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  1. A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).

    The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.

    * See the judge's ruling.
    historians.org/wp-content/uplo

    * Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
    historians.org/news/federal-ju

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  2. A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).

    The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.

    * See the judge's ruling.
    historians.org/wp-content/uplo

    * Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
    historians.org/news/federal-ju

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  3. A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).

    The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.

    * See the judge's ruling.
    historians.org/wp-content/uplo

    * Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
    historians.org/news/federal-ju

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  4. A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).

    The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.

    * See the judge's ruling.
    historians.org/wp-content/uplo

    * Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
    historians.org/news/federal-ju

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  5. A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).

    The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.

    * See the judge's ruling.
    historians.org/wp-content/uplo

    * Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
    historians.org/news/federal-ju

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  6. NBC News: Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/08/nbc-news-judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional/
  7. NBC News: Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/08/nbc-news-judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional/
  8. NBC News: Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/08/nbc-news-judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional/
  9. NBC News: Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/08/nbc-news-judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional/
  10. NBC News: Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional. “The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/08/nbc-news-judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-humanities-grants-was-unconstitutional/
  11. New on my "Briefly Noted" Substack: DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; Testing and education; AI reliability vs. trust; and more. Go ahead and subscribe!

    foundhistory.substack.com/p/br

    #AI #Humanities #NEH #Education #DH

  12. Two DOGE twenty-something’s with no experience or expertise walked into the National Endowment for the Humanities in March 2025.

    Neither had ever administered a grant. Neither had read a humanities proposal. Neither knew what the Administrative Procedures Act was. They were just two guys from Elon Musk’s world armed with ChatGPT and six weeks to gut a federal agency. By April 1st, $100 million in grants was gone. Sixty-five percent of the staff was fired.

    #DOGE #NEH #USPol

  13. The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE
    tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
    when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
    according to a class-action lawsuit. 
    The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities ( #NEH ) grants to study:
    violence against women during the Holocaust,
    postwar Soviet Jewish literature, 
    and hundreds of other topics,
    even as the NEH would soon bestow $10.4 million, its largest-ever grant,
    to the Tikvah Fund, a politically conservative Jewish cultural project. 
    sajr.co.za/lawsuit-says-doge-u

  14. RE: glammr.us/@carkner/11621197407

    this clarifies what happened to the grant I was involved with as a team member in that maybe hadn't reached active status and wasn't being defunded by this effort, although another Klezmer Institute project was, deemed as being DEI because it aimed to make music manuscripts accessible (🙄)

    #klezmer #NEH #DOGE

  15. #DOGE terminated an #NEH grant to replace the HVAC system at a museum, acting on this #ChatGPT rationale: "Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #USPol

    How DOGE Gutted the NEH in 22 ...

  16. "How #DOGE Gutted the #NEH in 22 Days."
    insidehighered.com/news/facult

    "[A newly released] trove of documents—including depositions with top NEH administrators and DOGE staff, as well as emails, spreadsheets and text messages—suggest rushed, chaotic funding termination decisions and reveal the extent of DOGE’s influence in terminating 97 percent of the agency’s grants."

    Example: DOGE terminated an NEH grant to replace the HVAC system at a museum, acting on this #ChatGPT rationale: "Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences."

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

  17. Update. Here's a #DOGE bro testifying in the lawsuit about terminating #DEI-related #NEH grants. He's being asked: What is DEI? If that's too complicated, what is your understanding of DEI?
    bsky.app/profile/404media.co/p

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

  18. I've complained before that an #NEH funded klezmer publishing project I was a minor part of was killed along with all the other stuff when Trump was reelected. I knew some of this stuff but hearing about the quotes from the dolts involved during a deposition is boiling my blood all over again. I don't care about my specific grant as much as just the complete defunding of an entire spectrum of research. 😔
    nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/hu

  19. I've accused #DOGE of terminating #NEH grants (and other grants) by using dumb keyword searches to look for prohibited words. It turns out that DOGE used dumb #ChatGPT prompts instead. Like this one (quoting verbatim): “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”
    nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/hu

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics