Doge Used ChatGPT to Axe the Poets — And a Judge Said No

The morning light hit the courthouse steps the same way it hits the bottom of a shot glass. Harsh. Unforgiving. No romance.

A federal judge just told the suits they can’t hide behind a language model when they decide whose art matters and whose doesn’t. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency — that Musk vanity project dressed up like a budget office — tried to cancel more than fourteen hundred humanities grants worth over a hundred million. They swung at anything that smelled like a minority group, a foreign accent, a god that wasn’t theirs, a body that didn’t fit the approved silhouette.