Karen Kelsky

Full text April 3, 2025 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, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”

They are so afraid of us.

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

#econsky #useconomy #unforcederror

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk.

Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.

Hold the fuck on a minute — Assistant President Poopy Pants spent $15 million taxpayer dollars to attend a single football game, but Phony Stark’s Division of DOGEbags can’t find the money to fund childhood cancer research?

Are you fucking kidding me?!?

OK, this is good

House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.

Notably, many of the targets are Black employees working at health agencies. This disturbing attempt to intimidate and undermine public servants comes from AAF, a small right-wing nonprofit founded in 2020. Enough is enough.

Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

How are you so bad at this. It defies belief you people let this happen. How can you show your faces? Walk off. Your time is past. And yeah I am a lifelong Dem. No more.

You will never get another penny from me. You rolled over and let this happen. Fuck you.

They Knew book by Sarah Kendzior, cover

"It is easy, when you do not care about your country, when you do not see people as fellow human beings but as kindling on which to pour your rhetorical kerosene, to talk about secession. You win no matter what because your color is not red or blue but green, the color of money."

@rachelgregor.bsky.social hello- I emailed a time sensitive image permissions request re creating a queer/trans friendly conference, and just pinging you here in hopes you see it. Thank you!

It's comforting to know that when the Christian Nationalists come for the marginalized people I love, there will be good, progressive Christians to come to me, look me in the eye, smile and say "Not all Christians" before going on their merry way.

Trans people: Help, Christians are attacking us!

Liberals: Quick, quick, save Christianity’s reputation!

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

The 3 Key Plot Points for Understanding Trump’s First Week in Office For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise.

Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-3-key-...

Hi Chrissy!

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Opinion | End the Criminal Cases Against Trump Democracy’s ultimate verdict has been delivered.

this is contemptible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

how does this guy do so many things weirder than fucking a couch

"Can my husband find out who I am voting for?": The big question touching a nerve this election November may come down to a battle between controlling men and women who just want their freedom

"Can my husband find out who I am voting for?"

The question went viral. (The answer is no.) We don't know how much men control women's votes.

But the idea of it resonates this election, which is about weird men who are obsessed with controlling women.
www.salon.com/2024/08/14/c...