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Retired TX public librarian. My library has something to offend everyone. Unrepentant tsundoku practitioner. Also, (not really) too many cats.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026
Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
A federal judge blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don’t change how they run elections. It marked the latest blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to rewrite election rules.
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FEMA can’t condition security grants on election changes, judge says
The Trump administration had sought to limit anti-terrorism funding for local governments that didn’t check the citizenship status of voters.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The new fuel efficiency standards could add an average of roughly $1,600 in costs for drivers, a federal analysis finds. www.washingtonsun.com/energy/trump-…
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Trump’s New Rule Could Increase Fuel Costs for Drivers
The new fuel efficiency standards could add an average of roughly $1,600 in costs for drivers, a federal analysis finds.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data [via @yalee360.bsky.social]
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Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards reut.rs/3TVcuhl
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US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards
The ​Trump administration ‌has finalized new ​lower ​fuel economy standards, ⁠according ​to a ​government notice published on ​Monday ​said, officially reversing a ‌push ⁠by the Biden administration ​to ​force ⁠automakers to ​build ​more ⁠fuel-efficient vehicles.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Donald Trump increased the price of gas, and now he wants you to have to buy more of it." Doesn't seem like a difficult messaging challenge for Democrats.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Faith is now mandated, airmen allege.
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Airman Exposes Pentagon Pete’s Faith-Fueled Power Play
Faith is now mandated, airmen allege.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My latest: Trump’s ‘Historic’ Greenland Deal Is Old Wine in New Bottles After months of threats and tensions with a NATO ally, how much has the United States actually gained from the new security agreement with Denmark and Greenland? michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/trumps-his...
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Trump’s ‘Historic’ Greenland Deal Is Old Wine in New Bottles
After months of threats and tensions with a NATO ally, how much has the United States actually gained from the new security agreement with Denmark and Greenland?
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Politico @politico.com · 26/09/2026
Trump slashes Biden-era fuel economy standards for cars
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Trump slashes Biden-era fuel economy standards for cars
The new fuel economy standards are the latest assault on Biden-era EV policies.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
new friend in my bathroom sink welcoming me to texas this afternoon!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
In a new paper, researchers argue that changes in the brain associated with aging aren’t a sign of decline, but a new phase of development that supports perspective, emotional regulation, and passing on knowledge to the next generation.
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New study suggests the aging brain is adapting, not declining
As we get older, the brain prioritizes wisdom over remembering details for good reason, according to researchers.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
How will the Supreme Court’s decision to revive a flawed citizenship database affect voters? We’ve already seen the impacts. Texas said it had used the system to identify 2,724 potential noncitizens on its rolls. But it confirmed this week that more than one in five were, in fact, citizens.
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The Supreme Court is letting Trump use a faulty database for purges. What it could mean for voters
The Trump administration said states made “some 60 million voter-verification queries" to its flawed SAVE system between January 2025 and April 2026.
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Indivisible Houston ❌ 👑 @indivisiblehouston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Texans
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This would be a great question to ask any Republican office-holder.
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Trump officials end review of how arch could harm historic sites
A required consultation process with local preservationists is being terminated, a Trump appointee said Thursday.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idea for a White House commission to control NIH grant approvals seems dead for now. Weekend stories created an uproar on the Hill. Bhattacharya and Vought are trying to sing kumbaya. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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ITEP @itep.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is not publishing data on the gap in unpaid taxes. The most recent estimate of this tax gap was $700 billion in 2022. After severe IRS staff cuts and fewer audits on the wealthy, this gap has likely grown under Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Get Vaccinated
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
honestly laughing so hard. we're doomed. but we'll be able to laugh at his fails a lot as we swirl the bowl
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.
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wylddane.bsky.social @wylddane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong. Unbelievable.
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Greg Iwinski @garyjackson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CNN, now with a special commentary segment from Mohammed bin Salman!
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FCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.
Royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will own nearly 50% of the equity of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
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KeithDB @keithdb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Who are those snipers going to be shooting? keithdb80.substack.com/p/trump-seek...
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Trump Seeks To Militarize His Stupid Arch
“At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at th...
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Politico @politico.com · 20/09/2026
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Bo French’s Blood-and-Oil Bid for Railroad Commissioner
The former Tarrant County GOP chair's statewide campaign displaces blame for the fossil fuel industry’s ravages onto the far right’s favored scapegoats.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.
The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
This is a massive mistake. The Chesapeake Bay plays a critical role in Virginia's economy and seafood industries, and we must take steps to protect the waters and shores of the region. I'm going to do everything I can to fight this. www.wboc.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Administration repeals Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Executive Order
President Trump is repealing an executive order from 2009 dedicated to protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026
The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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@FurrBooksFan.bsky.social @furrbooksfangirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@FurrBooksFan.bsky.social 🎵Don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot ...🎵. scroll to about 1.50. It doesn't have to be this way: youtu.be/-RYiL-7V7IY?...
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JFK's Iconic Speech on Arts and Politics (1962) | The Kennedy Center
YouTube video by The Kennedy Center
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kennedy Center plaintiffs call for resignations or receivership
Eight historical, architectural and preservationist organizations that are plaintiffs in a case against the Kennedy Center on Thursday called for the performing arts center’s leaders to eithe…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
tell me about it
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump's handpicked Board is trying to let him demolish the Kennedy Center, blatantly violating the court order, again We asked the Judge to make it clear: this American institution can't be demolished on Trump's say-so @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG fight on w/ Rep.Beatty👇 -TN
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?
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People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option
Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/09/2026
Ken Paxton is facing a historic lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban. trib.al/vvFKisS
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Paxton Sued by Family of Woman Who Died After Being Denied Abortion
Ken Paxton is facing a historic lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17/09/2026
IN BOLD— Rep. Beatty wants the judge to issue another Kennedy Center order that Trump DOJ can't pretend to misunderstand, "making clear that either the wholesale demolition of the building or demolition that would make public access impossible would violate the Court’s existing order."
Defendants’ failure to follow the orderly process of seeking to modify or dissolve the preliminary injunction—or even to seek an emergency or temporary modification—adds to the
well-established pattern of officials in this Administration moving faster and one step ahead of the
courts in an effort to evade the constraints imposed by judicial orders and frustrate meaningful judicial review. Plaintiff implores the Court not to stand by while Defendants repeat that pattern here. To that end, at a minimum, Plaintiff requests the Court enter an order making clear that either the wholesale demolition of the building or demolition that would make public access impossible would violate the Court’s existing order
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social piece on Bo French, the horrific bigot who is poised to be top regulator of Texas oil and gas industry, of which he has no experience, and the Lone Star state’s rising tide of Islamophobia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bo French wants Texas to be the new Rhodesia. His opponent just wants to keep the heat on.
How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
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debcor22.bsky.social @debcor22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn them to Hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Fascinating News 🇺🇸 @fascinating-us.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fossil tooth analysis confirms Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded fascinating.news/r/GEATwotZ
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Fossil tooth analysis confirms Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded
By using fossil teeth, scientists measured T. rex’s body temperature for the first time. They found evidence of an active, warm-blooded predator.
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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Three National Archives locations holding critical Bureau of Indian Affairs records are reportedly set to close as soon as Oct. 1, leaving tribal leaders without clear answers about where the records are going or when they will be accessible again.
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‘These records are priceless’: 3 National Archives locations set to close without tribal consultation - ICT
The Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco National Archives contain incredibly important Bureau of Indian Affairs documents and are reportedly closing as soon as Oct. 1
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