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Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.

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When you build a machine to target people based on gender, race, or any other identity, it ends up targeting Jews too.

New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary—about Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis—for termination.

His reason is shocking.

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10.03.2026 20:45 👍 150 🔁 62 💬 18 📌 31
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Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before canceling them - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Among the project caught in the dragnet was one about violence against women during the Holocaust.

He used an OpenAI chatbot to screen thousands of NEH grants for "DEI." Any mention of gender, race, LGBTQ people or "underrepresented cultures" triggered a flag.

An Alaskan Native language preservation project? DEI. A documentary on a massacre of Black men? DEI. Jewish women enslaved by Nazis? DEI.

10.03.2026 20:48 👍 57 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1

18 Dems just voted *today* for Trump’s agenda. Does it make sense yet why they’re so unpopular?

10.03.2026 20:53 👍 1190 🔁 347 💬 36 📌 16
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The University of Texas at San Antonio has joined the growing list of Texas public universities closing or consolidating their race and gender studies departments in recent months.

Read More👉 ebx.sh/qc2HdL

10.03.2026 23:03 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

10.03.2026 19:33 👍 1975 🔁 1042 💬 83 📌 48

Important point: The ADL has yet to speak up against the Trump administration's demand for a list of Jews at Penn. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

10.03.2026 18:32 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Summer Latin Program | Centre for Medieval Studies Find out about studying Latin at the Centre during the summer. Includes application information, fees, and available courses.

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

#medievalsky

10.03.2026 15:03 👍 52 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 1
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Kristi Noem spent 220 million on her self-promotion ad and Hegseth said, "Hold my fruit basket."

newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

10.03.2026 07:44 👍 686 🔁 338 💬 64 📌 27

Because they all agree with him. Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are completely normalized on today’s right.

10.03.2026 00:51 👍 57 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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The Gámez-Cuéllar family has been released. We are taking them now to reunite with their son Antonio.

When I returned to the Dilley trailer prison today, I brought my colleagues in Congress to meet with the children and families and to bear witness to their stories.

09.03.2026 21:05 👍 298 🔁 81 💬 12 📌 7
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BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.03.2026 19:25 👍 2750 🔁 899 💬 30 📌 27
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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

09.03.2026 02:40 👍 2560 🔁 1150 💬 169 📌 150

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

09.03.2026 02:42 👍 3118 🔁 741 💬 103 📌 87
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X is a fascist propaganda website.

08.03.2026 23:44 👍 3319 🔁 605 💬 344 📌 306
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ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

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.

08.03.2026 20:45 👍 2485 🔁 1088 💬 96 📌 69
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Officials in Corpus Christi say they will face a “water emergency” within months and could run out of water entirely next year. bit.ly/4lnoX72

08.03.2026 20:45 👍 18 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0

This is what ecocide looks like.

08.03.2026 17:41 👍 5043 🔁 1839 💬 91 📌 43
Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH
Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

08.03.2026 18:01 👍 175 🔁 57 💬 3 📌 14
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Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

08.03.2026 12:48 👍 1551 🔁 611 💬 16 📌 13
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🧵 1/2 @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social needs help getting a McAllen family detained in TX released

Antonio, Caleb & Joshua Cuellar are State champion Mariachi band members

Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz (R) invited them to the White House & to play for congress - but has no interest now
see 🧵 👇

08.03.2026 13:18 👍 303 🔁 246 💬 9 📌 1

President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

08.03.2026 14:10 👍 562 🔁 281 💬 45 📌 21
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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

This is a grim read www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

08.03.2026 13:19 👍 107 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 6

This and a ton of additional material from our NEH case is available on our website historians.org/lawsuit-to-restore-the-neh

07.03.2026 22:30 👍 64 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 0

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 👍 25251 🔁 8090 💬 781 📌 329

This is a missing piece that I & some retired Marines were trying to figure out when this story broke.

Every tattoo is in their file. New tattoos are updated. This tattoo is strictly prohibited & he absolutely would've known WHY immediately.

He has no plausible deniability, it's all lies.

06.03.2026 23:24 👍 187 🔁 81 💬 7 📌 2
Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people?

Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. 

Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth?
Hegseth: We’re investigating. 

Trump: It was done by Iran. They are very inaccurate with their munitions.

Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: It was done by Iran. They are very inaccurate with their munitions.

this is unspeakable

07.03.2026 22:10 👍 7932 🔁 1957 💬 527 📌 208

This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no?

there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps
the burning of the PA governor residence
and now this?

08.03.2026 00:28 👍 680 🔁 230 💬 18 📌 3

Banality of evil.

08.03.2026 00:30 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

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,

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

07.03.2026 20:32 👍 2924 🔁 1114 💬 78 📌 76

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

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