stcwhite.bsky.social
PhD in Military History. Linux partisan, cinephile, gamer. Retweets and links indicate interest, not endorsement. Still mourning Google Reader.
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NARA has now deleted a notice from its website and released a statement about the misunderstanding they caused:
x.com/usnatarchive...
“the research rooms were, are and will ALWAYS remain open to the public.“
We look forward to continuing to always welcome researchers to College Park.”
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I’ve reached the point where I’m skeptical enough to think that these “misunderstandings” are actually communications with design. What can be gotten away with? What will cause backlash? Testing ideas for the near future.
I wish I were more optimistic.
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Yes, tho also more than that: military action always serves a political purpose--what it hopes to achieve--and the *manner* in which that military action takes place may support or undermine that purpose. Military ethics and constraints on the use of force attempt to limit how much those misalign
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But mom
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USAGM de facto boss Kari Lake, in her opening statement, says she discovered the parent agency of VOA and RFE/RL to be incompetent, mismanaged, deeply biased, corrupt and a threat to national security.
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My final thought is that the whole structure of the announcement seems to argue against a "minimalist" interpretation — there being an announcement at all, announcing a change, specifying restriction of access to gen public, invoking security guards... none of that adds up to "business as usual."