Here's Every Instance Of Thoughtcrime Being Removed From National Parks

Huge database of material covers everything from founding fathers to slavery to climate science

An anonymous source within the federal government has leaked a database containing what they claim is every piece of material the National Park Service is being ordered to censor as part of Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” executive order.

“This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name,” states the anonymous source, who goes by the monicker “grumpy_lizard.” “Donald Trump, Russell Vought, Doug Burgum, and the rest of this corrupt administration are trying to use your public lands to erase history and undermine science.”

“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” begins Executive Order 14253, which Trump issued in March, 2025. “This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”

That EO goes on to order the Secretary of the Interior to identify for removal any material that, “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

In June, signage was installed across the National Park System asking visitors to report any material they find offensive, and to report any park employee who presented any information they found challenging.

Since then, we’ve seen the slow removal of educational material from parks. Signs in Glacier National Park marking the site of a massacre of Blackfeet people by the federal government disappeared overnight. An exhibition on George Washington’s treatment of enslaved people at the President’s House in Philadelphia was dismantled. And signage discussing the impacts of climate change on the populations of wild ponies was removed from Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Why is the administration doing this? “Dismantling trusted sources of science and history makes their agenda of lies easier,” explains grumpy_lizard.

“Profiting from coal and oil is a lot easier if the impacts of fossil fuels are censored at sites like Muir Woods, Glacier, Acadia, and Everglades,” they continue. “It's easier to illegally detain people if we forget the true stories of Japanese-American incarceration in World War II, told at national park sites like Manzanar and Minadoka and Amache and Tule Lake and Honouliuli. Propping up systemic racism is easier if you hide the evidence of the atrocities of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and white nationalism at park sites like Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home, Cane River Creole, Rock Creek, and Independence Hall. Most of all, they want to turn the American people against their national parks. They want to discredit the national parks and set the stage to privatize them.”

You can download the complete database yourself at this link. I encourage you to review the material, and add your remarks on what you find in the comments section below this article.

This is a developing story, and I will continue to update it as I review the material.

Top photo: a placard on the history of the slave trade that will be removed from Christiansted National Historic Site in the Virgin Islands.

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I’m going to drop images of material that seems remarkable below, along with brief captions, as I work through this:

A sign alerting visitors of storm surge dangers is being removed from North Carolina’s Outer Banks. I presume this has something to do with a rejection of climate science.

It appears as if any mention of slavery at all is being removed. As is this sign from Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee.

Another sign being removed from Stone’s River. This time the reason appears to be that it “disparages” Confederate soldiers.

A sign containing an acknowledgement that Theodore Roosevelt Island once belonged to Indigenous people is being removed.

A sign explaining that George Washington refused to be made a king is being removed Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. Seems relevant.

A sign mentioning FDR’s disability, and containing mention of discriminatory policies is being removed from his memorial.

A sign about Indigenous Hawaiian religious beliefs that’s being removed from Hawaii Volcanoes national Park.

The fact that Indigenous people lived on the continent before European settlers seems pretty non-controversial. The fact that they’re removing this one indicates they likely intend to just erase all Indigenous history from National Parks altogether.

They’re removing Toni Morrison’s “A Bench by the Road” project. “The Project was launched on February 18, 2006, on the occasion of Toni Morrison's 75th Birthday,” reads the project’s website. “The name ‘Bench by the Road’ is taken from Morrison's remarks in a 1989 interview with World Magazine where she spoke of the absences of historical markers that help remember the lives of Africans who were enslaved and of how her fifth novel, Beloved, served this symbolic role.”

Bees: notoriously a liberal conspiracy.

I guess the very fact that the founding fathers owned slaves can no longer be taught by the federal government.

A reminder that driving is sometimes dangerous is being removed from the Route 66 Visitors Center.

An explanation that America’s democracy inspired others is being removed from the Thomas Stones National Historic Site in Maryland.

Material on the history of the Freedom Riders is being removed from the Freedom Riders National Monument.

A portrait of Emmett Till and his mother is being removed from The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.

Material teaching the history of the bison eradication is being removed from relevant national parks.

The history of the women’s suffrage movement is being removed from the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in Washington D.C.

Looks like basic Civil War history is on the chopping block at Fort Donelson National Battlefield.

An important lesson about prisoners of war is being erased from the Andersonville National Historic site, at the same time as Pete Hegseth is questioning whether or not our military should abide by the Geneva Convention.

This is about as nice a way to phrase mention of The Trail of Tears as possible, but it’s still being removed from the Natchez Trace Parkway.

An explanation that the White House was built in part by slave labor is being removed from Lafayette Square. How will future signage interpret the construction of the ballroom?

A handful of earthen mounds are sure going to look strange without any signage explaining their origin.

Getting rid of the bottle filling station at Fort Sumter is really going to stick it to those libs.

Displays discussing Benjamin Franklin’s opposition to slavery are being removed from the National Memorial named after him.

A display describing the harsh working conditions for lumber jacks is being removed from Voyageurs National Park.

A sign explaining the Utah desert’s fragile biological crust, and the ease with which it can be damaged by human activity is being removed from Canyonlands National Park.