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"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
(#paywalled)"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."
Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
(#paywalled)"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."
Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Inside the new political screening that’s stalling #NIH grants."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01924-8"Mandatory reviews by [political appointees] and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo."
Here's the Nature list of "disfavored terms" that trigger slow-walking and political scrutiny of grant applications.
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-026-01924-8/52836226Also see the similar list of "banned words" compiled last year by #PENAmerica (apparently last updated Dec 2025).
https://pen.org/banned-words-list/#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Inside the new political screening that’s stalling #NIH grants."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01924-8"Mandatory reviews by [political appointees] and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo."
Here's the Nature list of "disfavored terms" that trigger slow-walking and political scrutiny of grant applications.
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-026-01924-8/52836226Also see the similar list of "banned words" compiled last year by #PENAmerica (apparently last updated Dec 2025).
https://pen.org/banned-words-list/#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Great news for great service:
The Data Rescue Project just won the 2026 "Documents to the People" Award from the #ALA, #GODORT, and #ProQuest.
https://www.datarescueproject.org/dttp-award/#Censorship #Data #DataRescueProject #DRP #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Great news for great service:
The Data Rescue Project just won the 2026 "Documents to the People" Award from the #ALA, #GODORT, and #ProQuest.
https://www.datarescueproject.org/dttp-award/#Censorship #Data #DataRescueProject #DRP #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/"Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/"Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. More here:
"FinCEN [Financial Crimes Enforcement Network] plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database."
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/fincen-plans-to-delete-data-on-u-s-companies-from-beneficial-ownership-database/#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. More here:
"FinCEN [Financial Crimes Enforcement Network] plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database."
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/fincen-plans-to-delete-data-on-u-s-companies-from-beneficial-ownership-database/#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The US used to require that corporations disclose the true identities of their beneficial owners (reducing the corrupt influence of shell companies) and kept a database of the info. Now the Trump admin is refusing to enforce the rule and deleting the data.
"Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats."
https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-world-safe-kleptocratsPS: Because the database was never #OpenAccess -- basically, just for law enforcement officials -- it's probably beyond the reach of data rescue projects.
#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The US used to require that corporations disclose the true identities of their beneficial owners (reducing the corrupt influence of shell companies) and kept a database of the info. Now the Trump admin is refusing to enforce the rule and deleting the data.
"Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats."
https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-world-safe-kleptocratsPS: Because the database was never #OpenAccess -- basically, just for law enforcement officials -- it's probably beyond the reach of data rescue projects.
#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237"#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails."
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"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237"#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails."
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"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237"#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails."
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"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237"#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails."
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"Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/fossil-fuels-national-academies-climate-science-00897237"#Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of #climate research that could cost #fossilfuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [#NASEM] that will examine research into the ways corporate climate pollution is intensifying natural disasters…The heightened scrutiny…involves a secretive opposition research group scouring scientists’ emails."
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"The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-justice-department-erases-history--lawfare-restores-it"Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are…We have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that has not yet been deleted but probably will be, given its thematic relationship to the material that was 86ed."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-justice-department-erases-history--lawfare-restores-it"Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are…We have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that has not yet been deleted but probably will be, given its thematic relationship to the material that was 86ed."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM], in their personal capacities” and is open to supporting signatures from the public.
I just signed it and hope you will sign too.
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Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM], in their personal capacities” and is open to supporting signatures from the public.
I just signed it and hope you will sign too.
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Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM], in their personal capacities” and is open to supporting signatures from the public.
I just signed it and hope you will sign too.
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Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM], in their personal capacities” and is open to supporting signatures from the public.
I just signed it and hope you will sign too.
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Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM], in their personal capacities” and is open to supporting signatures from the public.
I just signed it and hope you will sign too.
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"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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"How the #Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the #EPA"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure…For more than a half-century, [it] did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats. In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"How the #Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the #EPA"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure…For more than a half-century, [it] did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats. In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"The Integrity of Public Access to Federal Data: Evaluating Disruptions to Open Government Data, 2025-2026."
https://zenodo.org/records/19556076"In the last year alone political interference led to the manipulation, suppression, or outright removal of [US] federal data assets on topics ranging from climate change, to economics, to LGBTQ+ issues, to public health…This report provides an analysis of the integrity of public access to federal open government data assets during the disruptions to the federal data ecosystem during 2025 and early 2026…The report clarifies the scale and mechanisms of data disruptions, discusses specific threats to data integrity, [and] highlights exemplar cases of data disruption from federal agencies."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"The Integrity of Public Access to Federal Data: Evaluating Disruptions to Open Government Data, 2025-2026."
https://zenodo.org/records/19556076"In the last year alone political interference led to the manipulation, suppression, or outright removal of [US] federal data assets on topics ranging from climate change, to economics, to LGBTQ+ issues, to public health…This report provides an analysis of the integrity of public access to federal open government data assets during the disruptions to the federal data ecosystem during 2025 and early 2026…The report clarifies the scale and mechanisms of data disruptions, discusses specific threats to data integrity, [and] highlights exemplar cases of data disruption from federal agencies."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/
(#paywalled)"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/
(#paywalled)"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain. statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-... #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain. statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-... #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44"Without EM-DAT, the global community would lose a critical shared empirical foundation for assessing disaster impacts and trends. In an era of intensifying climate extremes, cascading risks, and compounding crises, reliable data are not a luxury. They are the infrastructure for informed decision-making."
#Belgium #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44"Without EM-DAT, the global community would lose a critical shared empirical foundation for assessing disaster impacts and trends. In an era of intensifying climate extremes, cascading risks, and compounding crises, reliable data are not a luxury. They are the infrastructure for informed decision-making."
#Belgium #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown of EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/#Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown of EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/#Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/trump_science_tech_panel/Among the new members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (#PCAST) are #MarcAndreessen, #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell, #LarryEllison, and #MarkZuckerberg.
If you're curious, Wikipedia lists the PCAST members under Biden and Obama.
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"Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/trump_science_tech_panel/Among the new members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (#PCAST) are #MarcAndreessen, #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell, #LarryEllison, and #MarkZuckerberg.
If you're curious, Wikipedia lists the PCAST members under Biden and Obama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_of_Advisors_on_Science_and_Technology -
Update. 24 US states have now filed their own lawsuit to restore the #EPA endangerment finding.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/us-states-trump-climate-crisis-endangerment-finding#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. 24 US states have now filed their own lawsuit to restore the #EPA endangerment finding.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/us-states-trump-climate-crisis-endangerment-finding#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. It turns out that the National Academies of Science (#NAS) did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 acquiesce in this #censorship of #climate science. In a short statement (March 11), it said that “The manual, including the chapter on climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/PS: Bravo to the NAS. Although it's not part of the govt, about 85% of its funding comes from govt agencies, making it highly vulnerable to retaliatory defunding. It's the first agency I've seen with that level of vulnerability flatly reject a Trumpist demand to censor research.
EDIT. I meant to make this a threaded reply to my earlier post on the same subject, before we knew the NAS decision. But I inadvertently made it a separate post. Here's the earlier post (Feb 11, 2026).
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116052723394052889#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics