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by hnuser123456 15 days ago
The 28th amendment was affirmed by Biden near the end of his term, which states that the "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." DEI programs that offer benefits only to women are unconstitutional.
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daheza 15 days ago
They cut much more than DEI programs. They aggressively and ignorantly cut jobs and grants which could have benefited the planet and saved lives.

https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA?Ffj...

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yandie 15 days ago
This government thinks bike lanes are DEI: https://newrepublic.com/post/212853/donald-trump-transportat...

They just slap DEI on any policy they disagree with.

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0xy 15 days ago
NIH funded gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan via grants issued to EcoHealth Alliance. Which, even if you do not think lab leak theory is likely, is extremely reckless and incompetent.

So, at best, they're funding illegal research. At worst, their research inadvertently led to millions of deaths and trillions in economic damage.

Exactly how many grants are necessary to make up for that, and why would you trust the agency issuing grants for illegal research to manage such a program?

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thunderfork 15 days ago
>NIH funded gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan

Even this assertion is heavily, heavily disputed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210706065130/https://www.washi...

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0xy 15 days ago
Disputed by the person who approved the funding and has a major conflict of interest? The research clearly qualifies as gain-of-function, as natural viruses' functions were modified.

>Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and a critic of gain-of-function research, told the Washington Post that the EcoHealth/Wuhan lab research “was — unequivocally — gain-of-function research.” He said it “met the definition for gain-of-function research of concern under the 2014 Pause.”.

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thunderfork 14 days ago
From the article text of its conclusion:

"the EcoHealth funding was not related to the experiments, but the collection of samples."

Pretty cut and dry?

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