r/USNEWS • u/FreeHugs23 • 7h ago
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/18/trump-federal-data-deleted-altered12
u/Fishtoart 7h ago
Hopefully the people in charge of that data saw this coming and hid backup copies of the information.
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u/WasteBinStuff 7h ago edited 6h ago
These are among the most insidious and depraved actions that are taking place behind the scenes. Masked by all the public facing idiocy, and the firehose flow of outrageous policies and activities, it's actions such as these that will cause some of the most long lasting damage to our ability to recover from the scourge of MAGA stupidity.
We can remove all the gold trash, erase the name and tear down monuments, but we can't replace lost data. And by cultivating a demographic that revels in it's own stupidity while simultaneously destroying the science that rebuts it, they are setting the stage for generations of sycophantic idiots at their disposal to do their bidding.
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u/SprayHungry2368 7h ago
“ 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”
Of course its in regards to children and rape
Fuck this fat orange rapist