Anusia Cohen

My friend cancelled her Paramount+ subscription and is donating her monthly payment for that to NPR and PBS. It’s not much but it feels like it might be a little helpful and productive

Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️‍🌈 💛

I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

Nancy Drew and the case of the $350,000 vanishing grant After spending almost a century wielding a magnifying glass and outwitting villains, Nancy Drew faced a different kind of mystery this summer — the case of ...

More trickle down effects of grant terminations — defunding Nancy Drew. 🎬

“When the NEH pulled the grant in April, Ms. O’Connell and her nonprofit partner, the Center for Independent Documentary, had already completed interviews but hadn’t begun postproduction.”

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It is baffling to me why no one points out that all these healthy, able-bodied people on Medicare--to the extent they exist--aren't using a lot of health care and thus aren't costing the government much $$.

A screenshot from the DC unemployment registration.

It's been just over a month since over 100 National Endowment for the Humanities staff were laid off. After waiting 2 weeks for the paperwork we needed to file for unemployment, the DC unemployment website crashes repeatedly every day some of us try to file. 🤨 #NEH #HowManyPhDs

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.

Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Imagine the outrage if Biden's FEMA chief was AWOL as a devastating natural disaster played out, claiming the lives of 100 people and counting.

Now imagine it's Trump's FEMA chief and it's happening right now amid Texas' deadly floods. Except you don't have to imagine.

It is going to be a slowly unfolding disaster, too, and most Americans won't be able to connect the dots between gutting of basic research/data collection and a deadly event.

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Again, LLMs are not intelligent in any way. All they can do is generate text. They don’t think. They don’t understand. It’s just software.

Isn’t that a Hatch Act vio.. ah fuck it. Never mind.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Beth Moore tweet

We rightly blame pastors when they don’t speak out, but we also need accountability for the denominations and congregations that punish the ones who do.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

Ex: Three F-18 Hornets at the bottom on the Red Sea = 1 NEH unit.

"Express your answer in NEH units"

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

Institute of Museum and Library Services—Applicability of the Impoundment Control Act to Reduction of Agency Functions Congress appropriated amounts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out authorized mission activities for fiscal year 2025...

NEW: GAO has ruled Trump illegally impounded funds.

“IMLS ceased performing agency functions and withheld from obligation and expenditure funds that Congress appropriated for such functions. … GAO concludes that IMLS has violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure.“

A NO PARKING ANY TIME sign but someone put tape over the PAR so it says NO KING AT ANY TIME

Free extremely low-stakes stickerbombing idea for your neighborhood moms and people out walking their dogs

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way.

She was confirmed, 59-34.

The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

This is how your humanities professor becomes the joker.

These are our colleagues, humanities friends. The needless cruelty of it all.

This article is such shit. Zero mention that he has NO emergency management experience. No context from previous meetings where he said things like he had just realized Texas is really big.

We are absolutely fucked if journalism can’t get it together. Come on.

The NEH and @neh-odh.bsky.social is fundamental to making the US the global leader in new knowledge and innovation. The return on investment has been enormous and far outperformed the actual dollar amount. And this cut won’t even do anything to alleviate the national debt!

An Affront to Our Cultural Capital The recent gutting of the NEH will have profound local effects.

Trickle down effect, engaged. It's not about bureaucracy in DC. It's about keeping our culture, history and the humanities alive as a whole.

“These cuts, made in the name of efficiency, risk derailing the shared cultural history that binds us together.”

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The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

@clmazin One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they've found great solutions that experts somehow missed.