FYI: Today’s array of inanity was collected over the last eight days … or daze, as the case may be. - jp
President Trump’s War on ‘Information Silos’ Is Bad News for Your Personal Data
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-trump-executive-order-information-silos-privacy/
Trump Administration Bars NPS from Reporting Visitor Data
https://mountainjournal.org/trump-administration-bars-national-park-service-from-reporting-visitation-data
Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Trump administration funding cuts impact UW's research in dementia, cancer, STIs, AG says
https://komonews.com/news/local/trump-administration-funding-cuts-impact-uws-research-in-dementia-cancer-stis-ag-says
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trump-administration-axes-125m-lgbtq-health-funding-upending-research-rcna199175
Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01029-8
Researchers sue NIH over mass cuts to DEI grants
https://www.highereddive.com/news/researchers-sue-nih-dei-purge-grant-funding/744424/
‘We are all terrified’: Mass General Brigham to lose millions in medical research grants under Trump cuts
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/mass-general-brigham-lose-millions-medical-research-grants-trump-cuts/
Top U.S. Scientists Are Calling Out Trump’s ‘Climate of Fear’
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-u-s-researchers-warn-against-climate-of-fear-threatening-science/
Over 1,900 researchers describe 'assault' on science by White House: 'We see real danger'
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/2000-scientists-call-trump-administration-stop-assault-science/story?id=120382558
Scientists sound warning over Trump cuts — and 75% consider leaving the U.S.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sound-warning-over-trump-cuts--and-75-consider-leaving-the-us-214558236.html
Europe to burned American scientists: We’ll take you in
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-brain-drain-academic-research-progressive-institutions/
A brain drain would impoverish the United States and diminish world science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00992-6
Trump’s research cuts threaten to set off a wave of university brain drain https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/04/04/trumps-research-cuts-threaten-to-set-off-a-wave-of-university-brain-drain/
Trump Escalates Punitive University Research Cuts
https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/trump-escalates-punitive-university-research-cuts
Publishing house of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute latest target of Trump’s federal budget cuts
https://kyivindependent.com/publishing-house-of-harvards-ukrainian-research-institute-latest-target-of-trumps-federal-budget-cuts/
U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library in new DEI purge ordered by Pete Hegseth
https://fortune.com/2025/04/02/us-naval-academy-dei-books-pete-hegseth/
The Pentagon's DEI purge continues to spark confusion, even after some web pages were restored
https://www.whro.org/military-veterans/2025-04-02/the-pentagons-dei-purge-continues-to-spark-confusion-even-after-some-web-pages-were-restored
The Order Was To Purge DEI, Not History
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2025/04/04/the_order_was_to_purge_dei_not_history_1101984.html
Edinburg hero removed from naval history website under Trump’s DEI purge
https://myrgv.com/publications/the-monitor/2025/03/27/edinburg-hero-removed-from-naval-history-website-under-trumps-dei-purge/
Pentagon DEI purge claims web page on famed WWII pilot Hector Santa Anna
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/pentagon-dei-delete-hector-santa-anna-wwii-pilot-20234848.php
Trump's DEI purge reminds one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen of the struggle for recognition
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/trumps-dei-purge-reminds-one-last-surviving-tuskegee-airmen-struggle-recognition/
NASA Wipes Graphic Novels About Women Astronauts From Its Websites
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-wipes-graphic-novels-about-women-astronauts-from-its-websites-2000582211
Trump administration DEI purge erases Crow tribal figures from federal websites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaRD3EAGAJo [KPAX-TV]
‘History isn’t always meant to be comfortable’: WWI Museum responds to federal records purge
https://www.kctv5.com/2025/04/04/history-isnt-always-meant-be-comfortable-wwi-museum-responds-federal-records-purge/
‘Giving people a fairytale history’: Colorado College professor reacts to executive order focused on popular national museum
https://www.kktv.com/2025/04/04/giving-people-fairytale-history-colorado-college-professor-reacts-executive-order-focused-popular-national-museum/
Targeting museums, Trump seeks to rewrite history and benight the future
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-trump-smithsonian-american-history/
It was the woke elites who ‘purged’ America’s museums, not Donald Trump
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/29/it-was-the-woke-elites-who-purged-americas-museums-not-donald-trump/
Why Is Trump Threatening Smithsonian's African American History Museum but Not Other Iconic Museums Such as the Holocaust Museum?
https://www.theroot.com/why-trumps-threat-to-d-c-s-african-american-museum-shou-1851773481
Head of DC’s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/kevin-young-african-american-museum-trump-smithsonian
Director of National Museum of African American History and Culture on leave as Trump Adminstration turns attention to Smithsonian
https://thegrio.com/2025/04/03/director-of-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-on-leave-as-trump-adminstration-turns-attention-to-smithsonian/
Trump’s Latest Executive Order Aims to Eliminate ‘Race-Centered Ideology’ from American Institutions
https://www.ebony.com/trumps-latest-executive-order-aims-to-eliminate-race-centered-ideology-from-american-institutions/
OH NO! Biden-Era EPA Museum on Climate Change and 'Environmental Justice' to Be DOGED
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/01/oh-no-biden-era-epa-museum-on-climate-chance-and-environmental-justice-to-be-doged-n4938488
Trump's head-in-the-sand approach to climate change
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/trump-climate-change-energy-policy-paris-targets
Trump energy secretary during Golden lab visit doubles down on minimizing climate change
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/04/03/trump-energy-secretary-during-golden-lab-visit-doubles-down-on-minimizing-climate-change/
A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding
https://grist.org/politics/dengue-climate-change-trump-cuts-nih-funding-mosquito-borne-disease/
Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-staff-cuts-hollow-out-extreme-heat-programs/
Trump’s tariffs will deliver a big blow to climate tech
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/03/1114209/trumps-tariffs-will-deliver-a-big-blow-to-climate-tech/
‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-exempts-big-oil-donors-from-tariffs
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers
Trump administration announces plans to build AI data centers on federal land
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5230334-trump-ai-data-centers/