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Narcotraffic War & No Woke Museums
St. Therese Relics
Have you heard that St. Therese's relics are in the United States this year?
See the this link as to their visit in California, not sure if this is close to you or not. If so you may be interested in visiting the relics.
God bless,
M.E.
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No More Woke Museums
Dear TIA,
I believe that Trump is committing many mistakes. To drive away our European allies and stop overnight the aid the US was giving them for some 80 years is just one of these mistakes.
Other big one is the so-called tariffs war. Certainly the US should charge tariffs on foreign goods coming into our country. I agree that Trump should change the liberal policy we had of not charging tariffs. But, to impose enormous tariffs suddenly on many countries causes a turmoil in the markets and is already bringing inflation.
But, parallel to such mistakes, Trump is doing some good things. One of them is to fight the DEI agenda – diversity, equality, inclusion – and to fight the LGBT and transgender ideology.
The term "woke" has been used to express the leftist ideology. Well, I am glad that our president is now going after "woke" campuses and museums. Please read the attached article that tells about it.
Good evening,
G.L.
Sarah Holliday
August 20, 2025 - President Donald Trump is not happy with the Smithsonian. Washington’s popular chain of taxpayer-funded museums has been accused of being “woke,” and according to the president, he is “not going to allow this” to continue.
On Tuesday, Trump shared a lengthy post on Truth Social detailing his concerns. “The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” he wrote. But the Smithsonian? That, he added, is “OUT OF CONTROL.” As such, he’s unleashed his legal team to probe Washington’s museums and scrub them of anything considered “woke.” Notably, Trump has taken a similar stand against forms of progressivism like LGBT activism and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives — on college campuses and other academic institutions. According to Trump, his efforts targeting museums are no different.
So, what is the Smithsonian guilty of? Allegedly, the museums have been caught promoting “overt ideological content, radical gender ideology, LGBT propaganda,” The Daily Wire reported. The outlet added that they’ve also come under fire for the “aggressive reframing of events like the COVID pandemic or the Black Lives Matter movement,” and, as Trump put it, discussing “how horrible our Country is.”
In addition to launching his own investigation, the president instructed the Smithsonian Institute to conduct its own review of its exhibits. With America’s 250th birthday coming up, Trump is hoping to see change soon.
During a recent episode of “Washington Watch,” guest host Jody Hice spoke with Steven Policastro, the founder and director of the International Association for Creation, which has been monitoring bias in museums since 2016.
“Since 2016,” Policastro explained, “my team and I have been working to make sure that not only are the museums catalogued appropriately and properly but also tracking bias that happens within the museums.” Concerning the conversation that’s emerged in recent days, Policastro said it “is very encouraging to see the administration taking further steps to increase the catalogue and make known to the American public what is in our museums.”
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Each category, Policastro emphasized, has “succumbed, unfortunately, to the pressure over the last half decade of woke agendas.” This includes “a lot of the literature, even online with the websites, and some of the videos and virtual presentations that they have available through the Smithsonian Institution.”
As for how long this has been going on, Policastro explained that “within the context of the Smithsonian Institution, there are some pretty clear markers of what happened [and] how we got to where we are today.” For instance, over the last several years, there have been “undercurrents of wokeism.” Especially, he stressed, with the rise of DEI, which “started moving into our cultural institutions and undermining the very foundation of American greatness and what makes our country the place that we all enjoy with freedom and liberty.” Over time, “many of the exhibits slowly … [moved] towards an agenda.”
Hice asked if any of the Smithsonian museums, of which there are 19 plus the National Zoo, were “worse offenders” than others. Policastro responded by calling them out one by one: “the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the African American History Museum are all places that we’ve seen a lot of the DEI agenda being pushed — whether that’s revisionist history, whether that’s bias against certain religious groups, or even pushing alternate lifestyles, such as homosexuality or the pro-choice movement.”
So, when it comes to what exactly the Trump administration’s looking to root out, Policastro explained that “they’re looking primarily … at historical displays, while also going through guidelines and standards.” Trump’s team is looking at how the museums are getting their displays and “noting which ones should be addressed.” And with the semi-quincentennial coming up, Policastro noted they’re also asking themselves, “How did we get here and what changes need to be made so that, hopefully, we don’t end up back here in the future?”
In fact, not wanting agendas to take over museums is part of why Policastro started the Smithsonian Advocacy Project. This project initially started in 2016. But in the last year especially, they’ve been “working on the Hill in both the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the Senate to codify President Trump’s Executive Order 14253,” which aims at “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
So far, Policastro stated, it’s “been a really good process.” Ultimately, he concluded, “[W]e cannot just hope that in the next four years this will continue with the next president.” Rather, “we have to make sure it does, and to make sure, we must codify what President Trump has laid out and his agenda for the Smithsonian Institution and other cultural institutions … such as the Kennedy Center.”
Original here
Posted August 21, 2025
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A friend from France sent me the photo below, which shows eight US warships along the Venezuela coast, [with their names blurred on the original]. He did not tell me from where he got it. What I know for sure is that the Pentagon authorized three destroyers to go to Venezuela having about 4,000 Marines onboard.
The goal is part of the war against the narcotraffic. You may check for yourself by watching this video.
This deployment of warships is causing an internal turmoil in Venezuela; in response Maduro is recruiting, training and arming 4.5 million men to face the 4,000 Marines…
I really hope that Trump puts out Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and then goes on to oust, Gustavo Petro in Colombia as well, but I am not sure whether all this is real or show.
Why is that? Do you remember how Clinton invented a war with Al-Qaeda in Kenya and Tanzania to divert attention from the Monika Lewinsky scandal? For Trump the “war in Venezuela” is a good thing to divert public attention from his refusal to reveal the Epstein files.
For Maduro it is an excellent opportunity to boast patriotism and get rid of all opposition under the pretext of “treason to the motherland.”
Let us see what will come.
Keep up the good work,
P.M.