News
Drawings by Children in Texas ICE Facility Are a Cry for Help
The heartbreaking messages, seized by ICE from young children in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, were acquired by podcaster Allison Gill.
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News
Trump Proposes Lowest Smithsonian Budget in Years
But while those numbers are still preliminary, there are other, quieter ways in which the White House is trying to control how the institution uses available funding.
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Trump Regilds DC Statues Mar-a-Lago Style
The sprucing up of the "Arts of War" and "Arts of Peace" equestrian statues cost the public $5 million in a no-bid contract.
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Trump’s Border Expansion Threatens 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings
The federal government announced on Monday that the Texan portion of the US-Mexico border wall will be exempt from environment preservation laws.
Feature
Smithsonian Hearing's Most Bizarre Moments Ranked by Tier
“Is Mickey Mouse racist?” Texas Republican Congressman Brandon Gill asked National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig.
Opinion
The Smithsonian Is Not the President's Museum
The Trump administration’s latest order marks an unprecedented effort to subordinate one of America's foremost public institutions to partisan power.
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Trump Orders Installation of Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum
The administration’s demand comes just days after the director of the National Museum of American History testified before a congressional subcommittee.
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Trump Installs Thomas Jefferson Statue in the Rose Garden
The artist behind the piece is also responsible for a MAGA-friendly Trump statue.
News
Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display
The panels installed by the administration in Philadelphia come just six months after Trump ordered the removal of the outdoor exhibition "Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation."
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Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%
The administration’s cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments include sacred Indigenous lands and archaeologically rich sites.
Feature
Artists Memorialize Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Houston Man Killed by ICE
Portraits, illustrations, cartoons, and signs pay tribute to the Mexican immigrant and father of three who was fatally shot in his car on his way to work.
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Trump Accuses Smithsonian of “Anti-White Activism” in Draconian New Report
The White House’s 162-page document claims museum leadership has promoted "extreme political activism."