Dr Jessica Parr

Chatbots do not contain the sum of all human knowledge.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 1 of 6 YouTube video by American Historical Association

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.

Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy got in front of reporters and took the blame.

That he and he alone was the responsible officer of the government and that the fault lay with him.

Just thinking about that tonight for reasons.

Trump on 28 Feb: Regime change in Iran!

Trump on 5 March: I have to choose the next Supreme Leader!

Trump on 6 March: Unconditional surrender!

8 March: Iran appoints Khamenei's hardline son as Supreme Leader.

Trump on 9 March: The war is very complete.

Historian here Greg Sargent is right. A war of obliteration without purpose one that tanks our economy and destroys American hegemony, even our allies are not happy to put it mildly. Trump was truly sent to destroy the republic.

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.

That's $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

Thousands of lives lost.

People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Yeah, hard pass on that part. 😂

i have an Opinion piece for the New York Times: Professor Jakub Grygiel, Grow TF Up

This is, quite simply, not remotely true. One generation ago? In 2002? What about two and three generations ago? Nope. Not remotely true. It doesn't advance discussions of political economy to make absurd claims like this.

They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Someone's dream internship right here www.facebook.com/share/p/14dW...

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

A friend tells me a 2-bedroom apartment they looked at in Cambridge, MA is 6800/month. I’m sure to move would also require first, last, and security ($20,400). That doesn’t cover moving costs.

Who is affording this? Who can afford this?

Never in the field of human history, have so few mediocre narcissistic individuals risked so much damage, havoc, death amd misery for the many.
- Apologies to Churchill

Trump ‘will not sign other bills’ until Republicans pass SAVE America Act The statement is a blunt ultimatum to Congress — pass the anti-voting bill or risk seeing other legislation stalled.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump declared Sunday that he will not sign any other legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, dramatically escalating his campaign to force the voter suppression bill through the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

This is what ecocide looks like.

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

Jay Bhattacharya giving an interview to the Epoch Times chief editor

Here’s the NIH Director giving an interview to the editor of The Epoch Times—a media affiliate of the extreme anti-vaxx Falun Gong movement

The interview is hosted by RFK Jr’s extraordinarily dangerous, extreme anti-vaxx activist group Children’s Health Defense

h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

These cancellations were so much more horrible for other people than for me personally, as my fellowship was coming to an end. Huge losses to hundreds of people and dozens of long term projects and ongoing relationships. The loss to humanities has been incalculable

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

Imagine if there was a historical precedent in Trump’s lifetime for a president prematurely claiming “we’ve already won!,” aka “mission accomplished”?

Really kind of morally offensive how much contempt these people have for curiosity.

Fucking burn it down

When evil meets ignorance and functional illiteracy, this is what happens.

Functional illiteracy has been being baked into the US for a few decades. I talked about this in a webinar last month.
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Utterly reprehensible, irresponsible, and nonsensical.