Tortie study.

JUST SECURITY At the same time, the PRA respects the President's status as the head of the Executive Branch in a number of ways. First, the Act allows Presidents to exercise essentially unreviewable discretion to designate diaries, personal notes, and other documents created in the President's personal capacity as personal records not subject to the PRA's preservation and disclosure requirements.

(b) Documentary materials produced or received by the President, the President's staff, or units or individuals in the Executive Office of the President the function of which is to advise or assist the President, shall, to the extent practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately.

This perpetuates a far too common misunderstanding of the Presidential Records Act.

PRA explicitly defines presidential records and personal records, and requires POTUS to categorize records created or received according to those definitions, with no discretion to "designate" or "deem" or "decide."

So, it's okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but,
when I do it, it's "rude" and "antisocial."

Spring.

The Presidential Records Act isn’t complicated. It was passed after Watergate for a reason & it’s very clear about what belongs to the public & what doesn’t.

That’s what makes the new position DOJ is taking so disturbing. I explain here: joycevance.substack.com/p/killing-hi...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Maybe sweaty, drooling morons Tom Fitton and Mike Davis are once again "consulting" for Trump on the Presidential Records Act. 🙄

When I've been writing that NARA and the Archivist position are more important than most believe—even with everything else that's going on—this is part of what I meant.

A Disappearing Data Chronology About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...

nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Thank you No Kings participants👏

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict

www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

Tickets are available NOW.

‘Power to the People, Y’all,’ premiering at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM at Reynolds Place Theatre in Winston-Salem, NC—as well as virtually.

Dusty reels, living history: Volunteers fight to save Congo’s TV archives | Africanews Since 2019, Boukambou and a handful of fellow volunteers have worked to save these archives in the national broadcaster's former headquarters in the capital Brazzaville, whose ceilings are crumbling t...

Where there is a will - a story of determination in the face of scarce resources.

#archives #library 📚

www.africanews.com/2026/03/13/d...

Everything he touches, dies.

Eight days, and not only no other news, not a peep from the stakeholder orgs for archivists, historians, political scientists, public historians, genealogists, records managers, curators, gov info/FOIA pros, etc.

Here are some of their (quick) responses to past Archivist nominees (see ALT text):

Webinar Recording From @carl-abrc.bsky.social User Rights in the Age of Generative #AI m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzM... #GenAI #legal

I must.

The promise of a beer and ballgame in the near future is doing a lot of emotional heavy lifting these days.

If it stands and he loses by 2 votes—hahahahahahahaha

No surprise here.

The world is just stupid and scary right now.

Forever - is composed of Nows -
'Tis not a different time -
Except for Infiniteness -
And Latitude of Home -
Emily Dickinson

Accept people as they are, but place them where they belong.

Impact > Intent

Chop Wood, Carry Water 2/13 On red dogs and green dogs / Save the Endangerment Finding / Protect the Boundary Waters area / fund the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties / Banish the SAVE America Act / and more!

Chop Wood, Carry Water 2/13
open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill as Jeffrey Epstein survivors stand behind her, February 11, 2026

Pam Bondi gave a disaster-class in how NOT to testify to Congress — combative, smug in the presence of survivors, & likely perjuring herself in the process — she’ll be resigned to the annals of worst AGs in history

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, “The true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.”

National data, local stories: ICE detention in 2026 Statistics and stories from ICE's archipelago of detention centers, based on the first data release since "Operation Metro Surge" arrived in Minneapolis.

The data.
exclav.es/2026/02/08/e...

The path teaches if you let it.

#SlowDown #NatureAsTeacher #FindYourRhythm