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ConsumerAffairs: “The link between economic activity and traffic appears to hold true for our ranking: The cities with the worst traffic in America are among the cities with the highest economic output. Geographically, the top-ranked cities are clustered in two regions: Three of the worst cities for traffic are in the South, and the remaining …
Christina Pagel – “With the help of amazing volunteers, I’ve converted my Trump action tracker spreadsheet into an easy to use website – now up to 740 actions and counting. Today I’m launching TrumpActionTracker.info – a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). Logging actions of the …
Bloomberg – and no paywall – “The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint document management software, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. No sensitive or classified information is known to have been compromised in …
Washington Post – no paywall: “President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash staffing. The Supreme Court has revived the administration’s efforts to lay off workers, allowing planned reductions in force to resume …
Beefeater Fella Reports: With a focus on how US measures may impact on Russia – “Here’s a comparative view of the key differences and effects between U.S. sanctions, secondary sanctions, and trade tariffs, with a focus on how they impact Russia: U.S. Sanctions (Primary Sanctions) Definition: Legal restrictions imposed by the U.S. government (usually via …
Federal News Network: “Hundreds of federal agency websites are being targeted for elimination, following a governmentwide review. In an analysis led by the General Services Administration, the 24 largest departments and agencies inventoried more than 7,200 total websites. Documents obtained by Federal News Network show agencies plan to eliminate 332 of those websites — less …
“The IPIE’s landmark assessment reveals that the greatest barrier to climate action is the global spread of misinformation about climate science. The IPIE’s Scientific Panel on Information Integrity about Climate Science latest assessment, Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review, and its accompanying Summary for Policymakers, represents the most comprehensive analysis yet of how …
Grist: “By the time President Donald Trump retook office, lawmakers had announced nearly $700 billion in funding for infrastructure- and climate-related projects under two bills passed during Joe Biden’s administration — the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law. That money was promised to all sorts of community and local projects, from clean energy …
YouTube: Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Park Service is nothing less than catastrophic. Among other measures, the budget proposes firing 5,500 more Park Rangers, reducing the agency’s budget by $1 billion, and selling off 350 of the Park System’s 433 Units. Defenders of Wildlife has called it an “extinction budget,” and …
Axios: “President Trump quietly took a red pen to much of the Biden administration’s in a little-noticed move late Friday. Why it matters: Until now, it has been unclear which Biden-era cybersecurity policies the Trump administration would keep — if any. Cybersecurity is a rare bipartisan area. It’s pretty common for new administrations to keep …
Via LLRX – Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data – What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data …
The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking …
