I've had a change of dreams, I'm coming home

(not holding a gun at all): why don't we all put our guns down?

Duster S1 EP08: 66 Reno Split

This rule does not just affect scientists or universities. It affects the programs that millions of Americans depend on every day, including Medicaid, Head Start, school lunches, housing assistance, food banks, and community health centers. In FY2024, the federal government sent $1.1 trillion in grants to states and communities. Every dollar of it would be subject to these new rules.

The proposed rule would:

• Allow political appointees to cancel active grants at any time, with no meaningful appeal

• Require grant programs to align with the President’s policy priorities, not scientific merit or community need

• Embed prohibitions on DEI activities as material breach conditions in all federal awards

• Ban research into health and economic disparities

• Allow denial of grants based on an organization’s affiliations or views deemed ‘un-American’

• Restrict science communication and public health outreach as ‘issue advocacy’

Public comments close July 13, 2026.

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

YES