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“Washingtonian” Wins Today’s Headline…
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“Washingtonian” Wins Today’s Headline…
50 years ago today 🙏
Almost 50 years after the Lyon sisters were abducted, Lloyd Lee Welch, the man convicted of killing them, will begin serving time for their murders. wtop.com/local/2024/1...
Man convicted of killing Lyon sisters to start serving time for 1975 murders amid new probe of other crimes - WTOP News
Almost 50 years after the Lyon sisters were abducted, Lloyd Lee Welch, the man convicted of killing them, will begin serving time for their murder.
wtop.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
50 years ago today 🙏
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A compliment of the highest honor. We will never stop caring about the public and our government partners.
Folks, you’re amazing. I hope much will be written about how you anticipated, made a plan, and how elegantly you’re executing it, but mostly:
Thank you for not just telling, but SHOWING us your user advocacy. Government is supposed to serve the people - even cast out, you are still doing so.
Thank you for not just telling, but SHOWING us your user advocacy. Government is supposed to serve the people - even cast out, you are still doing so.
March 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A compliment of the highest honor. We will never stop caring about the public and our government partners.
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Thank you, truly ❤️
18f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.
18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.
March 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thank you, truly ❤️
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NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
www.axios.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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“Craig McLean, a former NOAA chief scientist who said he got information from a person with first-hand knowledge, told The Associated Press that as many as 1,300 people will be fired in two rounds, 500 Thursday and 800 on Friday. That’s about 10% of NOAA’s workforce.”
Employees received emails Thursday informing them of their abrupt termination, despite a U.S. District Court ruling calling such firings’ legality into question coloradosun.com/2025/02/27/n...
Mass firings of probationary federal workers begin at NOAA, including many in Boulder
Employees received emails Thursday informing them of their abrupt termination, despite a U.S. District Court ruling calling such firings’ legality into question
coloradosun.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Craig McLean, a former NOAA chief scientist who said he got information from a person with first-hand knowledge, told The Associated Press that as many as 1,300 people will be fired in two rounds, 500 Thursday and 800 on Friday. That’s about 10% of NOAA’s workforce.”
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Thinking about the good people of @noaa and @nws today. Such a dark day for our nation and our safety.
February 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Thinking about the good people of @noaa and @nws today. Such a dark day for our nation and our safety.
2,147 including my future dad — 80 years ago today!
Eternally grateful for the rescuers’ astonishing heroism. 🙏🙏🙏
Eternally grateful for the rescuers’ astonishing heroism. 🙏🙏🙏
Feb. 23, 1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
February 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
2,147 including my future dad — 80 years ago today!
Eternally grateful for the rescuers’ astonishing heroism. 🙏🙏🙏
Eternally grateful for the rescuers’ astonishing heroism. 🙏🙏🙏
“…Amazon has occasionally removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers. In 2009, the company removed copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm…”
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www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
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www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
www.theverge.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“…Amazon has occasionally removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers. In 2009, the company removed copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm…”
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www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
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www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Many thanks to NWS Detroit for preserving Bill Deedler’s meticulous #wxhistory of this memorable SE Michigan winter storm 50 years ago — 1-2 December 1974…
www.weather.gov/dtx/GhostofT...
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www.weather.gov/dtx/GhostofT...
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Ghost of Thanksgiving Weekend Snowstorm of the Past
www.weather.gov
December 2, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Many thanks to NWS Detroit for preserving Bill Deedler’s meticulous #wxhistory of this memorable SE Michigan winter storm 50 years ago — 1-2 December 1974…
www.weather.gov/dtx/GhostofT...
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www.weather.gov/dtx/GhostofT...
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