404 Media – “Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out,… Continue Reading
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Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress
Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress – Search by your zipcode or address and the results will include the Members, name, website, address, telephone number, party affiliation, length of service, bio, contact information, and bill history associated with the member’s actions. Continue Reading
ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back
Angela Levine – “The day after President Donald Trump began his second term, people noticed that they could no longer access a .gov web page outlining women’s rights to abortion and contraception under US law. The Biden administration created the web page, reproductiverights.gov, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending… Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
ProPublica: “The man tapped by President Donald Trump to be second-in-command of the federal agency that protects the public from environmental dangers is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution. David Fotouhi, a partner in the global law firm Gibson Dunn, played a key part in rolling… Continue Reading
Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders
OPM Memorandum to Heads and Acting Heads of All Agencies, January 21, 2025. – Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing… Continue Reading
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to nearly a dozen current and former officials and other people familiar with the matter. The instructions were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies… Continue Reading
Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders
Futurism: “Mere hours after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning President Donald Trump got to work signing dozens — and counting — of executive orders, which range from commands for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization to ordering an… Continue Reading
FTC Finalizes Order Prohibiting Gravy Analytics, Venntel from Selling Sensitive Location Data
“The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order prohibiting Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel from unlawfully tracking and selling sensitive location data from users, including data about consumers’ visits to health-related locations and places of worship. In a complaint first announced last month, the FTC alleged that Gravy and Venntel violated the FTC Act by unfairly… Continue Reading
New NOAA dataset to help improve flood mitigation tools, flood-risk assessment
“The first modeled, historical water level and wave dataset for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf coasts was released today by NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS). This comprehensive dataset — known as Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) — advances NOAA’s ability to better serve the nation’s coastal communities and lays the foundation for future NOAA coastal flooding… Continue Reading
analytics.usa.gov
U.S. Federal Government Website and App Analytics: “This website provides a window into how people are interacting with the government online. The data come from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. federal government agencies known as the Digital Analytics Program . This program helps government agencies understand how people find, access, and use government… Continue Reading
NIST Database Can Help Increase Recycling of Textiles and Clothing
“You have a bag of heavily used clothes that can no longer be donated taking up space in your closet, so you drop it off at your local recycling center. But what happens to that bag of clothes? You might assume that the clothes would get broken down and reused to make new products. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/01/nist-database-can-help-increase-recycling-textiles-and-clothing… Continue Reading
DOL Launches Database for Retirement Savings Lost and Found
PlanSponsor: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration on December 27 launched the public Retirement Savings Lost and Found Database, a tool designed to help America’s workers and beneficiaries search for retirement plans that may still owe them benefits. Created as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, the database serves as… Continue Reading
