The #Trump admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for #Cornell & $790 million for #Northwestern amid *#CivilRights* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.

The #funding pause involves mostly grants & contracts with the depts of #Agriculture [HUGE school at Cornell], #Defense, #Education & #Health & Human Services.

"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."

~ Tiffany Hsu

#Trump #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.iHJP.fB7-omPjZJy7&smid=url-share

"To create a new American authoritarianism, Trump and Hegseth must invert our most cherished values, maligning truth-telling as divisive ideology and censoring critical scholarship in the name of freedom of speech."

#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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A district court judge had blocked the #Education Dept from canceling more than 100 grants that funded 2 programs— #Teacher Quality Partnership & Supporting Effective Educator Development—while #litigation challenging the decision continued.

Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & #SCOTUS’ 3 liberal justices said they would have denied #Trump’s request to intervene in the case.…

The initiatives provide leadership development, #teacher residency programs, training & other services. A coalition of Democratic-led states that challenged the funding freeze said it would trigger teacher #layoffs & other harm to #schools, weakening the teacher pipelines #Congress intended to enhance when it created the programs.

@Heliograph oddly adjacent in my timeline https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114244473137564287 It empowers #JDVance to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”

#Trump also ordered Interior Secy #DougBurgum to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”

It empowers #JDVance to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”

#Trump also ordered Interior Secy #DougBurgum to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”

“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of #slavery even existed, or that #JimCrow laws & #segregation & #RacialViolence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.

#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.

#Trump’s order calls the #Smithsonian’s evolving approach a “revisionist” history “with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth” that is “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

Does he just describe himself but sub the names of the institutions he attacks wherever his name was?

#law #AmericanHistory #censorship #WhiteWashing #CultureWars #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order

The #Smithsonian, the official keeper of the American story, has operated independently as a public-private partnership created by an act of #Congress in 1846. #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder is an unprecedented act to edit an institution that — reflective of the nation itself — has expanded to include a wider, richer & more diverse telling of the nation’s #history.

On Feb 7th, #Trump sacked the
head of #NARA, the agency that maintains the ofcl texts of the nation’s laws, & whose motto is “the written word endures.”

>110k govt pages have gone dark in a #purge that one scientist likened to a “#DigitalBookBurning,” & which has proved as frightening in its imprecision as in its malice.