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Laura McGough

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Curator, arts administrator, Buffalo, NY.

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From what we’ve seen at my school, the letters are going to the submitting official, not the PI. But still ending up in spam folders.

11.04.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So sorry.

10.04.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check your spam/junk/quarantined messages folder. That’s where we’re finding termination notices which have been sent from a non-NEH email address.

10.04.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ready

05.04.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: A federal court declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the National Endowment for the Arts despite saying the NEA likely violated the First Amendment for blocking funding for projects that promote "gender ideology."

We will continue to fight for the arts and free speech.

03.04.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 695 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Impossible.

03.04.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just heard that staff is expecting reduction in work force and buyout offers in the next day or so. NEA will be gutted like the IMLS.

02.04.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Savor the beauty of the moment.
ko-fi.com/sophielabell...

18.03.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 22587 πŸ” 2878 πŸ’¬ 464 πŸ“Œ 175

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

14.03.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 42280 πŸ” 8195 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 327

Another day, another law suit.

07.03.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Resistance is fertile (not futile)!

06.03.2025 19:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s β€˜Gender Ideology’ Order The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote β€œgender ideology.”

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06.03.2025 19:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you kidding me? They should judge us harshly - we post on social media and avoid shopping at Target while democracy crumbles.

01.03.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes - but we need people to do more than sit home and not buy stuff.

28.02.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not watching Amazon
Prime or eating McDonalds while democracy fails. How very American.

26.02.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree but this is the easiest, least proactive sort of β€œprotest” when what we really need is action.

26.02.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Artist = Jesse Duquette

16.02.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

14.02.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 39508 πŸ” 8632 πŸ’¬ 1045 πŸ“Œ 750

Americans would rather litigate than protest.

12.02.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely.

11.02.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Jeff ❀️

09.02.2025 03:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's getting a little North Korean around here.

07.02.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 19272 πŸ” 4115 πŸ’¬ 2407 πŸ“Œ 659

They need to partner with arts administrators who have been using their superpowers to weather attacks since the late 1980s

06.02.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NEW β€” DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned.

The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.

05.02.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 7066 πŸ” 3413 πŸ’¬ 274 πŸ“Œ 334

I always do!!

05.02.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Muzzle it is! Censoring academic freedom.

04.02.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please read the entire thread posted by @darbysaxbe.bsky.social and multiply this out by funding agency - NIH, NEH, NEA, IMLS, DOE, EPA…

04.02.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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UbuWeb is back. Thank glob! I needed a bright spot today.

03.02.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not cuts. It’s a working model for purging federal workers and closing down federal agencies. They’re now using the same tactics at the Dept of Education.

03.02.2025 12:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

02.02.2025 06:36 πŸ‘ 27156 πŸ” 6705 πŸ’¬ 1037 πŸ“Œ 433