The interim director of the Smithsonian&#8217;s new American Women&#8217;s History Museum understands DNA — well at least in a metaphorical sense.
Interim director Lisa Sasaki told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> that &#8220;transgender women&#8221; — AKA men pretending to be women — will be included in the potential new museum which has already received millions in funding because its &#8220;inclusivity&#8221; defines what the homage to American women is all about.
“We have a job to build a museum that’s going to serve the public for a very, very long time,” Sasaki <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/arts/smithsonian-museum-women-donors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “From the DNA of this museum, there has been a desire to be inclusive.”
Ironically, the DNA of the actual Americans found in this new museum does not matter to Sasaki. They simply have to &#8220;identify&#8221; as a woman while having made some contribution to American society deemed historic by the powers that be with this museum.
Nonetheless, the museum has yet to receive congressional approval, but it has raised $55 million in donations from benefactors such as Melinda Gates, Bill Gates&#8217; ex-wife, The Alice Walton Foundation, and more wealthy philanthropists.
The group already has online features up and running. It <a href="https://womenshistory.si.edu/herstory/activism/object/sylvia-rivera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> the likes of &#8220;Sylvia Rivera&#8221; who co-founded &#8220;the militant group and youth shelter STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries).&#8221; A <a href="https://womenshistory.si.edu/search/search_site?edan_q=phyllis%20schlafly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">search</a> for conservative icon and actual woman Phyllis Schlafly yields nothing.
Sasaki, for her part, has experience in the sphere of Smithsonian greatness.
Who could forget when she <a href="https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-aarp-and-kundiman-present-day-queer-life-asian-pacific-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched the digital exhibition</a> “A Day in the Queer Life of Asian Pacific America” as executive director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center?  That online presentation featured the following illuminating presentations:
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<li>Queer Elders: a series of four video shorts of queer elders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and sites in the South and Midwest U.S., curated by archivist, photographer and filmmaker Mia Nakano</li>
<li>Queer Check-ins: a series of 12 video poem “check ins” by queer diasporic poets throughout the U.S. and beyond, curated by poet Franny Choi</li>
<li>Queer Youth: crowd-sourced photography and short video by queer youth</li>
<li>Queer Motion: crowd-sourced boomerangs exploring queer survival, heartbreak and joy set to motion</li>
<li>Queer Time: a long-form essay on queer experience of time by poet Rajiv Mohabir</li>
</ul>
When and where the museum&#8217;s final location will open remains to be determined. It might lose space on the National Mall to the new American Latino Museum, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/arts/smithsonian-museum-women-donors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Times.
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The Smithsonian Institute announced that several of its museums would be closed Wednesday because of concerns about the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
&#8220;The National Museum of African Art, the National Postal Museum, the Anacostia Community Museum and the National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery) are closed effective tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 29, and are scheduled to reopen Monday, Jan. 3, 2022,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-temporarily-close-four-museums">Smithsonian</a> said in a statement announcing the closures.
&#8220;Like many other organizations, the Smithsonian has been managing the direct and indirect outcomes of the latest surge in [COVID] infections caused by the omicron variant,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Over the last few days, the Smithsonian has seen an increase in positive [COVID] cases and associated quarantine periods among our essential and operational staff. The closures of these four museums will allow the Smithsonian to reallocate staff and keep all other museums open for the remainder of the week.&#8221;
&#8220;The Smithsonian strives to keep as many of our museums open to the public as possible without sacrificing the health and safety of our visitors and staff,&#8221; the statement concluded.
News of the closures comes as Washington, D.C., where the four affected museums and 19 of the Smithsonian Institute&#8217;s 23 properties are located, has seen a steep increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. The District of Columbia has seen a 930% increase in COVID-19 infections over the past 2 weeks, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s">NPR&#8217;s coronavirus tracker</a>. The nation&#8217;s Capital is averaging more than 2,000 new cases per day. D.C. is currently leading the nation in infection rate per 100,000 people by a large margin, with 293 infections per 100,000, significantly higher than second-place New York, with 192 infections per 100,000 people.
