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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Is Weaving Indigenous Futures The Santa Fe museum actively cultivates the soil for current and future generations of Native artists to thrive, a duty that extends far beyond preservation and display.

This is a national treasure that is on the chopping block, an important hub for contemporary art and cultural continuity. hyperallergic.com/1002777/iaia...

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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If you care about libraries and museums: chainsaws are now inside, Homeland Security, no media present. "The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE" IMLS is a major granting organization and beloved guide for American libraries and museums."
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Truly sorry.

...and all that that gold junk on the mantle while the performance played out, a dedicated leader ambushed in the spotlight by bullies in suits. Shame. I'm so embarrassed.

Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration over the mass deportation of migrants.

Recent convert JD throws out a few Latin words (ordo amoris, the order of love) to justify his suspiciously caste-based theology and the pope responds. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Can't sleep? You can watch Democratic senators talk all night on C-Span. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | USAGov The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) oversees the performance of federal agencies, and administers the federal budget.

All links to the federal Office and Management Budget Office (OMB) website now redirect to the White House. Even the previews show you-know-who. Take a look and let them know we're watching by numbers. You can click through the link on this index and see. www.usa.gov/agencies/off...

Thank you. Appalling. Every American should look so they know we're watching.

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.

NEW: NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all of the agency's Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.

Nothing in the engineer's background suggests any special expertise relevant to his new role.

DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."

"Under OMB, it was generally subject to FOIA (Freeedom of Information Act). Under the White House Chief of Staff, records it creates are generally not subject to FOIA."

‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

GitHub is where developers store, share and discuss code. They're leaving a few traces of what they're doing and how they're doing it. www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...

www.c-span.org/program/news... Democratic representatives headed into USAID building.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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Governor Moore kicks off with some speechifying. www.c-span.org/program/publ...

U.S. Senate: Senators Information on how to contact current senators.

Contact information for all. www.senate.gov/senators/ind...