Joanne Freeman

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

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Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

THREAD -- on how DOGE cut NEH grants that were too "DEI" for DJT et al, and asked people who they liked to apply.

Again and again, they're seemingly saying that they know they can't win fair contests.

Definitely not.

Government big enough to give you everything you want...(Spurious… Did Jefferson ever say or write, "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you…

Nope.

www.monticello.org/encyclopedia...

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

The location of the plaque that was just hung, is in a place that it will not be visible to the public. While I am thankful for this first step, our lawsuit continues until they plaque is hung in accordance with the law.

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.

Send these fuckers to The Hague.

Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data “Election officials across the political spectrum stood up to protect state sovereignty and voters’ security, regardless of partisanship,” voting rights advocate David Becker told Democracy Docket.

Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...

The pentagon refusing to give a simple yes or no to this question is pretty telling of itself

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Democrats Demand “Reckoning” With Probes Into Noem on Every Front Democrats aren’t finished with recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

@jbf1755.bsky.social newrepublic.com/post/207486/...

Yes!!!

Right???!!!!

Ooh! Nice one. I loved “I, Claudius.” Made me a Derek Jacobi fan for life.

🙃

Yup.

Yeah….it’s…a thing.

I’ve been watching. Enjoyed it.

It’s hooked me. I’ll confess.

Yup.

Yup. Can’t say I saw “It” coming.

I’m sure! It’s dense with…stuff.

Yup.
Wow.

Just saw the Red Wedding, apparently. Looked up the episode online—and lo and behold.