Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
Canada has some of the fucking coolest indigenous musicians, my life would be far less interesting if I’d never heard Tanya Tagaq, Jeremy Dutcher, Piqsiq, Elisapie, Zoon, Cris Derksen, Halluci Nation, Snotty Nose Rez Kids and others.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.
aas.org/action-alert...
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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… someone needs to put Musk, the members of the criminal admin he paid people to vote for, some other oligarchs, and Putin on a space x rocket and send them to a distant uninhabited planet …
I thought I was a good editor because a bunch of professors in grad school hired me to copyedit or proofread their books, but now that I have worked with a professional proofreader, I am blown away. So, if you need an exceptional proofreader, Melissa Rudder (Rudder Editorial).
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
A very generous review of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature in @booksireland.bsky.social! Delighted the book’s making its way to readers. booksirelandmagazine.com/sorry-for-yo...
Crude oil prices dollars per barrel over the last month. Rising from around $65 to over $90 because of the Iran War.
Oil going thru the roof.
The higher the price of oil, the higher the cost to the average American. But the higher the price of oil, the more renewable energy looks both attractive and necessary. To bad Donald Trump is trying to kill the US electric-vehicle and renewable energy markets.
Finally:
"Wars are seen not as things to be ended but chances to leverage strategic tension to advantage, create new realms of influence."
4/4
Next:
"Wilson imagined a world without war. FDR imagined a world without fear or want. Today’s political class imagines nothing."
3/4
Cont.
"The answer to every problem, the response to every provocation, is to strike, or to send bombs so others can strike."
2/4
Three quotes from the epilogue of Greg Grandin's America, América that speak to our current moment.
"Easy and cost-free, for a time, resorting to military action in response to international crises has led to a near total abandonment of diplomacy...
1/4
Promotional graphic for a Zoom webinar titled “Behind ‘The Librarians’: Book Bans, Censorship, and Religious Freedom — A Conversation with Director/Producer Kim A. Snyder.” The background shows rows of bookshelves in a library. A circular headshot of filmmaker Kim A. Snyder appears on the left. Event details read: March 10, 6:00 PM ET. A button-style banner says “Learn More & Register” with the link bit.ly/4rYwaw8. The bottom of the graphic states that the event is part of the Jewish Women and Religious Freedom in Pittsburgh Project and displays logos for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Jews for a Secular Democracy, the Judith Fingeret Krug First Amendment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, and the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh.
A different type of superhero movie.” - @HollywoodReporter
The new feature documentary
@TheLibrariansFilm is a rallying cry for freedom to read. Join us March 10th for a behind the scenes in depth discussion with the award winning filmmaker behind The Librarians. Register at: bit.ly/4rYwaw8
Unprecedented criticism of Trump's war in Iran from the Vatican secretary of state. “This erosion of international law is truly worrying: justice has given way to force; the force of law has been replaced by the law of force.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin,
This is horrible.
I love how my local #Indiebookstore created a webpage so people can purchase signed copies of my book AND let me post lists of my favorite books. #ShopLocal
cavalierhousebooks.com/thatlibrarian
Less well recognized today is the way early women’s rights activists, namely the women of “first-wave feminism,” were shaped by American Indians. #WomensHistoryMonth @dinagw.bsky.social
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.
Today, my undergrads helped me stuff, label, stamp, and seal >100 envelopes with invitations for our class research project. And it became very clear very quickly that some of them had never mailed a letter before.
The entire controversy that ended last Friday at 5 pm EST– hours before the US launched a war against Iran —between Hegseth and the head of Anthropic — was about ethical limits on the use of AI to kill people
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.
