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Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

These cancellations were so much more horrible for other people than for me personally, as my fellowship was coming to an end. Huge losses to hundreds of people and dozens of long term projects and ongoing relationships. The loss to humanities has been incalculable

As evidence, the filing notes a list Mr. Fox compiled of what he called the "craziest" and "other bad" grants, which he planned to highlight on DOGE's X account. He used three dozen keywords, including "L.G.B.T.Q.""BIPOC," "tribal, "ethnicity," "gender," "equality," "immigration "citizenship" and "melting pot." (A majority of the two dozen grants deemed "craziest" related to L.G.B.T.Q. subjects.) In the deposition, Mr. Fox said the list reflected his "subjective" judgment about whether a grant might be out of line with Mr. Trump's executive order. "Crazy' is one way of saying it," he said. "Most incriminating' is another way."

Why did I think they simply canceled all of them. Nope it was discriminatory

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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 argument really hits different when you live in the South. Sometimes the voters are wrong because the bad people in your state or congressional district outnumber the good people.

I mean look at the numbers.

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This administration doesn't respect basic decency...or intellectual property rights. Good for @benstiller.redhour.com for standing up.

WTF?! Is he talking about targeting civilians?!

My uncle had a lot of exes. This fune is going to be interesting.

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

Sadly, I cannot advise this post-Comicsgate without further research as to who the owner of the shop is. Safety first.

Lemme look up NYC comic stores

I’ve been around some freaky deakies in my life, and they all had DnD, RenFest, and/or X-Men in common.

Just saying.

This might be a classic up there with "TULUM?" and that thread about "Remember the Time."

I don’t think this thread is wrong but you can’t just get any nerd out the pack. You gotta check the misogyny/racism first. Visit the shop with discernment in your heart.

Go get you a gamer nerd. Pattern recognition. Dexterity. Strategy. Collaboration. Absorbing & responding to lots of info & stimuli at once. Expressive. Even when they finish the game, they don’t mind starting all over bc they know it’s about the journey, correcting mistakes, trying new things… 👀

as a lady who used to play magic at Atomic every week: this is not bad advice, it's one of the better places in the area to shop 👍👍

Even though I’m a different brand of nerd, this is my wife’s whole playbook just put out there for free on internet.

As someone who rearranged his hobby shelf yesterday, I’m biased, but this is true.

Ladies if he can paint an Ork he can paint your nails too.

I can’t run around on you. I gotta paint all this motherfucking trim.

Married 23 years at this point.

This is good news for my community of 7.5k of Warhammer Fantasy nerds. I’ve already worked to socialize them away from the problematic aspects of gamerdom.

Pastor putting ladies up on game.

All nerds ain’t built the same, and only need a *lil* guidance.

The nerd to Generally Affable Dad pipeline is real. If I had a dollar for every guy I knew who's played 40k or mtg with a baby strapped to him after being a bit of a mess I'd have.. several dollars. It works so well that I don't even date men and I can still feel the pull sometimes

Knowing more than my fair share of unwashed nerds, this thread tells no lies.

10/10 advice

My nerd already bathed & dressed okay. You don't have to start here, you can get the action figure collections basketball playing version. Just saying.