Tuesday, Badlands National Park’s account tweeted a few facts about climate change – a subject President Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed to be “controversial” – that were soon deleted.The Department of the Interior, after tweeting images Friday comparing President Trump’s meager inauguration crowds to the throngs at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration, found its Twitter account shut down, only to reappear the next day with an apology.News of a gag-order on the USDA was the latest of several similar edicts:

Once BuzzFeed published the memo yesterday, people got loud. This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content.”Īccording to reports today, however, a second email went out to ARS late Tuesday evening stating that Drumm’s note should have never been issued and has been “hereby rescinded.” “Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents. Here’s the text, provided to Modern Farmer by the Christopher Bentley, director of the office of communications at ARS: The memo was written by Sharon Drumm, chief of staff for ARS, and it informed the more than 2,000 ARS scientists – who study everything from methane emissions to the economy of rural America and have a major focus on climate change – to, essentially, keep quiet. It all started yesterday, when BuzzFeed obtained a memo distributed on Monday within the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

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