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3.3.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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March third, twenty twenty sixth. As a reminder, Radio I
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printed material. Your reader for to day is any praiser
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to day's from page. Headlines from the Washington Post are
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US could send ground troops, Pentapon braces for more casualties
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heatsef doesn't rule out putting boots on the ground. Next,
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How n p s put Trump orders into action? Data
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base shows scope of effort to revise remove information from parts.
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Next strikes on are on spark accusations of bad faith
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negotiations by U s our. Next headline high Court balances
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pot against gun rights, and the final headline from to
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bills low wins over. Now, let's turn to our first
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article entitled US could send ground troops, Pentagon braces for
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more casualties headstaff doesn't rule out putting boots on the
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ground by Tara copp, Alex Horton and Dan Lamouth. Defense
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Secretary Pete Headsath on Monday would not rule out the
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possibility of sending American ground troops to Iran or articulate
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the Trump Administration's exit strategy as the Pentagon attempts to
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secure a quick, decisive victory while limiting US bloodshed. HEADSEP,
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joined by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane, delivered his
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first public remarks to reporters as US and Israeli forces
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carried out a third day of attacks on Iran's military
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infrastructure and as a reigning forces hit American bases throughout
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the Middle East. Hegsaf, who as an Army National Guard
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officer served during the Iraq War, struck a combative tone
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early on in the briefing, defending President Bom Trump's decision
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to authorize the operation against Iran, chastising the administration's critics
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and vowing that unlike recent US wars, this one would
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not be endless. Our generation knows better, the Defense Secretary
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said in a prepared statement at the briefing's outset, and
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so does this president. But there are signs that the
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military's needs are already evolving, and that the conflict could
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become more costly and drawn out than the President perhaps
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had anticipated. Six US service members have died as a
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result of Iranian counter shikes, officials said, and three advanced
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aircraft have been lost. Trump told reporters at the White
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House lay or Monday that the US military had projected
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that the operation could take four to five weeks, but
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we had the capability to go far longer than that.
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Cain said additional personnel were being moved into the region
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Monday to support the operation. He would not provide specifics,
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except to say that some of the additional forces included
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tactical aviation units. A person familiar with the military's plans,
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speaking like some others, on the condition of anonymity because
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the matter is highly sensitive. So the Pentagon also was
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working to move more air defense assets into the region.
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The Army has been directed to send additional medical support
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and ammunition technicians to Europe, a defense official said. Both
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people for the General and US Central Command, which oversees
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military operations in the Middle East, declined to specify how
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many additional trips would be deployed. Approximately fifty thousand service
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members already are involved in the operation, a US official said.
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The ambitious objectives that the Trump administration has set the
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destruction of Iran's navy, its air defenses, its command and
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control operations, and its ballistic, missile and nuclear capabilities have
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required a massive, coordinated effort involving the military, cyber space, naval,
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air and ground forces. Hundreds of fighter jets, ships, and
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drones has struck so many of Iran's weapon systems that
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Kin said the US had achieved local air superiority over Iran.
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While the steady attack hit more than one thousand targets
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in the first twenty four hours, some of the hardest
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rests to eliminate remained, notably Iran's vast feet of shah
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head drones and its long range missiles. In comments to
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The New York Post on Monday, Trump acknowledged that he
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had not ruled out sending ground forces into Iran if
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they were necessary. Achieving the administration's objectives will take some time,
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Kin said, adding that in some cases the work will
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be difficult and gritty. We expect to take additional losses,
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and as always, we will work to minimize US laws,
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Kin said. Officials announced ahead of the Pentagon briefing that
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a fourth American service member had died as a result
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of the hostilities, succumbing to moon suffered in Iran's ferocious counterattack.
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The death poll was revised to six a few hours later,
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when officials disclosed that the remains of two previously unaccounted
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for service members had been recovered from a facility hit
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by an Iranian strive. All six deaths occurred in Kuwait
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in an incident that left several other service members seriously injured,
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official said. Separately, officials said that the Kuwaiti government had
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acknowledged that its military had mistakenly shot down three US
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F fifteen fighter jets Monday, in what officials called a
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friendly fire incident. The six crew members ejected safely, had
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been safely recovered and are unstable condition, Sencom said in
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a statement. The State Department issued a warning urging Americans
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in more than a dozen countries to depart now, saying
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they faced serious safety risks from Iran's ongoing retaliatory strikes.
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In Pahrain, an attack drone hit a hotel entering two
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Defense Department employees, according to a State Department cable reviewed
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by The Washington Post. The US Embassy there had advised
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U s citizens to avoid hotels in the capital Manama
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after the Crown Plaza, a luxury property there, was attacked
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Sunday morning, the US Embassy in Kuwait came under attack twice,
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according to separate cables reviewed by the Post, though it
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did not appear that anyone was injured. Smoke was seen
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rising over the embassy Monday, and personnel there were instructed
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to shelter in place. Found officials said the US Embassy
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in Riyad was hit by two drones, causing manner damage
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At the Pentagon, Heads sought to frame the military assault
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as a just response to Tehran's years long targeting of
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America and American interests throughout the Middle East, and a
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necessary preventative move. Iran's massive arsenal of missiles and drums,
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he said, was built to shield for the nuclear blackmail ambition.
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Our bases, our people, our allies all in their crosshairs.
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Yet he appeared to contradict statements made by the President
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over the past three days, declaring that the fight with
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Iran is not a so called regime change war. Trump
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has explicitly said that is his objective. In addition to
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destroying Tehran's military capabilities. Over the weekend, Trump said that
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the military action, which the administration has called Operation Epic Fury,
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could last four weeks or more and that additional US
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casualties were likely. Had set scoffed at a reporter who
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asked about the president's expected timeline, calling it a gotcha
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type question and offering no commitment to that schedule. Trump
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has all the latitude in the world to talk about
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how long it may or may not take, Hegsath said.