D.C.&#8217;s spike in COVID-19 cases comes even as the district has one of the highest vaccination rates. According to data from the city government, cited by <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/despite-85-percent-vaccination-washington-dc-has-highest-covid-infection-rate-1663768">Newsweek</a>, at least 85% of D.C. residents have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 67% of residents fully-vaccinated. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also declared a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/averaging-one-covid-19-death-per-day-d-c-declares-state-of-emergency-and-new-mandates">state of emergency</a> last week over concerns about the Omicron variant and announced that individuals ages 12 and up would be required to show proof of vaccination for nearly all indoor activities by January 15, 2022. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-d-c-announces-covid-19-vaccine-requirement-for-nearly-everything-indoors">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Individuals will be required to prove their vaccination status by either an original or copy-photo of their vaccine card or a digital passport at restaurants, bars, nightclubs, indoor cultural and entertainment facilities, indoor exercise and recreational establishments, and indoor event and meeting establishments.
Likewise, beginning March 1, 2022, all eligible students in D.C. will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccinen &#8230;
According to local reports, exceptions to the mandate include “grocery stores, museums and places of worship.”
Businesses will also be required to check vaccine IDs and post a notice on their establishment regarding the need for verification. The mayor also stated that by February 15, 2022, all individuals visiting the aforementioned establishments must have proof of two doses of vaccines.</blockquote>
The mayor made the announcements despite less than one COVID-related death per day in the city, and despite multiple reports that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/omicron-not-the-same-disease-as-previous-covid-variants">Omicron variant</a> is less severe than previous iterations of the virus.

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It&#8217;s been almost one year since the pandemic began to take hold in the United States, and the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History is commemorating the anniversary with an announcement about a recent addition to its artifacts. The museum has obtained the vial that held the very first dose of Covid-19 vaccine that was given in the United States.
The Smithsonian plans to archive and record the history of the global pandemic and &#8220;this extraordinary period we were going through,&#8221; according to reporting by the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-news-new-york-new-york-city-coronavirus-pandemic-museums-e4b5dd577f75d4c012a3cecaf252d654">Associated Press</a>. The announcement of the procurement includes other items that correspond with the first dose of the vaccine.
The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-news-new-york-new-york-city-coronavirus-pandemic-museums-e4b5dd577f75d4c012a3cecaf252d654">AP</a> reported that its journalists were shown a special behind-the-scenes view of &#8220;the newly obtained materials, which include vials, special shipping equipment and the medical scrubs and ID badge of the New York City nurse who was America’s first coronavirus vaccine recipient.&#8221;
Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse, was the first person in the U.S. to receive a dose of the coronavirus vaccine on December 14, 2020. Lindsay is a black woman and she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/nyregion/us-covid-vaccine-first-sandra-lindsay.html">said</a> at the time that the she wanted to &#8220;inspire&#8221; people who look like her, &#8220;who are skeptical in general about taking vaccines.”
Regarding the wide range of items, the museum&#8217;s director, Anthea M. Hartig, said, “We wanted objects that would tell the full story&#8230;Everything from the scrubs to the freezer unit that shipped the vaccines.”
While many are scheduling pandemic anniversaries for differing times, the museum chose to use the date of Thursday, March 11. That was the day the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. It also marks the date that many Americans may remember life closing down as the coronavirus began to spread across communities in the United States.
Diane Wendt, a curator in the museum’s medicine and science department, said, “Our broadest mandate was to document this extraordinary period we were going through&#8230;We particularly had our eye on vaccine development from the start.”
The museum was not untouched by the closures the pandemic caused, and although it was able to reopen in September after closing on March 13, 2020, it was forced to close its doors again right before Thanksgiving as cases started to rise around the holiday season.
Hartig said that the group of curators was not deterred by the temporary shutdown of the museum. She called her group a &#8220;rapid response collecting task force&#8221; of people investigating how to remember this important time in the history of the United States.
The Covid-19 artifacts will be in good company in the National Museum of American History. The museum also holds one of the first groups of the polio vaccine that was created by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955, as well as specific medical materials and vaccination documents from that time period.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, donated his pink and blue plastic Covid-19 model to the museum last week to be included in the curation.
The museum&#8217;s administrators said that they do not know if the recently garnered coronavirus-themed items will be exhibited right away when the museum reopens in 2021. Their plans include displaying them as part of a larger exhibit next year that teaches visitors about the history of medicine.

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The Smithsonian Institution’s American History Museum opened an exhibit about Women’s suffrage just days before the city shut down over coronavirus concerns. Now that the museum is open, visitors are able to see the museum’s take on feminism &#8212; and many will be disappointed.
