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   Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:53:13 JST Eira Tansey

   The hostile takeover that appeared imminent less than two weeks ago at the National Archives appears to be going from bad to worse following the termination of Dr. Shogan. I've been receiving heartbreaking reports from friends who work at the National Archives in the last couple days about the cascading resignations and now, widespread terminations that are taking place across the agency.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:53:09 JST Eira Tansey

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     (There is a version of this that I have posted on LinkedIn and Facebook. Given my public visibility in the profession, I feel it's important to use the strongest language possible since I know a lot of people are undestandably afraid to speak openly about how dire things are. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eira-tansey-78592713_the-hostile-takeover-that-appeared-imminent-activity-7297726573980327936-Kh12?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAALOcZUB_t8jzeElLlNivO2DZqc5DD1Uiug)

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:53:10 JST Eira Tansey

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     Without archives, democracy is at imminent risk and the alarms are flashing bright red. Whether you are an archivist who works in the public or the private sector, an attack on the nation's largest employer of archivists is an attack on our entire profession. As the old union adage goes: An injury to one is an injury to all.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:53:11 JST Eira Tansey

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     As I've argued before, archives are foundational infrastructure for a democratic society. These wannabe dictators benefit from keeping us in a state of historical amnesia and without the accountability that good recordkeeping ensures.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:53:12 JST Eira Tansey

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     Archivists, regardless of where we work, need to recognize that attacks on archivists who work for the federal government will not stop there. It is no accident that the billionaire interests now taking aim at federal archives also often have major recordkeeping scandals within their own business ventures and show little interest in understanding or promoting history.