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Your favorite national park is struggling to survive

Vox Open Sourced

Researchers study black swifts in Glacier National Park, Montana, in 2018. As a federal agency, each park has a mission, but then each unit is established for a particular reason. Cuts to the Park Service means the parks are missing out on species monitoring data. So we won’t know how species are doing until it’s potentially too late?

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Ultra-processed foods: A patriotic American tradition!

Vox Open Sourced

Kennedy, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, the country’s top health agency, has made overhauling US food production a top priority. Kennedy’s MAHA report rails against the overuse of pesticides, but Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back restrictions on their use. They are part of the issue.

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Cutting five words from this law could make houses cheaper

Vox Open Sourced

Whether through bureaucratic complacency or regulatory capture by traditional homebuilders, the federal housing agency rarely pressed, and in some cases actively opposed, amending the law, despite its own research detailing again and again the problems a permanent chassis posed for manufactured housing.

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Trump Layoffs Decimate “Air Traffic Control For Space,” Risking Crucial Satellite Services

Allwork

Donald Trump, as president in 2018, released a space policy directive calling on the Office of Space Commerce to create its own traffic management system, acknowledging an increasingly congested orbital environment. . ” The layoffs also upend the agency’s core function of licensing commercial imagery satellites.

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Don’t overreach with arbitration agreements

BMT Office Administration

Uber doesn’t get a lift The facts aren’t difficult to follow: In 2018, Uber discovered one of its drivers had a 16-year-old criminal conviction and revoked his permission to work as driver. The background check for Uber drivers, however, required a clean record for seven years.

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'This Isn't Funny Anymore': AI Deepfakes Are Stealing Millions Every Year — and These Entrepreneurs Are Racing to Stop Them

Entrepreneur.com

And an agency leader at WPP, the largest advertising company in the world at the time, was almost tricked into giving money during a Teams meeting with a deepfake they thought was the CEO Mark Read. Most clients are banks and government agencies, though he wont name any ( cybersecurity types are tight-lipped like that).

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The Trump administration attack dog you should pay attention to

Vox Open Sourced

Bill Pulte is the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, tasked with overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty The Trump administration’s loudest attack dog of late holds an unlikely position: director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Grandpa Pulte died in 2018.