The beginning of resistance. The National Park Service tweets. Now there is a twitter account called “AltNPS.”
It all started with those inauguration crowd shots.
President Trump, a man who has never indicated that he is fixated on the size of things, was none too thrilled when the National Park Service retweeted photos that showed the crowds on the National Mall at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration side-by-side with those of his inauguration last Friday.
The NPS followed that post with a tweet pointing out that the pages dedicated to climate change, civil rights, and health care were missing from the new White House website.
By the end of the day on Friday, according to an internal email obtained by Gizmodo, the NPS was ordered by its Washington support office “to immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts until further notice.”
Living up to its name, Badlands National Park defied the order. From its official Twitter account, the park tweeted facts about climate change. The first of these rebellious one-liners — “Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time int he last 650,000 years. #climate.” — went up Tuesday morning. It was retweeted over 9,000 times before it was deleted. Another tweet, about ocean acidification, followed an hour later, and was retweeted over 1,000 times. Within hours, Badlands’ follower count skyrocketed from 7,000 to 69,100.
This bout of defiance lasted only hours. By late afternoon, the tweets disappeared, and the official word on the matter was that a they were sent by a former employee at the park in Interior, S.D., who still had access to the account. An anonymous NPS official told the Washington Post that “the park was not told to remove the tweets but chose to do so when they realized their account had been compromised.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
All Federal Agencies are in the midst of Trump’s ideological purge.
A tweet from Jason Febery, from friend of his inside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
https://twitter.com/JasonFebery/status/824976452911243264
You realize that the National Park Service and all land devoted to national monuments is under threat from ALEC. ALEC wants to “shrink” public lands to the least area possible, using their criteria, so states have control of that land and can open up vast areas for private development. Various model bills can bee seen here. https://www.alec.org/?s=national+monuments
“President Trump, a man who has never indicated that he is fixated on the size of things,”
I would beg to differ. Trump has been endlessly fixated on the size of things going back decades. Everything he has done has been the biggest, the bestest, (Trumpism?) the greatest etc. etc. Once his tiny hands became part of the conversation he doubled down.
Now, when government agencies feel the need to operate alternative accounts because the President is shutting down official channels and trying to dictate truth, am I wrong in thinking we are in major trouble?
You bet. This is unprecedented.