Two Trump appointees escorted out of Library of Congress amid White House takeover, report says

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6. It just figures.

So the Trump administration fired 2 different people: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (the first woman and the first Black person to hold the position) and Shira Perlmutter, director of the copyright office (a government agency within the Library of Congress that administers the nation's copyright laws).

From the Wired article:

The Department of Justice announced Monday that [Todd] Blanche would be replacing Hayden, who had been in the job for nearly a decade. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Hayden’s firing stemmed from “quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in pursuit of DEI.

Anyone surprised by this? No? Me, neither! I was just about positive DEI was involved. If Schlump gets his way (and let's all hope to he doesn't) the next thing will be an effort to purge the Library of Congress of books about black history and the history of race relations in the U.S., works on feminism and LGBTQ issues, biographies of prominent POC and members of other oppressed groups, etc., etc. What a travesty that would be! Let's all cross our fingers and hope it never happens! *shakes fist angrily*

Here's what the same article says about the Copyright Office Director's firing:

The Trump Administration has not commented so far on why Perlmutter was fired. Some lawmakers have speculated that her ouster is connected to the report on copyright and AI that her office had released.

“Donald Trump’s termination of the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” Representative Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the committee that oversees the Library of Congress, said in a statement on Saturday. “It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

Translation: Eloon wants to be able to mine tons of copyrighted works to train AI, and the Copyright Office has other ideas...so of course Schlump's reaction is to fire the director and replace her with one of his flying monkeys!

I don't know which one of these firings makes me crazier. They both suck, and the whole thing stinks worse than partially decomposed road kill!