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Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

The Trump administration said it would give museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

The Trump administration said it would give museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

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  4. grayola.bsky.social profile picture

    @grayola.bsky.social

    Is anyone really surprised by this latest move? The US is a far right dictatorship based on lies and misinformation ion.

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  7. wattshappenin.bsky.social profile picture

    M @wattshappenin.bsky.social

    Whose ideals? America means a lot of different things to a lot of different Americans.

    Basically erasing or deleting history if it doesn’t fit a certain narrative. Got it.

    Isn’t there a historians society or something that can just tell to Trump F’off?

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  8. theresavermont.bsky.social profile picture

    Theresa from Vermont @theresavermont.bsky.social

    Please try to report accurately. Let's correct. "The White House will launch a project, directed by political operatives with no qualifications in history, science, or museum exhibits, to create propaganda removing women, people of color, climate science, and other facts from the museums."

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  13. m3roadworx.bsky.social profile picture

    M3Roadworx @m3roadworx.bsky.social

    How does this work with museums in the US, and the Smithsonian in particular? Is it funded and run by the federal government? If not, then surely the current administration does not have the authority to tell them what they can put on display and what they have to remove. Or what?

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  18. rgatess.bsky.social profile picture

    Randall Gates @rgatess.bsky.social

    Authoritarian regimes always need to whitewash history to build a false narrative and build a basis for creating a mythos around why the regime’s actions are justified.

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  21. barleyblue.bsky.social profile picture

    Barley Blue @barleyblue.bsky.social

    The Nazi’s review began in March 1937, when Hitler authorized the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, along with the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, to inspect museum collections and identify works that were deemed “degenerate”. Did we forget? Are we condemned to repeat history?

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  23. stephentignor.bsky.social profile picture

    @stephentignor.bsky.social

    The Times doing its best to make it all sound legal and normal:

    "The Smithsonian is facing pressure to give ground, particularly since 62 percent of its more than $1 billion annual budget comes from congressional appropriation, federal grants and government contracts"

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  32. noralalala.bsky.social profile picture

    Woordpijn 🇱🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 @noralalala.bsky.social

    They may try to erase our history, but the art of Black artists remains, alive in us, around us, through us, with James Baldwin as one of our unshakable leaders. Loosely quoted from “The Fire Next Time,” it bears witness: when truth is under attack, art carries our memory.

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  34. pamcnulty.bsky.social profile picture

    Patricia @pamcnulty.bsky.social

    Smithson chose the United States for these museums because he admired the democratic nature of the government. This is a betrayal of his values. How long will it take to correct the egregious corruption perpetrated by this administration? My soul mourns for the loss of truth.

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  36. kylleran.bsky.social profile picture

    BR Cross @kylleran.bsky.social

    I see you still are being quisling garbage. Don't you have a fawning profile of a billionaire to publish? That seems more your speed than trying to cover the news.

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  38. pbpencraft.bsky.social profile picture

    Patricia Brown @pbpencraft.bsky.social

    What a travesty. I was in DC in 1976. The bicentennial commission was Republican heavy, and I don’t remember such blatant and partisan propaganda.

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  40. patike.bsky.social profile picture

    @patike.bsky.social

    History will remember temporary fooling with the facts is just that. Temporary. To suit a damaged and insecure man. He will be pilloried after his death. Disgraced and held up as an example

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  44. tinkeranderson.bsky.social profile picture

    @tinkeranderson.bsky.social

    It already is historically accurate & constructive.

    The Orange Idiot does not understand that not all of us want to live under his ideals and rules. We did quite well without him. Time to crawl back into your hole!

    NO ONE should EVER back down or bow to him. His fights are baseless in facts & law.

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  45. davidsp72.bsky.social profile picture

    David Harris @davidsp72.bsky.social

    They’ll bring in a bunch of revisionist far right “historians” to invent the shining city on the hill where the slaves and the slavemasters played backgammon and sipped lemonade because patriots.

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  46. g8rlaw.bsky.social profile picture

    @g8rlaw.bsky.social

    This is fucking communist horseshit. Fuck Trump and anyone who supports him. I hope you all burn in hell.

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  50. noraham.bsky.social profile picture

    Norah @noraham.bsky.social

    Failure of journalism right here to leave implicit and unexplained which "American ideals" Trump embraces (greed, white supremacy) and which ones he rejects (liberty and justice for all)

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  51. stevecw.bsky.social profile picture

    @stevecw.bsky.social

    Orwell turning in his grave. “It was a WARNING! Not a playbook!” 🤦🏼

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  53. patrickmenard1.bsky.social profile picture

    @patrickmenard1.bsky.social

    Remember what the Nazi did to the Bahaus art mouvement or anything that did not represent the ideal of the party.

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  57. julialt.bsky.social profile picture

    Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social

    Bet Trump has never set foot in the Smithsonian probably barely heard of it. It’s one of the crown jewels of DC and the nation. This is pure Nazi shit from ‘Project 2025’ team. Does the Federal Gov really have power to interfere with it as an independent institution?

    https://it.one
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  58. zitronenjette.bsky.social profile picture

    @zitronenjette.bsky.social

    Donald Trump is making the Playboy Mansion seem like a church, considering how he’s “re-designing” the White House and all of your main institutions.

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  63. katrinekoenig.bsky.social profile picture

    Katrine Koenig @katrinekoenig.bsky.social

    today in whitewashing fascism ….

    did you always dream of becoming a shameless stenographer to a dictator or was it a process after experimenting with journalism?

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  64. michelemanos.bsky.social profile picture

    Michele Manos @michelemanos.bsky.social

    Oh, please. The Trump administration wouldn't recognize accuracy if it bit them in the butt. Rewriting history is one of many crucial chapters in their authoritarian playbook.

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  72. schnooksysdad.bsky.social profile picture

    @schnooksysdad.bsky.social

    Does he really believe he can erase history. This isn't ancient Egypt where he can just chisel the hieroglyphs off the walls... and he is no Pharaoh. As soon as he is out... or preferably gone from this plane of existence, truth in history will exist again.

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  85. ariegoldshlager.bsky.social profile picture

    Arie Goldshlager @ariegoldshlager.bsky.social

    “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.” - George Orwell, 1984

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  87. d-flo1.bsky.social profile picture

    David Floren @d-flo1.bsky.social

    I would demand that this White House apply those exact same standards to all public statements made by all White House personnel plus the President. Eliminating all ideological driven language, & introducing a new idea into the White House: accurate and constructive descriptions! That'd be a first!

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  88. oldwoman2.bsky.social profile picture

    Joan H @oldwoman2.bsky.social

    So how long are you Americans going to stand for this crap? How much more until you've had enough? Where's your bottom?

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