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Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up,
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it could move back. Hegseth did not directly answer a
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reporter's question about the administration's exit strategy as far as
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the time frame. I would never hang a time frame,
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he said, adding that it is Trump who will set
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the tempo of the five It's on his terms, hegces said.
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In one exchange, the Defense secretary was asked what he
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would say to military families about why he had sent
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their children to war and whether he is concerned that
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the fighting will spiral into a protracted war. Did you
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not hear my remarks, Hegseth responded, We are very clear,
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I as the President, has been unlike other presidents, about
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the foolish policies of the past that recklessly pulled us in.
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Caine said that hundreds of Irragnian missiles have been intercepted
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across the region and that the US air defense network
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is working exactly as it's intended. His assertion, however, is
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complicated by the fact that missiles and drones have hit
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West bases in the region, including the Kuwait over the weekend.
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When air defenses fail to overt a deadly strike, Except
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appeared to achnowledges, saying every once in a while, you
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might have one, unfortunately that makes its way through. As
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the Post reported last week, Kane had worn the White
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House that munition shortfalls and a lack of broad military
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support from other US allies would add considerable risk to
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any operation in er On and the personnel put in
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harm's way. Two munitions vital to their defense, Terminal high
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altitude air defense or FAD interceptors and Patriot missile systems,
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have been extensively used in recent military operations. Patriots also
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remain one of the most in demand items by Ukraine
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as a defense against Russian minis attacks. The General disclosed
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that the individual strikes, which began during the daytime Saturday
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in Oran, involved more than one hundred aircraft flying from
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positions on land and at sea. US forces dropped tens
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of thousands of pieces of ordnance during the first two days.
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He added sorties that included B two bombers flying on
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a thirty seven hour round trip from the continental United States,
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and the use of precision penetrating munitions against Iranian underground facilities.
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US cyber and space capabilities were employed to blind Iranian
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forces in fance of the assault. Kane said. The effort
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disrupted their communications, he said, leaving the adversary without the
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ability to coordinate or respond effectively. This article is accompanied
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by photos. The first he's captioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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and General Dan Kane, chairman of the Joint Cheese's Staff,
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breached the news media on military operations against Iran on
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lad Brendan Smilowski AFP getty Images. The photo shows both
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men at podiums turned slightly away from each other, with
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an American flag in the background. The next photo was
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captioned Defense Secretary Pte Hetze struck a combative tone early
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on in the Pentagon News briefing Branden Smilowski AFP Getty Images.
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The photo was taken from the Secretary's left side and
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shows him gesturing with his right arm. General Kane is
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in the foreground. Karen De Young, Susannah, George Meryll Cornfield,
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Noah Robertson, Leo SAMs, Adam Taylor, and Amy B. Wang
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contributed to this report. Next is an item entitled how
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NPS put Trump Orders into action? Database shows scope of
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effort to revise remove information at parks by Karen Bouilliard
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and Brady Dennis. At the Emma Till and Manyie Till
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Mobley National Monument in Mississippi, staff members asked the Trump
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administration to review an entire exhibit on the Black teen's
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brutal nineteen fifty five killing by white man and his
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mother's decision to publicize it, though the park staff warned
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that his removal would leave the site quote completely devoid
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of interpretation. At Arches National Park in Utah, park managers
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wondered whether a sign about the damage that graffiti and
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invasive species leave on the iconic red rock landscape vio
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leads a Trump directive to focus solely on America's natural beauty.
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And At Harper's Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia,
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staff members have asked federal officials to decide whether a
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document that describes an abolitionist murder by a mob might
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denigrate the murderers. These displays and materials are among several
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hundred that managers have flagged at hundreds of National Park
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locations since last summer in response to administration orders to
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scrub sites of partisan ideology, descriptions that quote disparage Americans,
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or materials that stray from a focus on the nation's beauty, abundance,
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or grandeur. The submissions were compiled in an internal government
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database and reviewed by The Washington Post, which confirmed its
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authenticity with current federal employees. The database does not make
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clear which of the plaques, maps, films, and books ultimately
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will be removed or recast by the Interior Department, though
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some have already been asked, but the submissions provide a
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sweeping portrait of the scope of President Donald Trump's bid
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to reconsider how national park sites address the historic legacy
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of racism and sexism, LBGTQ plus rights, climate change, and pollution,
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or whether to acknowledge them at all. A group describing
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itself as quote Civil Servants on the front Lines posted
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the database on two public websites Monday, saying in an
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attached note that it did so to show Americans how
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the administration is quote trying to use your public lands
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to erase history and undermine science. As for comment, the
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Interior Department issued a statement Monday saying that the draft
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deliberative internal documents in the database are not a representation
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of final action taken. The statement from spokesperson Charlotte Taylor
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asserted that the documents were edited before being inappropriately and
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illegally released to the media in ways that misrepresented the
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status of the zephort. The Department did not respond to
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questions about the status or process for the reviews, nor
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about specific examples in the submissions. The tone and content
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of the materials described and submitted to Interior by park
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managers very widely, reflecting the mix of careful attempts to
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obey administration orders, confusion about what might violate them, and
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at times apparent skepticism about the entire endeavor. Staff members
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identified a brochure at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North
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Carolina for quote possible disparaging of a prominent American because
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it mentioned that aviator and one time Smithsonian Institution Secretary
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Samuel Langley failed to achieve flight a parkscaffer at Glen
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Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona asks for clarification about
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weather displays on California Condor's returns from the Brink of Extinction,
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disparage Hunters, or tell a Success. Several submissions asked for
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reviews of book covers, book chapters, and entire books on
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sale at gift shops, including Incidents in the Life of
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the Slave Girl, an autobiography by abolitionist Harriet Jacobs. They
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are mostly on slavery and the black experience in Washington, DC,
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as well as a few on Lincoln's assassination brought a
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park official at Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. Not sure
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they all disparage historical figures, but they do cover dark
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periods in American history. Another inquiry came from the Thomas
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Jefferson Memorial in Washington, where employees shared a list of
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books on the third President. I am not sure if
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they really disparaged Thomas Jefferson, but they do acknowledge that
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he had children with Sally Hemmon's the inquiry noted. Bill Wade,
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executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers, said
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the breadth of the submission revealed the many hours of
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work that Trump's order imposed are already over extended park
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employees who probably should have been doing other things most
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of us believe would be more important. The exercise, Wade added,
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runs counter to the reasons many National Park Service employees
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gravitated toward their work in the first place. Park rangers everywhere,
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and all park employees for that matter, had been passionate
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about telling true stories about history and about science, said Wade,
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a former superintendent of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. It's
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a real affront to the values that rangers have. Others
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have embraced Trump's effort, including Senator Jim Banks, Republican from Indiana,
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who last summer wrote to top officials at Interior and
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the Park Service over concerns about quote woke projects he
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said appeared to violate the President's order. The President's executive
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order rightfully opposes a decade's long effort by our institutions
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to usurp American history with an ideology based narrative that
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casts America's founding and history and a negative light, Banks
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wrote at the time. In nearly a year since Trump's order,
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national park sides have responded by removing exhibits that addressed
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slavery and the challenges overcome by minority and marginalized groups,
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as well as signs about the science of climate change,
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but there also has been a sustained pushback. Last month,
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a federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered the Trump administration to
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restore displays a discussed slavery at a site in Philadelphia
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where George Washington lived as president. US District Judge Cynthia M.
