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riversedge

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:58 AM Wednesday

Pete Hegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off library shelves, but left two copies of Adolf Hitler

whow. seems Hegseth has nothing better to do!!

Rep. Mikie Sherrill @RepSherrill

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Pete Hegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off of the library shelves, but left two copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the library.

Just consider that for a minute: midshipmen can now read the antisemitic manifesto of one of history’s most evil men but god forbid they read the autobiography of a Black woman recounting her lived experience.



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