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Halfway through the month of discounts (30%) and sharing essays from my newsletter's archive. 🎉 Look through this thread for samples and the discount link.
Today, one (of several) that looks at the #AntiquitiesAct. Increasingly, I think sits central in #history.
www.adamsowards.net/a-monumental...
Today, one (of several) that looks at the #AntiquitiesAct. Increasingly, I think sits central in #history.
www.adamsowards.net/a-monumental...
A Monumental Sadness and a Paradoxical Legal Tradition
Indigenous peoples and the Antiquities Act
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July 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Halfway through the month of discounts (30%) and sharing essays from my newsletter's archive. 🎉 Look through this thread for samples and the discount link.
Today, one (of several) that looks at the #AntiquitiesAct. Increasingly, I think sits central in #history.
www.adamsowards.net/a-monumental...
Today, one (of several) that looks at the #AntiquitiesAct. Increasingly, I think sits central in #history.
www.adamsowards.net/a-monumental...
[7/8] L’administration Trump veut tester les limites de #AntiquitiesAct, qui permet à un président de créer un monument mais pas explicitement de le supprimer. Une bataille juridique est probable si l’abrogation du monument est lancée. #HGGSP #geography #protectedareas #indigenousrights
June 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
[7/8] L’administration Trump veut tester les limites de #AntiquitiesAct, qui permet à un président de créer un monument mais pas explicitement de le supprimer. Une bataille juridique est probable si l’abrogation du monument est lancée. #HGGSP #geography #protectedareas #indigenousrights
[7/8] L’administration Trump veut tester les limites de #AntiquitiesAct, qui permet à un président de créer un monument mais pas explicitement de le supprimer. Une bataille juridique est probable si l’abrogation du monument est lancée. #HGGSP #geography #protectedareas #indigenousrights
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
[7/8] L’administration Trump veut tester les limites de #AntiquitiesAct, qui permet à un président de créer un monument mais pas explicitement de le supprimer. Une bataille juridique est probable si l’abrogation du monument est lancée. #HGGSP #geography #protectedareas #indigenousrights
DOJ says presidents can revoke monuments,not just create them
The1906 AntiquitiesAct gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands.Justice Dept. memo said Act also”carries with it the power to revoke.”
The Trump Administration is now preparing to attack our History and Cultural Values
The1906 AntiquitiesAct gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands.Justice Dept. memo said Act also”carries with it the power to revoke.”
The Trump Administration is now preparing to attack our History and Cultural Values
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
DOJ says presidents can revoke monuments,not just create them
The1906 AntiquitiesAct gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands.Justice Dept. memo said Act also”carries with it the power to revoke.”
The Trump Administration is now preparing to attack our History and Cultural Values
The1906 AntiquitiesAct gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands.Justice Dept. memo said Act also”carries with it the power to revoke.”
The Trump Administration is now preparing to attack our History and Cultural Values
The #DOJ attempted nullification of the #AntiquitiesAct is nothing other than a blatant attempt to rape our natural landscape for obsolete sources of energy and mineral wealth for a very few oligarchical entities.
June 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The #DOJ attempted nullification of the #AntiquitiesAct is nothing other than a blatant attempt to rape our natural landscape for obsolete sources of energy and mineral wealth for a very few oligarchical entities.
The opinion cites #scotus Chief Justice #johnroberts in his 2021 response to a denial of certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Assn v. Raimondo that he’d be interested in hearing a challenge to the #antiquitiesact.
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without […]
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without […]
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masto.ai
June 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The opinion cites #scotus Chief Justice #johnroberts in his 2021 response to a denial of certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Assn v. Raimondo that he’d be interested in hearing a challenge to the #antiquitiesact.
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without […]
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without […]
“We conclude that the #antiquitiesact permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ or ‘objects’ identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections,” the […]
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masto.ai
June 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“We conclude that the #antiquitiesact permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ or ‘objects’ identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections,” the […]
#trump #doj Outlines Legal Justification to Abolish Monuments
A US president’s power to create & undo #nationalmonuments under the 1906 #antiquitiesact is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for […]
A US president’s power to create & undo #nationalmonuments under the 1906 #antiquitiesact is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for […]
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masto.ai
June 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#trump #doj Outlines Legal Justification to Abolish Monuments
A US president’s power to create & undo #nationalmonuments under the 1906 #antiquitiesact is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for […]
A US president’s power to create & undo #nationalmonuments under the 1906 #antiquitiesact is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for […]
119 years ago today, the #AntiquitiesAct became law, and since then, 18 presidents have used it to protect places like the Grand Canyon, Bears Ears & the Statue of Liberty.
Today, it’s under threat.
🛑 Tell this Administration our public lands are NOT for sale 👉 bit.ly/MonumentAction
Today, it’s under threat.
🛑 Tell this Administration our public lands are NOT for sale 👉 bit.ly/MonumentAction
June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
119 years ago today, the #AntiquitiesAct became law, and since then, 18 presidents have used it to protect places like the Grand Canyon, Bears Ears & the Statue of Liberty.
Today, it’s under threat.
🛑 Tell this Administration our public lands are NOT for sale 👉 bit.ly/MonumentAction
Today, it’s under threat.
🛑 Tell this Administration our public lands are NOT for sale 👉 bit.ly/MonumentAction
The Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected scores of culturally and archeologically significant landscapes through National Monument designations. Today marks the 119th anniversary of this important federal law. What National Monument is on your wish list to visit?
#AntiquitiesAct #NationalMonuments
#AntiquitiesAct #NationalMonuments
June 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected scores of culturally and archeologically significant landscapes through National Monument designations. Today marks the 119th anniversary of this important federal law. What National Monument is on your wish list to visit?
#AntiquitiesAct #NationalMonuments
#AntiquitiesAct #NationalMonuments
This Sunday, June 8, is the anniversary of the Antiquities Act, first passed in 1906, that authorizes the President to declare federal lands as national monuments.
#AntiquitiesAct
#AntiquitiesAct
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This Sunday, June 8, is the anniversary of the Antiquities Act, first passed in 1906, that authorizes the President to declare federal lands as national monuments.
#AntiquitiesAct
#AntiquitiesAct
Signed into #law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the #antiquitiesact of 1906 gives presidents vast powers to #protect #lands & #waters through the creation of #nationalmonuments. But the law is quiet on whether presidents can remove designations set by their predecessors.
The Bureau of Land […]
The Bureau of Land […]
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masto.ai
April 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Signed into #law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the #antiquitiesact of 1906 gives presidents vast powers to #protect #lands & #waters through the creation of #nationalmonuments. But the law is quiet on whether presidents can remove designations set by their predecessors.
The Bureau of Land […]
The Bureau of Land […]
The push would spark an intense #legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping #lands #protections under the 1906 #antiquitiesact — & take them away. In his 1st term, #trump became the 1st president in more than half a century to modify existing #nationalmonuments when he […]
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masto.ai
April 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The push would spark an intense #legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping #lands #protections under the 1906 #antiquitiesact — & take them away. In his 1st term, #trump became the 1st president in more than half a century to modify existing #nationalmonuments when he […]
More than 300 elected officials from across the West, including leaders here in Nevada, are calling on Congress and the Trump Administration to fully fund public land agencies and protect the tools — like the #AntiquitiesAct — that keep these places intact.
📍 Read the full letter: buff.ly/1F6ivGW
📍 Read the full letter: buff.ly/1F6ivGW
Public Lands Support Letter Spring 2025 — The Mountain PACT
Over 300 Western Local elected OfficialS Sign Public Lands Support Letter Spring 2025
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April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
More than 300 elected officials from across the West, including leaders here in Nevada, are calling on Congress and the Trump Administration to fully fund public land agencies and protect the tools — like the #AntiquitiesAct — that keep these places intact.
📍 Read the full letter: buff.ly/1F6ivGW
📍 Read the full letter: buff.ly/1F6ivGW
The overline I suggested to top this story in the newspaper is: “Mimbres piques.”
#nmpol #nationalmonuments #NewMexico #AntiquitiesAct
#nmpol #nationalmonuments #NewMexico #AntiquitiesAct
Luna County residents debate national monuments
DEMING — The campaign for a proposed Mimbres Peaks National Monument faltered last year after local governments rejected it, but contention and mistrust over the prospect still simmer in Luna
www.abqjournal.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The overline I suggested to top this story in the newspaper is: “Mimbres piques.”
