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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Bluesky Social

Boris Veytsman Mar 7

What can a clown say about Samuel Beckett?

Turns out, a lot. Both theater of absurd and clowning make us to look at the world as a strange new thing, and rethink our ideas about it.

The one man show 'On Beckett' by Bill Irwin is a great illustration of this.

For 90 minutes Irwin grips the house by talking about Beckett, reading his prose, acting his plays - and yes, performing the good old clowning schticks.

A fascinating performance at Washington @shakespeareindc

Boris Veytsman Mar 5

Harold Meyerson notes that when such opportunist as Gavin Newsom says the A-word about Istael, the mood of Americans definitely has changed.

https://prospect.org/2026/03/04/gavin-newsom-calls-israel-apartheid-state-democrats-primaries/

Gavin Newsom—GAVIN NEWSOM!—Calls Israel ‘Sort of an Apartheid State’

And calls for stopping U.S. military aid to the nation.

The American Prospect

Boris Veytsman Feb 2

We are extremely lucky if in three years we are still having Washington monument and Lincoln memorial.

Boris Veytsman Jan 23

JD Vance chose very interesting words when talking about US economy, "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight".

Sigmund Freud taught us that word slips often reveal deep desires.

I suspect these guys want to crush US economy to build a fascist state on its ruins.

Boris Veytsman Jan 16

And again Eccl 1:10 turns out to be right.

"In 1943, he [Knuth Hamsun] sent Germany's minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun

Knut Hamsun - Wikipedia

Boris Veytsman Jan 3

Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution enumerates declaring a war among the exclusive powers of Congress.

Boris Veytsman Jan 2

Dismantling

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.kZec.NLBXolFOWzVY&smid=nytcore-android-share

Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

The New York Times

Boris Veytsman Dec 31

A prediction for 2026.

Being offered the choice between Trump-Washington, District of Columbia and Washington, District of Trump-Columbia, the president will select Trump, District of Trump.

Boris Veytsman Dec 24

A major part of MAGA is the grievance of those imagined not being promoted because of DEI.

The cases of 'unredacted' DoJ files or 'unsuppressed' CBS screening show the real reason for these missed promotions.