York. The DOJ tried every trick in the book to hide its harassment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, but the judge unwrapped the case anyway. The former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested, as a political showdown deepens over the leaking of a video that allegedly shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers. “I approved the release of material to the media in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army’s law enforcement authorities,” she said.<\/p>\n That is a reference to efforts by some right-wing political figures in Israel to claim that the allegations of severe abuse of the Palestinian detainee had been fabricated.<\/p>\n She added: “It is our duty to investigate whenever there is reasonable suspicion of acts of violence against a detainee.” Israel has carried out regular attacks on southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed with Hezbollah last November.<\/p>\n This includes the full transcript – including questions and answers that did not appear on “60 minutes”<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Nature: 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier \u2014 the very types of study being slashed by the US government. Under President Donald Trump, the US government is gutting scientific research. 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\n(Nature more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 3, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nO\u2019Donnell noted that the Trump family has thrown itself into cryptocurrency ventures, forming World Liberty Financial with the family of Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East. In that context, she asked about billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Binance. Zhao is cryptocurrency\u2019s richest man. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering, resigned from Binance, paid a $50 million fine, and was sentenced to four months in prison.<\/p>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJudd Legum: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBloomberg: Alaska permafrost put at risk by climate change<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Bloomberg more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nTerrence Goggin: Trump\u2019s racist origin is in the battle over \u201creconstruction\u201d in the post Civil War South; General Grant and President Johnson fought over it. Johnson lost. It reverberates to this day<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Terrence Goggin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJames Eagle: We only call it a bubble after it bursts<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nYour Local Epidemiologist: Fall back, quiet respiratory season, SNAP expiration and good news<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Your Local Epidemiologist more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNewsNation: Trump admin says it will provide partial November SNAP benefits<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLiz Dye: Another Day, Another Fake MAGA Prosecutor<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBBC: Israeli military’s ex-top lawyer arrested over leak of video allegedly showing Palestinian detainee abuse<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n(BBC more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAllison Gill: A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith’s Final Report<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Jones & Jason Easley: Republicans Have A Massive Jack Smith Problem<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAl Jazeera: Israeli air strike kills four in Lebanon, straining fragile ceasefire<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDecoding Fox News: Trump – CBS 60 Minutes Interview – What Was and Wasn’t Included in the Broadcast<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nBorowitz: How Hardcore is Pee-Wee German?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAmerica – The Jesuit Review: JD Vance\u2019s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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