‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted

Group has banded together to rescue data as Trump administration has removed or altered data on climate change, reproductive health, LGBTQ people and more André spent 2025 trying to stay one step ahead of the Trump administration. Every morning, he woke up and download as many government datasets as he could before they were deleted. He continued throughout the afternoon, and sometimes through the night, if a notification from his group chat popped up on his phone saying that a new webpage ha...

By Amy Qin