More Explanation Needed!
By The DOGE boys are being deposed. This is a good thing, and hopefully a prelude to their being charged and put in prison for the rest of their lives. But I think that is not yet the main objective, although I do not know what the main objective is.
This video is making the rounds on Bluesky. CONTENT WARNING: If you don’t want to experience a strong desire to slap or punch this guy, don’t watch the video.
People are dunking on his apparent inability to enunciate what he thinks “DEI” is, but it’s equally likely that he has been coached not to reveal any of his thinking on the subject, which could lead to those prosecutions we’d all like to see.
But what is the lawsuit for which this is a deposition? What is its purpose? How did they manage to put DOGE boys (there’s another video out there) on the stand? The video is appearing with very little context.
The organizations linked in the post are the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, and the Modern Language Association. The AHA has published a thread on the lawsuit,
and this New York Times article is about it. The lawsuit is to restore grants canceled in the DOGE attack on the National Endowment for the Humanities.
MLA also has posted on the lawsuit.
So the videos of the DOGE boys avoiding questions are from the discovery phase. Hopefully someone will work through them and write about that. We might learn more about DOGE’s methods and motivations.