Reading about the former model with zero experience in historiography or the arts who will now curate, among others, the National Museum of African-American History & Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian
Replies
“In honor of everything you’ve done to women.”
aug 13, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump holds any "hot chick" in high regard. Not sure she's getting the win she thinks she is.
aug 13, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
As a historian who intended to work in govt after I finish my degree, I particularly have to say fuck you to the Trump admin for obliterating my post-graduation job plans Now not even the Smithsonian, one of the most premier museum systems in the country, has been left untouched by this idiot
aug 13, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
God dam “Irish-Americans”
aug 13, 2025, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The only qualification is telling him he's right.
aug 13, 2025, 12:42 pm • 35 1 • view
And having been a beauty contest contestant
aug 13, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
aug 13, 2025, 12:46 pm • 6 0 • view
quite reminiscent of Hope Hicks from Trump 1.0
aug 13, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Another one of his cookie cutter girls.
aug 13, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
From the Wikipedia article: “Halligan was second chair to another lawyer defending an insurance company at a two-day trial against three Miami homeowners who had suffered damaged roofs. A judge would not award her attorneys fees because he ruled that her team did not act "in good faith."
aug 13, 2025, 12:46 pm • 77 4 • view
"Improper ideology"? She will remove all exhibits re: Black slavery/Jim Crow laws/segregation/the Civil War or Native American genocide/Trail of Tears. White-washing American history so white people won't feel uncomfortable.
aug 13, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 1 • view
Not so much "curate" as "destroy".
aug 13, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm guessing she puts out
aug 13, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
They want to erase us from history
aug 13, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
“It’s really big, she’s right out of central casting,” he said as he found a sycophant to rewrite history.
aug 13, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
FFS
aug 13, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course he holds her in high regard. She looks like his wife and says what he wants to hear. Another Courtesan wielding power in the palace.
aug 13, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 0 • view
This is laughable.
aug 13, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
"Trump's Save America PAC paid Halligan $212,000 from June 2022 to June 2023" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...
aug 13, 2025, 12:41 pm • 57 4 • view
For what, pray-tell?
aug 13, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
"Services Rendered" Like Story Daniels. (And all those minors we never heard about...)
aug 13, 2025, 1:03 pm • 2 0 • view
what the crispy fuck
aug 13, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Same
aug 13, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Ick
aug 13, 2025, 12:44 pm • 17 0 • view
Introducing Whitewash Barbie: no knowledge, skills or ability in the field, but sure to make a racist mockery of everything she touches
aug 13, 2025, 1:20 pm • 6 0 • view
DEI hire.
aug 14, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
wapo.st/3Um7RJY
aug 13, 2025, 12:40 pm • 182 33 • view
attended Regis University in Denver and earned a degree in political science and broadcast journalism.[2] She competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageants; in 2009 she was a semifinalist, and in 2010 she was third runner up.[2] Halligan graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 2013.
aug 13, 2025, 1:09 pm • 9 2 • view
Rigor
aug 13, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
“Identifies as such”? This will end amusingly and, one hopes, poetically
aug 13, 2025, 12:42 pm • 130 2 • view
Just an Insurance Lawyer with no track record. Typical trump pick.
aug 15, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile in actual Irish women of status. bsky.app/profile/miri...
aug 13, 2025, 1:19 pm • 12 2 • view
The stupidest of times continues.
aug 13, 2025, 1:22 pm • 9 1 • view
Dear Congress, This is not normal. This is not good. It needs to stop. Do something!
aug 13, 2025, 4:05 pm • 2 0 • view
A third of the American people want this and another third just don't care. Our bottom-tier democracy is not up to the task of stopping this. The Dem party is the lesser of two evils but still part of a corrupt system. It's going to come down to the people finally getting fed up.
aug 13, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely disgraceful!! 🤮
aug 13, 2025, 5:44 pm • 4 0 • view
One assumes
aug 13, 2025, 1:49 pm • 6 0 • view
I was gonna say 💁♂️🧔🏻👲🙋♂️
aug 13, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
The fact that she looks like Hope Hicks probably doesn't hurt either.
aug 14, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
“For all he’s done for women”. JFC
aug 13, 2025, 1:14 pm • 11 1 • view
It’s crap like that comment that gives me chills. Every statement that members of this administration make includes praise for trump. They are either brainwashed, or utterly lacking in self-esteem.
