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For 17 years, the US intel community has kept classified an assessment on the security implications of climate change. Why has the IC kept it a secret? My latest on why the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
is calling on the ODNI to prioritize the report's declassification:
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project-intelligence/2025-02-28/climate-intelligence
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Emily Atkin
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
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Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
https://heated.world/p/bari-weiss-vs-climate-change
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Naomi Oreskes
4 days ago
I get asked a lot about how climate change denial in USA affected or was exported to the rest of the world. Read this:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a-pretty-ugly-history-how-exxon-exported-climate-denial-to-the-global-south/
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National Security Archive
4 days ago
Dick Cheney Declassified: The VICE File (click below to read)
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The VICE File: Dick Cheney Declassified
Washington D.C., February 22, 2019 – The movie VICE, nominated for eight Academy Awards including the best picture Oscar, shows on screen several documents obtained through the Freedom of Information ...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2019-02-22/vice-file-dick-cheney-declassified
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Lauren Harper
4 days ago
It's a good day to re-read this 2019 piece from
@foianate.bsky.social
and
@nsarchive.bsky.social
's Tom Blanton.
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The VICE File: Dick Cheney Declassified
Washington D.C., February 22, 2019 – The movie VICE, nominated for eight Academy Awards including the best picture Oscar, shows on screen several documents obtained through the Freedom of Information ...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2019-02-22/vice-file-dick-cheney-declassified
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Nina Lakhani
5 days ago
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by
@geoffdembicki.bsky.social
reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/exxon-funded-thinktanks-to-spread-climate-denial-in-latin-america-documents-reveal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jessica McKenzie
5 days ago
NYT couldn't find someone to defend the Gates memo who wasn't a former *Gates scholar*??
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Opinion | Bill Gates Has a Point
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/bill-gates-climate-change-apocalypse.html
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Maxine Joselow
7 days ago
Scoop: The EPA has reconsidered its plans to kill the popular Energy Star program in response to intense backlash.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...
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E.P.A. Retreats From Plans to End the Energy Star Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/climate/epa-energy-star-program.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.Jf8a.Tp8v_O7mG_o1&smid=url-share
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National Security Archive
9 days ago
The Top Secret Testimony of the CIA's MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
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The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2025-10-30/top-secret-testimony-cias-mkultra-chief-50-years-later
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Ketan Joshi
10 days ago
notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
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Floodlight
10 days ago
“Nothing that Trump does says that he cares about people. Everything about his actions shows his disdain for poor and Black people specifically, but poor in general.”
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Trump moves to boost greenhouse, toxic emissions in Gulf states
Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say
https://floodlightnews.org/trump-petrochemical-exemption-toxic-emissions-texas-louisiana/
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Lauren Harper
12 days ago
A really good FOIA win from
@theintercept.com
(which shows, in addition to the substance of the document, that it can be worth asking for records from federally funded nonprofits.)
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Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War
An Obama-era Pentagon report called for “direct military action” in the drug war, presaging Trump’s brazen strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/26/drug-war-counternarcotics-report-trump-boat-strikes/
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Scoville Fellowship
17 days ago
Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
@nsarchive.bsky.social
briefing book by Scoville Fellow '22
@rsanta.bsky.social
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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Michael Evans
18 days ago
With Trump making trouble in Latin America and threatening more, an article in the New York Times looks at the long history of US interventions there and points to key archival evidence revealed over the years by the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
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What does the government shutdown mean for FOIA requesters? The
@nsarchive.bsky.social
’s advice: Submit at your own risk, and don’t miss your 90-day appeal deadlines!
unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for FOIA?
Screenshot of the FOIA.gov homepage taken on October 17, 2025. The government is shut down – and so is the public’s right to know. As in previous shutdowns, FOIA offices are being adversely affecte…
https://unredacted.com/2025/10/17/what-does-a-government-shutdown-mean-for-foia/
19 days ago
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National Security Archive
19 days ago
This great New York Times article from a few days ago links to several important revelations from the National Security Archive. Links to those resources below.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
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Poison Cigars, Propaganda and Coups Litter C.I.A. History in Latin America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/world/americas/cia-latin-america-coups.html
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What does the government shutdown mean for FOIA requesters? The
@nsarchive.bsky.social
’s advice: Submit at your own risk, and don’t miss your 90-day appeal deadlines!
unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for FOIA?
Screenshot of the FOIA.gov homepage taken on October 17, 2025. The government is shut down – and so is the public’s right to know. As in previous shutdowns, FOIA offices are being adversely affecte…
https://unredacted.com/2025/10/17/what-does-a-government-shutdown-mean-for-foia/
19 days ago
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Lauren Harper
22 days ago
EPA will no longer expedite FOIA requests made by members of marginalized communities impacted by pollution.
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Trump admin to ditch environmental justice FOIA reg
EPA is planning to ax a public records provision that granted expedited processing for marginalized communities.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-to-ditch-environmental-justice-foia-reg/
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The government is shut down — and so is the public’s right to know. Read my latest for the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
:
unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for FOIA?
Screenshot of the FOIA.gov homepage taken on October 17, 2025. The government is shut down – and so is the public’s right to know. As in previous shutdowns, FOIA offices are being adversely affecte…
https://unredacted.com/2025/10/17/what-does-a-government-shutdown-mean-for-foia/
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Looking forward to presenting on FOIA and access to information to
@climaterealityproject.org
’s NY Chapter with
@laurenleharper.bsky.social
. Join us on 10/20 (link in flier)!
