@anneleaderphd.bsky.social
Art historian. Author of The Badia of Florence. Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, IATH @UVA. Italian art and architecture. Editor/creator of digitalSepoltuario sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu. GenX. Dachshund enthusiast. https://anneleader.substack.com
I am so excited to see Rothko in Florence in a few months. I now see Angelico everywhere in his work.
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Somehow Elon thinks this clip makes the #DogeBros look good. Watch til the end.
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Wow. The injustice to #NEH has gone viral. This makes me feel so seen.
After #DOGE Deposition Videos Go Viral, Judge Orders Them Taken Down www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...
What does it say about me that I’m upset my mother cancelled her landline phone number? We still have one in our house! And now the number of phone numbers that I know by heart that still work is down to 5.
#FloridaMan
And why every member of the GOP in Congress needs to be voted out in November. Every last one.
What is the vaccine for Mpox??? I just got my vaccines reviewed and they said nothing about me needing that. Where was the travel originated?
Yes. It is truly a mixed bag. I have been using it to be my editor. So I write everything, but like a good copy editor it catches things I don’t see and finds my repetitions.
No one should ever be threatened. But these guys should not be able to hide behind their bad deeds and nihilism. And, given all the clips out there, taking the originals down is a little closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
I’m pretty pissed about it.
Wow. The transcripts are still up?
BREAKING: Judge blocks DOJ’s weaponized subpoenas targeting Fed Chair Powell
Court: no evidence of any crime — just a pressure campaign to do Trump’s bidding on interest rates
Today the rule of law won
He is way old enough to know better.
Yes. I have only watched a snippet of his testimony. Am not looking forward to the rest.
The unleashing of gambling is a terrible thing. Any vice or temptation delivered via the device in your hand is bad news. #Resist
A friend said she didn’t get a PhD and become a professor to read AI. I sympathize.
New series is off to a good start but not getting the same attention as my other essays. Wonder if it is because Friday at 9ish isn’t a good time to drop, email fatigue with my subscribers who prefer 1x week or something else. 🤔
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We are hopeful the plaintiffs will prevail in the case and that all cancelled grants, which were authorized by congress during the Biden administration, are restored. Thank you for following the #NEH case and supporting those of us who had these grants illegally taken away /14 of 14
I encourage you to review some or all of the above linked material to familiarize yourself with this case. You can see all documents filed in the case at Court Listener /13 www.courtlistener.com/docket/70035...
And the spreadsheet for each and every #NEH grant as evaluated by #ChatGPT /12
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And the then-acting head of #NEH Michael McDonald
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Which is now being sliced and diced by others on YouTube like this /8
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And the video in seven parts, but here refusing to define what the DOGE two-man team meant by "useless" with regard to grants chosen to be cancelled
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And here is one of the videos of the deposition where Fox struggles to define #DEI, even though that was the primary criterion for putting an #NEH grant on the cancel list /5
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Deposition of #JustinFox regarding his work to cancel the majority of #NEH grants issued during the Biden Administration is available on YouTube (as posted by @historians.org) with transcript available via CourtListener storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... /4
NYTimes article on the lawsuit that has sparked recent attention to the #NEH and #DOGE lawsuit in a gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a... /3
