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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States. The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/08/2025

"After the Civil War, white residents pushed back on an elected mayor and council altogether because Black residents had been given the right to vote in those elections—and were winning council seats."

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Everything you need to know about D.C. home rule

The city’s power over its own affairs is imperiled by the incoming Trump administration. Here’s what you should know about the parameters of local control in D.C.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

we can have more. public goods, an economy rooted in growing people and creative making - healthcare for all, free school for all, the history of creative culture not enclosed by data companies but at the library for everybody, public spaces and public arts, dense plentiful housing. we can.

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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hello everyone, the College Park National Archives site has now taken down the header announcing restrictions. Because of that and the post below, I've deleted my original post because I do not want to share misinformation. My deep hope is that this was a major messaging fail. Orig. lang. below 👇

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

If you're a D.C. Library user, be aware: The D.C. Public Library system says it is likely going to have to reduce opening hours at neighborhood branches, from the current 61 hours a week to 40 hours. Branches would also go from being open seven days a week to five days.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other. Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.

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M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

this is a massive loss. so many historians rely heavily on this database for research, teaching, everything. they say "do your own research" but they don't mean it.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.

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Jenny Schollaert @jeschollaert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I cannot begin to express how invaluable the National Digital Newspaper Program & ChronAm are to my work as a researcher, instructor, and librarian. The NDNP team at NEH & LC is (was?) such a force for good--it is cruel that the public is robbed of the team's plans for the program's future.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hands. 👏 Off. 👏 Our. 👏 Librarians. 👏

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Phenomenal news from @mellon.org for many of the #NEH state #humanities councils we've been highlighting these past few weeks. We stand in solidarity with your staff and will continue to share the amazing stories about your work across the United States.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/04/2025

If you'd like to see all the canceled NEH grants at variance with agency priorities that allegedly will fail to inspire your confidence in use of taxpayer funds, go explore impact.ach.org. Then contact your representatives about this outrageous cull.

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NEH Grants 2025

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Wow, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archive is stepping back from being the central admin for BHL 😬

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 25/04/2025

The number of vicious insults and outright lies in this “statement” is mind-boggling. www.neh.gov/news/update-...

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An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency’s Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Alas, more bad news this week. bsky.app/profile/jimc...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10/04/2025

There has been so much devastation, but for my communities this is especially devastating. I cannot overstate how much we owe to the Office of Digital Humanities & the incredible people who have worked there. The work won’t end, but it will be severely curtailed

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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Would love to know if anyone is organizing any legal challenges to #NEH terminations. All I've heard about is contacting members of Congress and writing op-eds which I think are of little help at this point. What are individuals to do?

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

ACH has updated our Impact Database with info about canceled NEH grants as of 4/8/25. We understand around 40 grants remain active, with a small number reinstated. The $ amounts reflect awarded funds. The total amount is a fraction (~.000037%)of the 2024 US budget. Learn more: impact.ach.org

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

FORTY remain active. Almost FIFTEEN HUNDRED canceled.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/04/2025

We need to keep the cuts to the NEH at the forefront of national, local media attention. I just had a convo today with someone from my local Mass state rep's office about how the cuts to the NEH & NSF etc. and the broader war on higher education will have destructive effects locally.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"Here’s how states in New England and the Mid-Atlantic region will be negatively impacted by the loss of National Endowment for the Humanities funds and defunding of their state humanities council." bit.ly/3YqGWPn

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Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What New England and the Mid-Atlantic Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@ach.bsky.social put together a doc you can use if you want to take direct action to support the NEH and IMLS! Includes links to resources like their canceled grants database and tips for how to use that info when you contact your reps: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour

Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour Zoom Link: https://asu.zoom.us/j/84358841172?pwd=bxor46pu3qY4vq7bBFmbzUAJYAarpb.1 Wednesday, 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern Join us to message and call your e...

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an essential force for good. Rare Book School affirms the vital importance of @nehgov.bsky.social in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.

A close-up photo of a person’s hands paging through an old book. Several slips of paper are tucked at intervals into the pages. Overlaid on top of this is a block of white text on a dark red background, which reads, “The NEH is an essential force for good, helping individuals and communities understand our past, engage the present, and provide a vision for a better tomorrow.  RBS affirms the vital importance of the NEH in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.”

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Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Please read this post that my colleague and collaborator, the amazing @patriciaingham.bsky.social, wrote about our 2024–2027 NEH grant that was terminated by DOGE last week #medievalsky #humanitiesinitiatives (cc @altnehgov.bsky.social)

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Dr. Jennifer Guiliano @jenguiliano.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

the loss of @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social and IMLS will undoubtedly impact humanities and digital humanities research and teaching for decades to come. Worse is the separation of the incredible staffs at those agencies who have decades of stewardship and leadership in cultural heritage.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 04/04/2025

The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

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April 3, 2025
Dr. Joseph Rezek
Dear NEH Grantee,
This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.
Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant
Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.
For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The NEH staff is the most thoughtful group of people I've ever worked with. With their small budget they have done so much. Thank you NEH, incl @neh-odh.bsky.social. @ach.bsky.social

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.

A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.

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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2025

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

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Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If your NEH grant was terminated, please share that information with @humanitiesall.bsky.social via the form below.

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Notify NHA about grant terminations!

We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hearing reports of NEH staff being put on administrative leave (not sure yet how many are impacted). Grantees—remember to use eGMS for all correspondence but that staff may have severe restrictions on access to email & work material. NEH staff—we appreciate you & we’re so sorry this is happening.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

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EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.

State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...

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Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Received a notification of termination for my Humanities Connections grant last night. Heartbreaking. Had to let student workers go this morning and inform others that their research funding was canceled. Thank you, ACH, for supporting us all right now in this tumultuous moment @ach.bsky.social

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"The loss of NEH funding to humanities councils will decimate the ability of these nonprofits to serve communities in their states, eliminating programs that are essential to each state’s cultural infrastructure." bit.ly/3Y5JwKP

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Action Alert: NEH Targeted by DOGE - Federation of State Humanities Councils

Save Our Humanities Councils: DOGE Cuts to NEH will Damage Cultural Organizations in Every State On Monday, March 31, the Federation of State Humanities Councils learned that DOGE (Department of … Rea...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/04/2025

These cuts would be catastrophic for the humanities and for communities around the country - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT We should be increasing resources for humanities scholarship and programs, not cutting them! 🗃️

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URGENT: Save the NEH

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cuts include 80% of staff, state-level humanities councils funding, and all grants that have not yet been fully paid out

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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The NEH is one of the humanities few federal funding sources; it drives individual/institutional/community research/programming and provides economic stimulus to urban/rural areas in red/blue states alike. Reach out to your reps and instill in them the vitality of the NEH. p2a.co/Oi2HjiV?fbcl...

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URGENT: Save the NEH

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT

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URGENT: Save the NEH

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

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