A report outlining the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines was slated to be published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly on March 19. But according to two scientists, acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya has delayed its publication. wapo.st/4ccudpF
The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN
NEW: A glimpse to what Trump's "restoring sanity" to American history means.
After removing the slavery exhibit from George Washington's Philadelphia home, now we have the panels they want to put up instead.
They include factoids such as Washington buying the people he enslaved theater tickets.
The AHA, with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit challenging a DOJ memo declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional—threatening access to millions of records, including at the National Archives.
This case is about public access to our nation’s history.
Learn more and support our work:
#SaveOurSigns has expanded our project database to include 2,500 new photos and created a new StoryMap visualization to help folks explore the recent leaked NPS dataset. Read more at the @datarescueproject.org blog: www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...
Honesty hour: it was incredibly disorienting to put this chron together (mostly due to moments like "SignalGate was WHEN?!"). But perhaps the most surreal (and devastating) part is that these entries barely scratch the surface of all the data / info losses we've faced--some we may never know about.
Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data.
July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians.
April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good.
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"What I did not expect was that [the Trump administration] would go after pediatric cancer research first. That they would go after Parkinson’s research first. And they would go after vaccines, the greatest invention of humanity."
Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for highlighting the work of #SaveOurSigns and other efforts to resist this administration's attempts to rewrite history. Wonderful overview of the many ways people are standing up for our right to learn about our nation's past: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Thread! ⬇️ Help combat censorship at National Parks sites. #SaveOurSigns
Layout of all slides: a large arrow bisecting the image with text in the arrow. Text at top of image says, “Want to be a hero?” Text in arrow says “Find Out How.” A cutout image of a park ranger pointing something out to a young visitor points in the direction of the arrow. Bottom right: Resistance Rangers logo of a skull and crossbones wearing a park ranger hat, with encircling text that reads “ADOPT-A-SIGN / SAVE-A-STORY”
Feeling like there’s nothing you can do to push back against the erasure of science and history at YOUR PARKS??
👉We’ve got a fun, easy way that all of us can be heroes!
🛡️🏴☠️AND earn a new Resistance Ranger Badge😳
“Without the data, disparities don’t just magically disappear, but they do become more difficult to document and address,” says Caroline Medina, a senior advisor for data policy at the Movement Advancement Project (MAP).
In March, an internal NPS dataset of materials flagged for review and potential removal or alteration was leaked to the public. It can be access on @archive.org and Sciop. We at #SaveOurSigns created a StoryMap visualization of what is at risk and what the data reveals:
z.umn.edu/leakedNPS
“'The main implication is that funding shocks do not affect all researchers equally, they interact with existing structural features of the system,' said Diego F. M. Oliveira, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of North Dakota and an author of the paper."
A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men
www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...
Incredibly helpful chronology of government information loss over the first year of this presidential administration. Also highlights some impressive data preservation work.
🧪Typically, the NIH approves roughly $5.3 billion in cancer research funding every fiscal year. The amount that’s been distributed so far this year has alarmed researchers.
At just under six months into the current fiscal year, only $541 million in cancer research grants have been delivered.
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@trackgovinfo.bsky.social is a group of librarians “tracking actions by the current administration that impact government info,” including “removed or modified documents & websites; language censorship; suspension or elimination of agencies, programs, funding, or services; & collection of gov data.”
As Nina Loewenstein wrote in her brief, the Trump administration, through executive order 14151, “systematically targeted grantees and programs that sought to increase the public’s understanding of Black history and cultures”
President Trump has ordered the Interior Department to remove or hide information at national parks and other sites that might “disparage Americans.” Historians have called the deletions an effort to sanitize America’s past and erase scientific truths that Trump dislikes.
"Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith...told The Post in an interview that the memo 'threatens Stars and Stripes’ continued editorial independence, and it does so at the detriment of the troops who rely on the newspaper for complete coverage and continued accurate coverage that is not propaganda.'”
As the Trump administration seeks to reframe the history of the United States and Black Americans, museums and historians in Massachusetts push back against efforts to erase Black history.
"The cancellations, which clawed back more than $100 million, or nearly half of the agency’s annual budget, threw many organizations into upheaval, forcing some projects to shutter." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Update: On the last day possible, NIH/HHS have extended the terms of all 6 members of the minority-health institute council.
Their terms will now expire on 8/27/26 and can't be extended any further.
Without new voting members, the institute won't be able to fund applications at the 2/12/27 council
DOE's Office of Civil Rights "historically has kept an online list of its open investigations and posted the findings of completed inquiries. But under... Linda McMahon... the Office for Civil Rights has been decimated and the work of its remaining investigators is largely cloaked in secrecy."
The letter highlighted this story I did with @megomatz.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social (and referenced other good stories from folks diligently following the dismantling of OCR under this administration.) www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Last night, @repbonamici.bsky.social and 70 other House members sent a letter to Linda McMahon and Kimberly Richey, the head of the Office for Civil Rights, urging them to address the backlog of discrimination complaints.
"We are deeply troubled by these reports, and so is the public," it said.
“For the last year, the federal government has threatened the existence, accessibility, and integrity of federal data,” writes EDGI’s gretchengehrke.bsky.social in a new op-ed. “We in civil society need to push back and intervene.” thehill.com/opinion/ener...
Powerful piece by @ericthomasphoto.bsky.social: "Citizens have rhetorical and political power too: power to tell our true histories. We can each counter the whitewashed history of national parks as we tell more complete accounts in our homes, our classrooms or our faith communities." #SaveOurSigns
Opinion from @ericthomasphoto.bsky.social: By whitewashing American history, Trump vows to erase today’s misdeeds #ksleg