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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days. “Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”

To: ALL IMLS Employees
From: Director of Human Resources
Re: Administrative Leave for IMLS Employees
This is to inform you that you are being placed on administrative leave (i.e., non-duty
paid status) starting Monday, March 31, 2025, up to a period of 90-days. You will be on administrative leave with full pay and benefits. This administrative leave is not being done for any disciplinary purpose.
While you are on administrative leave, you are not permitted on IMLS premises. I regret that such directions are necessary, but we must safeguard legitimate IMILS interests and systems.
If you wish to enter IMLS premises for official IMLS business, you must first contact me to arrange your visit.
While you are on administrative leave, OHR will handle your time and attendance. Your
email will be suspended. You can reach me at my desk number, 202-653-4728, or via email:
adotson@imls.gov
Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency. Your pay and benefits will not be affected and will continue during this period.
Please contact me if you have any questions about this letter.
Sincerely,
Antoine L. Dotson
Antoine L. Dotson
Director of Human Resources

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Here’s a photo of two of the three DOGE mercenaries at IMLS. The shorter one has been ID’d as Nate Cavanaugh. I’ve confirmed Gavin Hamrick was on the premises as well.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Say it with me, "This is an impeachable offense."

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You should know they tried to shutter the Inst. of Museums and Library Services today, but there was press that unexpectedly showed up. There was a lot of posting on social media. DOGE and the puppet quisling they rolled out to show up, shut it down quietly, and move on were forced to change plans.

usatoday.com

Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy

Federal employees who work at a tiny agency that funds the nation's libraries and museums expect to be put on administrative leave soon

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social, I know the world is spiraling and there's five outrageous things that happen every day now. But if you could write about the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the administration's foiled attempt to shutter it today, that'd be pretty cool.

usatoday.com

Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy

Federal employees who work at a tiny agency that funds the nation's libraries and museums expect to be put on administrative leave soon

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The "museum and library" guy has been installed illegally while actually be the Deputy at an entirely different agency and he's only there for the air of officialdom because the actual leadership has refused to break the law in terminating their employees.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It would be... if the media were there to cover it. IMLS major professional partnership orgs like the American Association of Museums have tried to get the word out, but there's been zero traction with major outlets so far.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It's like VEEP, but nothing is funny. It's just cringe.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Second note: The statute states that only the DD for Libraries and the DD for Museums can serve as Acting Director. So how the fuck is Keith Sonderling all of a sudden the Acting Director? IMLS leadership refused to illegally terminate their workforce & now the T admin is just breaking the law.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I bet @schumer.senate.gov will definitely be there to practice legislative oversight of an agency he served up on a silver platter in the catastrophic resolution he let pass last week.

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Emily Olsen @emilyolsen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Institute of Museums & Library Sciences (IMLS) has been added to DOGE’s list for cuts. IMLS provides vital support for museums nationwide, supporting EVERY STATE with only 55 million in the federal budget. It only takes a few minutes to contact your reps. www.congressweb.com/AAM/92/?mc_c...

congressweb.com

Urgent: Protect IMLS from Indiscriminate Staffing Cuts

Please take a moment today to contact your members of Congress and express concerns about potential indiscriminate staffing cuts at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). As a small but ...

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

@abraham.bsky.social I was in the second row for your talk at last year's National Book Festival. This administration just gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, who sponsor the festival. Here's the ALA statement condemning the action. Please let your readership know!

ala.org

ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services

An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You're a fucking moron - you voted against the bill once it didn't need 60 votes. This stroke must have hit quite hard.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You are proof it takes brain damage to vote with the Republicans. Fuck all the way off.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You gotta be fucking kidding me. Is this *House that must act quickly* in the room with us now, Chuck? Is this an ammendment to the bill that was RIGHT FUCKING IN FRONT OF YOU? God, it sucks you won't be around to read the footnotes historians will write about this "decision". Coward.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@democrats.org NOW IS THE TIME TO GET INTO GOOD TROUBLE, ESPECIALLY THE SEPTEGENARIANS AMONG YOU WITH FIFTY YEARS OF FEDERAL LEGISLATING SENIORITY. BARGE RIGHT IN. FORCE THEM TO CUFF YOU. STOP THE DEMOCRATIC SLIDE WITH YOUR BODIES AND PUSH BACK.

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Imagine spending FIFTY YEARS as a FEDERAL LEGISLATOR, facing the end of democracy to get turned around by a rent-a-cop with a clip-on tie. My man, take a late coworker's advice and, "GET INTO GOOD TROUBLE."

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snarkystrategy.bsky.social @snarkystrategy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I know somebody who works for IMLS, and she is literally the most amazing person I know. Please, for the love of reading and learning, save IMLS.

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