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On Friday, president Donald Trump had signed an Executive Order, Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, directing severe cuts to IMLS, which provides resources to museums and libraries in all 50 states and territories, calling for it to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” within seven days. Staff had already been reduced, said the employee, due to steps like the termination of probationary employees.

Word quickly got out Thursday morning on a whistleblowers’ channel on Reddit. “The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down,” wrote one anonymous poster. “Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There are Department of Homeland Security personnel present—to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They are the enemy of knowledge and history. It interferes with the lies they tell.

Another thing, all of the little pukes look like they tortured small animals as kids.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Fucking fascists. When you're standing proud, thinking you've won, thats when we'll get you. And we'll dog every library and place of knowledge out of its grave and inter you in the places you made for them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they are just tearing apart the few things I actually like in the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So then you have nothing left to lose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

gettin there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

maximum extent consistent with applicable law

so, not at all, then? because this shit has to get through congress first?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The way they're gutting these agencies they aren't able to fufill their congressional appointed duties, so they're already breaking the law, but the courts are slow and seem non-plussed and congress has been coopted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It's CYA boilerplate for breaking the law. Never have I sent a work email that needed to say "as long as it is consistent with the law" because that is already assumed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Can't have people keeping the truth if you're planning to rewrite history.