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Sliding in american politics into a tire-screeching out-of-control full-speed u-turn. one of the important things we learned this week as we started to go through this radical change as a country that as fast as things seem like they are changing and as radical as these changes in direction seem, pressure matters. pressure still works. at least some of the time. on inauguration day, a mem blow went out to all the employees at the department of health and human services and that memo told them that without exception people in that agency were no longer allowed to make any "correspondence to pub...

Allowed to post any public information, including scientific information. nothing that the public could see. a gag order on everything from all of those scientists to anything that might make it to the public. that gag order on those 2000 scientists made it to the press, white house got asked about it, pressure started building and hey, look, they took it back, they caved. they sent a follow-up message to the usda scientists saying the original order was "hereby rescinded" adding for good measure "the agricultural research service values and is committed to maintaining the free flow of informa...

Epa's climate-related data. tons and tons and tons of giant data sets on climate and all sorts of scientists rely on that with all sorts of research. after being told to take down that whole site after it was reported that epa employees had been ordered to take that down. naturally, a, outrage, b, questions, c, pressure, and, d, ultimately they caved. they backed down. "the trump administration has walked back plans to scrub climate change references from the epa web site. naturally the white house spokesman is denying the trump administration ever wanted that page taken down totally disavowin...

Banned from speaking with members of congress. we've been told we're not allowed to provide information to members of congress or other elected officials. democratic members of congress, including congressman elijah cummings and congress man frank pallone went nuts in response to this gag order. they wrote to the white house about it. news coverage of the gag order geared up. the new administration had no explanation, no defense for what they had done. and now you know what happened? they rescinded it. now there has been a new memo to health and human services employees rescinding the earlier ...

Either in person or in writing. and now the white house itself is disavowing ever having asked for that in the first place. that wasn't us, that had nothing to do with us. must have been a typo. same thing at the usda. we reported tuesday night that the 2000 scientists of our nation's agricultural research service, those scientists have been told they're no longer allowed to post any public information, including scientific information. nothing that the public could see. a gag order on everything from all of those scientists to anything that might make it to the public. that gag order on those...