Then they came for me (Continued)

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4. National Endowment for the Humanities internal memoranda and grant termination notices, 2025. Agency language citing programmatic realignment.

5. Federal District Court rulings enjoining NEH grant terminations, 2025. Judicial findings on unconstitutional retaliation and improper process.

6. Washington Post, “FBI searches reporter’s home in leak inquiry,” January 14, 2026. Reporting on the Natanson search and DOJ statements.

7. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, “Searches of journalists’ devices and source chilling effects,” 2024–2026. Analysis of legal standards and press implications.

8. Martin Niemöller, “First They Came…,” post-war sermons, 1945–1946. Foundational text on sequential repression and moral accommodation.

9. U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Young, J., bench statements and orders, 2025–2026. Judicial criticism of viewpoint-based immigration enforcement.

10. Boston Globe and Associated Press, “Visa reviews and detentions following campus protests,” 2025–2026. Reporting on non-citizen academic cases.

11. Federal District Court injunction blocking funding termination of the American Academy of Pediatrics, January 2026. Findings on retaliatory defunding after policy criticism.

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