Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge

Once More The Battle Ends up in the Court over Trump Administrative Overreach.

The ruling comes after Cambridge joined more than 30 other towns, cities, and counties in a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner. The lawsuit argues that adoption of certain policies “in exchange for Continuum of Care funds is an abuse of executive power and violates the Constitution and federal laws,” according to a city statement.

Just Posted On the Harvard Crimson

#News #Cambridge #MA #HUD #Funding #CourtOrder #SeparationOfPowers #Homelessness #ScottTurner

Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge | News | The Harvard Crimson

A federal judge granted Cambridge a second temporary restraining order on Friday against the Trump administration’s attempt to tie homelessness funds to compliance with executive orders the city says violate its Welcoming City Ordinance.

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The Human Virome Project is coming y’all!

Notices of Intent to Publish went out yesterday to announce 4 upcoming NIH funding opportunities:

1. Consortium Organization and Data Collaborating Center
2. Longitudinal characterization of the virome in cohorts
3. Tools for interrogation and annotation of the virome
4. Functional interactions between viruses, human, and microbial hosts

commonfund.nih.gov/humanvirome…

#NIH #funding #virome

Kdenlive fundraiser news: With only 3 days to go, we need one last push! We need just over 1,400 euros to reach our stretch goal of 20,000 euros.

All proceeds go to #funding development of new features and improving Kdenlive.

kdenlive.org/en/fund/

Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?

Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…

Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.

ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of…

#funding #tech #eu #commons

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament

A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

^{Aral Balkan}