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catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months agoYes, and Congress delegated that authority in 1947 via Public Law 242, creating the US Board on Geographic Names, under the Secretary of the Interior, part of the executive branch. The President has the authority to direct the Secretary.
You can speak as confidently as you like, but you’re still wrong. Feel free to learn: www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names
knightly@pawb.social 10 months ago
Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was “established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.”
It’s a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn’t entitled to rename things all willy-nilly, lol~
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That’s what everyone here is talking about.
knightly@pawb.social 10 months ago
Again, read the page you linked:
Key word: “unsettled”
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Trump is unsettling.