@scalzi.com just got the notification from Goodreads about 3 days, 9 hours, 27 years. Any chance libraries will ever see this or is it Amazon exclusive?

1. Congress appropriates: Fiscal year 2025 budget levels were set on March 15, 2025 ($9 billion for NSF). 2. OMB apportions: Russ Vought decides when to send NSF appropriated funds 3. Agencies spend: NSF spends down (e.g., make new awards) by end of fiscal year (September 30).

🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year.

This move is:

-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress

It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).

🧵 Let's unpack...

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200/subpart-D/subject-group-ECFR86b76dde0e1e9dc/section-200.342

🧪 I just saw a specific NSF grant termination letter and it is FUCKING WILD.

The letter said "not subject to appeal", which is a **blatant** violation of NSF's own policies and broader cross-agency regulations (regulation below): www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

NSF just opened itself up to lawsuit.

Today would be a great day for history to repeat itself.

NSF fact sheet

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I spent 2024 reading the OMW series. I’m super excited for this. (I think 13/14 books I read last year were by you.)