The Federalist’s Christopher Jacobs visited the exhibit recently and <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/leftist-propaganda-resurfaces-in-smithsonians-inaccurate-american-history-display-on-feminism/">reported</a> its inaccuracies and bias in a column published Monday morning. Right off the bat, Jacobs notes a sign listing the years in which feminist milestones took place. The sign incorrectly claims Roe v. Wade was decided in 1970. In fact, Jacobs explains, the case began in lower courts during that year but a ruling from the Supreme Court – the landmark ruling referred to today – didn’t come until 1973. This inaccuracy is significant because the display mentions the first March for Life occurred in 1974.
“Tom McClusky, vice president of government affairs for the <a href="https://marchforlife.org/march-for-life-team/">March for Life</a>, noted another problem with the display: By (accurately) noting that the first March for Life occurred in 1974 while (inaccurately) claiming that the Roe decision came down in 1970, it falsely implies the pro-life movement took four years to respond to the ruling,” Jacobs wrote. “While it is good that the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration is recognized on the list, by getting the date wrong on the Roe v. Wade decision the Smithsonian missed the major connection between that event and the first March for Life, which happened exactly one year later.”
“Roe was decided by seven men to control women through the lie of abortion. In direct response, the March for Life was created by one woman to celebrate women and life and to work to overturn that horrible court decision,” Jacobs continued.
The museum told Jacobs it would change the sign, but that is far from the only issue with the exhibit.
In a section about “the continuing struggle for equality,” the museum mentions the 2017 Women’s March, which wasn’t about equality but rather a visceral response to President Donald Trump’s election and liberal’s general disdain for right-leaning policies. The display even included examples of the pink “p***y hats” worn at the march, with the museum making clear they were based on female genitalia.
It is what the exhibit ignores that shows bias, Jacobs reported. The museum notes that “there was a backlash against the lighthearted hats when some marchers felt the symbolism excluded transgender women and women of color.” While transgender women and women of color were mentioned, the Women’s March display failed to note the anti-Semitism of the March’s founders. Jacobs reached out to the museum’s staff asking why anti-Semitism wasn’t mentioned in the display and received the following response:
The exhibition cases on the 1977 Women’s Conference and the 2017 Women’s March look at how the memory of the women’s suffrage movement, and tensions arising from the moment, can still be seen in the modern women’s movement. The curator discusses how new political symbols are made, how they are reconsidered, and sometimes unmade. The reference to women of color and transgender women was made in this context. We did not address the different, or specific, tensions between march organizers but do refer in a general way to conflicts and tensions ongoing to this day in another label.
As Jacobs noted, the Smithsonian’s museums received $1.047 billion of taxpayer money in fiscal year 2019.
This isn’t the first time the Smithsonian has displayed politically biased displays. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-museum-of-african-american-history-valuing-hard-work-being-polite-objectivity-all-aspects-of-whiteness">reported</a>, the National Museum of African American History posted “Aspects &amp; Assumptions of White Culture,” claiming  “self-reliance,” “the nuclear family,” “objective, rational linear thinking,” and thinking “hard work is the key to success” are all signs of “whiteness.”
In addition, the same museum also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/smithsonian-national-museum-african-american-hank-berrien">ignores</a> Justice Clarence Thomas, devoting more time to the woman who dubiously accused him of sexual assault than his accomplishments as a member of the Supreme Court.

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The &#8220;woke culture&#8221; of the 2010s has finally come for its biggest target yet: the hippie culture of the 1960s and its all star cast of outspoken leftists, including legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie.
Oddly enough, the &#8220;hippie movement&#8221; and its counter-cultural push is the natural predecessor of today&#8217;s &#8220;woke&#8221; progressives, who believe they&#8217;re only continuing the work begun by Vietnam War-era feminists, cultural agitators, anti-war protesters, change agents, and the occasional domestic terrorist (the ones who were just blowing things up to make a point, of course).
