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Are we great yet?
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Are we great yet?
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Are we great yet?
July 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Are we great yet?
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Hard to argue with that.
June 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hard to argue with that.
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Our initial reporting on Trump dismissing the director of the National Portrait Gallery, although the job of hiring and firing Smithsonian leaders is not his www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery
It was unclear if Trump has the authority to fire Smithsonian leaders. The dismissal marks the president’s first action against the institution.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Our initial reporting on Trump dismissing the director of the National Portrait Gallery, although the job of hiring and firing Smithsonian leaders is not his www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Spot on.👇👇
Trump is fixating on Harvard because they represent a community that he could never be a part of based upon merit.
This is at the core of every malignant narcissist's pathology, deep insecurity and a bottomless craving for acceptance and legitimacy.
This is at the core of every malignant narcissist's pathology, deep insecurity and a bottomless craving for acceptance and legitimacy.
May 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Spot on.👇👇
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The last eight members of Congress to have died in office were Democrats, with seven of them being over the age of 70 with significant health concerns. https://trib.al/vidWAAb
May 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The last eight members of Congress to have died in office were Democrats, with seven of them being over the age of 70 with significant health concerns. https://trib.al/vidWAAb
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National Park Service Directed to Implement Trump's Executive Order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History' #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
National Park Service Directed to Implement Trump's Executive Order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History'
When President Trump issued his March 27, Executive Order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” it left us with questions as to when and how it would be implemented.
open.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
National Park Service Directed to Implement Trump's Executive Order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History' #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Tucked into the GOP budget bill is $150 million for commemorating the 250th, including $40 million for the Garden of Heroes. Doesn’t seem like any of it will go to supporting state and local efforts.
May 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tucked into the GOP budget bill is $150 million for commemorating the 250th, including $40 million for the Garden of Heroes. Doesn’t seem like any of it will go to supporting state and local efforts.
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A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say. It served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the southern city.
Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say. It served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the southern city.
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I've heard from a number of people in the National Park Service today, including a chief historian at a major historical site, and they have no idea how to go about reviewing their assets, how they will be evaluated or who will be conducting the review.
These people deserve so much better.
These people deserve so much better.
The Secretary of the Interior has ordered the National Park Service to review all sites for recent content/interpretive changes since 2020 that violate Trump's recent EO to "Restore Truth and Sanity to American History."
This is a public history disaster. #NationalParks www.doi.gov/document-lib...
This is a public history disaster. #NationalParks www.doi.gov/document-lib...
SO 3431 - Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History | U.S. Department of the Interior
SO 3431
www.doi.gov
May 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I've heard from a number of people in the National Park Service today, including a chief historian at a major historical site, and they have no idea how to go about reviewing their assets, how they will be evaluated or who will be conducting the review.
These people deserve so much better.
These people deserve so much better.
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People aren't cheering the burning of Nottoway plantation. People are cheering the burning of "Nottoway Resort." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
A Few Thoughts About the Burning of Nottoway Plantation...I Mean Resort
On Thursday the historic Nottoway Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana burned to the ground.
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May 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
People aren't cheering the burning of Nottoway plantation. People are cheering the burning of "Nottoway Resort." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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This.
Document what’s happening—and who is doing it.
Document what’s happening—and who is doing it.
I was a history teacher and I know we have to be documenting this moment. When we look back, I don’t want us to say we didn’t know what was happening.
Stephen Miller, probably the most joyless man in America, wants to take away one of our most foundational rights, habeas corpus.
Stephen Miller, probably the most joyless man in America, wants to take away one of our most foundational rights, habeas corpus.
May 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This.
Document what’s happening—and who is doing it.
Document what’s happening—and who is doing it.
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The Library of Congress is a research library.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Library of Congress is a research library.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
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More cruelty for cruelty's sake.
"A longstanding program connecting young adults from diverse backgrounds with summer jobs in the National Park Service was canceled indefinitely earlier this spring." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
"A longstanding program connecting young adults from diverse backgrounds with summer jobs in the National Park Service was canceled indefinitely earlier this spring." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
'Biggest nightmare': National Park Service quietly kills program after 15 years
Attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion canceled this National Park Service program for diverse young adults.
www.sfgate.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
More cruelty for cruelty's sake.
"A longstanding program connecting young adults from diverse backgrounds with summer jobs in the National Park Service was canceled indefinitely earlier this spring." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
"A longstanding program connecting young adults from diverse backgrounds with summer jobs in the National Park Service was canceled indefinitely earlier this spring." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.
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A family seeking asylum from a dictatorship was separated by Trump, the father was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador, the mother was sent back to Venezuela and their 2 year old baby disappeared into the US "foster care" system.
April 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A family seeking asylum from a dictatorship was separated by Trump, the father was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador, the mother was sent back to Venezuela and their 2 year old baby disappeared into the US "foster care" system.
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I am delighted that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from detention.
Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.
In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.
Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.
In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.
April 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am delighted that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from detention.
Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.
In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.
Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.
In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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“Deport” doesn’t quite fit with US citizens.
Let’s try “exiled.”
Forced absence from one’s own country, often for political or punitive reasons.
Even that is too kind.
Let’s try “exiled.”
Forced absence from one’s own country, often for political or punitive reasons.
Even that is too kind.
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“Deport” doesn’t quite fit with US citizens.
Let’s try “exiled.”
Forced absence from one’s own country, often for political or punitive reasons.
Even that is too kind.
Let’s try “exiled.”
Forced absence from one’s own country, often for political or punitive reasons.
Even that is too kind.
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Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day
April 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day
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Summary Report of the Civil War 150th Deleted From National Park Service Website 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Summary Report of the Civil War 150th Deleted From National Park Service Website
It would be a mistake to think about the concerted effort on the part of the Trump administration to erase historical content from National Park Service websites apart from its larger campaign to over...
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Summary Report of the Civil War 150th Deleted From National Park Service Website 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The scrubbing of these files is closely connected to the Trump administration's commitment to overturning landmark civil rights legislation. Control people's access to history and you control how they understand the present.
"The Civil War to Civil Rights" was the National Park Service's theme for the 150th commemoration (2011-2015). While the landing page is still active, the document detailing the 150th has been removed. Still looking into it and will update as more info becomes available.🗃️ www.nps.gov/civilwar/civ...
Civil War to Civil Rights - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
April 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The scrubbing of these files is closely connected to the Trump administration's commitment to overturning landmark civil rights legislation. Control people's access to history and you control how they understand the present.
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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"This nation’s history exists inside this museum. Attempting to strip the institution of the stories that tell the truth about who we have been is an attempt to perpetuate a lie about who we are." -- @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
www.theatlantic.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"This nation’s history exists inside this museum. Attempting to strip the institution of the stories that tell the truth about who we have been is an attempt to perpetuate a lie about who we are." -- @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump’s Easter message to America is about all the Americans he hates and has nothing to do with Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Trump’s Easter message to America is about all the Americans he hates and has nothing to do with Easter.