🚨 Trump just signed an order to purge the Smithsonian of “improper ideology.” Translation: erase Black history, whitewash colonialism, and turn museums into MAGA propaganda halls. Here’s what you need to know: 🧵

Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately". He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting. Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.

NASA scrubs graphic novel about first woman on the moon chron.com/news/space/art…

An uneducated public is easier to fool…

They’re afraid of educated people.

Federal Agency Staff Responsible for Funding Libraries and Museums Placed on Leave via Email mymodernmet.com/imls-staff-put…

Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy #library in DEI purge | AP News apnews.com/article/navy-d… #navy

Trump Administration Sued Over Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services news.artnet.com/art-world/ags-…

Happy 100th birthday to The Great Gatsby, first published April 10, 1925. The final line in this passage always resonated with me.

A book hallway?

MAGA Approved Reading

It's happening here: when book bans hit home • Minnesota Reformer minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/21/its…

The walking #library in London; circa 1930s

Anne Frank mood

Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government: First woman and first African American to hold post dismissed in terse email on Thursday night theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Yesterday Department of Defense 🇺🇸 issued a memo to military libraries across the world to remove books “promoting DEI.” Timing is not a coincidence.

NEWS: Trump has picked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to serve as acting Librarian of Congress after he abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden. But this morning, two others who Trump named as LOC officials were escorted off the premises because the WH doesn’t have jurisdiction

Naomi Biden just SLAMMED Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book about Joe Biden. Really well written.

Check this out! A beautifully written short piece in StoryQuarterly about sorrow and loss in a Greek American family. By my wife—she’s an amazing writer. storyquarterly.org/cut-flower.html

Texas Republicans pass major book banning bill