#nmpol #nationalmonuments #NewMexico #AntiquitiesAct
#nmpol #nationalmonuments #NewMexico #AntiquitiesAct
[3/5] #AntiquitiesAct de 1906 permet de créer, élargir ou réduire un monument national. Entre 2016 et 2021, Bears Ears (Utah), site culturel autochtone, a été réduit de 80%, puis restauré. Cette instabilité fragilise la gestion du patrimoine national. #geography #HGGSP #Nationalparks #Federalstate
March 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
[3/5] #AntiquitiesAct de 1906 permet de créer, élargir ou réduire un monument national. Entre 2016 et 2021, Bears Ears (Utah), site culturel autochtone, a été réduit de 80%, puis restauré. Cette instabilité fragilise la gestion du patrimoine national. #geography #HGGSP #Nationalparks #Federalstate
The #AntiquitiesAct is as bipartisan as can be. 18 presidents – nine Democratic & nine Republican – have established or expanded over 160 #nationalmonuments using the act. From President Hoover to now, presidents have protected cultural & biologically important landscapes.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The #AntiquitiesAct is as bipartisan as can be. 18 presidents – nine Democratic & nine Republican – have established or expanded over 160 #nationalmonuments using the act. From President Hoover to now, presidents have protected cultural & biologically important landscapes.
The #AntiquitiesAct is as bipartisan as can be. 18 presidents – nine Democratic & nine Republican – have established or expanded over 160 #nationalmonuments using the act. From President Hoover to now, presidents have protected cultural & biologically important landscapes.
February 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The #AntiquitiesAct is as bipartisan as can be. 18 presidents – nine Democratic & nine Republican – have established or expanded over 160 #nationalmonuments using the act. From President Hoover to now, presidents have protected cultural & biologically important landscapes.
February 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
'Fewer and smaller monuments': #Republicans seek to limit the use of #AntiquitiesAct www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Rep. have introduced two bills in Congress that would end the president’s authority to create national monuments.
They want to drill & mine-they must be stopped!
#Arizona
Rep. have introduced two bills in Congress that would end the president’s authority to create national monuments.
They want to drill & mine-they must be stopped!
#Arizona
'Fewer and smaller monuments': Republicans seek to limit the use of Antiquities Act
Republican legislators and the Trump Administration have launched a multi-pronged effort to cut back national monuments in Arizona
www.azcentral.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
'Fewer and smaller monuments': #Republicans seek to limit the use of #AntiquitiesAct www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Rep. have introduced two bills in Congress that would end the president’s authority to create national monuments.
They want to drill & mine-they must be stopped!
#Arizona
Rep. have introduced two bills in Congress that would end the president’s authority to create national monuments.
They want to drill & mine-they must be stopped!
#Arizona
2/ Through the #AntiquitiesAct, we protected Avi Kwa Ame, ensuring its future for Indigenous Tribes and Nevada families.
Now, that protection is at risk…
If this bill passes, Avi Kwa Ame and other treasured places face uncertain futures.
Now, that protection is at risk…
If this bill passes, Avi Kwa Ame and other treasured places face uncertain futures.
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
2/ Through the #AntiquitiesAct, we protected Avi Kwa Ame, ensuring its future for Indigenous Tribes and Nevada families.
Now, that protection is at risk…
If this bill passes, Avi Kwa Ame and other treasured places face uncertain futures.
Now, that protection is at risk…
If this bill passes, Avi Kwa Ame and other treasured places face uncertain futures.
New UT Rep. Celeste Maloy wants to repeal the #AntiquitiesAct. It’s a wonky thing that may bore the shit out of people, but it matters.
Doing away with the #AntiquitiesAct would make it next to impossible to conserve public lands — and make it easier to fence people out and privatize public lands.
Doing away with the #AntiquitiesAct would make it next to impossible to conserve public lands — and make it easier to fence people out and privatize public lands.
January 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New UT Rep. Celeste Maloy wants to repeal the #AntiquitiesAct. It’s a wonky thing that may bore the shit out of people, but it matters.
Doing away with the #AntiquitiesAct would make it next to impossible to conserve public lands — and make it easier to fence people out and privatize public lands.
Doing away with the #AntiquitiesAct would make it next to impossible to conserve public lands — and make it easier to fence people out and privatize public lands.
#POTUS #JoeBiden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument
news-photos-features.com/2024/12/16/p... #WomensHistory #FrancesPerkins #nationalmonuments #BidenLegacy #AntiquitiesAct
news-photos-features.com/2024/12/16/p... #WomensHistory #FrancesPerkins #nationalmonuments #BidenLegacy #AntiquitiesAct
President Biden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine - News & Photo Features
President Biden is signing a proclamation establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine, to honor the historic contributions of America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the...
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December 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
#POTUS #JoeBiden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument
news-photos-features.com/2024/12/16/p... #WomensHistory #FrancesPerkins #nationalmonuments #BidenLegacy #AntiquitiesAct
news-photos-features.com/2024/12/16/p... #WomensHistory #FrancesPerkins #nationalmonuments #BidenLegacy #AntiquitiesAct