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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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nehal3m ◴[01 Feb 25 14:37 UTC] No.42898617[source]▶
You’re being downvoted but looking from the outside in, Gitmo being scaled up to house 30k people that the administration expects never to be able to repatriate, an unelected billionaire running around destroying institutions and a president actively starting trade wars and threatening occupation with allies looks an awful lot like it.
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RIMR ◴[01 Feb 25 15:06 UTC] No.42898857[source]▶
People aren't downvoting because they disagree about what's happening. They are downvoting because they agree with fascism, but don't like it when people say the truth out loud. It's a fundamental reality of fascism that those who support it will also deflect all valid criticism of their movement.

A majority of U.S. voters chose this. After all that was already known about this admin, they aren't backing down, he's doing what he promised he would do.

It is going to be more catastrophic than I think anyone knows.

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honestSysAdmin ◴[01 Feb 25 21:13 UTC] No.42902411[source]▶
If fascism means secure borders, an end to the kinetic conflict in Ukraine, an end to social media censorship, and a booming economy, more than half the country will vote for fascism. Promises fulfilled or not aside.
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klipt ◴[02 Feb 25 03:35 UTC] No.42905537{5}[source]▶
Trump tariffs are definitely not going to make the economy boom...
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honestSysAdmin ◴[02 Feb 25 05:16 UTC] No.42906097{6}[source]▶

  "The government of Columbia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay. Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned. Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States."
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nehal3m ◴[02 Feb 25 10:47 UTC] No.42907825{7}[source]▶
And how does this make the economy boom, exactly?
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1. honestSysAdmin ◴[02 Feb 25 13:07 UTC] No.42908374{8}[source]▶
"Some things are more important than GDP".
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2. RIMR ◴[04 Feb 25 21:19 UTC] No.42938888[source]▶
Ah, so it won't help the economy. Funny how you've moved the goalpost so far that you're now arguing against your own claim.