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Ruff of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania compared the display's
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removal earlier this year to the mind control employed by
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the government in George Orwell's novel nineteen eighty four. Roofe's ruling,
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issued on President's Day, granted an immediate injunction requiring the
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reinstallation of thirty four educational panels removed in January by
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the Park Service from the site at Independence National Historical
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Park in Philadelphia. Two weeks ago, a coalition of scientific,
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preservation and historical groups sued the Trump administration over changes
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that already have been made, arguing that the removal of
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information about civil rights, climate change, and other topics and
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multiple national parks amounts to illegal censorship. That lawsuit filed
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in the Federal Court in Massachusetts argues that in Grey,
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officials ignored well established principles and legal requirements when seeking
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to overhaul information presented at national parks. Democratic members of
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Congress have also sharply criticized the effort, which they described
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as a bid to whitewash the American story. It is
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absurd that any president would go down this road of
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trying to retrofit history and culture in their own image
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instead of getting actual historians to tell us these stories,
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said Representative Jared Husband of California, the ranking Democrat on
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the House Natural Resources Committee. The hundreds of submissions reviewed
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by the Post run the gamut, from signs and exhibits
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about slavery and the civil rights movement, to how the
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effects of climate change already are altering American landscapes, to
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how the nation remembers indigenous people who inhabited lands long
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before there was a United States. Not every part flave
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materials that needed reviewing under the executive order. The document's
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reviewed by the Post show that at many locations, officials
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logged a simple entry nothing to report. It is clear
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that as government workers across hundreds of national parks and
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other historical sites scoured thousands of signs, read through publications,
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and surveyed countants' educational films. They struggled with what exactly
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might violate Trump's order not to quote inappropriately despaired Americans,
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pasted or living. At Cape Patter's, staff members asked whether
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information on the effect of light pollution turtles might be
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disparaging against park users. The park also pointed out a
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junior ranger booklet's mentioned of female pirates in the seventeenth
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and eighteenth centuries dressing like men to hide them on
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ship crewise, please review for appropriateness, the park's staff asked.
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At the Belmont Paul Women's Equality National Monument in Washington,
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staff members who surveyed bookshop items somitted pins, magnets, and
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MUDs that read well behaved women seldom make history, but
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many of the submissions involved even wayier topics in the
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nation's history. At Cane River Creole National Historical Park in Louisiana,
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park staff members flagged a planned exhibit about the history
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of the train depot that is used as the site's
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visitor center. The depot was still segregated when an ended
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rail service in nineteen sixty five and The exhibit relied
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on extensive consultation and oral history collections with black community members.
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According to a former park employee who worked on the
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project for the community, it means for the first time
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having that story being told in an honest way and
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actually just being told, said the former employee, who was
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laid off from the park service last year. It is
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now unclear whether the exhibit will be installed at Harper's
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Ferry sight of abolitionist John Brown's raid in eighteen fifty,
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an employee singled out a document that describes how a
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quote mob murders and abolitionists. Does this denigrate the murderers?
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The employee wrote, we can reward to abolitionist editor Elijah
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Lovejoy is murdered for his views a Civil War battlefield
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driving to a map was also flagged for its inclusion
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of direct quotes about the cause of the war from
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secession documents and Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy.
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The quotes cited slavery as the cause. True, but is
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this considered cherry picking and denigrating Southerners? The park staff
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wrote those quotes were used to provide context and avoid
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downplaying the role of slavery. In the Confederate Rebellion. According
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to a former Harper's Ferry media specialist who inserted them,
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changing the documents and the map what amount to pulling
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his back into a position of supporting white supremacy and
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supporting the Lost Cause narrative and a race the importance
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of African American history, said the specialists, who retired last
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year and spoke on the condition of anonivity for fear
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of retaliation. Along these Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
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staffers highlighted signs and literature that discuss segregation in the
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South and how non violent civil rights demonstrators crossing the
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Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in nineteen sixty five
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were attacked by armed officers. While these statements are historically
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accurate and supported by first hand accounts, staffords noted in
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the submission they may be perceived as disparaging by individuals
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who are less familiar with the history of the civil
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rights movement. Amid the numerous materials submitted for review at
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Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial Just across the
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Potomac River from the district was a line in a
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junior range of books that reads. In eighteen twenty nine,
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Robert E. Lee promised to serve in the army and
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protect the United States. Sixty one, he broke his promise
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and fought for slavery. Staffers at Arches National Park raised
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questions about a sign devoted to the effects of human
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caused climate change already visible in the park. The park
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seeks guidance on whether this entire panel is within the
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scope of Secretaries Order three four three one and should
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be covered or removed. The submission reads. In other places,
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it appears that park officials are wrestling with whether entire
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exhibits or even entire sites somehow conflict with torm's order
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to focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress
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of the American people. At the Mississippi side, commemorating till
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the very place deals with one of the grimest examples
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of racial violence in the United States. Without this exhibit
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to share the difficult tell story, the new MPs side
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would be almost completely devoid of interpretation and employee notes
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in an inquiry shared with a post, the exhibit emphasizes
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aggress of the American people toward a better future. Wade
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said he was encouraged by the ruling that ordered the
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Trump administration to restore displays that discussed slavery at the
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site in Philadelphia. Wade's group was also among the plaintiffs
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in a recently filed lawsuit seeking to halt the administration's
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changes and deletions at national parks, saying the amount to censorship.
