Mastodawn

#Smithsonian submits files to White House after #funding #threat
 The #Trump White House had threatened to withhold the Smithsonian’s funding if it did not send more documentation on its exhibits & operations.

#extortion #law #art #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2026/01/13/smithsonian-submits-documents-white-house-funding/

Smithsonian submits files to White House after funding threat

The White House had threatened to withhold the Smithsonian’s funding if it did not send more documentation on its exhibits and operations.

The Washington Post

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Nonilex Jan 14

The #Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday submitted documents to the #Trump administration including digital photographs of labels, placards & other texts on display in its #museums in response to a request from the White House, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III said in a staff email that was obtained by The Washington Post. 
#extortion #law #art #history #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate

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Nicole Parsons

@Nonilex

Trump's Nazi regime wants to do to the Smithsonian what Nazis did to modern art & libraries. Loot. Pillage. Burn. Sell

https://www.dw.com/en/when-books-were-burned-in-germany/a-43725960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_plunder

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-burnings/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/nazi-book-burnings-in-germany-may-1933

US museums & cultural institutions would be best advised to get their versions of Rose Valland & Jacques Jaujard ready.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Jaujard

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-billion-dollars-of-modernist-art-stolen-by-nazis-was-just-recovered-in-munich-180947556/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/nazi-looted-art-1

When books were burned in Germany

Eighty-five years ago, fires fueled with literature labeled "un-German" by the Nazi regime burned across the country. Many students enthusiastically joined in the act at the time.

Deutsche Welle