Gleichschaltung?

[Dill]

This is happening faster than I can keep up.

US Environmental Protection Agency staff are currently not able to talk directly to the public or the press.
https://qz.com/893890/the-epa-was-placed-under-a-gag-order-by-the-trump-white-house/

Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency’s budget allocations and even threaten to disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-imposes-freeze-on-epa-grants-and-contracts

The Interior Department was ordered Friday to shut down its official Twitter accounts — indefinitely — after a National Park Service employee shared two tweets that noted President Trump’s relatively small inaugural crowds compared to the numbers former President Obama drew in 2009.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/01/21/interior-department-banned-from-twitter-after-retweet-smaller-than-usual-trump-inauguration-crowd/2S7MgjBwftXVN6qfd8GnQP/story.html

Seemingly in spite of what happened to the main National Parks Twitter account, the account for the Badlands National Park (situated in South Dakota), tweeted out a series of facts about global warming: They ranged from the fact that the level of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere is at the highest it’s been in the last half-million years, to what burning gasoline does to the atmosphere, and how much more acidic our oceans have become as a result of climate change. Some Twitter users recognized the risk immediately:
https://qz.com/894089/badlands-national-park-and-other-government-agencies-are-taking-to-twitter-twtr-to-defy-trump-with-facts-about-climate-change/

Employees of the scientific research arm at the Agriculture Department were ordered Monday to cease publication of “outward facing” documents and news releases, raising concerns that the Trump administration was seeking to influence distribution of their findings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/24/usda-science-researchers-ordered-to-stop-publishing-news-releases-other-documents/?utm_term=.5abe378b89e1

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-house-doubles-down-trump-s-debunked-illegal-voter-claim-n711526

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/24/trump-to-advance-keystone-dakota-pipelines-with-executive-order-on-tuesday-nbc.html

http://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt--politics/trump-announce-restrictions-immigration-refugee-resettlements/34h29v04TqKetc25nv3PgJ/

Tillerson, who has spent his career at ExxonMobil, would be the first secretary of state without government or military experience if confirmed. He has a decades-long business relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has raised eyebrows among Democratic and some Republican lawmakers. . . . DeVos, a Michigan education activist and major GOP donor, is an advocate for school choice and charter schools. . . . Carson, a retired neurosurgeon. . .  now serves as the vice chairman on the Trump transition team. He has never held elected office or worked in government.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cabinet/story?id=43478002

Rep. Mike Pompeo, who once called America's torturers "patriots," and who once counseled active-duty military officers to disregard the lawful orders of the previous president, sailed through the Senate to become the new director of the CIA. . . . The administration has nominated Sonny Perdue, the Confederate-flag-loving former governor of Georgia, to be the Secretary of Agriculture. Perdue's past statements on the climate crisis seem to fit in nicely with the information on that subject that the new government is clearly trying to bury at the EPA.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions preparing to sit his pale ass down in Bobby Kennedy's old chair at the Justice Department, and with John Gore, a lawyer whose track record shows a remarkable sweet tooth for laws upholding discrimination of all sorts, nominated to be Sessions's assistant AG for civil rights.. . . Rep. Mick Mulvaney, the administration's candidate to direct the Office of Management and Budget, went before a Senate committee and stated quite plainly that he still believes Social Security is "a Ponzi scheme" and that he and the administration will be coming for that, and for Medicare and Medicaid, too
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52535/trump-administration-dangerously-retrograde/

Any word on Trump's Supreme Court appointee?