Exclusive: The Kennedy Center adopted bylaws earlier this year that limited voting to presidentially appointed trustees, a move that preceded a unanimous decision this month by board members installed by President Donald Trump to add his name to the center.

It's that time of year again

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative. Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?

Like guns are fun, I've shot them before. But goats are fun too. I don't want either in my house and I don't think everyone should own them.

One reason to get a cat or dog is to have a ready audience for this stuff without needing to fly folks halfway around the world.

Dear journalists: please do not make it sound like he was coherent.

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

media should not interview minors who have just survived a mass shooting

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

The Supreme Court’s conservatives bear SO much blame for this disaster. They really thought they could let Trump fire every agency leader EXCEPT members of the Fed, and Trump would abide by their stern admonition to leave the Fed alone. Embarrassing stupidity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

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I hope that there is accountability for these DOGE bros. They have wrecked so many lives.

Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️‍🌈 💛

I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

It's been just over a month since over 100 National Endowment for the Humanities staff were laid off. After waiting 2 weeks for the paperwork we needed to file for unemployment, the DC unemployment website crashes repeatedly every day some of us try to file. 🤨 #NEH #HowManyPhDs

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Imagine the outrage if Biden's FEMA chief was AWOL as a devastating natural disaster played out, claiming the lives of 100 people and counting. Now imagine it's Trump's FEMA chief and it's happening right now amid Texas' deadly floods. Except you don't have to imagine.

That last line hits hard

Again, LLMs are not intelligent in any way. All they can do is generate text. They don’t think. They don’t understand. It’s just software.

Isn’t that a Hatch Act vio.. ah fuck it. Never mind.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

We rightly blame pastors when they don’t speak out, but we also need accountability for the denominations and congregations that punish the ones who do.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

"Express your answer in NEH units"

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

NEW: GAO has ruled Trump illegally impounded funds. “IMLS ceased performing agency functions and withheld from obligation and expenditure funds that Congress appropriated for such functions. … GAO concludes that IMLS has violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure.“

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

This is how your humanities professor becomes the joker.

These are our colleagues, humanities friends. The needless cruelty of it all.

This article is such shit. Zero mention that he has NO emergency management experience. No context from previous meetings where he said things like he had just realized Texas is really big. We are absolutely fucked if journalism can’t get it together. Come on.

The NEH and @neh-odh.bsky.social is fundamental to making the US the global leader in new knowledge and innovation. The return on investment has been enormous and far outperformed the actual dollar amount. And this cut won’t even do anything to alleviate the national debt!

The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

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we really just gonna be rawdogging tornadoes and hurricanes this year huh

“LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE” is a smart saying because it excludes vivacious vampires and zombies.

This suit to save the NEH is welcome news. Thanking—and supporting—our colleagues who are taking the lead—and all those at the NEH whose work has been so critical to so many of us.

And both get far, far less coverage than “Trump and Musk pull aid to Africa, estimated death toll of over 20 million” because no South Sudanese refugee ever invited Jake Tapper to a cocktail party.