#oralhistory #creativewitness @pw.org

Writers’ History Lessons+https://www.pw.org/content/writers_history_lessons

House appropriators ask questions about $605M funding request for National Guard’s DC deployment The administration is also seeking $216 million for a reaction force to “respond to incidents requiring defense support of civil authorities.”

The Trump administration’s $605 million funding request for the National Guard’s ongoing deployment in Washington, D.C., is raising questions among appropriators on Capitol Hill.

The request is for fiscal year 2027, which begins on Oct. 1, implying an extended deployment.

Committee Releases FY27 Financial Services and General Government Bill Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the Fiscal Year 2027 bill for the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. The bill will be considered in subcommit...

Free DC is on the Hill this morning as the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee of House Appropriations is marking up its FY 2027 bill. A list of provisions related to DC and the full text of the bill can be found here: appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r....

What Lies Beyond Artemis 2? These Other Missions Are Setting Their Sights on the Moon This Year—and on a Future With Humans in Space. Via @smithsonianmagazine #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #RocketScience #Artemis 🌕 #NASA 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

It was ramps as far as the eye could see!!
#foraging

Join us Monday for this @oah.org webinar on The People's Recorder! Register at the link.
www.oah.org/2026/03/30/a...

A view of the U.S. economy from Route 66 — 100 years on Turns out you can learn a lot about the U.S. economy traveling along this iconic highway.

To celebrate a century of Route 66, Marketplace’s David Brancaccio took a road trip down the iconic highway — and learned a lot about the economy along the way.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman was wrong about how rockets get to space He and his crew on NASA’s Artemis II will be the first earthlings to travel to the vicinity of the moon in 50 years.

Before Reid Wiseman was commanding the Artemis II mission, he was telling Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” about when he learned how rockets work.

It's not fair to say that Trump's Iran War accomplished nothing. It made a ton of money for these oil executives:
www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Libraries WIN (again) in federal court. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA 150 American Library Association.

Government stops fighting reinstatement of IMLS in federal court. The Trump Administration dropped its appeal of an earlier ruling which required the reinstatement of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Following the earlier ruling, IMLS previously restored all canceled grants and research and staff have returned to work. This is an important win for libraries. But President Trump is still asking Congress to end funding for IMLS. Call your Senators and tell them to protect library funding. Head to ala.org/showup and take action TODAY.

"Libraries can move forward with confidence that IMLS funding will be available to sustain the vital services communities rely on. However, we cannot forget that President Trump is still asking Congress to end funding for IMLS. That decision is partly in the hands of constituents. Library supporters must call on Congress to protect the future of IMLS." - ALA President Sam Helmick

NEWS: The Trump Administration has DROPPED its appeal of an earlier federal court ruling that reinstated the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)!

This is an enormous win for libraries nationwide.

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2026/04... #FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get."
~ Tracy Chapman
Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht
#Booksky

May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope.
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2026 WGA Contract: Tentative Agreement REACHED. wgacontract.org

The WGA Negotiating Committee has unanimously approved a tentative agreement w the AMPTP for the 2026 MBA. This deal protects writers’ health plan & puts it on a sustainable path, builds on gains from 2023 & helps address free work challenges. Members will receive more info in coming days #WGAStrong

But dude, you have rocket fuel

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Following the White House Executive Order, NGA reaffirms its commitment to state authority over the administration of elections. www.nga.org/advocacy-com...

No Kings protests in Barrow, Alaska- the most northerly town in the USA.

#nokings

"... And that has shocked me, the fact that science is under attack, not because its conclusions are necessarily politically inconvenient but because it is a way of telling the truth."

"It’s hard to be a scientist in general right now, and it’s hard to work for the federal government as a scientist."

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter

Karen Tei Yamashita on tour for Questions 27 & 28: 4/19 @ 3:30 PM | LOS ANGELES, CA Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 4/23 @ 2:00 PM | LONG BEACH, CA Keynote at Comparative Literature Conference California State University, Long Beach 4/28 @ 7:00 PM | SANTA CRUZ, CA Bookshop Santa Cruz, with Alice Yang 5/1 @ 3:00 PM | SALT LAKE CITY, UT Salt Lake Buddhist Temple 2026 Topaz Pilgrimage, presented by Topaz Museum 5/6 @ 7:00 PM | SAN FRANCISCO, CA City Lights, with Paul Yamazaki 5/15 @ 7:00 PM | SEATTLE, WA Elliott Bay Book Company, with Karen Maeda Allman

Karen Tei Yamashita's tour for QUESTIONS 27 & 28 kicks off next month!

www.graywolfpress.org/events

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

“Highly unusual” = aggressively racist and sexist, in this case

Hegseth Objects to Merit-based Promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

#ICYMI: Our new issue includes steps to take a three-day writing detox; articles on how to revise your manuscript for symmetry and writing as a multi-tool; and reports on the People’s Recorder podcast as well as Bellevue Literary Review’s literature of illness and healing. More: at.pw.org/JanFeb2026

#podcast
The People’s Recorder: A New Kind of History
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Remembering the Civil War, Slavery, and Efforts to Correct History | Ep. 3: A Lost Cause? YouTube video by The People's Recorder Podcast

#podcast
The People’s Recorder: A Lost Cause?
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"I was born in Baltimore." - MELISSA 'MELLY' VICTOR, Our Feline Fictive Kin: Are Cats Full Fledged Family? [Season 2 Finale], 6 Degrees of Cats #cats #MarylandDay #MelissamellyVictor

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

Three more rounds and he's at a full year of golf during his two terms. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

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