Hunter writes: "These federal employees speaking out now understand that
science is not subordinate to politics, that truth is essential, and
transparency vital to a functioning democracy. They are risking their
careers to ensure the public is kept informed. They're exercising their free
speech rights to ensure we know the truth."
Entrance to Badlands National Park. (photo: Reuters)
Our Hero of the Day Is the Badlands National Park Social Media Manager
By Dana Hunter, Scientific American
25 January 17
NPS employees have a message for the Trump Administration.
rump is in power, and one of his first acts has been to gag government
agencies. After the National Park Service bruised his ego by retweeting a
New York Times tweet showing Trump's inauguration numbers to be lower than
President Obama's 2009 crowd, they were ordered to stop all tweets,
including scheduled ones.
He then muzzled the EPA, not only prohibiting it from using social media,
but also ordering it to remove a critical page on climate change from its
website and put a freeze on awarding grants and contracts critical to our
nation's environmental health. (In case you're in any doubt as to what a
Trump presidency means for climate change and the environment, just consider
that one of his first official acts after being sworn in was to announce
he'd be eliminating The Climate Action Plan - legislation critical to
combating anthropogenic global warming.)
The USDA went silent for several days, and an email ordering them to cease
"news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content"
until further notice. As of this writing, they have not tweeted since
January 18th. The USDA's Agricultural Research Service account has only
tweeted once.
Other agencies have gone silent or become considerably quieter. It's eerily
quiet on formerly chatty government social media accounts.
But the NPS refuses to be silenced. While their main official Twitter
account has fallen into line, tweeting an apology for their inauguration
retweets and sticking to innocuous fluff since, the Badlands National Park
official account defiantly started tweeting about climate change:
On Tuesday, the Twitter account for South Dakota's Badlands National Park-a
subsidiary of the National Park Service-began tweeting out climate change
facts, in apparent defiance of the gag order. Someone working for the
national park's social media team went rogue and started posting climate
change facts from the National Wildlife Federation's Web site in
140-character bursts. (Trump, who can generously be described as a climate
change skeptic, has previously called called climate change a "hoax"
engineered by the Chinese.)
The National Park's tweets were retweeted thousands of times before they
were suddenly deleted later Tuesday afternoon.
You can see screenshots of the rogue tweets at the above link.
Not long after Badlands was brought into line, anonymous employees of the
NPS went rogue. They created the AltUSNatlParkService account and, after
retweeting a particularly provocative image from the Badlands account along
with some climate change data, announced their intent in no uncertain terms:
These federal employees speaking out now understand that science is not
subordinate to politics, that truth is essential, and transparency vital to
a functioning democracy. They are risking their careers to ensure the public
is kept informed. They're exercising their free speech rights to ensure we
know the truth.
I have never been prouder of our National Park Service than I am now.
Please follow them on Twitter. Retweet their climate change data. Support
their efforts. Get the word out. And support your National Parks by donating
and volunteering. Tell your elected officials to support the NPS. Take a
moment to thank NPS employees during your visits. They have never needed us
more than now.
We will not be silenced.
We will protect our public lands.
And we will still be here long after Trump and his disastrous administration
are a bad memory.
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Our Hero of the Day Is the Badlands National Park Social Media Manager
By Dana Hunter, Scientific American
25 January 17
NPS employees have a message for the Trump Administration.
rump is in power, and one of his first acts has been to gag government
agencies. After the National Park Service bruised his ego by retweeting a
New York Times tweet showing Trump's inauguration numbers to be lower than
President Obama's 2009 crowd, they were ordered to stop all tweets,
including scheduled ones.
He then muzzled the EPA, not only prohibiting it from using social media,
but also ordering it to remove a critical page on climate change from its
website and put a freeze on awarding grants and contracts critical to our
nation's environmental health. (In case you're in any doubt as to what a
Trump presidency means for climate change and the environment, just consider
that one of his first official acts after being sworn in was to announce
he'd be eliminating The Climate Action Plan - legislation critical to
combating anthropogenic global warming.)
The USDA went silent for several days, and an email ordering them to cease
"news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content"
until further notice. As of this writing, they have not tweeted since
January 18th. The USDA's Agricultural Research Service account has only
tweeted once.
Other agencies have gone silent or become considerably quieter. It's eerily
quiet on formerly chatty government social media accounts.
But the NPS refuses to be silenced. While their main official Twitter
account has fallen into line, tweeting an apology for their inauguration
retweets and sticking to innocuous fluff since, the Badlands National Park
official account defiantly started tweeting about climate change:
On Tuesday, the Twitter account for South Dakota's Badlands National Park-a
subsidiary of the National Park Service-began tweeting out climate change
facts, in apparent defiance of the gag order. Someone working for the
national park's social media team went rogue and started posting climate
change facts from the National Wildlife Federation's Web site in
140-character bursts. (Trump, who can generously be described as a climate
change skeptic, has previously called called climate change a "hoax"
engineered by the Chinese.)
The National Park's tweets were retweeted thousands of times before they
were suddenly deleted later Tuesday afternoon.
You can see screenshots of the rogue tweets at the above link.
Not long after Badlands was brought into line, anonymous employees of the
NPS went rogue. They created the AltUSNatlParkService account and, after
retweeting a particularly provocative image from the Badlands account along
with some climate change data, announced their intent in no uncertain terms:
These federal employees speaking out now understand that science is not
subordinate to politics, that truth is essential, and transparency vital to
a functioning democracy. They are risking their careers to ensure the public
is kept informed. They're exercising their free speech rights to ensure we
know the truth.
I have never been prouder of our National Park Service than I am now.
Please follow them on Twitter. Retweet their climate change data. Support
their efforts. Get the word out. And support your National Parks by donating
and volunteering. Tell your elected officials to support the NPS. Take a
moment to thank NPS employees during your visits. They have never needed us
more than now.
We will not be silenced.
We will protect our public lands.
And we will still be here long after Trump and his disastrous administration
are a bad memory.
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