We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
If they do purge the archives, I’d love to hear their reasons for doing so. The elected Republicans have no shame. History will not remember them fondly. They are a stain on the American story.
We need to start downloading all the history we can, put it all on flash drives and keep it safe, send to friends out if country to keep safe for us, we CANNOT allow them to rewrite history, they need to face what they have turned our country into for the rest of time
A ton of stuff at NARA is not available online. Some of it is security-restricted to normal folks. Downloading won’t do anything if they start removing things like that.
They don't want history, only propaganda they don't want anyone to learn about things like the battle of Blair Mountain or the Red Summer, the black wall street massacre
not directly related...so, we could have gotten the ERA passed if Biden had been willing to replace the national archivist. Instead, we let Trump do it and now history will be lost.
All because the National Archives insulted his deranged highness by insisting he return the highly classified documents he stole. All must suffer the whim and wrath of the mad king.
"You too can hold a priceless piece of American history. For a nominal donation to Frump you can place your grubby mitts all over the engrossed copy of the American Declaration of Independence."
Very Stalinist.
The 1937 Soviet census showed millions of people missing from expected numbers prob due to the great famine of 1932–1933 from Stalin's collectivisation policies. The census was withdrawn & the statisticians who led it were arrested, repressed and in some cases executed. Just sayin'.
The "End of Term Web Archive" project can address some of this. Looking ahead, the current administration may not bother with decent record keeping (very un-Nazi of them) and untangling what went on will be a challenge.
This is part of the plan and why printed books so important. Protect your local libraries. Musk is following a technofascist manifesto called The Network State. This document is a step-by-step guide to capturing a nation by gaining access to its servers.
I'd like to think so but we don't know the lengths some will go to. Whole cultures have been decimated by war & - in one recent case - museums, libraries & archives destroyed by war or other conflicts.
Our British Library has gaps in its newspaper archive where a bomb hit a facility during WW2. 😞
There are stories of librarians (throughout t/ world)taking home or hiding texts to try and keep them safe. I’m just a high school librarian and it has been part of my career to protect information at all costs. I’m not alone in that belief. We might not know NA are saving text but I believe in them
I wasn't putting down the National Archive's work but some would use brutally destructive means to wipe out whole chunks of history - witness the cultural vandalism by ISIS in Syria & Iraq. Not random bombing but deliberately targeted. It could happen here. 😞
The national archives that wanted the papers that he stole to be returned and for which he was indicted for committing a felony and raided to get the papers back?
Especially any contribution made by females or anyone considered a minority. The white failsons will usurp all of the inventions and successes in society and they’ll vilify or eradicate the rest of us.
Not that it seems to matter, but they are required to follow the classification & retention schedules. Lots of stuff has been digitized and/microfilmed, or it was originally created in digital formats. I can see staff copying it & tucking it away somewhere. Not exactly legal, either, but here we are
Yes. Yes. I have thousands of comics saved. Ward Sutton is awesome and this specific illustration is one of my all-time favorites. Just so perfected illustrated here.
There really should be a public statement by historians. And hopefully also a private game plan.
The tech fascists and Trump want to erase their crimes, but the bigger players here are the religious-right folks, the 1776 Commission / Heritage / Claremont guys who are gunning for US history. 1/
We're only a very short step from everyone being required to teach from David Barton. It really is a full-on-emergency for history and historians. An emergency of historic proportions, you might say. 2/
"The American terrorist". Excellent editorial cartoon by Ann Telnaes after Trump's infamous "Stop the steal-speech" after the 2020 election. True then, true every day since, and exactly what's going on right now. https://anntelnaes.bsky.socialhttps://wapo.st/42JqVHg
I’ve never liked the guy but I didn’t think he’d do the things he’s doing. What’s the purpose of power if it’s just burning books not doing a single good thing.whats he want?
I wish I knew. I guess he wants to burn the Government down just like the others. It probably means dollar signs for himself. Isn't that why they're all doing it? But he sure pulled the wool over the eyes of all the Dems who foolishly voted for him.
They’re all freaking criminals! I thought Rubio may be the least worrisome but he has done a 180 on ethics and morals as well. Have these people no shame?
The Inquisition ended with a few dozen legal books and then those were ordered to be edited.
"... In 1552 the Inquisition ordered that heretical books be burned in public. A Jesuit ... reported mountains of books burned on seven or eight occasions ...." https://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/cannibalism.html
I will always remember watching Bill Barr in 2020 smuggly respond to the question, "When history look back on this, how will it be written?" and he replied and laughed, "Well, history is written by the winners."
Essentially, it doesn't matter what we do as long as we win. Then we will lie about it.
The Archives were instrumental for me completing my graduate project back in college. It's often the only repository of information from places that have transitioned from national to state entities (like parks).
That, and the Library of Congress are vital institutions that need protection.
Rubio consolidating power by being acting director of all these org. Senators need to get on the ☎️ and complain to his isn’t what they thought their confirmation vote meant. US Citizens to offshore prisons and erasing history.
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Send these items oversees, hide it in a basement or under a mountain - Nazis are here
Is the efficiency part of F45’s regime? each cabinet secretary does multiple jobs for 1 salary?
"You too can hold a priceless piece of American history. For a nominal donation to Frump you can place your grubby mitts all over the engrossed copy of the American Declaration of Independence."
The 1937 Soviet census showed millions of people missing from expected numbers prob due to the great famine of 1932–1933 from Stalin's collectivisation policies. The census was withdrawn & the statisticians who led it were arrested, repressed and in some cases executed. Just sayin'.
https://bsky.app/profile/suitcasegen.bsky.social/post/3lh66cfxkx22w
Our British Library has gaps in its newspaper archive where a bomb hit a facility during WW2. 😞
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/imperial-war-museum-cultural-property/
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Who knows, could go either way.
@wardsutton.bsky.social
The tech fascists and Trump want to erase their crimes, but the bigger players here are the religious-right folks, the 1776 Commission / Heritage / Claremont guys who are gunning for US history. 1/
Slavery and Holocaust
"... In 1552 the Inquisition ordered that heretical books be burned in public. A Jesuit ... reported mountains of books burned on seven or eight occasions ...."
https://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/cannibalism.html
Essentially, it doesn't matter what we do as long as we win. Then we will lie about it.
https://bsky.app/profile/kristayloractor.bsky.social/post/3lh6s6wve4223
That, and the Library of Congress are vital institutions that need protection.
And now lil' Marco is in charge?
What could possibly go wrong?