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But if such legal avenues ultimately fail, Wade said he
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suspects the push to alter the telling of history at
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many sites will continue. The impact is that the visitors
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are just not going to get true, accurate stories, he said.
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I just think the public ought to be really concerned
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about that. In some places, such as the preserved hoom
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the civil rights activist Medgar Evers, or the Monzanna National
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Historic Site in California, where the US government once incarcerated
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Japanese Americans during World War Two, the entire site exists
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to commemorate painful moments in the nation's history. If you
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take away the stories, you take away the purpose of
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the park itself, Wade said. This article is accompanied by photos.
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The first is captioned Urists visit Archiest National Park near Moa,
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Bututah in twenty eighteen. Mark Ralston AFP Getty Images. The
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image shows four individuals, some taking photos in front of
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red cliffs and outcrops. The next photo is captained. The aerodrome,
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designed by Samuel Langley, is ready to be catapulted from
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a houseboat on the Potomac River Halton Archive, Getting Images.
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The image is a black and white photo showing an
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early wooden plane on top of a boat. A small
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dinghy wrest alongside. The next photo is captured A park
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ranger describes Civil War battles in Harper's Ferry National Historical
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Park in West Virginia in twenty twenty three by Joe
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Mount The Washington Post. The image shows a park ranger
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pointing towards the landscape in front of a large building.
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In the foreground are individuals listening to the park ranger.
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The final phutto is captioned A sign marks the site
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along the Tallahatchie River where Emma Till's body may have
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been found in nineteen fifty five UCG Universal Images Group
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Getting Images. The photosho is a sign in the field.
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The title of the sign is Crable Landing. The rest
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is not legible. Next is an item entitled strikes on
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Iran Spark Accusations of bad faith negotiations by US by
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Adam Taylor, the talks were not going well, but there
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were signs that they would continue. The top US diplomat
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was due to travel to the Middle East on Monday,
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and negotiating teams were due to meet again in Geneva
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for a fourth round of discussions later in the week.
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We'll see what happens. We're talking later. President Donald Trump
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told reporters Friday, adding that he was not happy with
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the way round was approaching negotiations over the fate of
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its nuclear program. On the his repeated threats to attack
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unless his demands were met. Hours later, US and Israeli
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forces launched widespread strikes across Iran, killing much of the
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country's political and military leadership. The assault has sparked multiple
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rounds of retaliation from Iran and threatened to plunge the
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region into chaos. Although he was officials say that the
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talks were in good faith. Critics of the Trump administration
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called the abrupt shift to war duplicitous, if not deceitful, Arraigning.
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Foreign Minister Atas Aracchi, who has led the Ragnian delegation,
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told ABC News on Sunday that the United States had
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attacked US in the middle of negotiation. The White House
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declined a comment for this article. The State Department did
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not respond to a request for comment. Among's Foreign minister,
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who had been mediating the talks in Geneva, also appeared
28:57
shocked at the abrupt turn away from diplomas. Daughter of Ucedi,
29:02
had traveled to Washington on Friday in what he saw
29:06
as a last s ditch effort to forestall war. According
29:09
to two people familiar with his plans, the Foreign minister
29:12
had hoped to make his case directly with Trump and
29:15
Secretary of State Marco Rubio. According to these people, who,
29:19
like some others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to
29:22
discuss the matter with the news media, he instead met
29:26
with Vice President J. D. Vance, as Trump and Rubio
29:29
were already on their way to mar Lago, the President's
29:32
Florida estate, from which they oversaw the start of operation
29:36
at the Fury overnight Saturday. I am dismayed, active and
29:41
serious negotiations have yet again been undermined, Abucedi wrote on
29:46
social media after the strikes, adding later that the sooner
29:51
talks are resumed, the better it is for everyone. During
29:55
his second administration, Trump has sought to combine his self
29:58
proclaimed status as a deal maker with an overt willingness
30:02
to use military force to get what he wants. His
30:05
critics have called it a twenty first century version of
30:08
dumboat diplomacy, an imperial ara form of foreign policy based
30:13
on military force. While experts have been left to guess
30:16
whether the efforts of negotiation are genuine or simply an
30:20
attempt to disarm and deflect, the talks with Iran appeared
30:24
to be a ruse, said Brett Bruin, a former State
30:27
Department official who served on the National Security Council during
30:31
Barack Obama's presidency, adding that the current administration will eventually
30:36
struggle to continue using such tactics as it is becoming
30:40
increasingly hard for foreign leaders to take Trump at his word.
