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Wed Jun 24, 2026, 09:01 PM 4 hrs ago

Opposition mounting over orders targeting 'disparaging' national park signs

The Trump administration's effort to "restore sanity to American history" by removing signs, exhibits or various other installations from public lands and institutions that it considers "corrosive" or "disparaging" ran into a roadblock in the weeks leading up to the nation's 250th birthday.

A federal judge in Massachusetts last week barred the Department of the Interior from removing exhibits or signage from nations parks, effective immediately. The judge also ordered that the history taken down since the executive and secretarial orders were issued in March 2025 — at least 57 different items about slavery, climate change and the mistreatment of Native Americans — be reinstalled.

"Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood that defendants' efforts, ostensibly taken in the name of restoring dignity, instead seek to rewrite the nation's history with a white-out pen," U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley wrote in the order.

"History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles and achievements form an important part of our nation's story."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/opposition-mounting-over-orders-targeting-204809481.html

Poster child as to why this country needs a high inheritance tax.

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