WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded a $10 ​billion freeze on child care subsidies and ‌social services funding for five states governed by Democrats after legal obstacles got in the way of ​the freeze attempts, court records[https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886/gov.uscourts.nysd.655886.119.2.pdf], showed on Monday. Here ​are details:

• The Department of Health and Human ⁠Services communicated to officials in California, Illinois, ​Colorado, New York and Minnesota that it was ​rescinding its January 5 and January 6 letters to the states, including all data requests and information requirements ​associated with those letters.
• A legal filing on ​Monday released the communication, which said that the mechanism that ‌the ⁠department used to enforce the temporary restricted drawdowns has been terminated.
• A federal judge blocked the move earlier this year for the duration of a ​lawsuit against ​the freeze ⁠brought by the states. Republican President Donald Trump has threatened to freeze federal ​funding for universities, research institutions and ​states ⁠over a range of issues.
• These include fraud claims, climate initiatives, diversity programs, transgender policies and pro-Palestinian protests against U.S. ⁠ally Israel’s ​assault on Gaza.
• Rights advocates say ​the measures violate free speech and due process rights.

Reporting by ​Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus

the anti vax get upset that they’re being “quizzed” on their own citations

In any other “examine the evidence” space this should be a self-exile in disgrace

Trump and Musk?

I don’t remember much but it was either “they didn’t read their own citations” or they “didn’t prepare for the prompt”

Not Good

That’s a grower

This story repeats and repeats every time. We will learn how to deal with these technologies as we have every time.

Printing press was a bitch for information control but no one disputes the positive effect it eventually had. Writing, telephone, etc etc.

For our information environment, people will eventually have to start realizing that a third of posts are bots, and another third are people who have no interest in the reader’s well being.

Perhaps eventually a news organization funded by micro donations might rise up. Or we start appending reliability tags to posts [this poster is completely anonymous, this poster gave their full identity, this poster is using a pseudonym and is confirmed to live in the UK, this poster is using a pseudonym and is confirmed to live in Ethiopia and has been banned by several moderation services.