This zine was published in February 2017 under the name Printed Web Crisis Edition, immediately after Donald Trump came to power, and implements Paul Soulellis’ idea of “urgent publishing”: “To publish is, fundamentally, a political act. / In moments of crisis, as we’ve experienced so deeply in the last year, we see not only artists, but community organisers, scholars, poets, and activists collectively engaging with different modes of publishing to urgently document and communicate what’s happening, in real time” (Paul Soulellis, “Urgent Publishing,” 32).

Presented are screenshots of twenty-two web pages at whitehouse.gov whose content became unavailable immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, around 5 p.m., and was consistently replaced with phrases such as “Thank you for your interest in this subject. Stay tuned as we continue to update whitehouse.gov.” As the list of URLs on the front cover shows, this particularly affects pages on civil rights, women, education, disabilities, immigration, Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, LGBT, health care, and Barack Obama’s climate action plan—in other words, all those areas in which Trump resolutely pursued the opposite policy of his predecessor in office. Each screenshot of the redacted page is accompanied by a screenshot of the last view of the respective page on Obama’s time in office, both reconstructed by Soulellis from the Internet Archive.

This event is later expanded upon by Soulellis in his publication Steve, Harvey and Matt, As discussed with Nancy, we would like the content at the links below removed and archived as soon as possible, which documents the Trump administration’s mail exchange that accompanied the April 2017 deletion of all climate change-related US Environmental Protection Agency pages.