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Chuck Darwin

Trump moves to gut more agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries, clean energy and National Monuments

Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate several additional federal agencies, including one that oversees the federally funded media outlet
⭐️Voice of America (VOA),
🔥testing the limits of his authoritative power as he seeks to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy.

One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies
— some of which are focused on #minority business enterprises, #museum and #library services and #homelessness prevention
— to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”

It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,”
and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director #Russell #Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.

A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted #clean #energy and environmental goals.

The order terminates proclamations of #national #monuments created by Biden
and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology
(including mandates for electric heat pumps and #solar #panels),
among other Biden-era policies
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump guts several agencies, targeting Voice of America, librariesBy Brianna Tucker
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Mal

Very little #PublicArt is built by the little people. The disenfranchised and the poor leave few monuments. Many, and perhaps a big majority of, #monuments purport to be 'of the people', but the claims that this is true of the giant statues of the Kims in Pyongyang should not be taken seriously by anybody.

So what's left for the citizens is reclamation and reinterpretation. Not so much why was the statue built, though that's interesting and fine, but how do we use it now?

Ivan Vladislavić is good on this subject. Their monument is yours now. Read it into your life.

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earthling

The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World by Chris Scarre, 2024

How were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many more questions, examining antiquity's most spectacular feats of engineering and celebrating the achievements of the builders who worked without the aid of modern technology.

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#AncientHistory
#monuments

Expanding upon the theme of the traditional Seven Wonders, The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World incorporates marvels from around the globe, spanning the centuries from the first stone monuments of the fifth millennium BCE to the Great Temple of the Aztecs in the sixteenth century CE. Lesser-known monuments as well as famous sites are explored in detail, such as the giant stelae of Aksum and the mountain palace at Sigiriya.
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