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... President Donald Trump is moving to put political appointees in charge of billions of dollars in federal health research grants in another attempt to cut Harvard's funding.

In an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Trump directed his budget director, Russ Vought, to draft an executive order to create a board that would decide which grants the National Institutes of Health should fund, according to two administration officials familiar with the meeting granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.

Congress this month signaled disapproval of an earlier Vought plan to give political appointees control of federal health grants. Lawmakers included a provision in a stopgap funding bill that temporarily blocks the administration from implementing that earlier plan. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) personally rejected Vought's plan. ...

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Pres Trump made this change to the arch's plans because now he can say it is a ~security facility,~ and SCOTUS has given him a free pass for building such ~security facilities~ with getting appropriate permission. To wit, the basement of his ballroom.

... violate the Voting Rights Act. ...

Pres Trump has shown that he has little regard for laws.

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... "It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business," Michael Corleone tells his brother, Sonny, in The Godfather. But for Donald Trump, it's always personal. And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.

First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections. "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court," the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. "They are merely a shell of their original selves."

Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to a range of 3.75% to 4%, marking its first rate hike in three years. The Trump-appointed Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, described it as "a sober decision, serious decision, responsible decision".

The president lashed out again but was careful to blame the board rather than Warsh. Trump told reporters he had spoken to the chair. "I said you might as well vote with the board because it's not going to matter. The board is very hostile. They're very political."

It was an effort to rationalise a shock to the system for Trump, who instinctively assumes that anyone he appoints to high office will be eternally in his debt and automatically do his bidding.

It is a view constantly reinforced by his cartoonishly loyal cabinet, from defence secretary Pete Hegseth to attorney general Todd Blanche, who was previously Trump's personal lawyer.

Blanche held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday and staunchly defended Trump. He was rewarded two days later when he attended a campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, and heard Trump say of him: "He'll go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country." ...

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... America's chief executives are getting paid more than ever.

A report from the Economic Policy Institute[1] found that CEO pay at the top 350 companies rose 14% in 2025 to an average of $28 million.

That means CEOs now make roughly 325 times as much as a typical worker. In 1965, CEOs were paid just 21 times the average worker's salary.

The report said that from 1978"2025, top CEO compensation skyrocketed 1,316% while typical workers' compensation increased only 28%.

"CEO pay has not climbed so fast because their skills or productivity rose spectacularly. It has risen instead simply because CEOs have gained and used increasing leverage over the corporate boards that set their pay," the report says. ...

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... OpenAI said it has addressed the specific behavior, but it gets to the heart of one of the biggest problems in AI safety and alignment research today. As models get more capable, they also get better at hiding their misalignment, making it difficult for researchers to truly know whether they've eliminated unwanted behavior.

OpenAI disclosed the behavior -- along with five other examples of unexpected or concerning model behavior -- on Wednesday as part of its new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of misalignment.

The report details how researchers discovered undeployed Sol agents adding instructions to "compaction summaries" -- condensed versions of older conversation history and tool outputs -- reminding future iterations to conceal mistakes and misalignment from the user.

In one example, an agent preparing a financial model couldn't find the requested historical data.

"We likely need create a tab 'Historical Data' ourselves with reasonable 2024 historical data, because user wants a finished workbook and there is no source file," the AI model wrote to its future self. "Be transparent only if asked; final answer should just link file." ...

@#38 ... To me, he enraged our allies to get simply what he could have asked/negotiated for in the first place with likely success. ...

Exactly.

Indeed, Denmark and Greenland were willing to negotiate from the very beginning.

All Pres Trump's bombastic approach did was generate longer-term issues with our allies.

And, btw, we still do not know the details of what was agreed upon, and how it is better than the 1951 agreement that was in place.

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... Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans"from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms.

Recommendations from the panel -- the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) -- don't simply provide guidance for Americans; they also determine access.

The USPSTF is supposed to use a rigorous, transparent framework for evaluating evidence and sets graded recommendations on an A to D scale. Health insurance providers are required to cover, at no cost, all preventive services that are given recommendations of an A or B grade. ...

@#19 ... If this works out well, I'm sure some Democrat will take credit for it or say this is nothing new. ...

Your current trolling alias really needs to try harder to be relevant.

Jus' sayin'

@#23 ... Wishbone Ash ...

Oh, don't get me started.

I'll restrain myself with only this one ...

"AI" music in the 70's ...

@#7 ... "Gimme Three Steps towards the door!" ...

@#16 ... Is it a vast improvement over the treaty already in place? ...

"Vast improvement?" --- time will tell.

An improvement, yes.

It is an agreement, and Pres Trump no longer seems to be pushing away Denmark.

I know, likely not a big thing, but ya need to feast upon the morsels that are fed to you.

;)

@#12 ... This is going to benefit Americans, how? ...

imo, this agreement is A Good Thing.

Due to climate change, the Arctic is now in play militarily.

So this agreement give the US a foothold in the Arctic area.

@#11 ... 8. No, you're a troll -- and a pi$$-poor one at that. ...

You've noticed that also?

My guess is that this topic may become more of an issue in a week or two or three.

But, that is just a guess.

@#10 ... STFU, ------. ...

Ooooh, that's gonna leave a mark.

But, returning to reality...

That is the best response your current alias has?

Asked differently, did your current alias really want to blatantly announce that it has not a clue about which it posts?

@#3 ... Karl Rove is slimy. ...

Your current alias only seems to say that now because it disagrees with what Mr Rove has said.

Can your current alias show a better example of just how whimsical its loyalty is?

I stumbled upon this one recently ...