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The latest target for Trump's crackdowns is the Smithsonian Institution and its museums and education and research centers. A new executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from programs at the Institution, which receives federal funding. Here's more from MSNBC's MaddowBlog.

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MSNBC · Trump order targets ‘improper’ ideology at the Smithsonian InstitutionBy Steve Benen
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Yale researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) were looking for 35,000 missing Ukrainian children, until DOGE cut off their funding. Mariana Lastovyria and Anastasiia Kryvoruchenko write for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive about what will happen now.
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The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak · How DOGE scrapped the hunt for Ukraine’s missing childrenBy Mariana Lastovyria