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BumRushDaShow

(168,980 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:54 AM Yesterday

The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog

Source: Politico

03/15/2026 06:46 PM EDT


The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that “inappropriately disparage” historical figures is bogged down more than nine months after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum set it in motion.

The sheer volume of park signs, panels and museum exhibits flagged by park rangers because they mentioned topics like slavery, climate change or violence against Native Americans overwhelmed the Trump administration from the beginning, said three people familiar with the process used to evaluate potential changes, granted anonymity because they feared retribution. “They bit off way more than they could chew,” one of those people said.

But even as parks rushed to meet Interior deadlines, NPS last year dissolved in just a few months a team of experts created to decide if the material flagged by parks had violated President Donald Trump’s prohibition on excessively “negative” portrayals of U.S. history, said two of the people familiar with the process.

Many park personnel on the ground now are unsure if NPS will soon demand changes at many parks or leave things as they are, said a park superintendent, who was granted anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the media.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/inside-the-national-park-service-push-to-rewrite-history-00792849

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The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
The slower... 2naSalit Yesterday #1
"...said a park superintendent, who was granted anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the media." OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #2
If they were named BumRushDaShow Yesterday #3
That seems silly to me. OldBaldy1701E 7 hrs ago #4
In many cases BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago #5
People 'put up with a lot' because they have been programmed to do so. OldBaldy1701E 32 min ago #6

2naSalit

(102,244 posts)
1. The slower...
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 06:21 AM
Yesterday

The better. Most of the NPS employees are probably seriously disgusted at the demands.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,029 posts)
2. "...said a park superintendent, who was granted anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the media."
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:57 AM
Yesterday

The Park Service.... who rely on the public... cannot speak to the public?

Well, that is not suspicious in the slightest, now is it?

BumRushDaShow

(168,980 posts)
3. If they were named
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 09:01 AM
Yesterday

they would be immediately (and illegally) "fired" and would have to spend a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and time to get their situation through the courts to get their illegally-removed jobs back.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,029 posts)
4. That seems silly to me.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:05 AM
7 hrs ago

Why spend a lot of money on getting back a job that treated you in that way?

The fact that it happened means that it could easily happen again. Does one really want to be in such a stressful environment day after day? And, for what amounts to peanuts? Why keep doing that? Because we have no other choice?

Why is that, I wonder?

It seems to me that the oligarchs desire to make us believe that the only way reality itself exists is to do their bidding, and that's what is going on here.

Why are we continuing to pay along?

I guess the reality is that they do own us, eh?

BumRushDaShow

(168,980 posts)
5. In many cases
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:53 AM
6 hrs ago

you have whole groups of people - notably POC - where "private industry" will NOT hire them. Period. Regardless of any EEO "laws" that are now being systematically dismantled.

People usually put up with a lot before choosing to leave and in this case, something like the NPS was never a "politicized" entity (versus the federal agency I used to work for). In fact, IIRC, it was often known as the "best place to work", because those who chose to work there (at least outside of the administrative staff) tended to embrace the outdoors and anything needed to enhance and preserve it.

So more and more "under the radar" agencies like the NPS, are getting impacted by and are dying from, the parasitic infection known as "the 45 administration".

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