The Trump Administration’s Attempt to Wipe Public Data Is Censorship. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.
The Trump Administration’s Attempt to Wipe Public Data Is Censorship. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.
On the first night of February, I tossed and turned until dawn worrying about my job. I had just seen a Reddit post warning members of a geography
The digital book burners are at it again, huh? Trump’s crew scrubbing federal datasets like it’s a meth-fueled Marie Kondo purge—spark joy? Nah, just spark institutional gaslighting. A judge slaps them down, but the fact this even happened? Proof the system’s held together by duct tape and the occasional non-MAGA appointee.
Rural communities getting shafted isn’t new, but weaponizing data gaps to silence grant applications? That’s next-level petty. Taxpayer-funded info, now gatekept by culture war clowns. “Modified to comply with Executive Orders” is just Newspeak for we’re rewriting reality, brb.
Democracy’s not just broken—it’s a puppet show where the strings are held by whoever last yelled “censorship!” into a Fox News mic. The courts won’t save us. They’re just the cleanup crew after the mob trashes the joint.