TechdirtJudge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos
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Lisa Gets PolitikTwo DOGE twenty-something’s with no experience or expertise walked into the National Endowment for the Humanities in March 2025.
Neither had ever administered a grant. Neither had read a humanities proposal. Neither knew what the Administrative Procedures Act was. They were just two guys from Elon Musk’s world armed with ChatGPT and six weeks to gut a federal agency. By April 1st, $100 million in grants was gone. Sixty-five percent of the staff was fired.
🍃Carkner🥺after about 1h19:30 he's asked about this Forward article because Michael McDonald (the MAGA guy who was promoted to puppet head of the NEH) texted it to him. Wolfson plays dumb about whether there was anything going on about Jewish-themed grants being cut or that anyone discussed it.
(Funny, the two DOGE guys he worked with to accomplish the cuts didn't seem to have any shame about saying Jewish topics were DEI and wasteful spending)
https://forward.com/culture/711925/neh-grant-termination-jewish-yiddish/
Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It
they're uploaded here for the time being so I'm listening to the Wolfson one which I hadn't listened to at all yet.
https://archive.org/details/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH/Depositions+for+MLA-ACLS-AHA+Lawsuit+About+the+NEH/3-7-26_Adam+Wolfson+Deposition+in+MLA-ACLS-AHA+Lawsuit+About+the+NEH.mp4
DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH : MLA, ACLS, AHA : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEHIncludes: - Justin Fox Deposition - Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition - Adam Wolfson Deposition -...
Hublai (charismatic megafauna)This is how #DOGE stripped #NEH grants..
#NathanCavanaugh and other over privelege frat boys murdered millions and compromised the privacy and safety of billions more.
They should be on global watchlists and dealt with by each country they did harm in.
#Regimester top to bottom are guilty.
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for those who were following my thread, sadly the videos were made private for now after a court order: "Pursuant to an Interim Order issued by the district court in our lawsuit on 13 March, we have taken the video depositions down, pending a determination from the Court on the government's request that the videos not be publicly available."
the transcripts are still available here though https://www.mla.org/Resources/Advocacy/Joint-Lawsuit-over-Dismantling-of-National-Endowment-for-the-Humanities/Discovery-Documents-in-NEH-Lawsuit
at this part later in the deposition there's an interesting glimpse into the ubiquitous use of self-deleting signal chats as the method of communication in DOGE and their affiliates. honestly such a plague on modern politics and record keeping. Signal is invaluable for activist but utterly criminal IMO for use in government to avoid scrutiny
https://youtu.be/eUKEiAF3mis?si=jjUo7CmZNWsPLZfP&t=109
Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 6) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH
tools for commensality 🧿highly recommend @samplereality 's edit of this DOGE bro's deposition about using AI to kill people's NEH grants, stripped to its essence of him rolling his eyes and chewing gum and generally being an asshole
