#sevenmountainmandate — Public Fediverse posts

@HeavenlyPossum it's poised to be that, and it sits along a ponzi scheme trend line that includes Enron and Bernie Madehoff. In other ways it's entirely predictable. Oligarchs create a dilemma that negates any effects democracy could be poised to effect on a nation like America.

If Socialists sweep in the coming elections we'll see keystone investors run away with the bag. If the #SevenMountainMandate party maintains majority the grift continues. Poised I the balance are $1.65 trillion worth of off-the-books datacenter debt. If governance trumps oligarchy that debt comes due, if not, the digital infrastructure of authortarian christofascisim continues as a permanent feature of America.

It's the same fork Wallstreet offered America when "that black man" won the presidency and mortgage backed derivatives decimated middle class America in the double-aughts. Same trick, same winners either way.

#YaleLawSchool Fights to Stop #Trump “Deal”

#Yale #University has been in talks to resolve investigations into its admissions practices. The law school’s dean & some faculty have argued a deal could compromise its independence. [ya think?]

#law #education #HigherEducation #SevenMountainMandate #MafiaState #extortion #dictatorship #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/yale-law-school-dean-trump-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

…The National Museum of American History has been among the most scrutinized of the Smithsonian’s 21 #museums.

In July 2025, it removed references to #Trump’s #impeachments from an exhibit display, as part of a content review that the #Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the #WhiteHouse, WaPo reported at the time. The references were restored a week later.…

#UShistory #history #facts #Trump #whitewashing #revisionism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SevenMountainMandate

The report’s “central finding” is that “museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”

#UShistory #history #facts #Trump #Smithsonian #whitewashing #revisionism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SevenMountainMandate

A new report from the #WhiteHouse accuses the #Smithsonian‘s National Museum of American History of “extreme political activism” & blames museum leaders for erasing America’s heritage.

The report, titled “Saving America’s Story” & published Saturday, is the result of an executive order #Trump signed in March 2025 demanding “improper ideology” be eliminated from Smithsonian’s museums.

#UShistory #history #facts #whitewashing #revisionism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SevenMountainMandate

Ridiculous

#WhiteHouse report accuses #Smithsonian museum of ‘extreme political activism’

The 162-page report on the National Museum of American History marks an escalation of #Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian #museums.

[WaPo actually published this in the ‘Style’ section of the paper. WTF?]

#UShistory #history #facts #whitewashing #revisionism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/07/06/white-house-report-accuses-smithsonian-museum-extreme-political-activism/

#RuthBenGhiat is a professor of #history & Italian studies at NYU & the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. She argues that this effort is part of a larger autocratic project to maintain #power.

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump

Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the #Trump admin canceled her lab’s funding. The admin’s attacks on #medicine, #culture, & #education — which include verbal #threats & #funding cuts—are about more than just budgeting & bravado.

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics

#GiftArticle

Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education

It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.

By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVCfwC75UsaONz24l2NqAdQ

This week, the #DOJ took the extraordinary step of obtaining a search warrant for the home of a #WashingtonPost reporter #HannahNatanson. #FBI agents arrived early on Wednesday & seized Natanson’s phone, 2 computers & her Garmin watch.

Inside the WaPo newsroom, the impact was immediate.

#law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate

Early on in her tenure as Trump’s AG, #PamBondi scrapped a #Biden era policy that banned the #DOJ from pursuing #reporters’ phone records & notes while investigating #leaks.

The message was unmistakable: #Trump era investigators would welcome a confrontation. And now they have one.

#law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/media/fbi-hannah-natanson-washington-post-doj-search?cid=ios_app

#Pentagon to overhaul #independent #military #newspaper, calling it ‘woke’

Plans for more #Defense Department control surface after job applicants were asked about their commitment to #Trump’s policies.

#StarsAndStripes #law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/15/stars-and-stripes-pentagon-editorial-independence/

The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….

Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.

#law #SevenMountainMandate

“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.

#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate

…After months of relative quiet on the issue, the #Trump admin threatened in a Dec 18 letter addressed to Bunch to withhold federal funds for the #Smithsonian if it did not comply with a request to submit extensive documentation of its current & upcoming exhibits, wall labels, programming plans for America’s 250th birthday, & other aspects of its operations.

