Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

You think O's is dumb? You might not agree with his political stance but he's far from that. I don't agree with @DaDakota but I know he's not dumb. That's an unfair label to put on someone. @fchowd0311 is. He just hates everything

 

I'm talking about Ted Cruz. O's and I dont agree on some things but he is my meme bro.

 

, consider the source, Cancun Cruz

 

Gotcha. I don't like Ted Cruz either.

 

So now self-driving cars are "woke"? Musk, you are so fked.

Solar eclipses are woke? Protein is woke? God, you are so... I can’t go there.

Go to USAspending.gov and search for "women." Apparently, they’re all part of the "woke" agenda.

The political "anti-woke" movement has gone off the rails. It’s reached the absurdity of the Salem witch trials.


https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s...nce-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses

"For just a few minutes, it feels like the whole world stands still and yet everything changes," says Corinne Brevik, a physicist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The sky darkens, stars come out as the blaze of the sun's corona becomes visible. "It reminds me that we are all part of something so much bigger than ourselves."

But only a sliver of the country gets this firsthand view. For the 2024 eclipse, Brevik used money from a National Science Foundation grant to help middle schoolers host a live, interactive broadcast that brought together kids within the path of totality with those around the country outside the path. It meant thousands of students could share the experience.

"You can literally watch the kids watching the eclipse and hear that moment of 'Whoa!' " she says. "It got a lot of kids who wouldn't necessarily have had a chance to see it out to observe."

On Tuesday, Brevik was surprised to learn that her grant was one of over 3,400 NSF grants labeled by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as "woke DEI" research that may be advancing "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."

"It's frustrating," says Brevik. "The sole goal was to share what's happening with everybody. It's not propaganda; there's no background agenda. Our goal is to help educate our youth."

Brevik was one of many scientists expressing dismay at how their basic research was being labeled.

The list included projects aimed at finding better ways of synthesizing new medications; studying how to make self-driving vehicles safer; investigating how military service could help more women pursue science careers; figuring out why some proteins start to malfunction in ways that can lead to cancer.

"It's ludicrous," says Joshua Weitz, a biologist at the University of Maryland whose research was not flagged but who has received NSF grants. "[Cruz] is using his position as a senator to make a big noise about fundamental research and mis-categorizing what's going on in the research and technology sector in this country. If one looks at this list, you find things that we should absolutely be proud of funding."

Many of the research proposals that seem wholly unrelated to DEI were likely flagged because they included language about broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in science, Weitz says, something that Congress has mandated NSF consider in its grantmaking since the 1990s.

 

Daddy Trump has given permission to his minions to use the word WOKE on everything they hate. Even though they don't even know what it really means. It's corny y'all.

 

Okkkkayyy.... instead of just using the term "Woke" why don't you actually tell us exactly what those grants were used for, and where the Biden administration broke the law, or was fraudulent with the money spent??

This is also why the "50 million billion trillion Dollars for Condoms for the Taliban... err I mean Hamas.... errrggg!!!!" lies affect things. Now we have no way of knowing if this is just a political smear lie like the condoms for Hamas thing, or if there was an actual fraudulent occurrence that took place at the direction of Joe Biden.

Tell me the facts. Tell me the laws.... then I'll care. I DO NOT CARE about whatever grandstanding woke this woke that crap that Ted Cruz blabs on about.

@Os Trigonum .... since you follow, and are a supporter of Ted Cruz, maybe you could enlighten us on what precisely this means, and what laws were broken?

 

Label anything as woke, and you can get the MAGA mob on your side, they won't even bother to check.

 

This link is in the OP.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/202...ons-from-scientific-research-to-dei-activists

 

He does but the statement here and examples does not actually cite fraud, or laws that were broken. He merely gives examples of money spent on things Ted Cruz does not politically agree with, or grants that were given where there are people involved who have said things that Ted Cruz does not politically agree with.

So I'm just confused here about what laws were broken or where there was fraud. Since Os obviously is a fan of Ted Cruz, I'm just wondering if he can educated us stupid woke liberals cucks.

 

To be fair he isn't alleging fraud, he is alleging waste.

Edit: the debate is are these projects beneficial to science

 

I think you mistook the tone of OPs commentary, and then called yourself a stupid woke liberal cuck which is rough, but at least it is Valentine’s Day.

 

Totally. I knew you were a Beto supporter. My mistake.

 

Without going into depth of any of this, I can only say I am not in favor of qualitative studies unless they are used to help create a qualitative framework for actually setting up empirical findings. Race is so hard to study unless you have scale and can control for a ton of variables. But there is enough to justify the research into race and how it impacts interactions.