Paul Schleifer posted Saturday at 8:47 a.m. that the U.S. embassy's $500,000 grants for British "public education" projects championing "limited government" and "ordered liberty" were not soft diplomacy. [1] "Forget soft diplomacy, this is a blatant ruse to export America First ideology to British civil society," he wrote, quoting the Guardian's Saturday file.

The notice, "Liberty Under Law: The Shared Anglo-American Tradition," is an open competition, not an awarded slate. [1] A grant envelope is not a collected duty. Schleifer's post is the Saturday X record the embassy notice produced: ruse, not reunion.

Replies on the same thread treated the money as obvious interference in plain sight. [1] That is discourse, not a signed check. The completed Saturday stage is a named ruse on a live notice.

The post quoted the Guardian's Saturday headline on $500,000 for public-education courses and called the scheme a ruse, not a reunion. [1] Replies on the thread flagged a separate reported $12 million package aimed at groups founded by Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young. Schleifer's own line stayed on the $500,000 notice. An open competition is not an awarded slate. Saturday's X record is the word ruse.

A ruse named on Saturday is not a pound collected. [1]

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York