Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

Trump admin has viral DOGE videos taken down. Archivists have already re-uploaded them.

Last week, viral videos of two former staffers of the Elon Musk-led government agency DOGE went viral. The videos offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how DOGE was run and how cuts to federal funding were determined.On Friday, a federal judge ordered the videos be removed after a complaint from the Trump administration.However, much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, internet archivists and forums like Reddit's r/datahoarders have alrea…

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies — all plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities over DOGE's mass grant cancellations — had uploaded the full…

DOGE Staffers Allegedly Cut LGBTQIA+ Grants With ChatGPT Despite Not Understanding DEI

Two former staffers of the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh, have testified under oath that they allegedly used the AI chatbot ChatGPT to review and cancel federal grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the US government body that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars annually to […]

Trump NEH Cancels $120K in LGBTQ, Diversity Grants

The Trump administration terminated two taxpayer-funded humanities grants worth a combined $120,000, one for a book about LGBTQ cartoonists, the other for a study of "multiethnic graphic literature." The grants were awarded in the final weeks of the Biden presidency and killed months later under new leadership at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The move is small in dollar terms. It is enormous in signal. The NEH is telling the academi…