30:44
This may work in real estate, where one side wants
30:47
to sell and another wants to buy, Berwin said, but
30:51
in diplomatic and trade negotiations there almost certain would be
30:55
a reluctance to make real concessions moving forward on the
30:59
part of anyone engaging with the US. Trump, for his part,
31:03
has said he hopes to return to negotiations with whatever
31:07
is left of Iran's leadership. US officials, meanwhile, have said
31:12
that their talks were aimed at reaching a genuine compromise,
31:15
and that the decision to strike was made only at
31:18
the last minute. A senior Administration official told reporters Saturday
31:23
that the arranging negotiators were well aware that the US
31:27
was moving large amounts of military hardware into the region
31:31
and willing to use it. We communicated to them that
31:34
this was something that would occur if we did not
31:37
see real progress on a real deal very quickly, the
31:41
senior official said. Rubio sends cancel trip to Israel this week,
31:46
disclosed publicly weeks ago and widely seen as an attempt
31:50
to brief as reigning Prime Minister of Benjamin Nette. Yahoo
31:53
ahead of any military action, was formerly mixed Saturday after
31:58
the strikes began. Although the last round of talks in Geneva,
32:02
where negotiator Steve Whitcock and Jared Kushner had been meeting
32:06
with Iranians, were described as productive by the Omani mediators,
32:10
and the next round had been scheduled for this coming Friday,
32:14
there is now no indication they will come to pass.
32:17
In June. A similar situation arose when Whitcock was due
32:21
to hold talks with Iraignian counterparts in Oman. Days before
32:25
the meeting was to occur, Israel carried out attacks on
32:28
several Iranian military leaders, and Whitcock did not attend. Aaron
32:33
David Miller, a former State Department diplomat whose advised Republican
32:37
and democratic administrations on the Middle East, said that Trump
32:41
must have known there would not be another round of
32:44
talks last summer, but that he continued to create the
32:48
fiction there would be the capt Iranian leaders off guard,
32:52
Miller said, which allowed these gradies to engage in their
32:55
decapitation strategy. The US later joined the assault strikes, king
33:00
at Iranian nuclear sites and leaving them totally obliterated in
33:04
Trump's words. Arakschi, the Iranian foreign minister, told ABC News
33:09
on Sunday that it had been a very bitter experience
33:13
for US. The term administration also had made intermittent attempts
33:17
at talks with Venesquelan President Nicolas Maa Duro before embarking
33:22
on a studding military operation in January that resulted in
33:26
his arrest and the regime he once led cowed into obedience.
33:30
The US had amassed a huge military presence off the
33:34
coast of Venezuela before the January third ray to capture Moduro.
33:39
But soon tensions with Iran were growing, sparked largely by
33:42
Tran's bloody crackdown on anti government demonstrations. Trump had pledged
33:48
to intervene, urging protesters to stay in the streets and
33:52
promising that health is on the way. Around that time,
33:56
the administration moved some military assets in the Caribbean Sea
34:00
to the Middle East. Trump wrote on social media January
34:04
twenty eighth that a massive armada is heading to Iran.
34:08
By that time, the protests had largely fizzled after a
34:12
brutal response from government forces left thousands dead according to
34:16
independent estimates. Iran and the US resumed talks, meeting several
34:21
times in recent weeks. The last meeting on Thursday lasted hours.
34:27
The Omani Foreign Minister of Ucedi described the aptimist positive,
34:32
telling CBS News that a deal was within our reach
34:35
if we just allowed diplomacy the space it needs to
34:38
get there. Nate Swanson, a former State Department official who
34:42
worked on negotiations with Iran last year, said that he
34:46
did not believe the recent talks were faint and that
34:49
a deal was simply never close to coming together, which
34:53
he said was due to mismatched objectives and approaches. Iranians
34:58
were expecting to be abotiate within the confines of a
35:01
twenty fifteen nuclear deal reached under the Obama administration, Swanson said,
35:06
but the trumped administration had the exact opposite expectation and
35:11
wanted something different and better to justify Trunk's withdrawal from
35:15
that deal. During his first presidency, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatola
35:20
Ali Khamene had grown more obstinate after the June strikes
35:24
in Iran, Swanton added, giving this negotiators even less room
35:28
to reach a deal than they previously had. Briefing reporters Saturday,
35:33
the senior administration official appeared to confirm this, stating that
35:37
the US negotiators had told the Iranians that they would
35:41
need to stop enriching Iranian and that in return, the
35:45
United States would give them free nuclear fuel forever. The
35:49
Iranians rejected this proposal, the official said. Another senior administration
35:54
official said that the US negotiator's proposals were being met
35:59
with games, tricks, selling tactics, and that they had briefed
36:03
Trump on this, obviously he weighed the different options, this
36:07
official said. Two people familiar with the talks said the
36:11
Arabians had tried to appeal to Trump's business sense by
36:14
promising commercial investment between the two nations, including the purchase
36:18
of commercial airplanes. Benam Ben dee Lblau, senior director of
36:23
the Iran Program at a Hawkish Foundation for Defense of
36:26
Democracy think tank, said it appeared that Trump had expected
36:30
Iran to act like a supplicant and was too impatient
36:34
to try to get results through negotiations. The President's patience
36:38
for diplomacy is just like his patients for military confrontations.
36:43
He wants things to be short, sharp, and decisive, then Tellablue,
36:47
said middicided. Ric Coffin Kushner, Trump's personal friend and son
36:52
in law, respectively. Both men primarily had experience in the
36:56
business world rather than diplomacy before entering the administration. But
37:00
they have been tesked not only with the Iran talks,
37:03
but also with shepherding negotiations between Russia and Ukraine plus
37:08
Israel and Hamat. How is it possible that these two
37:12
guys can manage three of the most complicated conflicts in
37:15
the international system successfully? He said. The answer to the
37:20
question is they're not. This item is accompanied by photos
37:25
the courses captioned Special Envoy Steve Whitcock in Geneva last
37:29
week for talks between the United States and Iran for
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Blis Koffrini a f P Getty Images. The image shows
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mister Wicoff exiting a car. The next photo is captioned
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Jered Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined President
37:46
Donald Trump for the first meeting of Trump's Board of
37:49
Peace in Washington last month chips on medelvia Getty Images.
