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The New York Times Gift Article – “In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants. “Plant This, Not That,” a new book by Elise Howard, who gardens in New York City and Western Massachusetts, establishes basic principles for selecting, and using, natives in gardens around …
Pew – “When Americans look to learn more about a breaking news event, they turn to a variety of sources. This mirrors the fragmented way that people get news and information more broadly these days. When a breaking news event happens, 36% of U.S. adults say they typically turn first to their preferred news organization to …
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: “Top think tanks received over $25 million from foreign governments and $7 million from Pentagon contractors in 2024, according to the newly updated Think Tank Funding Tracker released today. Both figures, drawn from the most recently available donor rolls, are conservative estimates, as about 40% of think tanks do not …
Stephen Bryen – Mar 22, 2026: Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, located in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9th. The attack disrupted B-52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. It is the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out …
ProPublica: “In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as …
Ars Technica: “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in …
Alan Gerard from Balanced Weather – “Over the weekend, there was a lot of talk on social media about the results from the 2025 version of the annual survey of federal employees done by the Partnership for Public Service about their workplace and the quality of services they feel their agency is providing to the …
Nippon.com – From bad manners to taboo, there are certain ways of using chopsticks that are considered as going against dining etiquette. These various acts, known as kiraibashi, are listed below. (Listed in Japanese syllabary order)
The Wrap – New York Times Reporters to Return to Pentagon Monday. The paper’s journalists are expected to regain access Monday after a federal judge ruled that the Defense Department’s press policy is unconstitutional Washington Post – Pentagon will move press to external ‘annex’ following court loss over restricted access. The Department of Defense said …
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published a new report on security based swap dealers (SBSDs) and updated statistics and data visualizations on initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on registered offerings, corporate bond offerings, Regulation A offerings, Regulation Crowdfunding offerings, Regulation D offerings, municipal advisors, transfer agents, SBSDs, and asset-backed …
Economic Forecasts and Projections: Fact Sheet. R47295, Leubsdorf, Ben – Economic projections (also called forecasts) are predictions about the future behavior of economic and financial indicators. They can help lawmakers in assessing the likelihood of key events such as recessions, addressing budget and economic challenges, and estimating the effects of policy changes. Many government agencies …
Plain Text Accounting (PTA) – Welcome! Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. This site collects the PTA community’s tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger project leader, PTA fan) and contributors like you. …