Wow, I didn’t have the Library of Congress pegged as the one government agency that would actually tell orangeboi et al to go fuck themselves. But I’m not disappointed that they are.
Libraries are more radical than skateboards, this is just how libraries be
Librarians are interesting folk. I’m not surprised.
Freaky-deaky is a more accurate description.
In the best way!
Oh certainly.
My mom was a librarian and can confirm, librarians are weird badasses.
These are the last people between the curated knowledge of the nation and fascists who want to burn it. And they know it.
Park rangers aren't taking this lying down either.
Disagree, sure there are occasional leaks but I can promise you that the leadership is moving forward quickly in following orders as they come down. There is no real resistance coming from the park service unfortunatly
Why couldn't other agencies do this? Almost none of the DOGE crap that's been done has been legal. So why did anybody listen to them at all?
Library of Congress is not part of the executive branch so constitutionally speaking, they don't have new bosses unless Congress says so.
That being said, I could make the argument that DOGE is not a valid department and that all government employees should have resisted yet here we are.
In many of those cases, the building/department security sided with DOGE and physically forced the government employees to comply. There wasn't much they could do to resist without ending up assaulted and detained having accomplished nothing.
My biggest fear over the next few years is how many people who have chosen a career in "enforcement" are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.
My biggest fear over the next few years is how many people who have chosen a career in "enforcement" are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.
In a lot of enforcement industries it is not really a venn diagram, just two circles with just the tiniessssst bit of offset between them.
The people in that tiny sliver either quit or “accidentally” get shot in the back during a raid.
how many people who have chosen a career in "enforcement" are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.
If it’s less than 99% …
I'm guessing librarians know how to read more than many other categories of federal workers.
There was one division that I saw go by that did, and was arrested. I'm guessing that they didn't expect this from librarians.
some agencies have tried to fight back.
Not "New Bosses". They have not been legally appointed to the position. They are intruders posing as officials to gain unlawful access
Separation of powers - they literally can not be legally appointed by the executive.
Who could have guessed a group of educated intellectuals would know the laws? Also. These assclowns are not officials. They were never confirmed by congress.
Push em back Push em back Waaaaay back!
Librarians when some maga chucklefuck demands to see the records
Well done, these guardians of knowledge are fighting a battle for history itself.
Jenkins!
Librarians fucking rule.
They turned away unlawful access requests.
Fuck yeah. Love this resistance to President Cheetos merry band of dipshits. And Capitol Police backing it up is even better. They answer to congress, not the fucking cheeto!
Fucking metal
This reminds me of the anime Library War...
Tell me more!
In broad strokes it kinda works like this.
In 1989 the Japanese government passed the Media Betterment Act to censor media that the Japanese government considered to be harmful to Japanese society, and allowed the Media Betterment Committee to act against organisations and individuals that are trying to exercise their rights under the Statement on Intellectual Freedom that went into effect in 1954 (amended in 1979).
However local governments opposed the MBA/MBC and established armed anti-MBA defense forces to protect libraries from being raided by the MBC.
The year is now 2019 and the story follows a young recruit into the anti-MBA defense forces as she battles to protect libraries from censorship.
Congress: "Yeah whatever, do what the orange guy says."
It checks out that the people that read the most know the book the orange is trying to follow.
Perlmutter was laid off from the Copyright Office after publishing a report on the contentions between artificial intelligence and fair use.
Oh, of course it's ultimately about trying to do an end-run around Congress in order to enable the AI grift. Everything is always in service of one of the grifters providing Trump with a slush fund.
I'm so tired of all this.
Mr. Bookman would be proud.
That guy looks like he's ready to murder some brown people's history books right about now!
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