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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 3 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.541s | source
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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 13:33 UTC] No.42898165[source]▶
This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus...

Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas...

(https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/)

Lots of other data sets are disappearing too:

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-s...

There is active discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

as well as at https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/

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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 14:09 UTC] No.42898380[source]▶
> Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

Suddenly I feel out of the loop when it comes to US politics, how come Musk is suddenly seemingly seizing control of parts of the US government? I don't recall him being on any ballots or anything?

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bongodongobob ◴[01 Feb 25 14:28 UTC] No.42898537[source]▶
The US is undergoing a fascist takeover basically.
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liontwist[dead post] ◴[01 Feb 25 14:40 UTC] No.42898635[source]▶
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1. addicted ◴[01 Feb 25 15:00 UTC] No.42898795[source]▶
Which cabinet position was Musk appointed to? (In fact, in the U.S. the president doesn’t appoint cabinet members, but sure, you don’t understand the basics of how the govt works but you know what fascism is better than experts who’ve studied and written about it for decades).

Is Musk the head of the OPM?

Also, policy cannot break the law and certainly cannot break the constitution. That is fascism. The executive doesn’t get to rewrite laws and the constitution.

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2. liontwist ◴[01 Feb 25 15:02 UTC] No.42898821[source]▶
There is another comment explaining his appointment.

It’s really hard to argue why the president cannot get advice from anyone he would like. His staff includes anyone he wants to employ. He just can’t freely give them positions of official authority.

> The executive doesn’t get to rewrite laws and the constitution.

the judicial branch is working and can challenge orders and take them to court. And is already doing so.

> That is fascism.

It’s really not. You should study what fascists believed rather than using them as a caricature for bad policy.

3. dylan604 ◴[01 Feb 25 15:21 UTC] No.42898980[source]▶
> In fact, in the U.S. the president doesn’t appoint cabinet members

What? That's exactly what happens. The president (or his puppet masters) chooses the person, and then they go through a Senate confirmation process. I don't see how this isn't being appointed