One of the most important examples of #Trump #censorship to date:

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://archive.ph/Ow3FE

Thanks as always to the #WaybackMachine for preserving a copy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

One of the most important examples of #Trump #censorship to date:

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://archive.ph/Ow3FE

Thanks as always to the #WaybackMachine for preserving a copy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/

"The #Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research [ #NCAR] in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading #climate research labs."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/

"The #Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research [ #NCAR] in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading #climate research labs."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The American Statistical Association just released its 2025 report: The Nation’s Data at Risk.
https://www.amstat.org/policy-and-advocacy/the-nations-data-at-risk--2025-report

From the executive summary: "Immediate action must be taken to halt the severe decline in the federal statistical agencies’ ability to meet their basic mission and be positioned to keep up with increasing information needs and to address uncertainty in the trustworthiness of federal statistics. Top leadership in both the Congress and Executive Branch must prioritize investment in modernization to provide the resources, vision, momentum, and oversight required for a robust, relevant, and efficient statistical system for the nation and affirm the importance of credible and objective statistics."

ht @lschiff

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Funding #Statistics #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The U of Virginia surveyed its community in October on how it should respond to the #Trump compact. The Chronicle of Higher Education got the results through a public-records request.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/uva-asked-its-community-to-weigh-in-on-trumps-compact-heres-what-they-said
( #paywalled)

" 'Nope. Nothing. Nada.' 'Not at all.' 'No'. 'NO.' 'NO!'… Those curt replies were broadly representative of the responses as a whole…The F-word is used nine times…There were nearly 200 references to #UVa’s founder, #ThomasJefferson, almost all of which were in service of the argument that the compact went against his vision of the university. 'Stand your ground,' one wrote. 'You know it’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.' "

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #UVa #USPol #USPolitics

"How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year."
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-trump-upended-education/

"Decades of carefully built #infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack…The first blow came in early February. In a single week, #DOGE terminated more than 100 research contracts collectively worth over a billion dollars on paper…DOGE canceled an 11-year longitudinal study tracking youth with disabilities through high school into college and the workforce. #Data painstakingly collected over five years was effectively discarded overnight…Even core federal datasets were not spared."

#Academia #Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #Education #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Scientists across these red states tell 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 they are fearful, disheartened, and less able to focus on their research. All have had to balance personal and professional risks with staying true to their values and identities. Some are fighting back in small ways; others are looking to leave."
https://www.science.org/content/article/red-states-many-academic-researchers-feel-fear-and-resolve

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

"Scientists across these red states tell 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 they are fearful, disheartened, and less able to focus on their research. All have had to balance personal and professional risks with staying true to their values and identities. Some are fighting back in small ways; others are looking to leave."
https://www.science.org/content/article/red-states-many-academic-researchers-feel-fear-and-resolve

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

"CDC Website No Longer Rejects Autism-Vaccine Link."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/118619

"The #CDC changed its website on Wednesday to suggest there may be a link between #vaccines and #autism. The site previously stated that studies have shown 'there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD),' and that 'no links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and ASD.' The new page also states that 'studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.' The updated page does not cite any new research."

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"State Department erases 15 pages of nuclear history — with no warning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/11/13/state-department-deleted-records-about-risk-inadvertent-nuclear-war/

"It is easier to delete digital records than to destroy books. This January, the State Department did just that when it republished on its website a volume [of the Foreign Relations of the United States series] about the Reagan administration — without 15 pages on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war sparked by a 1983 NATO exercise."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"State Department erases 15 pages of nuclear history — with no warning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/11/13/state-department-deleted-records-about-risk-inadvertent-nuclear-war/

"It is easier to delete digital records than to destroy books. This January, the State Department did just that when it republished on its website a volume [of the Foreign Relations of the United States series] about the Reagan administration — without 15 pages on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war sparked by a 1983 NATO exercise."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform

Thanks to #EssentialData.US, the Federation of American Scientists ( #FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners ( #PEDP) for launching this project.

For some reason, the deadline is tomorrow, Oct 29.

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform

Thanks to #EssentialData.US, the Federation of American Scientists ( #FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners ( #PEDP) for launching this project.

For some reason, the deadline is tomorrow, Oct 29.

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-shortlist-of-federal-data-the-trump-administration-has-tampered-with-or-destroyed

Not an ongoing tracking project, unfortunately, but well-done.

For ongoing tracking projects, see the list I'm building here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.up6zdj8tesgc

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. The NYTimes has a good collection of institutional responses as of Oct 2, the day after Trump sent his letter to nine colleges and universities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/trump-universities-compact-funding.html

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
(#paywalled)

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice [#NIJ] and hosted on a #DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted."

Here's the archived copy in the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DOJ #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
(#paywalled)

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice [#NIJ] and hosted on a #DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted."

Here's the archived copy in the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DOJ #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics