Hacker NewsMar 28, 2025
Executive order on Smithsonian targets funding programs with 'improper ideology'
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Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with 'improper ideology'

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.” Trump says there’s been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” He has signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.

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 Hacker NewsFeb 14, 2025
National Park Service erases some words from Stonewall National Monument site
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US Park Service erases the word 'transgender' from website commemorating Stonewall riot

References to transgender people have been removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument. It's a park and visitor center in New York City focused on the history of a 1969 police raid on a gay bar that became a watershed moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. The changes were made in the wake of an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office which called for the federal government to define sex as only male or female. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the move cruel and petty in a social media post Thursday.

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 Hacker NewsFeb 11, 2025
Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed
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Judge tells agencies to restore webpages, data removed after Trump's executive order

A federal judge has told government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets they removed to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed Tuesday to issue a temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy group. The judge instructed the government to restore access to several webpages and datasets the group identified as missing from websites. Agencies removed the material after the Republican president signed an order for them to use the term “sex” and not “gender” in federal policies and documents. The scrubbed material includes reports on HIV prevention and a webpage for providing clinicians with guidance on reproductive health care.

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