Mark Twain Gets DOGE'd & The Librarian Of Congress Speaks

 American culture is not worth preserving by the federal government, but what is worth preserving are the government handouts to Elon Musk.

Trump’s tactic to ‘flood the zone’ is threatening Mark Twain’s legacy (San Francisco Chronicle)

The project is so significant that the federal government has funded it for the past 58 years. In doing so, it helped editors decipher and organize the 5,000 pages Twain left as an autobiography and publish it, as Twain requested, 100 years after his death. The 2010 book became a New York Times bestseller.

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But in April, the National Endowment for the Humanities rescinded a $450,000 grant to the Mark Twain Papers and Project, undermining its ability to continue. It was part of the cost-cutting effort of the Department of Government Efficiency, an organization not established by government statute and led until recently by Elon Musk. Two young men from DOGE, one who dropped out of college, commandeered the offices of the NEH in early April and unilaterally decided, without consulting any of the experts inside the agency, to cancel 1,500 grants, according to a lawsuit filed by three major scholarly organizations looking to claw back the canceled funds. Days later, the two men let go of 85% of the NEH’s 180-person staff.

The ignorant go after Mark Twain, and the imbeciles in The White House thinks the Library of Congress is like the public library in your town. 

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Speaks Out on CBS

Following Hayden’s dismissal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a May 9 press conference that she had been dismissed because “we felt she did not fit the needs of the American people. 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 did not elaborate on either accusation, nor did she acknowledge that perusal of the collections at the library of Congress is available only to visitors aged 16 or older, and must be done entirely on premises.

“When I heard those comments, I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does,” Hayden said. In a voiceover, Costa explained to CBS viewers, “The library’s primary function is to fulfill research requests from members of Congress. It is not a lending library for the general public.”

Minds are a terrible thing to waste, and that is what these attacks are meant to do: Lay waste to American minds.

This is just as terrible as what is happening in Los Angeles, which is not an insurrection.

California's senators push Pentagon for answers on deployment of hundreds of Marines to L.A. (Los Angeles Times)

“A decision to deploy active-duty military personnel within the United States should only be undertaken during the most extreme circumstances, and these are not them,” Schiff and Padilla wrote in the letter. “That this deployment was made over the objections of state authorities is all the more unjustifiable.”

Everything we know about the LA protests (BBC)

What to know about the protests in Los Angeles (NPR)

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