Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.
These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities.
Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor changes to government data.
“We’re at a very vulnerable point as a nation,” said Denice Ross, former US chief data scientist under the Biden administration and a cofounder of dataindex.us. “We’re facing a future where we are not going to have the information that we need to make decisions that will save lives and benefit American communities.”
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
When government compels education, there’s an implication that knowledge is valued. Obviously this is not true when those who desire Christian Nationalism get in power. Our constitutional writers made a severe mistake by putting religion above government regulation. The unchanging church and its ignorance.
We need to remember this - safeguarding data seems like an improvement we can make when the fascists are voted out. It’s bad enough when they lie to constituents about reality but we can make it harder for future despots to sabotage science
I hope there are archives somewhere
I want to believe that those people are out there, those who “accidentally” mark the last good archive as never-delete, so it’s preserved in the backup infrastructure in the datacenter for a better day.
Oops. Guess we preserved the accurate facts. Shucks.
Pain Threshold (success): No way out but through, now.
This is the goal of the enemies of the people that have take over the administration.
Someone explain to me how it is that a supposed “patriot” party like the Republican Party manages to do nearly everything Russia and/or China could ever want?
This is indeed the era of Leibowicz, where important information is in threat of being destroyed by evil interests.
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