Per Damkier

If only more people had read Greil Marcus on Elvis Costello in 1980!

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

The Trump Administration Has Been Sued 650 Times. Track These Cases.

Gift Article: Track These Cases. Here’s a snapshot of where the 650 lawsuits filed against tRump stand, highlighting district court cases where a judge has entered a final order for or against this regime. Many of those cases have been appealed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #PINKS

This video is a great one to watch.

Former intelligence member explains the Iranian/Epstein war. Daily.

#SheShed

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

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Demented sick fucks. All of them.

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

I Saturday I guess, so

FUCK PUTIN

Had to doublecheck the date on this

Well, no shit. I’ve been raising the alarm on this for years now

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

This piece has been updated yet again with the figure Matt Meck saying he was involved with the proposed Trump "national emergency" executive order.

Meck is a board member of the election denial organization Fight Voter Fraud, & is apparently QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's "chief of staff."

If Mandrola was really Prasad’s friend, he would have pulled him aside and told him to turn down the ridiculous antics. This is civil service, not social media. Take it seriously.

Do you want somebody to blame? Start with Russell Vought at OMB, Jay Bhattacharya, Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch at NIH. These are evil, small minded men. I hope one day they’re held accountable for the destruction of biomedical research in the United States.

Fun fact: U.S. taxpayers just spent $280 million on ICE raids in Minnesota. Out of 4,000 people detained, only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

That’s about $9.3 million per violent arrest. 👇🏾

Inside Russia's everyday manhunt of Ukrainians in Kherson At the moment the grey mass of radio static gives way to a clear image on the drone detector screen, the hunter still seems deceptively far away. Looking down on the central neighbourhood of Kherson...

"It's pure sadism," Dmytro, a Ukrainian commander of an electronic warfare unit defending the area, told the Kyiv Independent.

"Their pilots fly into the city, and if they don't see a military car, any car, or person, will do for them as a target, including civilian cars or ambulances."

OTD in 2024 Sweden was forced into NATO by the aggressive alliance. Stockholm looks wrecked compared to Mariupol's peaceful & voluntary joining of Russia.

I remain a master strategist.

He just lives in his own made up fictional reality where he is the Emperor of the World who can order other countries around and everyone bows and obeys.

Meanwhile over here on Earth 1, bombs are flying, people are dying, and everyone is worried the crazy man in the White House is starting WWIII.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

apnews.com/article/suic...

Counting the coverage: The UKs media war on trans rights Data reveals the scale of the UK media's focus on trans issues: 6,450 articles in 2025 and more than 1,146 in the first two months of 2026.

UK mainstream media published 6,500 articles about trans people in 2023. It published a similar number in 2025, almost none of which were written by trans people

Reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann & others like him becoming “experts” on The Jewish Question in 1930s Germany

AfD vor der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg: Was ein AfD-Direktkandidat so alles auf Telegram chattete Der taz liegen Chats des AfD-Kandidaten Sebastian Ruth vor. Der 20-Jährige leitete eine Telegram-Gruppe, in der gefordert wurde, „Asylheime anzuzünden“.

Der taz liegen Chats des AfD-Kandidaten Sebastian Ruth vor. Der 20-Jährige leitete eine Telegram-Gruppe, in der gefordert wurde, „Asylheime anzuzünden“.

Like clockwork.

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump 忄 Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, "Thank you President Trump." I have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East," they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump is totally deranged and a danger to the world.

President Trump's Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the evidence is piling up that, for this president, corruption is the rule, not the exception.

Trump’s second-term pardons are historic in their enormity—billions in fines erased, allies protected, donors rewarded, DOJ undermined, and election norms threatened. Corruption looks less like an exception and more like the rule, says Dan Greenberg.

https://ow.ly/JJBt50YqcXk

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

Del Bigtree thinks that

If all kids contract measles, they will be blessed with the “Ferrari of immunity, while the rest of us will be driving around in Ford Pintos.”

This is the absurdity we are dealing with and why healthcare costs are going to increase.

🧪 archive.today/rXoNL

Remember when Putin put bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan? Am I the only one who remembers this????