#extortion #law #art #history #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate

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

#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/

“No board vote nor social media post has the legal authority to change the name without an act of #Congress,” the members wrote.

“We’ll be working to block this disgraceful renaming effort at every possible opportunity & restore the Kennedy Center’s rightful place as our nation’s #cultural center without the burden of #vanity projects or #political influence,” they wrote.

#KennedyCenter #Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

Last week, Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-Maryland) introduced legislation to remove Trump’s name.

Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the #KennedyCenter, along with >70 lawmakers in #Congress, called for #Trump to reverse the renaming effort & remove his name from the building immediately [as if he’d ever].

#law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

Beatty’s lawsuit…claimed the vote exceeded its statutory authority & requested that a judge declare it to be void.

“Because #Congress named the center by statute, changing the Kennedy Center’s name requires an act of Congress,” the lawsuit says, adding that “Congress intended the Center to be a living #memorial to President #Kennedy — & a crown jewel of the #arts for all Americans, irrespective of party.”

#KennedyCenter #Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

During a rally outside the #KennedyCenter on Dec. 20, Sen Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said he and his colleagues would work to “reverse” the move when #Congress returns to session in January. “The day we get back, we can put an amendment on the … Interior appropriations bill to reverse this outrage,” he told the crowd.

#Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

The vote by the #KennedyCenter board to add #Trump’s name to the institution marked the most overt effort to date by the president & his allies to remold the storied #PerformingArts center in his image.

In the days since his name was added to the building, several lawmakers have vowed to fight the change.

#SevenMountainMandate #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK

…Sen. #SheldonWhitehouse (D-Rhode Island) told The Post that he became an ex officio member this year after he became the lead #Democrat on the #Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works — another ex officio seat designated by #Congress — but was not ever invited to board meetings until his committee began investigating the #KennedyCenter last month.

#Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

The center’s original bylaws didn’t distinguish voting powers, either. But its most recent tax filings list 59 “voting members” of its governing body — a total that includes both general & ex officio members.

[The #KennedyCenter currently lists 34 presidentially appointed board members, including #Trump himself as chair, & 23 ex officio seats. The center’s president, Richard Grenell, is also an officer of the board.]

#law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

The #law identifies them as part of the board of trustees, which it directs to maintain & administer the facility as a living #memorial. But it does NOT distinguish between voting & nonvoting members, which has been a point of ambiguity in the days following the vote to rename the #KennedyCenter.

At least one ex officio member, Rep Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), was muted when she attempted to speak out during the Dec 18 vote.

#Trump #history #landmark #preservation #JFK #SevenMountainMandate

And it raised new questions about whether some of were more interested in preserving the #power of the government’s threat against #Harvard as a message to other #universities than in reaching a settlement….

While the interactions between Dr. Garber & McMahon plunged the sensitive talks into deeper turmoil, they also highlighted the unpredictability of the #Trump admin.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate

Whatever the case, it was the latest twist in the long-running dispute between #Harvard & the #Trump admin, which has shaped up to be the marquee battle in the admin’s effort to exert more influence over #colleges & #universities it views as too liberal.

The episode also underscored the emerging role played by people inside the admin who want to extract more concessions from Harvard.

#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate

Dr. Garber wrote back to clarify #Harvard’s position. But, in response, the admin doubled down, introducing terms that were so far-reaching that #university officials saw them as nonstarters.

It was unclear whether McMahon’s interpretation of Harvard’s proposal resulted from a miscommunication or from a deliberate effort to force the university into a year-end deal after months of faltering negotiations.

#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate

Dr. Garber felt he had made clear in recent negotiations that the university would not agree to pay the federal government to settle a monthslong battle with the #Trump admin over its perceived antisemitism on campus & other matters.

But Ms. McMahon’s Saturday message said the opposite. In it, she thanked Dr. Garber for what she portrayed as his commitment to sending $200 million to the government as part of a deal.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate

The letter landed like a thud on Saturday in the inbox of #Harvard University’s president, Alan M. Garber.

The message, from Linda McMahon, Trump’s “education” secretary, conveyed an understanding of an emerging deal between Harvard & the White House that flew in the face of the terms the #university had been insisting on.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump