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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts also orders a pause on any additional changes, writing that the plaintiffs have shown that these efforts are meant “to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen.”
“History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story,” the judge wrote.
The Trump administration must also provide a status report every week describing the progress they’ve made with these changes, the judge wrote.
“Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths,” Kelley wrote.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts also orders a pause on any additional changes, writing that the plaintiffs have shown that these efforts are meant “to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen.”
“History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story,” the judge wrote.
The Trump administration must also provide a status report every week describing the progress they’ve made with these changes, the judge wrote.
“Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths,” Kelley wrote.
Arjun
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Here we can confirm that AI is indeed BAD
Dropped like a Turd
Dropped like a Turd
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Arjun
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The U.S. government in war has destroyed civilian infrastructure before, but it has never happened so openly and without apology, and never once has any American leader threatened in public to kill civilians unless the government of the country he opposes submits.
That's never happened because that's barbaric behavior. That's not what civilized nations do.
And suddenly, not only is the U.S. government doing that, but no one is saying anything about it. That's just fine. And it’s also—of course, because why wouldn't you at this point—threatening nuclear strikes against entire populations, or as the president himself said, entire civilizations.
Now, let's hope none of that happens, and let's hope there aren't further strikes on civilian infrastructure, that civilians aren't killed on purpose. Not simply because we're bleeding-heart liberals who think it's bad, but because it's not good for our country because, well, in the end, what you do will be done to you. That's almost a physics principle. That's just a fact. That's not moralizing, that's reality.
What you do will be done to you, and the United States has a lot more civilian infrastructure than Iran does. So if the global hegemon is announcing that it's okay to murder civilians in a country you don't like, whose policies you oppose, it stands to reason that we may be the victim of that kind of thinking.
In fact, it's dead certain that we will be the victims of that kind of thinking. Americans will be the victims of that.
Watch the full monologue here:
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