The court order is a reminder that this assault on our historic sites is not inevitable, that it can be challenged, and that the institutions designed to constrain executive power have not entirely collapsed. #NationalParks #CivilWarMemory #publichistory 🗃️
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eh, he's in Kenya, apparently... bsky.app/profile/holl...
OK, so the mystery's solved: Americans for Prosperity Action are the bastards who rang my doorbell at 3am.
I refuse to accept this sort of statement from a department of the United States government as normal.
Ms. Martin, you are a disgrace to public servants, your country, and all Katies.
Can anyone please ask Kennedy Center trustee Susan Collins whether she voted for this?
Kennedy Center update, 11:21 pm: Word on the street is that these guys only do scaffolds, and they don’t touch the letters. They might be preparing to hang a tarp instead of removing the letters.
Not sure how this complies with Judge Cooper’s order.
Kennedy Center update: 10:03 PM: They’re back on the scaffolding.
Kennedy Center update: 9:55 PM: Scaffolding progress seems to have stopped.
What a nice-looking screen there! Where's @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org when you need him?
A federal judge just reminded the Trump administration that history isn't his to rewrite.
Large striped tarps remained on the Kennedy Center’s exterior Sunday, prompting confusion and frustration from some visitors who arrived to the renowned arts venue to see President Donald Trump’s name...
Here Trump asserts that center’s “trustees” passed a poison-pill bylaw that requires return of donations if his name is ever removed. AFAIK this has never been alleged before in the litigation. If true, is another shocking indictment of his board of toadies.
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Heading to Kenya today with 18 other people including @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and there are sure to be mishaps and hijinx. Follow along on my substack substack.com/@hollyberkle...
Former CIA Africa analyst. PhD Historian. Author of The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism (Runner up for RNA Book of the Year). Daughter of missionaries. Recovering evangeli...
