In March, viral depositions of a couple of 20-something white twinks named Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh (referred to on social media as "DOGE bros") made explicit how careless and nihilistic the federal government was in cutting humanities funding last year, as part of Elon Musk's short-lived Department of Government Efficiency.

Jane Ward is a Feminist Studies professor at UC Santa Barbara who wrote about recent closures of gender and women's studies departments at US colleges on her Substack, the Sapphic Cut.

Co-hosting! Trung P. Nguyen, friend/recent guest who teaches Ethnic Studies at San Jose State.

Jane's Substack: "This is How They Kill Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies"
https://substack.com/@thesapphiccut/p-188282946

Trung's site
https://tpqn.org/

Joseph Cox, 404 Media: "Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online"
https://www.404media.co/judge-allows-doge-deposition-videos-back-online/

The Independent: DOGE deposition clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbGF7l-t2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXXvgZzK0Cc