aug 13, 2025, 1:21 pm • 12 0 • view
I’d say both.
aug 13, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
It's neither. They are racists and bigots.
aug 13, 2025, 2:21 pm • 4 0 • view
This all feels like obeying in advance. The Smithsonian is not a government body
aug 13, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 13, 2025, 12:46 pm • 294 27 • view
📌🏆
aug 13, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely disgusting. I hope everything is archived so it can be reset when this abomination is gone.
aug 13, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Ssssoooo Miami Housewives That Trump Wants To Fuck are now in charge of dismantling our nations cultural and historical edifices because of merit?
aug 13, 2025, 1:38 pm • 11 0 • view
siarchives.si.edu/blog/remembe...
aug 13, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
It Kiegels well?
aug 13, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope springs eternal that as she studies the various exhibits (to decide whether to keep or hide) maybe she’ll learn something. I know, it’s a stretch, but it’s all I got nowadays.
aug 13, 2025, 2:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Wait, wait just one minute…she introduced a proclamation for “Irish American heritage month” , sooo, people who came from Ireland originally, to settle in America, to live here as…immigrants??? I’m confused 🤔 😭
aug 13, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
She's also the national chair of Black Republicans. Not really?
aug 13, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s disrespectful. She can eat concrete. Couldn’t hack it as a model so she has to go full racist.
aug 13, 2025, 1:07 pm • 4 0 • view
She's blonde, that is qualification enough
aug 13, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope Hicks redux.
aug 13, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Is it me, or is there an uncanny resemblance to Hope Hicks?
aug 13, 2025, 1:18 pm • 6 0 • view
It is getting more and more absurd
aug 13, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Wtf
aug 13, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Improper Ideology is such a terrifying phrase.
aug 13, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
White DEI. The point is that mediocre white person can have better jobs than anybody else.
aug 14, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Since her staff is smarter than she is, I'm sure they'll learn how to manipulate her easily enough. Government 101: doing things the right way while letting the imbeciles in upper management (including the politicians) think it was their idea.
aug 13, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Dear Congress, This is not normal. This is not good. It needs to stop. Do something!
aug 13, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Why does she still have a law license. Disbar her!
aug 13, 2025, 12:41 pm • 12 0 • view
Another unqualified Trump spokesmodel. "It’s those lips, the way they move. They move like she’s a machine gun.” Yeah, I'll bet.
aug 13, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Infuriating, who gives Trump the right to desecrate national museums? Is there a pending lawsuit? This lady has no business touching ANY of the beauty of this or any other national museum. This Administration is truly fascist, un-American and racist to the core
aug 13, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
THERE ARE A LOT OF REALLY BAD UGLY SELF-DENIGRATING WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY. And most of them were raised and educated in religious households: Chrisitians, I'm talkin' 'bout you.
aug 13, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I know this might be controversial, but the only qualification Trump values in women he appoints—besides their complete submission—is that he’d like to fuck them (if his lil’ dick still worked).
aug 13, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 1 • view
Part of the point here is to tell Black people this is what they think their history is worth. This vapid nothing of a person gets to judge their cultural accomplishments, because they think they're trash.
aug 13, 2025, 1:19 pm • 20 0 • view
in reality she doesnt get to judge does she? She is there because trump.expects her to apply *his* judgement (/prejudices). If she shows even a shred of independence and allows something he doesnt like, she'll be got rid of (and probably publicly humiliated by trump as he does to so many others)
aug 13, 2025, 1:51 pm • 9 0 • view
White women engaging in helping mobilize this fascist authoritarian takeover should look at fascism as a banquet and know they're on the menu. White men are warming up with little appetizers now but white women, especially now that access to repro care is uncertain, are definitely the main course.
aug 13, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Noooo
aug 13, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Temu Hope Hicks, obvi
aug 13, 2025, 1:32 pm • 29 0 • view
Well, as long as she’s pretty, that sounds fine.
aug 13, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
She identifies as a month? Sounds pretty woke to me.
aug 13, 2025, 12:47 pm • 23 0 • view
Remember when the Taliban blew up the ancient Buddhist statutes? American fundamentalist Christians are doing the same stuff here.
