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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

On August 21st of 2025,

the White House website published something called President Trump is Right About the Smithsonian.

This was a bulleted list of supposedly objectionable content from Smithsonian museums.

Parts of this list cite the conservative online magazine, The Federalist,

or the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute,

and the American conservative.

So, like, if you try to follow the links to see what they're talking about, you're going to these websites, not to the Smithsonian.

The first thing on this list involves material from a portal called Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which continues to be a very favorite go-to source of complaints about the Smithsonian, even though it was removed five years ago. It's like the thing that gets trotted

out every time somebody wants to complain that the Smithsonian does not match their ideological

views.

A lot of what is in this list is really pulled out of context or distorted, and it also includes stuff just like flying pride flags at the museum.

How dare!

Right.

You can tune in on Friday for our behind the scenes for my thoughts on a number of things about this article, because I have them.

It won't even be all of my thoughts, because there's too many. But what is relevant to today's episode was this.

Quote, the National Museum of the American Latino describes the post-Mexican-American War, California

describes a California family losing their land to American squatters.

In that quote, the words California and squatters are in scare quotes as though there's something fishy about those words.

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