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Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data.
July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians.
April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good.
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Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
🔔 Introducing the Disappearing Data Chronology—a timeline tracking the Trump admin’s fundamental changes to the information landscape, including major data losses / restorations, legal challenges, and threats to archival collections.
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The Archive's 2026 Sunshine Week FOIA:
Law Gives Agencies 20 Working Days to Respond; Agencies Give Requesters…3, 5, 7 Working Days? Or Close
Via @nsarchive.bsky.social by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social and Wendy Valdes. nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...
In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)
What a resource from @nsarchive.bsky.social!
The Disappearing Data Chronology
Source: www.archives.gov/files/resear...
In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)
Americas long standoff with Cuba: Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh spoke with CBC Radio
www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
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Washington, D.C., March 16, 2026 – In 2025, the Department of Energy gave the National Security Archive 3 business days to clarify a Freedom of Information Request that had generated nearly 100,000 pa...
Donald Trump says he could “take” Cuba. From early imperial ambitions to the Cold War and today’s economic crisis, we look at why Cuba has remained such a persistent focus of American power.
Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
National Security Archive
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
