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The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump's administration planned to revise information on key phases of American history at national park sites was deliberative and the employees who released it "will be held accountable."

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On Tuesday, White House officials laid out detailed plans to eliminate Smithsonian exhibits that they determined represented "improper ideology." This heavy-handed revision of U.S. history has elicited comparisons among staffers to 1930s Germany. trib.al/rRPOSM1

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... An internal government database first reported, opens new tab by the Washington Post and posted on two public, opens new tab websites, opens new tab on Monday revealed the scope of the Trump administration's effort to revise or remove information on African-American history, LGBT rights, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites.

"The narrative being advanced is false and these draft, deliberative internal documents are not a representation of final action taken by the department," an Interior Department spokesperson said. The National Park Service is part of the Interior Department.

Trump has targeted cultural and historical institutions -- from museums to monuments to national parks -- to remove what he calls "anti-American" ideology.

His declarations and executive orders have led to the dismantling of exhibits on slavery, the restoration of Confederate statues and other moves that civil rights advocates say could reverse decades of progress. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 01:39 PM | Reply

@#1 ... these draft, deliberative internal documents are not a representation of final action taken by the department," an Interior Department spokesperson said. ...

So, the final document may be even worse?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 01:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."
          --- George Orwell, 1984

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-05 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is why we need books, not book banning.

#4 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-03-06 09:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Not a surprise that MAGA elected a racist, misogynist, suck up to the super rich, mock the poor regime of sold out souls. Soon their propaganda outlets at CBS, CNN when it gets its independent thinking lobotomized, will not ever let us know how we are being gaslit.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-03-07 07:07 AM | Reply

At least German legislators took a vote on the Enabling Act (1933), with the majority rolling over with their affirmative vote for Hitler.
Trump let his capons in the Republican controlled legislature roll over without a vote or even a whimper.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-07 07:31 AM | Reply

Way past time to reverse the damage from indoctrination by the Marxists.

There's more to history than:

1. Indian genocide
2. Slavery
3. Patriarchy

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-07 03:35 PM | Reply

@#7 ... There's more to history ..

Such as?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-07 03:52 PM | Reply

#8 Proved my point. Thanks.

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-03-07 03:56 PM | Reply

@#9 ... Proved my point. ...

Not really.

Your current alias said there was more, and I asked what it thought the "more" was.

As a follow-up, your current alias seems to say that the deletion of history by Pres Trump is wrong, and that instead of deletion there should be addition.



#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-07 04:13 PM | Reply

I think I'll distribute Howard Zinn's book for presents this year.

#11 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-07 04:21 PM | Reply

And the excellent companion piece wouldn't hurt either, Morris:


#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-07 04:29 PM | Reply

Why do the "leaked source" posters disappear when there's an alert?

#13 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-03-07 06:02 PM | Reply

...Hell 90% of the site disappears when there's alert. My god. It's a honeytrap!! Run!!

#14 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-03-07 06:47 PM | Reply

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