Climate change reports, deleted . DEI initiatives, banned . Local TV and radio stations, defunded .

Books, removed from military academies. Names of civil rights leaders, erased from ships. History lessons, purged from museums.

The list goes on and on. President Trump and his government appointees keep asserting more control over ideas and information — which has the effect of taking power away from independent researchers, historians, and the real news outlets that he frequently calls “fake.”

Friday’s abrupt firing of the labor statistics chief is one of the most dramatic examples yet.

But this push for control has been evident all throughout his second term — and the individual headlines should be analyzed as part of a pattern, lest the memories start to fade.

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