Michelle Moon

There's a difference between real and fake patriots.

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Whoopi corners JD Vance about the removal of historical interpretation in museums and parks. #museum #interpretation #nps #publichistory

They cancelled the Smithsonian Folklife Festival for this two-bit crap.

The 25th Amendment is an option available as soon as Republicans realize he is dooming them specifically more than the rest of us generally. Looking at you, JD and Marco

What photo? This one? 😏

"Queer Possibilities in Revolutionary America" as part of the America 250 Founding Feminists Series at @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/03/23/q...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Oh…. Substack. Let’s be looking for some competitor platforms that don’t espouse 8th-grade edgelord points of view.

"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them" Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊ (posted with permission)

You're paying for this. Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs. Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.

I've made this many times.

Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

My wife, who was born and raised in Germany, can confirm every word of this. She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."

omg

Let them eat cake.

#Museum folk! This incredible advocacy effort would love to involve more museum people. Those who can speak out are so needed in a time when many can't without facing serious consequences. Is that you? Your organization? Get in touch via the contact form at the link linktr.ee/historyteachin

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

📢Happening NOW! Hundreds of Newarkers pouring into the protest zone outside the DHS detention facility in Newark demanding #FreeMayorBaraka!

At the @aaslh.bsky.social museum summit last week, MC @michellenmoon.bsky.social had us each write a note of encouragement to an anonymous colleague. Then she gave each of us a note as we left. I just read mine & cried. Take care of each other out there!

Hey, @museumedrt.bsky.social is here! Welcome!

PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email chairsoffice@neh.gov with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

New — Institute of Museum and Library Sciences employees were allowed back in the building this morning to gather belongings after all being put on admin leave by DOGE yesterday. Supporters have gathered in front of the building and staffers inside have posted a visible sign that says "SOS IMLS."

If anyone would like to email their legislators in support of saving IMLS and funding for libraries and museums, here’s a helpful link to a form: www.congressweb.com/aam/

#IMLS archive.is/mU8MN

Internet rumors are that Doge occupied IMLS this morning with intent to shut it down. No media present. New acting director Sonderling (already Dep Sec of Labor) was sworn in in the lobby with Homeland Security present to bully and enforce. Represents .004% of the fed budget. Links in comments

DOGE is at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)

Unconfirmed report from "ruskiytroll"

NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

This is 955 L’Enfant Plaza North, SW, Suite 4000, Washington, D.C. 20024?

in 8-10 years someone from Silicon Valley is going to invent the university, genuinely unaware that it's been done before

It'd be a godawful shame if "hr at opm dot gov" was flooded with emails right now.

Hitler destroyed German democracy in 53 days. We are on day 30. The purge of the military and FBI has commenced. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Spending Sunday absorbing the horrifying scope and impact of the Valentine's Day purge of government workers. The Admin did this on Friday before a long weekend hoping for less coverage & coordination - call your media outlets and ask for info! www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

I was prepared to commemorate the #250th, not relive it. #nokings #history #museum #250th #America250

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Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

And for all the scientists asking “what can we do?”, here’s an interesting suggestion: call your local TV stations and newspapers and tell them you’d be happy to be interviewed. if you do that, please let us know and we’ll share so others can learn.

"As the Minutemen were fighting to create what became defining American values, so the Resistance can fight to reclaim them."👏 prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

This Zotero library was put together to aid staff in federal museums in easily accessing museum practice and policies that can be used to support their work. www.zotero.org/groups/58593...