Chuck Schumer: Delete All Libraries and Museums!
Today, the regime is dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Chuck Schumer helped them.
When I was a younger man playing the video game “Civilization,” one of the first things I learned to do was to build libraries in my cities.
Today, the crime family/tech bro regime is removing libraries and museums in the country by dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Civilization has always been a primary target of this regime, but these days, as evidenced by the concurrent teardown of the Education Department, it’s blatant.
The regime can delete the IMLS without the usual lawsuits because of a combination of the recent Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by Congress with Chuck Schumer’s help and an Executive Order shuttering the IMLS.1
The CR, of course, was passed because of Schumer's policy of surrendering in advance, which, with a few notable exceptions, is pretty much the formal policy of the Democratic Party.
Reminder: Midterm primaries are coming soon. Do NOT surrender in advance with the excuse that Republicans will find a way to prevent those elections. Get off your ass and help stop these shizzlesticks. If you’re like me and dealing with some mobility issues, help fund a campaign or two to primary these surrender-in-advance types out of office.
According to IMLS employees, coup d’etat DOGE stormtroopers are scheduled to arrive at IMLS headquarters today, send all its employees home, and shut it down.
They are most likely there as I’m writing this.
The Executive Order, issued March 14, affected several agencies:
(i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service;
(ii) the United States Agency for Global Media;
(iii) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution;
(iv) the Institute of Museum and Library Services;
(v) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness;
(vi) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; and
(vii) the Minority Business Development Agency.
You’ve probably never heard of the IMLS, so who cares, right? But it’s part of the regime’s long march to stupid. This particular action will affect rural voters the most.
So what does the IMLS do?
According to Devon Akmon, the director of the Michigan State University Museum:2
The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and historic sites. Libraries of all types – public, academic, school and research – also benefit from the agency’s funding.
An example of rural funding includes the 2019 funding of 30 libraries in the fading husks of Nebraska farm communities.3 That’s just one small program in one state. There are hundreds more.
One of the huge issues with all these horrific DOGE cuts, which affect almost every aspect of American life, is that these less publicized ones are the ones we never hear about. The results of these kinds of funding efforts show up years down the road in news stories about successful entrepreneurs and scholars who benefitted from the funding:
Timothy Sutton was once a poor Missouri boy struggling to find his way after his family farm was eaten by oligarchs. Then he discovered the Innovation Youth Program at a small Missouri library, where he met with mentors and learned that the abacus was not the primary tool of accountants. He now operates a successful accounting firm in Lincoln Nebraska.
These kinds of news stories will disappear, and nobody will notice.
Meanwhile, the population, ever dumber, will elect even dumber people to represent them, thus creating an unbreakable supply chain of stupid.
MSU’s Akmon notes that the funding has helped the museum he oversees to, among other things:
develop high-quality audio aids for museum visitors who are blind or have poor vision.
Having blind people who are incapable of fending for themselves should not be a goal of this nation.
Even the Kansas City Star, in the heart of MAGAland, is freaked out:4
For years, Kansas City-area libraries and museums have viewed IMLS as an ally and a vital resource. The agency, operating in Washington, D.C., with just a few dozen employees, distributes millions to Missouri and Kansas every year. Missouri received nearly $5 million in IMLS awards in 2024, while Kansas received just over $2 million.
A significant portion of IMLS funds come in the form of library block grants to the states, which are then awarded to numerous local libraries. For example, the Kansas City Public Library recently received $11,200 for environmental literacy and $22,396 for teen interns, according to data from the 2023 fiscal year, the latest year available. Mid-Continent Public Library obtained $22,000 for Chromebook “to go” kits.
The agency’s 75 employees, of course, will take the immediate brunt of this attack on American education. Soon after, thousands of museum and library jobs will disappear, leaving more Americans searching for food.
If you’ve ever taken advantage of a library e-reader program or an inter-library book loan, you, too, will be affected. So will millions of rural voters who supported this regime thinking that they were smacking libtards in the mouth.
But for those of us who care about education, this is not a moment for retribution. The attacks against America are too brutal, too wide-ranging, too thorough for us to raise our fists at fellow citizens.
Rural communities are waking up, filling town halls, yelling at their congress critters that they didn’t vote for this. Yes, they did vote for this. Project 2025 was clear on this, and they closed their eyes and voted for it anyway. But all that is water under the decaying bridges of America. If they want to turn against their Christian saviors, we should encourage it.
The revolution against this regime may find its true heart in the places that allowed it to happen. Not a perfect outcome, perhaps, but better than perhaps we thought a month ago.
And if we encourage them, in the long run, they’ll be smarter for it.
Notes
Action Item
Call your representative, even if they’re a MAGA worshipper, because more supporters of the current regime are becoming former supporters every day. Republican congress critters are getting hammered at town halls. They’re all sycophants, but even sycophants want to be re-elected. Scream hard enough, and they’ll be afraid of their constituents even more than they are of the orange, cancerous lesion of Mar-a-Lago.
Demand that they introduce a bill reinstating the IMLS today.
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Thanks for reading!
Footnotes
“Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.” 2025. The White House. March 15, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/.
Akmon, Devon. 2025. “Trump Administration Seeks to Starve Libraries and Museums of Funding by Shuttering This Little-Known Agency.” The Conversation. March 20, 2025. https://theconversation.com/trump-administration-seeks-to-starve-libraries-and-museums-of-funding-by-shuttering-this-little-known-agency-252455.
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Shorman, Jonathan. 2025. “KC Libraries, Museums in ‘Scary’ Moment as Trump Targets Agency Providing Vital Funds.” Kansas City Star. March 21, 2025. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article302427449.html.
Chuck Schumer has betrayed us.
This makes me sick. 😭😭😭