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I really do not understand why so many people appear surprised at Trump's plans to turn the Gaza Strip into something akin to Las Vegas. Has everyone forgotten that Kushner was there a few years ago, and the speculation his visit raised?

It's back in the news again now, but it should never have been out of sight.

FBI agent writes anonymous letter warning Americans

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/video/fbi-agent-letter-insurrection-trump-digvid

As thousands of FBI employees brace for possible political retribution from the Trump administration, one special agent penned an anonymous open letter circulating across the bureau in defense of colleagues who took part in the sprawling January 6 Capitol riot investigation. CNN has obtained a copy of the letter.

@CNN

I have known that the disembodied voices that religious and mads hear are from extraterrestrials. And that these beings are jokers. If you are afraid of them, they tease you

A dramatic example is that of Abraham. When this man was thinking to what extent he would sacrifice himself to his God, one of these beings tells him to kill his only son. This implies a sophisticated and subtle sense of humor

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Update. "Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-influence-cdc-mmwr/

"Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and withholding studies on the growing bird flu outbreak."

PS: Just curious. How do Trump admin officials decide that covering bird flu is bad for their agenda?

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Update. "Today we [Harvard Law School @harvard_law Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use."
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

Good question from @readbeanicecream (paraphrase): Would 𝙛𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 protect it from the kinds of and we're seeing from the admin?
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/09/should-science-be-open-and-federated/#federated-science

"Just as Open Science can take its cues from software, Federated science could take its cues from the ...Open and federated science () would be the combination of the two ideas…Scientific research would be transparent and open to all to contribute, read, discuss, distribute and redistribute regardless of platform, publication, or institution. Doing so could increase scientific collaboration and limit the impacts of targeted attacks on science."

Women are the losers in every distribution

Yes, we have made a lot of progress lately, but every advance in well-being is followed by a putsch, in all times and places

If a heterosexual couple does not want to have more children, tubal ligation or vasectomy. Well, vasectomy is much simpler and almost risk-free, the decision is clear. But then the woman has to be extremely careful not to get pregnant

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Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them."
https://screening-tools.com/

Continuously updated.