But there comes a point when children begin to recognize the limits of their parents&#8217; and grandparents&#8217; progressivism, and <a href="https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/this-land-is-whose-land-indian-country-settler-protest">according to the Smithsonian publication, Folklife</a>, that moment has finally come for Guthrie over his classic song, &#8220;This Land is Your Land.&#8221;
Guthrie penned the song back in 1940, as a way of deliberately countering more theistic, less &#8220;inclusive&#8221; patriotic songs, like &#8220;God Bless America.&#8221; He abandoned it after composing a few verses, took it back up in the mid-1940s, then passed it on to prominent folk singers of the 1960s, like Bob Dylan and the group, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary, who sang the most famous rendition.
It&#8217;s widely recognized as a protest song. Just&#8230;not the right kind. At least, not anymore.
In a grueling 3,000-word article for Folklife, Native rights activist Mali Obomsawin calls the song an embarrassment for liberal culture, and admits to being &#8220;shaken up like a soda can&#8221; every time she hears the lyrics &#8212; to the degree that she believes the song itself should either never be played again, or come with a trigger warning about Guthrie&#8217;s limited, mid-20th century view of American culture.
&#8220;These lyrics shake me up like a soda can every time I hear them. As an activist, folk musician, and songwriter (in Lula Wiles), and recent label-mate of Woody Guthrie on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,&#8221; she says, &#8220;my social circles tend to worship Guthrie as the father of all musical protest. But as a Native person, I believe &#8216;This Land Is Your Land&#8217; falls flat.&#8221;
The problem is that Guthrie simply wasn&#8217;t woke enough about &#8220;this land.&#8221; Although one of the founding fathers of protest music, Guthrie somehow missed that the land he was singing about &#8212; the United States &#8212; was, in fact, land stolen from Native Americans, so it wasn&#8217;t really &#8220;his land&#8221; at all.
&#8220;In the context of America, a nation-state built by settler colonialism, Woody Guthrie&#8217;s protest anthem exemplifies the particular blind spot that Americans have in regard to Natives: American patriotism erases us, even if it comes in the form of a leftist protest song,&#8221; Obomsawin says.
&#8220;This land &#8216;was&#8217; our land,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;Through genocide, broken treaties, and a legal system created by and for the colonial interest, this land &#8216;became&#8217; American land. But to question the legitimacy of American land control today instantly makes one the most radical person in the room&#8211;even in leftist circles. And because Indigenous critiques of this country are so fundamental, our voices are often marginalized to the point of invisibility.&#8221;
Guthrie, she says, can almost be forgiven. After all, he was raised in a less woke era and inculcated in an American culture that he may have resented, but which brainwashed him with certain values, anyway, like imperialism and, yes, white supremacy and white nationalism.
That&#8217;s right, by penning one of the earliest and most famous protest songs in history, Woody Guthrie inadvertently contributed to the spread of white nationalism. And it&#8217;s not only up to modern leftists to reject &#8220;This Land is Your Land,&#8221; out of concern for their Native bretheren, it&#8217;s required that they make amends and alter their outlook so that they don&#8217;t repeat Guthrie&#8217;s crimes.
&#8220;By critiquing &#8216;This Land Is Your Land,&#8217; I don&#8217;t mean to imply that Guthrie himself promoted conquest, but the song is indicative of American leftists&#8217; role in Native invisibility,&#8221; Obomsawin says, &#8220;The lyrics as they are embraced today evoke Manifest Destiny and expansionism (&#8216;this land was made for you and me&#8217;). When sung as a political act, the gathering or demonstration is infused with anti-Nativism and reinforces the blind spot.&#8221;
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On Monday, at the unveiling of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution David Skorton offered a speech in which he gushingly praised Obama, comparing him to Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
Skorton began by recollecting that Obama had started his campaign for the presidency almost precisely 11 years ago at the old statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, noting Obama quoted a speech in which Lincoln observed &#8220;the strange, discordant and even hostile elements&#8221; that America observed in 1858.
Skorton continued, &#8220;At the time of President Obama&#8217;s inauguration, America again faced challenges that could be described in quite similar terms. A global economic crisis, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rapid technological progress and the rising uncertainty that came with that progress. And during a period of such profound change in the country and the world, President Obama provided a steady leadership that millions of Americans were seeking.&#8221;
Of course, Obama abandoned Iraq, which then became a bloody haven for ISIS, and left Afghanistan without finishing the job, but who&#8217;s counting?
Skorton, undeterred by facts, went on: &#8220;He was a voice of calm in times of chaos. He was a voice of comfort in times of grief.&#8221;
Try telling that to those in Dallas after the murder of five police officers, when Obama spoke of white racism being endemic to police departments, <a href="https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/obamas-gettysburg-address-we-are-united-by-racism-and-indifference-to-the-poor/">saying</a>, &#8220;Centuries of racial discrimination didn&#8217;t simply vanish with the end of lawful segregation. We know it. Although most of us do our best to guard against it, none of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune. That includes our police departments. We know this.&#8221;
More Skorton:
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And he was a voice of confidence at all times. Confidence in the resilience of the American people and the promise of a better future for all. In one important sense, President Obama&#8217;s historic election was a departure from America&#8217;s past, but he also embodied the ideals that define some of the other presidents portrayed in these halls: Lincoln&#8217;s secular faith in our national union; Kennedy&#8217;s commitment to public service; Reagan&#8217;s optimism that America&#8217;s best days are still to come. For these reasons and more, Barack Obama was a very consequential president.
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Considering that America was <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/15/president-obama-associated-press-norc-poll/">more bitterly divided</a> after his presidency than it was before it, Obama was indeed a &#8220;very consequential president.&#8221;
Skorton concluded:
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He will long be the subject of admiration and study and fascination. And when future generations look back at this presidency, I believe that Kehinde Wiley&#8217;s portrait will give them a unique window in the way that only presidential portraits can.
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The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/299156-clarence-thomas-slight-does-african-american-history-museum-a">barely mentions</a> hard-line conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas but has plenty of space for the woman who accused him of sexual harassment at his 1991 Senate confirmation, Anita Hill. The disparagement of Thomas is particularly egregious because October is the 25th anniversary of Thomas sitting on the court.
Thomas, only the second black person to sit on the court, (after Justice Thurgood Marshall), has a storied history; he grew up dirt-poor in segregated deep south of coastal Georgia and was mocked by other blacks for his Geechee heritage. Sent to live with his grandparents at age seven, his grandfather inculcated values of hard work and , perseverance, telling Thomas, &#8220;Old Man Can&#8217;t is dead. I helped bury him.&#8221; 
Thomas has written twice as many opinions over the past two terms as any other justice. Tom Goldstein, a liberal Supreme Court lawyer and founder of the SCOTUS blog, has <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/63513/the-john-roberts-method">written</a>: &#8220;No other member of the Court is so independent in his thinking . . . I disagree profoundly with Justice Thomas&#8217;s views on many questions, but if you believe that Supreme Court decision-making should be a contest of ideas rather than power, so that the measure of a Justice&#8217;s greatness is his contribution of new and thoughtful perspectives that enlarge the debate, then Justice Thomas is now our greatest Justice.&#8221; Mark Tushnet, who strongly opposed Thomas being placed on the court, admitted in A Court Divided that &#8220;what [Thomas] has done on the Court is certainly more interesting and distinctive than what Scalia has done and, I think, has a greater chance of making an enduring contribution to constitutional law.&#8221;
Yet Thomas is barely mentioned in the museum; two examples <a href="http://circa.com/politics/people/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-ignored-by-national-museum-of-african-american-histo">include</a>: &#8220;In 1991 Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment&#8221; and Anita Hill accused a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, of sexual harassment.&#8221;
Hill, on the other hand, has her photo prominently displayed; multiple quotes mention her. A vignette honoring blacks in the 1990&#8217;s mentions her, not Thomas.
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&#8220;If you believe that Supreme Court decision-making should be a contest of ideas rather than power &#8230; then Justice Thomas is now our greatest Justice.&#8221; 
Tom Goldstein, a liberal Supreme Court lawyer and founder of the SCOTUS blog
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Thomas&#8217; confirmation hearing was the occasion of Hill&#8217;s turgid testimony, egged on by the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/51110/legacy-howard-metzenbaum-matthew-j-franck">nefarious liberal</a> senator Howard Metzenbaum, who was suspected of feeding Hill&#8217;s ridiculous story to National Public Radio. Even worse, Metzenbaum shut women out who had worked for Thomas and wanted to testify on his behalf. Metzenbaum snapped, that the Judiciary Committee &#8220;could stipulate that all of that testimony will be supportive of Clarence Thomas,&#8221; and concluded that &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why there&#8217;s any reason to have to hear it.&#8221;

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