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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

Comes a time / When the blind man takes your hand / Says "Don't you see?" (Hunter/Garcia)

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

It’s the epistemic double bind of rape trauma: the rape victim who appears to suffer is unreliable, crazy, untrustworthy either to relay the facts of her rape or to judge its gravity and consequence. The rape victim who does not appear to suffer, by contrast, was not really hurt.

It strikes me that to these men, there is no reliable rape victim- victims are too calm/too upset, reported it too fast/took too long, are too attractive/not attractive enough, wore clothing that asked for it/played hard to get, etc.

I really think it’s because in their minds, rape doesn’t exist.

As your editor (metaphorical and slightly self-derisive), I am begging you to stop using the expression "reconstructing [noun] from first principles." The phrase is having a moment but it doesn't make you sound smart if everyone is using it and I am here to assure you, every Bskyer is

A very casual look at this reveals a slew of games that sound made for me, and not just because I used to work for a beekeeper. (Never bred frogs though, same dev) Have a look and potentially have some fun for a great cause

Dear evil people: STOP! JUST STOP NAMING YOUR SHIT AFTER TOLKIEN! You know who I actually admire? @realworldrj.bsky.social for dubbing this piece of shit "Fraudo" -- you could say that has a ring to it

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

I actually think this Craigslist ad is kind of awesome: the advertiser is creating a way to make $25 an hour for some deafblind folks on their weekend. Alternatively, some folks with earplugs, sleep masks, and two Benadryl apiece. It says nothing re ability or consciousness, only ass location.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Changing tactics. Spread this far and wide

Ohio YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

They have been. In 1970.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi82...

they murdered Good, they murdered Pretti, and if you are on the streets of the hero twins and your surname is Kind, Loving, or Strong please be extra careful because apparently the writers are not being subtle with the symbolism this season.

Are we supposed to be impressed that you're still on X so you can say mean things to regime guys? We see that blue checkmark and on Xitter, we know it means you are merrily funding revenge p0rn and CSAM via Grok even as you *checks notes* say mean things to regime guys

At least his son is funny? Sam Reich of GameChangers

To be fair, I would love a chance to rebel against the current weather but I'm just a lefty snowflake

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.

The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Asshat takes like this assume that people go through all the trouble of MOVING COUNTRIES to do crime, the same way they assume AMAB folx go through transition just to do crime in the ladies' room. It's like people don't know only the top 1% of fraudsters like the odious Melania Knauss really profit

I am and remain against cancer in general. That's true at the same time that we're talking about a guy who used his enormous platform to swing far, far right and declare that if his own stepson, who had substance abuse disorder, hadn't OD'd, he would have had to kill him himself.

Legacy media (looking at you, NYT) are running the obit under headlines like "audacious" or "controversial," which is a weird way to spell "a Holocaust denier who declared all Black people in the US a 'hate group.'" Ave atque fuck you, Deadbert

I asked him to come on in out of the cold

His spurs were jingling, the door was ajar

Liver transplant. Not kidney transplant.

GiveSendGo fundraising page for Jonathan Ross: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

And what the absolute fuck is Sen. Lisa "Simp for Tyrants" Murkowski going to do about it? Hold a presser about how she almost voted against the newest fascist thing but ultimately didn't?

That was my day, yup