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Angela Sutton (she/her)
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Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
Old man yells at clouds.
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clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h
"Approximately one day after receiving the list of open NEH grants, Defendants began implementing the Mass Termination. ...

DOGE and NEH did not conduct an individualized review of grantees. Instead, they summarily terminated awards en masse."
111. Approximately one day after receiving the list of open NEH grants, Defendants began implementing the Mass Termination. Defendants Cavanaugh and Fox emailed at least 1,400 grantees, sending them the Termination Notice and informing them that their grants were being terminated, including nearly all grants issued during the Biden Administration. The Mass Termination and accompanying Termination Notices were not processed through NEH’s grants management system as required by internal agency policies. Nearly identical versions of the Termination Notice were sent on April 1, April 2, and April 3, to individual and organizational grantees. 112. DOGE and NEH did not conduct an individualized review of grantees. Instead, they summarily terminated awards en masse, in the form of a near identical Termination Notice sent to all recipients.
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h
DOGE's Fox created categories, e.g.

“Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants.”... [like] “experiences of LGBTQ military service,” “oral histories of LatinX in the mid-west,” “social and cultural context of tribal linguistics,” and a “book on the ‘first gay black science fiction writer in history.’”
102. Defendant Fox, an ultimate decisionmaker for which grants to terminate or keep, began selecting grants for termination by sorting them based on their relation to his conception of DEI. In doing so, Fox did not critically analyze the description or purpose of each grant. Instead, he used crude filtering techniques that searched for keywords in grant descriptions that related to the grant’s application to individuals of a certain race, nationality, sex, gender, or other personal characteristic. 103. For instance, Fox searched each grant’s description for the use of key words that appeared in a “Detection List” that he created. Those key words included terms such as “LGBTQ,” “homosexual,” “tribal,” “immigrants,” “gay,” “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “native,” and so on. Terms like “white,” “Caucasian,” and “heterosexual” did not appear in the Detection List. 104. Fox also organized certain grants into a spreadsheet with lists that he labeled “Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants.” Among the grants on those lists were those Fox described as relating to “experiences of LGBTQ military service,” “oral histories of LatinX in the mid-west,” “social and cultural context of tribal linguistics,” and a “book on the ‘first gay black science fiction writer in history.’”
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h
Plaintiffs say:

Defendant Fox [of DOGE] slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.

That's from the Second Amended Complaint.
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Defendants’ Mass Termination also violated the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, because the Defendants selected grants to terminate based on blatantly discriminatory criteria relating to race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and other individual characteristics. For instance, Defendant Fox slated grants for termination because their description contained words such as “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant.” Finally, the Mass Termination was carried out by Defendant DOGE and employees, specifically Defendants Cavanaugh, and Fox, who lack statutory authority to terminate NEH grants or make other institutional decisions of NEH.
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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Someone should have told this person to NOT squirt lighter fluid on an already burning fire. There is a risk of the fire traveling back up into the bottle with the air when you stop squeezing. It can explode the bottle in your hand.
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Drowzee 🫤
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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So much work just to get some hope at a chance at line marriage.
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM