This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling.

The White House

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Pu...

Just had a young person come door to door, signing folks up for the state branch of a national organization that I support. They wanted to sign me up, and resisted when I asked for a URL so I could do so myself. They said they’d start the process and then send a link to my phone to finish. Okay, don’t love it, but okay. They asked for my name, and then my date of birth. And no. Just no. I am not giving that to anyone coming door to door, no matter how sympathetic their cause. They did not want to take no for an answer, and we finally had to get rude to make them stop. Orgs, I beg you: don’t train your organizers this way. Your cause matters, but my privacy matters too.