37:54
The item shows a head and shoulder saw with President
37:58
Trump in the foreground, Jared Kushner and Marco Rubio in
38:01
the background. And the final photo with this item is
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captioned Omani Foreign Minister bado Albusceti gives a thumbs up
38:09
as he leaves his hotel for talks between the US
38:12
and Iran and Geneva last week for Breeze Coffrini AFP
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getting Images. The photo shows a foreign minister about to
38:20
enter a car. Two other individuals are in the background.
38:24
Our next item is entitled High Court Balances pot against
38:28
gun rights by Julian Mark when FBI agents rated Ali
38:33
Hemenin's Texas home in August twenty twenty two. They found
38:38
a block nine millimeter handgun and twenty grands of marijuana.
38:42
Hemeni says he told the agents they could find a
38:45
pot in a gutter drain pipe and acknowledged to use
38:48
marijuana about every other day. Six months later, prosecutors charged
38:53
Heimedy with a single crime, being an unlawful user of
38:57
a controlled substance in possession of a gun, though only
39:01
as it related to its regular marijuana smoking. Lower courts
39:05
dismissed the case, saying the law violated Hemeny's second Right
39:08
amendment to bear arms. The government appealed to the Supreme Court.
39:14
On Monday, Justice Is weighed the constitutionality of Hemeny's charge.
39:18
Under a section of the Gun Control Act of nineteen
39:21
sixty eight, The law prohibits regular uses of controlled substances
39:26
from possessing firearms. In twenty twenty four, a jury found
39:31
President Joe Biden's son Hunter, guilty of violating the same law.
39:36
The issue before the court is whether the law needs
39:39
a strict Second Amendment standard that any gun restriction must
39:43
be consistent with the nation's historical tradition, but Monday's arguments
39:48
also involved discussion of the drinking habits of the founding fathers,
39:53
the growing use and legalization of marijuana across the country,
39:57
and even an obscure halusogenic drug. Some justices appeared skeptical
40:02
of the government's position that regular marijuana users shouldn't own guns.
40:08
Justice Neil and Gorgeous said it was an odd case
40:11
for the government to bring as it considers reclassifying marijuana,
40:15
which remains illegal under federal law, as a less dangerous drug.
40:20
The Justice asked if Hemny took a marijuana gummy bear
40:24
every night for sleep, could he be disarmed. Sarah Harris,
40:28
who argued for the government, replied that he could. The
40:32
case could have an impact on a significant share of
40:35
the population, and a twenty twenty four government survey more
40:40
than fifteen percent of Americans aged twelve or older reported
40:44
having used marijuana in the past month. More than seventeen
40:49
million people reported using the drug on a nearly daily basis.
40:53
A study published in twenty twenty four found as dozens
40:57
of states have legalized cannabis in some form. The Trump
41:00
administration has pushed to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana. The
41:06
court will decide if the law meets the requirements it
41:09
set out in its twenty twenty two decisions. New York
41:12
State Rifle and Pistol Association d Bruin, which SAIDs that
41:16
gun laws must be rooted in U S history and tradition.
41:21
In Hemedy's case, the government argued similar regulations can be
41:25
found in U. S history. Its cited laws from the
41:28
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that punished habitual alcohol abusers or
41:33
drunkards by throwing them in jail or committing them to
41:37
lunatic asylums. Hemedy's lawyers contend the law is inconsistent with
41:42
that tradition. While the laws could disarm people who were intoxicated,
41:47
they did not do so for people who regularly drank alcohol.
41:51
His team argued Hemedy was not charged with using a
41:55
gun while intoxicated, nor was he intoxicated during the twenty
41:59
twenty two According to court filings. Gorsich noted that the
42:04
nation's founders regularly drank and that at a time, the
42:09
standard for being a habitual drunkard meant taking sixteen shots
42:13
of whiskey a day. He noted John Adams had a
42:16
tankard of cider with breakfast. James Madison reportedly drank a
42:21
pint of whiskey a day, and Thomas Jefferson had three
42:24
or four glasses of wine each night. What claiming he
42:27
didn't drink much? Are they all habitual drunkers who would
42:31
be properly disarmed for life under your theory? Gorstch asked Harris.
42:36
Other justices wondered, what about marijuana makes it too dangerous
42:40
to use while owning a gun? What is a government's
42:44
evidence that using marijuana a couple times a week make
42:47
someone dangerous? Just as Amy Camy Darren asked, what about
42:51
each kind of drug? Is it the government's position that
42:55
if I unlawfully use ambient or I unlawfully use zanats,
42:59
that I've become dangerous? At times? The courtroom broke out
43:03
in laughter amid all the talk of drug use and drunkenness.
43:07
Jessics Elena Kagan raised questions about Congress regulating ahuasca, a
43:12
powerful hallucinogen that can last for hours and can lead
43:15
users have wild mystical experiences. Is that real? Barrett asked?
43:21
The case marks the third time the Supreme Court will
43:24
examine a gun restriction. After the Brewined decision up ended
43:28
how courts test the legality of gun laws. In twenty
43:31
twenty four, the court upheld a law that restricts people
43:35
with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. It also
43:39
appeared to loosen its historical tradition test in finding that
43:43
a gun regulation does not need to precisely match an
43:47
historical precursor. In January, the Court heard arguments in a
43:51
challenge to a Hawaii law that bans people from carrying
43:55
guns on private property open to the public without the
43:58
owner's consent. They appeared skeptical of the lost constitutionality, just
44:04
as Katanji Brown Jackson on Monday appeared frustrated with a
44:08
history and tradition test, saying that it could produce arbitrary
44:12
identifications of historical piquers used with inconsistent results. I don't
44:18
understand how this works any more in any meaningful way,
44:22
she said. The unusual facts in Hemeny's case have created
44:26
odd alliances, with a coalition of blue state supporting the
44:30
Trump administration's bid to uphold the gun restriction. On the
44:34
other side, advocates of marijuana legalization are supporting Heimiy alongside
44:40
the National Rifle Association which has long advocated the loosening
44:44
of gun restrictions. The NRA argued in a Friend of
44:48
the Court brief that the government failed to establish that
44:52
marijuana use is dangerous enough to warrant taking someone's gun away.
