Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 5/3/25

This list is illustrative, but certainly not exhaustive.

Note: special thanks to Jenny McBurney and Molly Blake at the University of Minnesota, who are working to post items "from my own reviews" (including those in previous roundups, but excluding the media reports) in their Tracking Removed and Modified Government Information & Resources spreadsheet. A submission form is included on their page if you have other documents/resources that should be added.

From my own reviews:

Preliminary May change/error report of GovSpeak linkcheck

Between 1/16 (IA link) and 2/23 - Health.mil historical timelines pages removed:

• Note: this is not a “new” change, but is new to me and I don’t find in media reports. I saw a 5/5 snopes.com article about DOD denying they were removing content about Ruby Bradley. Some web searching resulted in finding the Women in Military Health site – which included info about Bradley – is gone, then I saw the other timelines also missing.
• Asians and Pacific Islanders in Military Health (IA, 1/24/25 last capture)
• Black and African Americans in Military Medicine (IA, 1/17/25 last capture)
• Hispanic Americans in Military Medicine (IA, 1/26/25 last capture)
• Native and Alaskan Americans in Military Health (IA, 1/17/25 last capture)
• Pride: LGBTQ Service Members in Military Health (IA, 1/26/25 last capture)
• Women in Military Health (IA, 1/16/25 last capture)

5/5 - CFTC OIG website revised; all reports appear to be available, but categories have changed (see 4/28 IA capture)

• Removed categories: white papers, law & economic reports, investigations, inspections/evaluations, other audits & reviews, performance audits, financial audits,
• Retained categories: semiannual reports, peer review reports
• New categories: audit reports, evaluation & review reports, investigative reports
• Renamed categories: reports in cooperation with CIGIE > CIGIE cooperative reports | assessments of the most serious management challenges facing the CFTC > management performance challenges | inspector general strategic & work plans > strategic & work plans

5/6 - SEC OIG website revised; all investigative memoranda (1998-2014, IA link)  removed, though there is a link on the home page that resolves to a 404 page; “recent reports” page changed to “all reports”

5/6 - NSIDC data announcement: NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS), effective 5/5/25. Change affects:

• Sea Ice Index
• Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products
• Glacier Photograph Collection
• U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format
• Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward
• World Glacier Inventory

5/8 and 5/9 - Added to NOAA Notice of Changes: 

• Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (retired, 2024 is last report)
• Cloud Properties - ISCCP H-Series CDR (decommissioned)
• ADT-HURSAT (decommissioned)
• Manual Dvorak Estimates in the South Atlantic Ocean (terminated)

5/8 - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Data Sets updated, with the vast majority of files for all years (1990-2025) showing new file sizes; I have not tried to compare files for changes. See 4/23 IA capture for comparison. (5/9 update: VAERS website updated with new announcement about “expanded public access to VAERS data”)

5/8 - Added to SAMHSA Data Announcements page: Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Discontinuing New Data Collection. Note: I believe I have captured all pages/files on the DAWN site, mostly in IA but some pages at https://archive.ph/ 

5/8 - EOIR’s Workload and Adjudication Statistics page revised again, with 3 additional items removed (see 5/3 IA capture):

Detention Time Frames

17. Median Completion Times for Detained Cases

18. Median Times for Pending Detained Cases

19. Percentage of DHS-Detained Cases Completed Within Six Months

5/9 - EOIR’s Workload and Adjudication Statistics page revised again, with remaining items renumbered sequentially rather than showing gaps created by removal of items

5/9 - Footer across GSA website reverted to old version, including links to (still dead) Climate Action and Sustainability and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility pages

5/9 - NOAA Notice of Changes page layout revised; details for items from April 15- have been moved to individual pages rather than listed on the main page. The “all announcements” button under the April 15 item points to a new page that includes only the April15- items.

5/9 - New “Big Wins” page added to HHS website; linked in top menu bar

5/9 or early 5/10 - Entire ODNI website went down; still offline 5/12, 6:30am PST

From media/Bluesky reports:

5/3 - There’s a Lot to Learn About Crime. Trump’s Orders Are Making It Harder to Get Answers. (Marshall Project)

5/4 - Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs (AP)

5/6 - Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds (NPR)

5/7 - Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running (New Republc)

5/9 - DOGE’s Zombie Contracts: They Were Killed but Have Come Back to Life (NYT)

5/9 - ICE Hasn't Published New Detention Data in Over Three Weeks – and It's a Problem (Austin Kocher/Substack; note – the referenced ICE page is one I’ve monitored for a long time and I archive each data release, usually the day it’s posted; the spreadsheet was updated on 5/9)