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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

Tried twice to post a story on FB from @miamiherald.com about the news story of racist Republican chat, and it wasnt visible after i posted it

The Golden Age of So Much Winning. bsky.app/profile/fact...

He’s such a loser

National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

"A New York Times analysis shows the stunning velocity at which the fortunes of the 1 percent have increased across the country since President Trump first took office in 2017. The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120 percent." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

I’m so happy to be able to have this piece from @ongamesjournal.bsky.social on the site, one of the most enjoyable I’ve ever worked on. One of those that starts as one idea, then you pull at the thread and it unfurls into another. Ft. the wonderful @tahk0.bsky.social and @drlavadykg.bsky.social.

He’s not running again is he?

From invasions and internal revolts to strikes on its leadership, Iran’s theocratic regime has survived for almost half a century through countless crises and foreign interventions.

Read our explainer on the complex regime here: ft.trib.al/nbKeWHO

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.”
Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer!
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We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to infiltrate the justice system New Epstein files emails show how Epstein tried to cultivate relationships with prosecutors and others involved in his case

NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

To add, they really are square-peg-in-round-hole these use cases for AI. They are going to have to manufacture demand in a lot of areas

As a former drive through worker, I hate this for them so much.

Even in the age of dinosaurs when I worked fast food, management put those with fast processing speeds on drive though because you have to simultaneously take in so many streams of information. Imagine a digital voice bleeping at you

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

This is the way

Baby #3 came today 🙏🏽🙏🏽

I also wrote this for @damemagazine.bsky.social!

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: An @npr.org investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

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For sure

Honestly, this is along the lines of what I was thinking. Tics (to my understanding) are heuristic and associative. I dont feel comfortable adjudicating this about the guy individually, when we live in a culture of anti-blackness. The n-word sits on tongues structurally.

“I Am Not Your Doll”: Ayanami Rei, Anime Girls, and the Paradox of Emptiness You can read the first essay in this series here. This essay will be reworked into a book I’m writing about EVA.

#Evangelion medium.com/otaku-tribun...

Shinji’s War: The Masculine Self and the Feminine Other Note: the scope of this essay will be about the series (Episodes 1 through 26) and The End of Evangelion film, both media texts as seen on…

Have had to table it for life reasons, but I'm writing a book of essays on Neon Genesis Evangelion. Here a taste of one of the chapters. Other article in thread medium.com/otaku-tribun...

crazy self own

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort.

The snowiest of flakes.

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

I never look for it, it just pops out at me. But Last semester was the first semester i taught where it was clear that a critical mass of students were using it