44:56
The assertion that marijuana users are dangerous is replied by
45:00
the fact that at least forty states have legalized some
45:04
form of marijuana use, the NRA wrote. This item is
45:08
accompanied by a photo captioned the Supreme Court is weighing
45:12
the constitutionality of a section of the Gun Control Act
45:15
of nineteen sixty eight Marvin Joseph The Washington Post. The
45:20
photo shows the exterior of the Supreme Court building. The
45:23
final linem on today's front page is entitled Solar powers
45:27
role in AI keeping utility bills low win over MAGA
45:32
by Evan Hawker. The exdeed of right wing firebrand and
45:36
podcaster Katie Miller has all the signatures of an APO
45:40
life of President Donald Trump. She blast out attacks on
45:44
the quote transing of kids, taunts the mainstream media, and
45:49
log slurs designed to trigger the left, but recently that
45:53
make America great again. Fire Hose has also contained posts
45:58
that seem off grand for the form GOP official whose
46:01
foules is Trump's domestic policy chief Stephen Miller. Solar energy
46:06
is the energy of the future. Katy Miller posted recently
46:10
giant fusion reaction up there in the sky. We must
46:14
rapidly expand solar to compete with China. Another of her
46:18
posts suggests solar is more vital to the US than
46:21
cold power, contradicting White House messaging and policy. Trump has
46:27
then blunket about his distaste for solar panels, calling them
46:30
a blight on the landscape, very inefficient and very ugly too, and,
46:35
along with Gwynn turbines, the scam of the century. His
46:40
administration has blocked hundreds of projects from final approval as
46:44
it prioritizes fossil fuels. Yet Katy Miller is no outlier
46:49
in her willingness to buck Mega orthodoxy on energy from
46:52
the Sun. A growing number of prominent Trump allies, including
46:56
former House Speaker Nut Ginkrich, Vetterman's strategy is Kellyanne Conway
47:01
and GOP polster Tony Fabrizio, are promoting solar as electricity
47:06
demands surges and energy affordability climbs. The list of voter
47:10
concerns that clean energy advocacy may be having an impact,
47:15
as White House signals is reconsidering power from the sun.
47:20
That tone of Trump himself has even changed. In an interview,
47:24
Miller said solar is crucial to delivering on the rights,
47:28
energy and AI dominance agenda. Look what Australia did, She said,
47:33
solars solved their rolling blackout issues. President Trump has prioritized
47:38
lowering the cost of energy for the American people. I
47:41
am simply advocating that solar can and should be a
47:45
driver of the solution. Asked if she is getting paid
47:49
for advocacy like some other MAGA heavyweights promoting, Miller would
47:53
not comment. Regardless, these full throated endorsements of a renewable
47:59
energy source that has been much maligned by Trump and
48:02
his advisors represents a departure from what had been a
48:06
pillar of the mega energy agenda. It reflects a realization
48:10
taking hold more broadly among Republicans that solar power, long
48:15
embraced by liberals, is increasingly indispensable to America's bid to
48:19
dominate AI closet, yawning electron gap with China, and contain
48:24
runaway residential electricity costs. These conservatives described as crucial to
48:30
US competitiveness, the grid's reliability, and their own movement's political survival.
48:37
Climate change rarely enters the conversation. The United States is
48:42
in the midst of the largest increase in electricity demand
48:45
in decades, driven by the explosive growth of data centers,
48:49
giant warehouses of computers built to power AI tools, and
48:53
other software. Tech companies have warned that their ability to
48:58
expand is increasingly conserve, strained by a lack of available power.
49:03
Solar is one of the few options for bringing new
49:05
electricity generation online quickly. Projects can often be planned and
49:10
connected to the grid in a fraction of the time,
49:13
requires renew fossil and nuclear energy sources. Together with battery storage,
49:19
solar will account for seventy nine percent of the new
49:21
capacity added to the US power grid this year, according
49:25
to the Federal Energy Information Administration. Most of it is
49:29
destined for Republican states, with forty percent going to Texas alone.
49:34
While the Trump administration's work to delay permits, cancel projects,
49:39
gut several clean energy programs, eliminate climate rules, and attack
49:44
state clean energy targets put solar power at a disadvantage
49:48
compared to gas, coal and nuclear energy. It is under
49:51
increasing pressure from its political base to consider leveraging solar
49:56
panels to address the U S energy crunch and affordability crisis.
50:01
Signs the White House is yielding to it emerged last
50:03
week when the Interior Department revealed it is allowing several
50:08
large scale projects it had block to resume looking through
50:11
the permitting process, acknowledging such installations aligned with Trump's energy agenda.
50:18
In a call with reporters last week, Energy Secretary Krishwright,
50:22
who was called solar power just a parasite on the
50:25
power grid, also changed its tone. Is there a commercial
50:30
role for solar power that can add to the grid affordable,
50:33
reliable energy, he said, certainly there is not. Everyone on
50:38
the right is on board. China loves thee We must
50:42
rapidly expand solar narrative because they produced more panels than
50:46
the market wanted. Alex Epstein, a fossil fuel enthusiast and
50:50
free Market's influencer, wrote onx in response to a Miller post,
50:55
they are using those panels not to power their grid,
50:58
which unreliable soul cannot do, but to intimately save fuel
51:03
for the coal plants and other reliable plants that do
51:06
power their grid, but such critiques are increasingly overshadowed by
51:10
the right Solar supporters. Among the laves of them may
51:14
be on again off again Trump advisor Elon Musk, whom
51:18
Miller worked for as he designed and executed the president's
51:21
initiative to slash the fetal workforce. Musk is now throwing
51:26
his influence behind a moonshot effort to wrest solar manufacturing
51:29
away from China. His company, Tesla is planning to build
51:34
factories that would manufacture one hundred gigawatts of solar cells
51:38
annually in the United States, which the billionaire says will
51:42
be a lynch pin of the U S Data center boom.
