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| 2025-01-30 |
| [PJMedia] Congratulations, taxpayers of America. Last year you spent more than $15 million on [checks notes] advanced concepts in yarn. Courtesy of DataRepublican (small r) — a data-crunching genius on X — there's now a searchable, online database of federal grants to nonprofits and NGOs. "Ever wonder exactly which government grants fund nonprofits? Now you can know—because I’ve cracked the code," DataRepublican explained in her X announcement on Monday. "Unlike older tools that only sift through nonprofit 990s (which don’t directly show government dollars), I’ve mined the USASpending database to create fuzzy matches between nonprofits and their linked government grants." She set it up so you can search by keyword, recipient, funding agency, and much more. Or you can do what I did this morning and be a jerk about it. I thought, "What is the most boring thing in the world and how much taxpayer money is Washington giving away on it this year?" "Yarn," I immediately decided. "Yarn is the most boring thing in the world." To me, that is — knitters, please take no offense. I'm sure you'd find my collection of Polish LEGO-knockoff WWII warships boring as heck, too. As it turned out, Americans — unbeknownst to 99.99% of us, I'm sure — will spend $16,500,001 on three yarn-related projects this year. The bulk of it, an even $15 million, went to something called The Industrial Commons on NSF engines.
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| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #2 /\ Payments to NGO's are a convenient congressional work-around. NGO's do NOT have to divulge the identity of their contributors. Money laundering at it's finest. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-30 07:12 |
| #1 look another 12.8 million working for the NGOs and almost entirely paid by tax dollars. That means %24 of US citizens work for the government! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2025-01-30 07:01 |