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.
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯
- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
“Maybe in this day and age, love thy neighbor should also be love thy nature. After all we are all neighbors to nature; we live in a grand neighborhood called the biosphere, the realm of life on earth, and we depend on it. We are it and it is us…Love in this case should manifest as active care.”
At a Mission senior housing community, women in their 90s gather weekly to read 1,000-year-old Chinese poetry in Cantonese.
Many immigrated to care for grandchildren. Now they face aging and loneliness through Tang and Song verse.
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Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...
Her free skate today was such a beautiful thing to see. So genuinely joyful, just a person doing what she loves and is incredible at
This perfectly explains my visceral reaction to both of them.
I really don't understand why Peacock isn't just playing Alyssa Liu on a loop. I think it has a ton of medicinal value. The good kind.
My Blueberry Nights is not Wang Kar-wai’s best movie, but the soundtrack is 💯 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Translations: "A Forest Needs Woodpeckers, Not Just Magpies" - Tributes to Pair of Detained Reporters, Now Released on Bail
"I remember calling him several times to bug him about a piece. I was getting a bit annoyed. An hour later, he called: 'I'm hiding in a cave, I'll write it as soon as I can.'"
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
Pink sky behind gray-blue clouds with five Western Gulls flying by.
After a gray and cloudy day, brilliant pink sky appears behind the gray-blue clouds and fog right after sunset. Some Western Gulls flying South. San Francisco Bay, from Emeryville, California.
#sky #sunset #nature
A movie where Michelle Yeoh plays every character? Yes, please. youtu.be/KoVMdcEbINE?...
Censured in Life, Censored in Death: Deleted Sixth Anniversary Tributes to COVID Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang
"Pre-2020 was one world, and post-2020 is another world entirely. I’ll never see the world the way I did six years ago."
CDT's “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for December 2025, Part Two
Topics include: Ming Dynasty nostalgia, WeChat friend-circle estrangement, cancelled flights to Japan, and Nanjing Museum staff pilfering and reselling donated artworks.
“…A new study published in The Lancet medical journal…[projects] that global aid cuts could lead to at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...
*rubs temples*
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
this looks rad as hell
I’ve been caught in that album before. It’s a good place to be.
Support teachers.
Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches. I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever. Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.
While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport. And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try. I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.
I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying. I believe in you, just as you believed in me. ❤️LV
A photo of Lindsay Vonn mid-air
Lindsay Vonn gives her first statement since her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill
Absent any changes, however, the most anti-Trump state might well get a Trump acolyte as its next governor. Democrats, are you even paying attention? buff.ly/ZhqSlYg
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
It‘s unconscionable that a city where so many live with such obscene wealth can’t afford to pay teachers decently or give them healthcare. www.kqed.org/news/1207239...
Intense censorship here, ostensibly over a case of local corruption in Chengdu: the original report, a report on the reporters' detention (excerpts translated here), a tribute to one of the reporters (translated here); a sympathetic commentary from official media in another province which NYT cited…
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6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
“The tyranny of the quantifiable tramples over the question of what it is we get from doing the work, why we might want to do it, how writing – which is mostly thinking – can be part of developing a self, a worldview, a set of ethics, a greater capacity to understand and use language.”
An American hero ❤️
