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dylyricus@dylyricus.com · 4d ago
NEH Union - AFGE L3403
@nehafge3403.bsky.social
Unit of AFGE Local 3403 representing staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Local 3403 represents federal workers supporting art, research, and culture across the United States and territories.
dylyricus@dylyricus.com · 4d agoNot just science, but the #humanities as well - the National Endowment for the Humanities terminated the vast majority of their grants last year, and they are only now starting to be restored. #NEH
Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 6d ago"Federal agencies relied heavily on keyword searches when terminating grants held by UC researchers, court documents revealed. While the searched terms varied across agencies, they focused on initiatives facing significant conservative opposition, such as DEI and green energy." 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🏻🔬 #AcademicSky
"The arts are such a driver of so many significant contributions to the state: economic, cultural, civic, educational, health benefits — all of that really makes #Nevada what it is." - Tony Manfredi, Exec. Dir., Nevada Arts Council via @knpr.org #NEA #NEH
In an era of diminished money for nonprofits, the Nevada Arts Council is still ably funding culture for the state
The state agency has maintained its nearly $2 million grant-giving program to artists and arts organizations
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We're here for this, even though it took us a minute to figure out where @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 's 🧵 was going. Here for the #humanities. Always.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.
Fantastic to see this student work! #NEH funding does great things.
Booksnake@booksnakeapp.bsky.social · last wk.We're using the restored NEH funding to build support for viewing multiple virtual objects at once, and to build connections to more archives. See this update on multiple object support from earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/book...
Fantastic to see this student work! #NEH funding does great things.
Booksnake@booksnakeapp.bsky.social · last wk.We're using the restored NEH funding to build support for viewing multiple virtual objects at once, and to build connections to more archives. See this update on multiple object support from earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/book...
"After his introductory conversation with Mr. Haley last year, Mr. Taylor landed a job in Washington at the National Endowment for the Humanities..." ...after 116 #NEH career civil servants were fired without cause just before he was "hired." There. Finished the sentence for you.
The Artist Matthew Taylor Is Helping Trump Reshape Washington
Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House.
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"Instead of acknowledging an unlawful purge, the government recasts the firings as a reorganization, a label engineered to deny employees’ due process. The reorganization is a fiction." Please share widely - this is EXACTLY what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year. #NEH
USAID Employee Support Fund@usaidesf.bsky.social · 2w agoNew op-ed in The Hill from Brian Atwood (USAID Administrator, '93-'99) and Kevin Byrnes, lead counsel in the career employees' case now before the Federal Circuit. thehill.com/opinion/judi...
"Instead of acknowledging an unlawful purge, the government recasts the firings as a reorganization, a label engineered to deny employees’ due process. The reorganization is a fiction." Please share widely - this is EXACTLY what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year. #NEH
USAID Employee Support Fund@usaidesf.bsky.social · 2w agoNew op-ed in The Hill from Brian Atwood (USAID Administrator, '93-'99) and Kevin Byrnes, lead counsel in the career employees' case now before the Federal Circuit. thehill.com/opinion/judi...
"On July 21, 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities ( #NEH) reinstated a grant awarded to the Wake Forest Historical Museum (WFHM) in 2023. The award funds the development of an interpretive plan for the Calvin Jones House, laying the groundwork for new tours and exhibits at the site." #NC
NEH Reinstatement of Federal Grant awarded to Wake Forest College Birthplace Society - Wake Forest Historical Museum
On April 3rd, the WFHM received notice that the NEH had canceled the grant effective April 2, 2025, in accordance with Executive Order 14217 (Feb 19, 2025).
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Making fewer grants was the "rationale" behind the firing of two-thirds of National Endowment for the Humanities staff; pls don't forget this. #NEH
Jen@cassiciacum.bsky.social · 3w agoAlso, though, they’ve spent all the money on various conservative academic projects (UT got like $10M to hire faculty in our new civics school). I’m glad ACLS sued and won. But it’s going to be awhile before there’s a reasonable NEH.
Great source for seeing where National Endowment for the Humanities funding goes! #NEH #OMB #humanities #grants
RebelFema@rebelfema.altgov.info · 3w agoWant to know how federal grants shape your community? This quick guide by @courtneygibbons.phd shows how to trace grants where you live & why it matters. Find out what’s flowing into your state or town, so you can weigh in on OMB’s sweeping changes to grants.. buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...
What this article unfortunately leaves out is that fired National Endowment for the Humanities program staff had to *~interview~* for the very same jobs from which they were fired last year. And the agency gave far fewer "offers" for people to return than the 116 positions they slashed. #NEH
Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · last mo.Last year, DOGE laid of the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2024 employee of the year. This year, NEH asked if she wanted to come back to the agency. As DOGE's mandate ends on July 4, the government is hiring again. www.notus.org/agencies/dog...
Exhausted, betrayed, traumatized...federal employees have been through so much since January 2025. "Left in the wake were surviving employees forced to take on extra responsibilities and keep their heads down as they worked to dodge more reductions in force and devastating government shutdowns."
For some federal employees, America’s extravagant 250th birthday parties arrive amid anger, uncertainty and fatigue | CNN
Barefoot on the wooded shore of Alabama’s Lake Martin, 9-year-old Edward tipped back his head, mouth agape with awe, as fireworks exploded overhead, their echoes reverberating through the towering pin...
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Thanks to all who recognize the tremendous pressure #NEH staff are under. Remember: none of this would have happened had the National Endowment for the Humanities not fired two-thirds of its staff after terminating 1400+ grants. And they could still make things right.
Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · last mo.Hundreds of careers were affected by the grant cancellation, and restoration 2 years later can't reverse the effects of their loss. The NEH staff is now less than half its 2025 size, and the survivors have to process new grants and restore the canceled ones. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Thanks to all who recognize the tremendous pressure #NEH staff are under. Remember: none of this would have happened had the National Endowment for the Humanities not fired two-thirds of its staff after terminating 1400+ grants. And they could still make things right.
Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · last mo.Hundreds of careers were affected by the grant cancellation, and restoration 2 years later can't reverse the effects of their loss. The NEH staff is now less than half its 2025 size, and the survivors have to process new grants and restore the canceled ones. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Welcome to the #AFGE family, NIST-EL! We're stronger together. #unionstrong #NEH #NIST #NSF #IMLS #NIFA #USFS #USGS #AFGE3403
NIST Engineering Laboratory Workers Vote to Join AFGE
Federal employees at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Engineering Laboratory voted June 8 to join AFGE Local 3403.
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"I know firsthand what we’re protecting. I know who I’m protecting. And it makes me feel quite happy and validated to restore what belongs to them.” - Sam Helmick, Iowa City Public Library @samhelmick.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social #NEH
KTIV News 4@ktiv.com · 2mo agoA judge ruled DOGE’s arts cuts were unconstitutional. Iowa libraries are still hopeful the funding will come back Read More >>> https://www.ktiv.com/2026/06/19/judge-ruled-doges-arts-cuts-were-unconstitutional-iowa-libraries-are-still-hopeful-funding-will-come-back/
Thrilled to hear this for you and your teams! #NEHwins
Angela Sutton (she/her)@drangelasutton.bsky.social · last mo.Excited to announce that my teams and I are moving forward with resuming the two NEH grants for Nashville history which were unlawfully terminated last year. A big thanks to the @acls1919.bsky.social and @historians.org who picked up the lawsuit on our behalf. We've got work to do!
"I became aware that termination of research funding was another weapon in the arsenal to shut down independent thought and expression. And it became evident pretty quickly that this wasn’t one or two shots across the bow; it was a wholesale assault on basic research." - Claudia Polsky
UC Berkeley Law@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago"This isn’t final relief. The federal government is still hoping to re-terminate a subset of these grants. There’s a lot more work ahead," says Professor Claudia Polsky. Read a Q&A with @claudia-polsky.bsky.social via California Magazine: https://bit.ly/4xirm8v
"The project began when funding was received through a $25,000 grant from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities." @aaslh.org #NEH funding leads to great things for local communities! #California #CaliforniaHumanities
Sutter County Museum’s Black History exhibit receives a national award; ‘It was always a community effort,’ director says
With the help of people in the community stepping forward to donate artifacts, and volunteers and staff who worked thousands of hours, the Black History exhibit at the Sutter County
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"I know firsthand what we’re protecting. I know who I’m protecting. And it makes me feel quite happy and validated to restore what belongs to them.” - Sam Helmick, Iowa City Public Library @samhelmick.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social #NEH
KTIV News 4@ktiv.com · 2mo agoA judge ruled DOGE’s arts cuts were unconstitutional. Iowa libraries are still hopeful the funding will come back Read More >>> https://www.ktiv.com/2026/06/19/judge-ruled-doges-arts-cuts-were-unconstitutional-iowa-libraries-are-still-hopeful-funding-will-come-back/
"On April 2, 2025, #DOGE terminated the final year of funding from a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Willa Cather Archive, a loss of about $100,000." "There’s no explanation. There was no justification […] It was just a kind of destruction." #NEH
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Her books ask, whose archives are maintained, and whose vanish? What role does the novel play in constructing legacies and preserving history?" Liz Cettina the fate of Willa Cather’s archives: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/willa-cather-archive-unl-cdrh-scrapbooks-letters-materiality/
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Jenna don't doxx me bro@zinelib.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy NEH grant was reinstated. Thank you to everyone who pushed back against the Trump administration to make that happen. When we fight, we win! zines.barnard.edu/news/neh-cha... When college presidents cave, we lose!
For those looking at their NEH grant reinstatement, highly recommend looking at the Award Reinstatement Instructions, which are much more specific about what is/isn't a change of scope, what budget changes need approval (nothing w/in 25% of total award), & what staffing needs approval.
Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm actually finding these Award Reinstatement Instructions more useful than the Restarting doc. The Instructions are more specific about what they are actually asking for & what actually constitutes a change (& what doesn't!). Read carefully before starting. www.neh.gov/grants/manag...
So glad to hear that #NEH awards canceled last year will be reinstated soon! For those of you dealing with this, I'm sure the process requires new forms, work plans, or budgets, which can be frustrating. Pls remember that your NEH colleagues are overworked and overwhelmed, too.
Thank you to all who continue to speak up on behalf of National Endowment for the Humanities staff - we are so glad for you and hope we will see justice as well. #NEH
Anne Leader@anneleaderphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are not enough thank yous to @acls1919.bsky.social @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @authorsguild.org for mounting their successful lawsuit against NEH and DOGE. The process is now beginning to reinstate funds. I am thrilled. If only we could reinstate all of the employees.
We love to see it. Next up - hire back all the #NEH staff that were fired. And as a reminder, this NEVER should have happened in the first place.
Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Dear Recipient, Your terminated NEH award is eligible for reinstatement pursuant to the rulings issued on May 7, 2026, in the consolidated cases ACLS, et al ..." 🤘