Looking forward to presenting on FOIA and access to information to @climaterealityproject.org’s NY Chapter with @laurenleharper.bsky.social. Join us on 10/20 (link in flier)!

ICYMI: Special shoutout to @nsarchive.bsky.social alumna @laurenleharper.bsky.social featured on @lastweektonight.com's episode on Presidential Libraries!

Any other folks monitoring federal websites seeing that the State Department’s Office of Global Change page is back up? Screenshot from this morning:

Morning run in the hostile hellscape.

Can anyone at @usnatarchives.bsky.social explain what’s happening here? Does research qualify as a “legitimate business need”? Can the general public still access NARA research rooms with an appropriate ID and research card?

The WNRC is tucked at the very back of a heavily guarded federal complex, which also houses entities like the National Maritime Intelligence Center, a NOAA satellite facility, and the US Census Bureau.

Beautiful day to be digging through boxes and boxes of State Dept. transfer records! Never heard of the WNRC? Think Indiana Jones Ark of the Covenant warehouse. And amidst all the boxes: a treasure trove for #FOIA requesters.

Currently, the US Global Change Research Program’s homepage (the entity responsible for the National Climate Assessment), says “the operations and structure of the USGCRP are under review.”

Emotional scenes of Syrian joy and hope today in Lafayette Square