22 days ago
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The government is shut down — and so is the public’s right to know. Read my latest for the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
:
unredacted.com/2025/10/17/w...
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for FOIA?
Screenshot of the FOIA.gov homepage taken on October 17, 2025. The government is shut down – and so is the public’s right to know. As in previous shutdowns, FOIA offices are being adversely affecte…
https://unredacted.com/2025/10/17/what-does-a-government-shutdown-mean-for-foia/
22 days ago
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Chris Baraniuk
23 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: I dug into why the UK government released the world's most potent greenhouse gas into a London Tube station - twice! - in 2007. Includes some new details about these experiments.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-worlds...
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The world’s most potent greenhouse gas once drifted round a London Tube station
Sulphur hexafluoride has many fascinating uses – but it’s awful for the climate
https://www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-worlds-most-potent-greenhouse
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Lauren Harper
23 days ago
One spin: Librarians and archivists are just as important as spies.
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ICYMI: Special shoutout to
@nsarchive.bsky.social
alumna
@laurenleharper.bsky.social
featured on
@lastweektonight.com
's episode on Presidential Libraries!
25 days ago
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National Security Archive
24 days ago
The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968, Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact
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The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact
Washington, D.C., October 15, 2025 - The 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near the U.S. Air Force Base in Thule, Greenland, that scattered radioactive plutonium across miles of icefields crea...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2025-10-15/united-states-and-greenland-episodes-nuclear-history-1957
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ICYMI: Special shoutout to
@nsarchive.bsky.social
alumna
@laurenleharper.bsky.social
featured on
@lastweektonight.com
's episode on Presidential Libraries!
25 days ago
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
27 days ago
John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more. It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help. Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.
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John Oliver rips presidential library loophole
Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/john-oliver-rips-presidential-library-loophole/
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Lauren Harper
25 days ago
Just going to leave this idea here: One member of the chat, Michael Bartels, now works for the federal government - the Small Business Administration. Might be worth a FOIA request or two.
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
John Oliver is right. Secret donations to presidential libraries enable bribery, while public access to presidential records is at an all-time low. Use our action center tool to tell Congress to close the secrecy loopholes and increase transparency.
freedom.press/the-classifi...
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
about 1 month ago
This week’s main story is about presidential libraries, why they’re important, how Donald Trump may be exploiting their loopholes, and – what else – a psychic gorilla with a dangerous distaste for one specific president.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
John Oliver is right. Secret donations to presidential libraries enable bribery, while public access to presidential records is at an all-time low. Use our action center tool to tell Congress to close the secrecy loopholes and increase transparency.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
about 1 month ago
Article from the National Security Archive on disappearing data:
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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Inside Climate News
about 1 month ago
The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report.
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New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News
Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06102025/trump-administration-fossil-fuel-ties/
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The Intercept
about 1 month ago
“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”
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Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”
“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”
https://interc.pt/46PlnLI
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Amy Westervelt
about 1 month ago
Telling me you listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast regularly is quickly becoming the flag telling me you listened to Joe Rogan regularly was 5 years ago.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to disappear critical climate data - leaving the public totally unprepared to fight the threats of climate change. Read more from
@rsanta.bsky.social
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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Data erasure and alterations aren't just a threat to the public's right-to-know--they make it harder for the government to study, enforce, and inform about climate policy. How are federal agencies supposed to prepare for and regulate threats that don't exist?
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
about 1 month ago
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The Trump admin has fundamentally distorted our access to publicly available environmental data. Massive losses include the deletion of National Climate Assessments, shuttering of atmospheric monitoring programs, and closure of federal climate offices:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
about 1 month ago
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This topic has gotten a lot of coverage—and for good reason—that’s why we at the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
wanted to update you on where the massive data losses stand, and the data rescue orgs fighting to scrape, preserve, and protect federal data:
m.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
YouTube video by nsarchive
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSedhAgbM
about 1 month ago
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Data erasure and alterations aren't just a threat to the public's right-to-know--they make it harder for the government to study, enforce, and inform about climate policy. How are federal agencies supposed to prepare for and regulate threats that don't exist?
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
about 1 month ago
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National Security Archive
about 1 month ago
Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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Michael Evans
about 1 month ago
Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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Wrote for the
@nsarchive.bsky.social
about how the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its efforts to remove and alter critical climate resources and data this summer:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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The Trump admin has fundamentally distorted our access to publicly available environmental data. Massive losses include the deletion of National Climate Assessments, shuttering of atmospheric monitoring programs, and closure of federal climate offices:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
about 1 month ago
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National Security Archive
about 1 month ago
Link to the report:
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
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National Security Archive
about 1 month ago
The Archive's
@rsanta.bsky.social
talks about her new report on Disappearing Climate Data
www.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...
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YouTube video by nsarchive
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSedhAgbM
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Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to rewri...
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted
about 1 month ago
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Josh Busby
about 1 month ago
This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?
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Jessica McKenzie
about 1 month ago
Earlier this year the president proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 24 percent, the clearest indication of his priorities going into a possible shutdown. Funding for Earth science programs specifically would be cut by MORE THAN HALF. These are some of the satellite & space instrument missions at risk
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NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration
The Trump administration has proposed cancelling more than 40 NASA missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/09/nasa-missions-at-risk-under-the-trump-administration/#post-heading
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Jessica McKenzie
about 1 month ago
“Either we all go home or it’s business as usual … nobody knows what’s going to happen,” one NASA scientist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told
@thebulletin.org
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