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WIRED
@wired.com

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

wired.comThe DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and MuseumsThe Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

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Newell Baldelli
@newellbaldelli.bsky.social

If a person doesn’t love libraries already, read Susan Orleans’ THE LIBRARY BOOK about the LA Library. Libraries are about way more than books and should be protected like… Sparta. Don’t disrespect librarians.

PattyJeanK
@pattyjeank.bsky.social

This hurts small rural libraries that rely on grant funding to provide essential services. Yes, they are funded by local taxes, but IMLS funding is sent to states to provide things like interlibrary loan delivery. ILL means that a library can offer more materials than what it can purchase.

CC.Car
@cc-car.bsky.social

How far to the right of the decimal point is this in terms of percentage of the federal budget? It's like trying to clear out space on your phone by deleting 2 kilobytes at a time.

The Karen
@nutsandhappy.bsky.social

My mom loved reading. A book or 2 a week. When she got macular degeneration she could no longer read books. So she called and order audio cassettes from the library. Became phone friends with those working at the library. That service was so important to her. She could still do something she loved.

EtherealSpirit
@etherialspirit.bsky.social

Keep the masses uneducated and uninformed (like his cult) and they can be owned. The despot's end game is to duplicate those characteristics in the rest of us. He wants to own the U.S. and by extension the world.

WIRED
@wired.com

This week, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were informed that 77 employees—virtually the agency’s entire staff—would immediately be put on paid administrative leave, according to one of the workers, who sought anonymity out of fear of retaliation from Trump officials.

wired.comThe DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and MuseumsThe Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
Brandon Michael
@bmrslc.bsky.social

threatens education as well but this president has said over and over, he loves the uneducated and without libraries and museums, even more people in this country will become more ignorant, and not know much about history only what this administration wants them to know

Blazingstar
@blazingkeys.bsky.social

Republicans need to continue dumbing down future generations of voters, to win elections, as their master politician, DJT, has taught them. They will always need more and more ignorant voters, to win elections against the smart ones, who know better.