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Alliance Map Wiki – Connect with groups, organizations, and resources around the country. The Alliance Map is a growing directory of organizations working to protect our communities and environment from oil & gas pollution. Browse the map to find organizations working in your state. Is there an organization that should be be included on this …
The New York Times Gift Article – Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable. The civil servants who spoke to me worry that, instead, a century’s worth of expertise is being …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Six American service members were killed, and U.S. military jets were shot out of the sky. Investors are bracing for market turmoil, fearing prolonged disruption to oil supplies. President Trump says the military campaign against Iran could extend for weeks, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that …
Follow up to Trump Using Another Executive Order to Take Revenge on Law Firms – See also The New York Times – “The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms …
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. “Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually disappears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content. ArchiveBox is an open …
LifeHacker: “Facebook is clearly no longer the hot social media property it once was—younger generations are now far more likely to spend their time on TikTok, Snapchat, or Instagram—but there are still billions of people logging into the Facebook site and mobile apps each month. During its 20+ years of existence, Facebook has added a …
The Verge (Gift Article): How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance. “Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? …
$2.3B spent in a “slow” month. February is historically a slow month for government spending. Despite that, CBP and ICE pushed more than $2.3B in contracts, which is an unusually high burn rate that signals this spending surge is only beginning. ICE is exponentially increasing capacity. ICE’s big moves included nearly $900M in warehouse acquisitions …
The Atlantic – Gift Article – The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime. By Anne Applebaum …The Islamic Republic is a theocracy founded explicitly to oppose the deepest principles of liberal democracy and the rule of law. During its 47-year reign, this theocratic state underwent no meaningful political …
Washington Post [no paywall] – “An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites…The database does not make clear which of the plaques, maps, films …
What is WorldMove? WorldMove is an open access worldwide human mobility dataset, we follow a generative AI-based approach to create a large-scale mobility dataset for cities worldwide. Our method leverages publicly available multi-source data, including population distribution, points of interest (POIs), and synthetic commuting origin-destination flow datasets, to generate realistic city-scale mobility trajectories. A global …
Via Reddit – J6 Timeline: “Hey all! I’m a J6 researcher that worked with SH and thinks that the misinformation presented in the White House’s J6 timeline is absolutely ridiculous. So in response, I made my own, much more accurate, J6 timeline as a standalone website.” j6times.com or j6timeline.com