Public datasets, American property, paid for by American citizens. Deleting such things is a kind of vandalism, a property crime.

Book burnings have always done wonders for removing inconvenient facts from circulation

I dream of a day all these people get killed or maimed.

It's only reality if there is proof, no proof, no pudding.../s

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

We need to remember this - safeguarding data seems like an improvement we can make when the fascists are voted out. It’s bad enough when they lie to constituents about reality but we can make it harder for future despots to sabotage science

I hope there are archives somewhere

It's easier to treat alternative facts as actual when the actual facts no longer is an alternative.

Pain Threshold (success): No way out but through, now.

When government compels education, there's an implication that knowledge is valued. Obviously this is not true when those who desire Christian Nationalism get in power. Our constitutional writers made a severe mistake by putting religion above government regulation. The unchanging church and its ignorance.

This is indeed the era of Leibowicz, where important information is in threat of being destroyed by evil interests.

to keep the inbred r voters ignorant.

This is the goal of the enemies of the people that have take over the administration.

Someone explain to me how it is that a supposed "patriot" party like the Republican Party manages to do nearly everything Russia and/or China could ever want?

Something that just confuses me... this stuff should be backed up right? shouldn't this stuff be put in in a means that, a competent administration down the line can pull from backups.

Are the Epstein files still intact? Seems we will never know.

Don't worry, Elon has a backup made during the Doge moment.

Why isn't this data stored in an immutable way? HIPAA records and access logs need to be stored in some way to not allow them to be modified, not even by an administrator. Why isn't governmental data stored like that? Partisan turnover is always going to want to change data from the previous administration. They either want to pump their views and/or make the previous one look bad. We need data security to prevent this kind of bullshit

Trump 2.0???

THEY MADE A SECOND ONE?

This is the part that will take decades to recover from. A true crime against humanity.

That brain shaped hole in his head. Someone at the guardian graphics department is having some fun.