The two officials—Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general, and Brian Nieves, a deputy chief of staff and senior policy counsel—were seeking access to the U.S. Copyright Office but were denied entry at around 9 a.m., sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The New York Times.
Despite Trump’s appointment of Blanche as acting librarian of Congress, library staff have reportedly been recognizing Robert Newlen as their interim replacement instead, according to The Times’ sources. Newlen was principal deputy librarian and Hayden’s second-in-command.
Staff seem to be waiting for direction from Congress, with Newlen additionally sending an email to employees saying he did not recognize Blanche’s appointment as valid, according to Politico.
Perlmutter was laid off from the Copyright Office after publishing a report on the contentions between artificial intelligence and fair use.
Oh, of course it’s ultimately about trying to do an end-run around Congress in order to enable the AI grift. Everything is always in service of one of the grifters providing Trump with a slush fund.
I’m so tired of all this.
It checks out that the people that read the most know the book the orange is trying to follow.
That guy looks like he’s ready to murder some brown people’s history books right about now!
Wow, I didn’t have the Library of Congress pegged as the one government agency that would actually tell orangeboi et al to go fuck themselves. But I’m not disappointed that they are.
Libraries are more radical than skateboards, this is just how libraries be
Librarians are interesting folk. I’m not surprised.
Freaky-deaky is a more accurate description.
In the best way!
Oh certainly.
My mom was a librarian and can confirm, librarians are weird badasses.
These are the last people between the curated knowledge of the nation and fascists who want to burn it. And they know it.
Park rangers aren’t taking this lying down either.
Disagree, sure there are occasional leaks but I can promise you that the leadership is moving forward quickly in following orders as they come down. There is no real resistance coming from the park service unfortunatly
Intellectuals are usually the most willing to resist authoritarianism.
That’s why they are usually one of the very early targets.
Not “New Bosses”. They have not been legally appointed to the position. They are intruders posing as officials to gain unlawful access
Separation of powers - they literally can not be legally appointed by the executive.
Librarians when some maga chucklefuck demands to see the records
Well done, these guardians of knowledge are fighting a battle for history itself.
Jenkins!
I take issue with the title.
The term “new MAGA bosses” says “these ARE their new bosses and the staff aren’t letting THEIR NEW BOSSES in”
Ajent Ornj doesn’t have the authority to place these goons into the library of congress, therefore THEY ARE NOT BOSSES, new or otherwise. They are THUGS trying to break into a library after being told to leave, because they are there to ruin any positive thing there and burn half the contents. Figuratively or a literal bonfire, doesn’t matter.
Suggested new title: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STAFF TURN AWAY MAGA THUGS WHO CLAIM AUTHORITY WHERE NONE EXISTS
Why couldn’t other agencies do this? Almost none of the DOGE crap that’s been done has been legal. So why did anybody listen to them at all?
Library of Congress is not part of the executive branch so constitutionally speaking, they don’t have new bosses unless Congress says so.
That being said, I could make the argument that DOGE is not a valid department and that all government employees should have resisted yet here we are.
librarians have been dealing with republicans trying to take full control of all libraries for many decades
I’m guessing librarians know how to read more than many other categories of federal workers.
some agencies have tried to fight back.
There was one division that I saw go by that did, and was arrested. I’m guessing that they didn’t expect this from librarians.
Librarians fucking rule.
Who could have guessed a group of educated intellectuals would know the laws? Also. These assclowns are not officials. They were never confirmed by congress.
They turned away unlawful access requests.
Fucking metal
Fuck yeah. Love this resistance to President Cheetos merry band of dipshits. And Capitol Police backing it up is even better. They answer to congress, not the fucking cheeto!
Push em back Push em back Waaaaay back!
This reminds me of the anime Library War…
Tell me more!
In broad strokes it kinda works like this.
In 1989 the Japanese government passed the Media Betterment Act to censor media that the Japanese government considered to be harmful to Japanese society, and allowed the Media Betterment Committee to act against organisations and individuals that are trying to exercise their rights under the Statement on Intellectual Freedom that went into effect in 1954 (amended in 1979).
However local governments opposed the MBA/MBC and established armed anti-MBA defense forces to protect libraries from being raided by the MBC.
The year is now 2019 and the story follows a young recruit into the anti-MBA defense forces as she battles to protect libraries from censorship.
