Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

More confirmation from Nature: "Nature has seen the criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for 'broadening participation' language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, and 'discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI.'"

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

One under-discussed benefit of studying young kids learning through play is that no-matter how stressful the week is, someone has data with kids doing hysterical and / or amazing things to brighten the day and remind us why we do this work.

May this pic of Appa comfort you in these trying times. Remember to rest and care for yourself!