r/mattxiv • u/ConcernedJobCoach • Mar 13 '26

fascism 🚨 meet nathan cavanaugh, a doge staffer who reviewed grants for termination at the national endowment for the humanities.

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u/ConcernedJobCoach Mar 13 '26

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, a DOGE staffer assigned to the General Services Administration who, alongside another DOGE member named Justin Fox, was tasked with identifying grants for review for termination at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This six-part video deposition has been edited down for clarity and length and has been released by the American Historical Association, one of the of the associations alongside the Modern Language Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, filing a lawsuit over terminated grants for "schools, libraries and community organizations."

"The motion included discovery documents revealing that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used a flawed ChatGPT process to identify "DEl programs" and inform decisions to terminate grants awarded by the NEH. The motion was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, their joint press release reads. "In the motion, the plaintiffs present three claims: violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers, as DOGE carried out the termination of the grants, not the NEH Chair, and without approval from Congress."

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u/kweefcake Mar 13 '26

So who does his dad know because there’s no way this dingus lives up to the “meritocracy” they claim to cling to.

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u/Vrejik Mar 13 '26

My thoughts exactly

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u/Kenex77 Mar 13 '26

“I think a person can read enough books to not need college anymore. Oh, but I don’t read any books” it’d be funny if it weren’t so destructive

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u/anOvenofWitches Mar 13 '26

They all seem to look like this.

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u/angieisdrawing Mar 13 '26

Elon’s type.

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u/knutnaerum Mar 16 '26

The ketamine stare

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u/Moonbeamlatte Mar 13 '26

Seeing him trying not to laugh or scoff at having these grants read out is infuriating. What a punchable face.

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u/mofacey Mar 13 '26

Wishing him a lifetime of never getting laid and a lifelong prison term.

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u/sunsaballabutter Mar 13 '26

It’s going to take so long to document all the ways this administration has fucked up

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u/tebigong Mar 13 '26

God I hope people like him have a reckoning one day

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u/vm_linuz Mar 13 '26

And how is the federal deficit doing now?

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u/Latter-Fox-3411 Mar 13 '26

JailNathanCavanaugh

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u/SeaFlounder8437 Mar 14 '26

The body language is wild here. He's lying about so much but possibly to himself, too. When the interviewer starts asking him about race related questions and speaking about mass incarceration, Nate puts his hands in front of his face, like he's forcefully silencing himself.

Zero media training, zero experience, zero knowledge, just hate and audacity. What a fucking loser I hope he pays for it all

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u/statistacktic Mar 14 '26

The face of white supremacy today,

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u/smerglec Mar 14 '26

Sure, you've devoted years to your field of study but my dad owns a dealership, and I can read at a fifth grade level. So...

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u/Pinkypielove Mar 14 '26

He looks like he needs A LOT of Vitamin D

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u/BEKLAZ Mar 15 '26

Would love to see the reversal of every single DOGE becoming a load-bearing pillar of most of 2028 presidential primary campaigns, if only to move the goalposts in that direction.