aug 13, 2025, 1:43 pm • 18 4 • view
For every example of Islamic fundamentalist violence, you can find a preceding analogue in the activities of the KKK.
aug 13, 2025, 2:58 pm • 7 0 • view
I think we can demonstrate that Lindsay Halligan is yet another clueless MAGA drone without resorting to misogynistic tropes.
aug 13, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I canceled my WaPo subscription long ago and even when I get a gift article they want me to register. Here is something about the article: kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/donald-tru... #smithsonian #lindseyhalligan
aug 13, 2025, 3:24 pm • 4 0 • view
You can copy article URLs and paste them into archive.today to read them
aug 13, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 0 • view
"done TO women" she means
aug 13, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
He's replaced the bimbo who used to iron his pants
aug 13, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
aug 13, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck all of this. I can’t even bear to read that. I already know that anything good is ending.
aug 13, 2025, 1:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Another utter mediocrity from the merit-based administration.
aug 13, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I’d love to hear every fascist pressed to explain what “improper ideology” means. An actual definition of what they believe is improper and why, and why that information deserves to be purged and censored.
aug 13, 2025, 12:41 pm • 67 4 • view
#FunFact about Fascists pressed... Fascists Wine is made from stomped fascists.
aug 13, 2025, 1:05 pm • 11 0 • view
I'd love to see every fascist silenced. Asking what they believe is a worthless exercise because their ideology is solely about accumulating power for the in-group to oppress the out-group. They lie about everything to achieve that goal.
aug 13, 2025, 2:20 pm • 3 0 • view
But don’t you think a reporter asking this and actually publishing the answer would help educate people? There are a lot of people here who have zero idea what’s happening. I think the press should inform them and this is one way to do that.
aug 13, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
we've been in this moment of rising fascism for a decade now, do you really think reporters can stop it now? the time where educating people can defeat the fascists, if it ever truly existed, is long since past. now is the time for material solutions
aug 13, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Can’t we do both?
aug 13, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe the current working definition is, if it doesn’t “align with his vision,” it’s improper. His vision über alles.
aug 13, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Improper=It doesn't align with Trump and Republicans white christian nationalist agenda
aug 14, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
Women's History Month should be about women who've made history, not "everything Trump has done for women" which is primarily cheat on them, call them names, sexualize them, sexually assault them, rape them. Oh and the President of the US is in the Epstein files.
aug 13, 2025, 1:10 pm • 21 2 • view
She's an example the women described here: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-miso...
aug 13, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
I hate everything about this. But also, she’s a lawyer associated with Trump’s PAC & should be identified as such. You’re trying to demean her by calling her a former model w/o giving her currently title. By my thinking, her education means she ABSOLUTELY knows she’s an unqualified political hack.
aug 13, 2025, 1:52 pm • 39 1 • view
Thanks for this. I hate this person with an unbridled passion, but there is nothing shameful in being a former model. It's the law degree that she's betraying with her willful ignorance and corruption. Related, right-wingers use "former bartender" against AOC all the time, and it makes me furious.
aug 13, 2025, 2:49 pm • 30 1 • view
former bartender is a good thing. I want more former bartenders in government. they know how to deal with unpleasant people and still keep shit moving efficiently
aug 13, 2025, 4:00 pm • 8 0 • view
Here, here. As a former (possibly future) server, I agree wholeheartedly. Give us more people in public office who have worked "regular" jobs, interacting with many walks of life, who know how to navigate sticky situations, deal with different kinds of people, and get stuff done.
aug 13, 2025, 4:02 pm • 8 0 • view
I want to know exactly what improper ideology means as opposed to factual history 🤦
aug 13, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"In honor of everything you've done for women" There's a couple typos in there - it should read "in horror of everything you've done TO women."
aug 13, 2025, 1:00 pm • 32 0 • view
Isn't she the frmr Bud Light girl turned lawyer except has no actual experience in lawyering, or at least she hadn't when I first looked her up several years ago. Unless you consider advising the Mango Mussolini "lawyering." 🥴
aug 13, 2025, 12:46 pm • 4 0 • view
but she's been "pictured in the Oval Office".
aug 13, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
"holds her in high regard" = "has the hots for her"
aug 13, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
aug 13, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view