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Last year, the Trump administration asked visitors to hundreds of national parks to report any “divisive” signs or monuments that tarnished the country’s image.

Called “snitch signs” by critics, notices with QR codes appeared in places that included Indiana Dunes National Park, encouraging visitors to report signage that portrayed Americans negatively, or failed to “emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance” of the park’s landscape.

Roughly 35,000 comments poured in from June 4, 2025, to Jan. 14, 2026. The campaign, however, appears to have backfired.

The submissions were released by the agency in May. While a significant number appeared to be non-political, copy-pasted duplicates, jokes, memes or submissions written by the same person, USA TODAY found an overwhelming majority of unique entries were critical of the White House’s effort to rid the national parks of “woke ideology.”

In Indiana, feedback from visitors was nearly all positive, expressing support toward National Park Service rangers and criticizing the Trump Administration.

One person at Indiana Dunes National Park appeared to take issue with a sign at the Bailey Homestead painting what they called “an outdated and overly idyllic picture” of the fur trade.

“There shouldn’t be signs about history that whitewash and erase the centuries of discrimination against the people who have cared for this land for generations,” they wrote, advocating collaboration with local tribal leaders to determine how the history of the land and its people should be represented.

Others submitted comments that took direct shots at the current administration.

“Censoring the ‘negative’ parts of our history is cowardly and un-American,” wrote one visitor to Indiana Dunes National Park who identified themselves as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

“Asking visitors to tattle on history because it makes someone uncomfortable is beyond ridiculous, it’s dangerous,” wrote another visitor last June. “What’s next? Rewriting trail signs so we don’t hurt Andrew Jackson’s feelings?”

White House defends president’s order to ‘restore sanity’ to History

The controversial signs contested at U.S. national parks resulted from an executive order President Donald Trump signed in March 2025, titled “restoring truth and sanity to American History.”

In the order, Trump directed federal officials to remove any language from the country’s national parks, monuments and museums the portrayed the country as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

The White House defended the president’s order as “honoring our country’s extraordinary heritage and restoring a sense of national pride” in a statement provided to The Courier Journal, which examined similar feedback from visitors at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park.

High School On SI Iowa recently published polls for the midseason high school softball player of the year in each of the five classifications. Now, it is time to vote for the baseball midseason player of the year in Iowa.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association State Baseball Tournament begins July 20 in both Cedar Rapids for Class 4A and Class 3A and in Carroll for Class 2A and Class 1A. Many of the players you will see listed below are part of teams currently ranked in the High School On SI Iowa Top 25 State Baseball Rankings.

Below are the nominees for the High School On SI Iowa Class 1A Baseball Midseason Player of the Year. Stats listed with the players are from Bound and accurate as of June 28, 2026.

Feel free to vote as many times as you like, with voting set to close on Monday, July 6 at 11:59 p.m. CT.

High School On SI Iowa Class 1A Baseball Midseason Player Of The Year Nominees

Ty Heydon, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Junior

Heydon is hitting .623 with a .710 on-base, blasting six homers with 12 doubles, five triples, 53 RBI and 42 runs scored. He has stolen 24 bases and is 4-0 with a save and 61 strikeouts in just under 33 innings pitched.

Colton Wight, Martensdale-St. Marys, Senior

Wight, a leader for the Blue Devils, has 44 RBI with 18 doubles, nine homers and three triples. He is batting .581 with 56 runs scored. He has stolen 19 bases and struck out 18 in just under 11 innings.

Connor Mullenbach, Saint Ansgar, Senior

Over seven starts and nine games, Mullenbach has yet to allow an earned run, going 8-0 with 41 strikeouts. He has surrendered just three runs total and 23 hits. At the plate, Mullenbach is batting .403 with 33 runs scored and 22 steals.

Colton Moffitt, Baxter, Senior

The Class 1A leader with 109 strikeouts, Moffitt is 9-1 with one save over 53-plus innings. Opponents have just 19 hits and two earned runs off him, as he owns a .106 batting average against and a 0.26 earned run average.

Macklin Loftus, Logan-Magnolia, Sophomore

Just a 10th-grader, Loftus has taken the state by storm, allowing four total hits and one earned run in 32-plus innings, striking out 81 batters. He is a perfect 5-0 on the mound.

About Our Midseason Baseball Player Of The Year Voting

High School on SI voting polls are meant to be a fun, lighthearted way for fans to show support for their favorite athletes and teams. Our goal is to celebrate all of the players featured, regardless of the vote totals. Sometimes one athlete will receive a very large number of votes — even thousands — and that’s okay! The polls are open to everyone and are simply a way to build excitement and community around high school sports. Unless we specifically announce otherwise, there are no prizes or official awards for winning. The real purpose is to highlight the great performances of every athlete included in the poll.