US Education Department will fire 50% of its workforce.

The Forecast for the Weather Service Is Bad Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable.

I spoke with a hurricane modeler who was just fired from the branch of NOAA that keeps weather models running. He got a form letter like hundreds of others telling him he was losing his job in an hour. This bodes very poorly for American forecasting. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Where Trump, Musk and DOGE Have Cut Federal Workers So Far President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there are more to come. These are the reported cuts to date.

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Does anyone here do bucket lists? I've been neglecting mine, and I'm thinking it's time to dump the bucket out and take a look at all of the slips of ideas I've dropped into it over time. Then I'll pick out the best, transfer the rest to flash paper and light a match. Poof!

NEW pilot results: Recipients of basic income were more likely to vote in local elections, more likely to sign petitions, more likely to work or volunteer for a political party, and more likely to attend or organize a protest, demonstrating the potential of UBI to better enable civic engagement.

Here's a pic from my legally blind 87 year old friend. Apparently her limited vision always has a halo effect.

While everyone else was vying for parking at the shopping places, I tried out my new hiking shoes at Usery Mountain Regional Park today.