Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

This is a horrifying and very necessary thread.

Ashamed to admit I only just read Arden carefully this week in order to teach it. And I am obsessed. So dark. So good. Truly suits our current moment. Consider me psyched for all discussions of all things Arden. Check out this series!

I too am teaching Arden of Faversham next week. Never done it before. So good, so dark.

So this happened tonight. I figure I get six stress- free weeks before I start checking emails every 3 seconds to find out how much they hate it.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Can we make this video with a “hey kids don’t be this guy” message go viral? Maybe get Sarah Cooper to lip-sync him like she used to do Trump? It might save civilization! If we have a civilization left to save. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRct...

This is what Syrias looked like in Tehran today. It is raining oil. The street cats are covered in it. This is a colossal crime against humanity.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

This is a key point. In the end they cancelled pretty much ALL the grants, whether the bot deemed them DEI-related or not The ChatGPT assessment was for show, not determinative, but it enshrined “efficiency” as the top priority and steamrolled over any scruples about process.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

The ChatGPT assessment of the #NEH grants they terminated, is a fascinating and heartbreaking read. The brilliance of the projects and the inanity of them judgements are stunning. Thanks to #AHA for unearthing this abomination. www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

Fun but creepy story. DOGE sent arrogant brat armed with ChatGPT to hunt down all the DEI- related #NEH grants. But then even when the robot could not sniff out diversity in a project ( I am embarrassed to say mine was deemed DEI-free) they cancelled them anyway! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

We now unfortunately have a image to go with the nightmares that this person - Nate Cavanaugh - and Justin Fox caused by cancelling 1400+ grants and destroying the careers of 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Most of us never even met these people. #NEH #humanities

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I criticize all the time so credit where credit is due. Just state the plain, damning facts, without any euphemisms or both sides double speak. More please.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social could not have beat this headline, but the article is delicious ( in a Hannibal Lector sort of way). Dig in, and try not to puke. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social

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RIP, the actual #NEH. And f*ck this zombie pod-person walking corpse that bears its name, and the grifters who feed on it.

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

"There go the people, I must follow them, for I am their leader"

I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

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So absolutely yes to this thread

Small group in a red county in central NY state. I am darn proud of us! Thousands can turn out to march in big cities, but around here a few people standing up can make a difference. I hope we have changed the conversation and given others courage to join us. www.fltimes.com/news/residen...

Shattering and beautifully written. Please read and share this ⤵️

Of course, this is exactly why they hate it.

What you're asking for is literally the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, which you would know if you had ever gone inside

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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

These, and their comrades still growing outside, are the spiky survivors of the horrid little critter garden incursion of 2025. My belief that there is no such thing as too many cucumbers is about to be severely tested.

Lament from the keeper of Ilchester Gaol, 1821: "Tom Paine’s works had been assiduously introduced even into the upper debtors’ ward, and the general topics of conversation were now, either skepticism on the bible, reflections on the state, or infuriated debates and cries of radicalism for ever!"😀

Love the #earlymodern shout-outs in this piece. "Covenants without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all." -- Thomas Hobbes, on why Columbia's deal with Trump will not protect Columbia.

It’s now less than three hours before the first Texas redistricting committee hearing and, as of yet, there are no official draft maps for public to engage with and/or comment on. #txlege

"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor. sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...

Another NY Times Headline that could have been written by the Pitchbot. Breathless speculation about his “tone.” How about “ Desperate to avoid responsibility for the effects of his own policies, Trump makes empty promises of reform.” There, fixed it for you.

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

wow i wonder who writes "some other news outlets"! sounds like someone really hot and smart, it's too bad they don't have a name @politico.com

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

A new account here on Bluesky, for the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, scheduled for the end of October at the University of Exeter. @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Please do follow (and make plans for this autumn)

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