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William Lindsey :toad:"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."~ Tiffany Hsu<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> /3<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.iHJP.fB7-omPjZJy7&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.iHJP.fB7-omPjZJy7&smid=url-share</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"To create a new American authoritarianism, Trump and Hegseth must invert our most cherished values, maligning truth-telling as divisive ideology and censoring critical scholarship in the name of freedom of speech."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookBans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:Robert P. Jones reports that his book White Too Long has been removed from holdings of the prestigious library of the US Naval Academy. He writes:"This defilement of a respected academic institution by those who are waging an outright assault on higher education is, disturbingly, the goal. Honor and integrity are inconvenient stumbling blocks on the road to absolute power."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookBans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> /1<a href="https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-white-too-long-banned-from" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-white-too-long-banned-from</a>

NonilexA district court judge had blocked the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> Dept from canceling more than 100 grants that funded 2 programs— <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teacher</a> Quality Partnership & Supporting Effective Educator Development—while <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> challenging the decision continued.  Chief Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>’ 3 liberal justices said they would have denied <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s request to intervene in the case.…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigotry</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#discrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a>

NonilexThe initiatives provide leadership development, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teacher</a> residency programs, training & other services. A coalition of Democratic-led states that challenged the funding freeze said it would trigger teacher <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#layoffs</a> & other harm to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a>, weakening the teacher pipelines <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> intended to enhance when it created the programs.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigotry</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#discrimination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Admin Threatens to Withhold <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Funds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funds</a> From <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicSchools</a>State <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equity</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a>] that the administration deems *unlawful* [uncomfortable for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigots</a>] according to a new memo.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misogyny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heterosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heterosexism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigotry</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/public-school-funding-trump-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=AEB43A0E-0ED5-401C-9960-8E17975F9091" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/public-school-funding-trump-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=AEB43A0E-0ED5-401C-9960-8E17975F9091</a>

aardvark<a href="https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Heliograph</a> oddly adjacent in my timeline <a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114244473137564287" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114244473137564287</a> It empowers <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> also ordered Interior Secy <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DougBurgum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DougBurgum</a> to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BlackAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAmerican</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a>

NonilexIt empowers <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> also ordered Interior Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DougBurgum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DougBurgum</a> to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAmerican</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a>

Nonilex“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> even existed, or that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimCrow</a> laws & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#segregation</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RacialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RacialViolence</a> against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAmerican</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> advocates, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historians</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Black</a> political leaders sharply rebuked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> targeting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAmericans</a> themselves have shaped the nation’s story.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimCrow</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#segregation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RacialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RacialViolence</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s order accusing the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> Institution of not reflecting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> into the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> & declared enslaved persons as ⅗ of a person for the purpose of the Census.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAmerican</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s order calls the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a>’s evolving approach a “revisionist” history “with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth” that is “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”Does he just describe himself but sub the names of the institutions he attacks wherever his name was?<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteWashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CultureWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CultureWars</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heterosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heterosexism</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a>, the official keeper of the American story, has operated independently as a public-private partnership created by an act of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> in 1846. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> is an unprecedented act to edit an institution that — reflective of the nation itself — has expanded to include a wider, richer & more diverse telling of the nation’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteWashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CultureWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CultureWars</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heterosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heterosexism</a>

NonilexU.S. Dept of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Defense</a> restores <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackieRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JackieRobinson</a> story on website, admits it was taken down in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEIpurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEIpurge</a>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOD</a> has restored an article on its website honoring Jackie Robinson after having removed it in an effort to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/purge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purge</a> "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a>" (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equity</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inclusion</a>) content [at the direction of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a>]. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ServiceMembers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ServiceMembers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RepresentationMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepresentationMatters</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/u-s-department-of-defense-restores-jackie-robinson-story-on-website-admits-it-was-taken-down-in-dei-purge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/u-s-department-of-defense-restores-jackie-robinson-story-on-website-admits-it-was-taken-down-in-dei-purge/</a>

NonilexOn Feb 7th, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> sacked the head of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NARA</a>, the agency that maintains the ofcl texts of the nation’s laws, & whose motto is “the written word endures.”>110k govt pages have gone dark in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/purge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purge</a> that one scientist likened to a “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalBookBurning</a>,” & which has proved as frightening in its imprecision as in its malice.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trumpaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a>

Snowshadow 🇨🇦🤦 Uh, no, the rewriting of American history has not "formally begun" it started hundreds of years ago!Yes, this was a subtoot.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whitewashing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

NonilexUS court allows <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to enforce ban on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> programs, for nowA US appeals court on Friday temporarily paused a judge's ruling that had blocked the Trump admin from implementing bans on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equity</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> programs at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAgencies</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/businesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#businesses</a> that contract with the federal government.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heterosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heterosexism</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-allows-trump-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-2025-03-14/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-allows-trump-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-2025-03-14/</a>

NonilexEvery hour, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> becomes less free & more NazifiedWorkers remove <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DC</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> Plaza <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mural</a> to avoid funding cutsConstruction workers began removing Washington, DC's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BLM</a> Plaza mural on Monday, after Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged to redesign the plaza in response to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> threats to cut the city's transportation <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funding</a> unless it was renamed. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreedomOfExpression</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oppression</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/workers-remove-dc-black-lives-matter-plaza-mural-avoid-funding-cuts-2025-03-11/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/workers-remove-dc-black-lives-matter-plaza-mural-avoid-funding-cuts-2025-03-11/</a>

NonilexWhile <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> suggests the federal govt is doing too much on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a>, he also demands that it do more. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> is expected to amplify Trump’s call for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> to excise *illegal discrimination* in the *guise* of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equity</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> programs or risk losing federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funding</a>, which accounts for about 10% of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#K12</a> public <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#school</a> dollars & a significant share of higher education funding.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> is cast as returning power over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> to states & local communities, as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> has repeatedly promised to do. It does not recognize that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#K12</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a>, as well as public <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universities</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/colleges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colleges</a>, are ALREADY controlled almost entirely by states & local communities. The federal government, by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>, may not control school <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/curriculum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curriculum</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitewashing</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

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