"As a C.D.C. employee, you get annual trainings on FOIA & record keeping. All of a sudden it was like a complete withdrawal of that. It was really frightening & eerie."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
That's "authoritarian blindness," but
@[email protected] won't call it that, yet.
#OpenGov #SunshineWeekInside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’...
Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC, as Told by Current and Former Employees
Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.
AgendaWatch.org “collects public meeting documents from official government and agency websites and makes them searchable.”
#OpenGov #DDJAgenda Watch @opensecrets.org combines state & federal lobbying & campaign finance disclosures into one platform where the public & press can better understand how power & influence are shaping the United States:
www.opensecrets.org #OpenGov #OpenDataOpenSecrets 
OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
CitizenHistorians.org did a “crowd to cloud” database of 100% of current Smithsonian exhibits: 2000+ volunteers donated 50,000+ photographs and videos from August to October 2025.
#OpenGovCitizen Historians for the Smi... 
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet and with our cellphone cameras, Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is demonstrating how much the Smithsonian means to us and how seriously we take the responsibility to defend it.
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In response to President Trump’s August 12, 2025 letter to Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch...
The
@[email protected] (EDGI) “is an action-oriented research collaborative and network dedicated to advancing the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK).”
envirodatagov.org/about/ #OpenData #OpenGovAbout – Environmental Data and...About – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an action-oriented research collaborative and network dedicated to advancing the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK). To us ERTK means: To do advance the ERTK, we: History and Impact Forming in November 2016 to document and analyze changes to vulnerable federal environmental data and governance practices under the Trump administration, ... Read more
@usafacts.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit that tries to make federal government data easier to access & understand.
I was skeptical of the need for them to exist at launch, but almost a decade later they’re humming along, & expanding into agentic AI.
sunlightfoundation.com/2017/04/19/t... #OpenGov Today in OpenGov: Syracuse o... Today in OpenGov: Syracuse opens up, Steve Ballmer discovers government data, and more… : Sunlight Foundation
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…
DataIndex.us monitors federal data infrastructure in the USA, from availability of current
#OpenData to new releases to planned (and unplanned) changes to public access to agency databases.
#OpenGovdataindex.us | America's Data ... dataindex.us | America's Data Index
@icpsr.bsky.social is an international consortium of 800+ academic & research bodies that collects & publishes scads of social science data for public access:
www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/...
DataLumos crowdsources deposits of valuable government data:
www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalu... #OpenGov USAID Knowledge Rescue does exactly what it sounds like: preserve public knowledge for public access that might otherwise be lost.
aidlinks.org #opengov #opendataHomeNEW: “HIFLD Next” has 400+ infrastructure & resilience-related data layers that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used to publish online
screening-tools.com/blog/hifld-n... #OpenGov in action.
HIFLD Next: Restoring America’...
HIFLD Next: Restoring America’s Infrastructure Datasets — Data + Screening Tools
Public Environmental Data Partners and Fulton Ring are proud to unveil a new community-shaped hub for browsing, previewing and downloading a variety of public GIS data, including an archive from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD). Nicknamed HIFLD Next , our portal launches
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