NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago.
A vocal group of more than 50 demonstrators gathered at the entrance to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday to demand an end to the widespread firings and layoffs that have hit the space agency and other government agencies.
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Houston's Rice University and 44 other U.S. institutions surrounding claims they discriminate against students by using racial preferences and stereotypes.
A U.S. girl traveling to Houston for brain cancer treatment was reportedly detained by federal immigration agents and deported to Mexico, along with her parents and most of her siblings. Her parents were living in Texas without legal status.
On Tuesday evening, the U.S. Department of Education released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50% of the department's workforce.
Amid federal layoffs at the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the NWS office in Houston has canceled its summer internship program, citing "recent changes in our staffing."
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to censure Houston Congressman Al Green for disrupting President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday in Washington.
Bob Unanue, the longtime president and CEO of Goya Foods who led the company's expansion to the Houston area, suggested in a news release that he is no longer in charge of the family-owned business.
Such statutes collectively prohibit #housing #discrimination on the basis of #race, #sex, #national origin, #disability & other characteristics.
HUD ofcls, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, voiced concern that #DOGE’s access to #HEMS could violate the #privacy rights of discrimination victims & potentially put them at risk if their #information is mishandled or leaked.
[“will be read by malign foreign actors” - HHS]
For #MeerMittwoch : a view of #sandbeach in #acadia #national #park in #maine (it's on #mountdesertisland https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/albumen-print-of-the-sand-beach-adam-gladstone.html
Liz Goggin, a social worker with the Veterans Health Administration, took the offer to resign in exchange for pay and benefits through September. Then she learned her position was exempt.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-federal-worker-tried-to-take-trump-s-fork-resignation-offer-here-s-what-happened
#KUOW #News #National #Business #Politics
* Internationally Available
#Health Information
Is *Your* #National Health #Information Site down or "normalised"?
Needing some Health Information alternatives during the USA's #Gleichschaltung ?
*Try some of these.*
As @EdCates posted:
"The Most Stereotypical Canadian thing ever."
** Canada
(paraphrased)
For their American Friends who may be struggling to find sound health advice.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
** WHO
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets
** Ireland
https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-health/
** Germany
https://www.bzga.de/home/key-topics/
(language button at top)
** Papua New Guinea
https://www.health.gov.pg/
** Singapore
https://www.moh.gov.sg/
** New Zealand
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/
https://info.health.nz/keeping-healthy
@Edelruth @EdCates
@kaffando @MxVerda
ToBeContinued ...
I Am Proud To Be Part Of The Integrated Team Generating and Publishing An Open Data 3DHP Hydrology Spatial Data Product For The Nation At The USGS
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P148NT7B <-- shared product DOI
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https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org?query=10.5066%2FP148NT7B <-- shared DateCite repository record
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https://3dhp.nationalmap.gov/ <-- 3DHP data is also available via a USGS spatial data service (with select & export capability)
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[‘my’ first product DOI generation & publication as well ~smile~]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #data #water #hydrology #LiDAR #EDH #elevationderivedhydrography #3DHP #opendata #publicdata #DOI #stagedproducts #3DTNM #3DEP #NHD #national #USA #nonproprietary #waterresources #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #3d #vector #schema #DOI#geopackage #filegeodatabase #metadata #XML
@USGS
A federal judge issued a ruling Thursday temporarily blocking President Trump's executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status.
Calls to #LGBTQ+ #crisis #lines #surge as #Trump #swornin as #president.
The #RainbowYouthProjectUSA told #TheAdvocate that they received 1,400 calls to a #national #hotline by early afternoon that day, a figure far higher than normal.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/21/lgbtq-crisis-calls-donald-trump-inauguration/
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
An Interagency Perspective On Improving Consistency And Transparency Of Land Use And Land Cover Mapping
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https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1549 <-- shared USGS publication
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #nation #national #landcover #landuse #interagency #coast #coastal #change #remotesensing #satellite #risk #hazard #management #opendata #resources #vegetation #forest #agriculture #planning #climatechange #MRLCC #landchange #conservation #ecosystems #usecase #urbanplanning #water #watersecurity #foodsecurity #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #MultiResolutionLandCharacteristicsConsortium #federal #report
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![Sankey diagram showing Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) member products (National Land Cover Database; Land Change Monitoring, Assessment,
and Projection; Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools; Landscape Change Monitoring System; Coastal Change Analysis Program; Cropland Data Layer;
and Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) contributions to key products, services, and objectives in the 2023 Earth Observation Assessments (EOA)
agriculture and forestry societal benefit area (SBA). Green bars are products and yellow bars are societal benefits identified in the EOA 2023 agriculture and forestry SBA. Gray
lines show direct and indirect contributions of MRLC products to the agriculture and forestry SBA (from Rowe and Vanderhoof [2024]).](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/841/416/680/821/506/original/584d1571cffb1736.jpg "Sankey diagram showing Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) member products (National Land Cover Database; Land Change Monitoring, Assessment,
and Projection; Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools; Landscape Change Monitoring System; Coastal Change Analysis Program; Cropland Data Layer;
and Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) contributions to key products, services, and objectives in the 2023 Earth Observation Assessments (EOA)
agriculture and forestry societal benefit area (SBA). Green bars are products and yellow bars are societal benefits identified in the EOA 2023 agriculture and forestry SBA. Gray
lines show direct and indirect contributions of MRLC products to the agriculture and forestry SBA (from Rowe and Vanderhoof [2024]).")
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is banning the food dye Red No. 3. The agency had been reviewing a petition to ban the colorant since 2022 over safety concerns.
#Federal #Trans #Sports #Ban Down To The Wire: #House to take action on Tuesday, #Senate is "Close".
The #national #ban on #transgender #sports #participation could encourage states to crackdowns on transgender people nationwide.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-trans-sports-ban-down-to
Vowing to stop machines from taking their jobs, 45,000 U.S. longshoremen are threatening to go on a strike that would shut down ports on the East and Gulf coasts and could damage the American economy.