51:46
The panels produced each year would harness as much energy
51:49
as generated by one hundred legacy nuclear reactors. Must plan
51:54
also includes solar powered data centers in space. There are
51:59
signs that MAGA support for solar is gaining traction among
52:03
a wide set of activists. Solar and wind power are popular. Gingrich,
52:08
a long time advisor to Trump, wrote in a recent
52:11
outbad that warns against federal policies that penalize them in
52:16
the right areas, they make a ton of sense. Further,
52:19
these technologies grow cheaper and more reliable every year. Gigrich
52:25
did not respond to requests for comment. In Virginia, a
52:29
coalition of conservatives pushing for more solar power is printing
52:33
Make Solar Great Again hats. In Wisconsin and other states,
52:38
legislative Republicans are leading or pushed to allow farmers to
52:42
generate power from solar installations on under utilized acreage. In Nevada,
52:48
Republican Governor Joe Lombardo has been boasting about his ability
52:52
to talk the Trump administration into advancing free industrial solar
52:56
projects it had blocked Libor Solar, Dryly East and Boulder
53:01
Solar three. The projects would sprawl across thousands of acres.
53:06
Some Republicans are more comfortable embracing solar now that the
53:10
GOP controlled Congress has dismantled tax breaks for the solar industry,
53:15
which were seen by many conservatives as unfairly tilting the
53:18
scale in favor of solar panels in the name of
53:21
a climate crusade they did not endorse. Now, with a
53:25
playing field more level, some on the right are crunching
53:28
the numbers and seeing that solar, often paired with battery storage,
53:33
is still in many cases the fastest cheapest option for
53:37
getting new power online. We're a net importer of energy
53:41
here and we need to understand how to generate more
53:44
of our own, said Wisconsin state Representative Scott Krugg, a Republican.
53:49
His bill would allow any farmer to use up to
53:52
a few dozen acres of underutilized land, often where irrigation
53:57
and other equipment might be stationed, for private solar installations
54:01
that would feed into the power grid. The proposal has
54:04
the potential to provide a massive amount of power statewide,
54:08
he said, and free up energy on the grid for
54:11
such things as data centers. In an ironic twist, it
54:15
is democrats and utilities fighting the bill, arguing the installations
54:20
would effectively get subsidized by other ratepayers. Among the farmers
54:25
eager to enlist are Trump floaters like Lloyd and Ruth Klawan,
54:29
who been farming crops, including corn and soybeans, on their
54:32
two hundred fifty acre farm in Rutland, Wisconsin, since they
54:36
got married sixty four years ago. We want to save
54:40
this land for our kids, said Lloyd Klon eighty six.
54:44
By putting solar in now, the grand kids can have
54:47
something in the future. A Richmond based group funded by
54:50
industry and philanthropists called Energy Right has been working with
54:54
conservatives there to push solar forward in the state House,
54:58
and local communities were working to reshape the narrative and
55:02
show folks in d C that people in Trump Country
55:05
across rule America see the value of this from an
55:08
economic perspective, said the eos Carluzonk, who worked for Interior
55:12
Secretary David Bernhardt during Trump's first term. Energy Right has
55:17
recently expanded into Louisiana, where it launched its America First
55:22
Energy project. The solar industry is meanwhile working hard to
55:27
sway Trump, enlisting two posters central to his political movement,
55:32
Conway and Fabrizio, to build the case. In an early
55:36
February NEMO summarizing the result of a poll commissioned by
55:40
the footovoltaic film manufacturer First Solar, Fabrizio's firm wrote that
55:45
the belief by some in their right that solar energy
55:48
is anathema to write leaning voters is unfounded. While the
55:52
posts general does not cite poles paid for by advocacy groups,
55:56
that particular finding is consistent with previous independence polling. One
56:01
twenty twenty four pole by the Pure Research Center found
56:05
that while support by Republicans and Republican leaning independence for
56:09
solar farms had declined, they were so favored by sixty
56:13
four percent of those voters they were favored by ninety
56:17
one percent of Democrats. A twenty twenty five Gallup pole
56:20
found Americans broadly support investment in alternative energy. Seen acidem
56:25
as a graph entitled most Americans favor alternative energy? Which
56:30
approach to solving the nation's energy problems? Do you think
56:33
the United States should follow? Right now? Emphasize alternative energy
56:38
fifty six percent, emphasized production of oil gas thirty nine percent,
56:43
both equally, three percent neither other one percent, no opinion
56:49
one percent. Survey conducted March twenty twenty five, sample size
56:54
one thousand two national adults, source Gallop. Where many Republicans
56:59
drop line is on prioritizing solar over other energy forms
57:04
or bolstering it with government incentives, which independent polls have
57:08
shown GOP voters generally oppose. Among those giving solar another
57:13
look is Trump. A video he promoted on Truth Social
57:16
in late January evangelizes how solar can play a key
57:21
role in the AI infrastructure build out. It features venture
57:25
capitalists Chamath Palahapitia and alaf Trump's AI and cryptosard David
57:30
Sachs arguing that tech companies should leverage a Trump supported
57:34
federal tax break to fund mass installation of solar panels
57:39
on tens of millions of residential rooftops paired with battery storage.
57:44
Palahapitia says in the clip from the All In podcasts
57:48
he co hosts with Sacks that such an initiative would
57:51
free up massive amounts of power on the grid to
57:54
fuel data centers and factories, while slashing the electricity bills,
57:58
possibly down to zero for tens of millions of Americans.
58:02
Trump's promotion of the idea struck Stephanie Bosch, a senior
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vice president at the Solar Energy Industries Association, as a
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signed the renewable energy source's fortunes are shipping. We would
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not have seen that last year, she said. This concludes
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