#PersimmonTree ("an online magazine of the arts by women over sixty") just published a series of letters on the Trump admin's censorship of history.
https://persimmontree.org/fall-2025/censoring-history/

From the introduction by the editor, Margaret Wagner: "The federal government’s current review of the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibitions, collections, and private-sector contacts; its threats against many of the nation’s educational institutions; its continuing campaign to purge materials it regards as reflecting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)—which it has deemed anathema—from military academies, national parks, and federal agencies: all seem aimed at erasing elements of the United States national portrait that a relative few of the 347-million-plus members of the U.S. population would have the rest of us, and future generations, forget."

h/t @lschiff

#Censorship #DefendResearch #History #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Tsukuda #Persimmon #Orchard in #SanJose. Last day. 😭

#PersimmonTree #UrbanFarm #Walking #Pathways