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On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.
Read more here: What gets cut in Trump’s budget
The goal is not to politicize science, but to get scientists involved in politics. When the man who’s going to lead this country claims climate change is a hoax, we need people willing to stand up for the facts.
3,000 Scientists Have Asked for Help Running for Office to Oppose Trump (via climateadaptation)
Mark Bryan
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is in the crosshairs of the White House.
The Trump administration is seeking to slash the budget of one of the government’s premier climate science agencies by 17 percent, delivering steep cuts to research funding and satellite programs, according to a four-page budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.
The proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would also eliminate funding for a variety of smaller programs, including external research, coastal management, estuary reserves and “coastal resilience,” which seeks to bolster the ability of coastal areas to withstand major storms and rising seas.
NOAA is part of the Commerce Department, which would be hit by an overall 18 percent budget reduction from its current funding level.
The Office of Management and Budget also asked the Commerce Department to provide information about how much it would cost to lay off employees, while saying those employees who do remain with the department should get a 1.9 percent pay increase in January 2018. It requested estimates for terminating leases and government “property disposal.”
The OMB outline for the Commerce Department for fiscal 2018 proposed sharp reductions in specific areas within NOAA such as spending on education, grants and research. NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would lose $126 million, or 26 percent, of the funds it has under the current budget. Its satellite data division would lose $513 million, or 22 percent, of its current funding under the proposal.
The National Marine Fisheries Service and National Weather Service would be fortunate by comparison, facing only 5 percent cuts.
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Historic burials of children found in St. Augustine
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – An archaeological dig in St. Augustine continues to marvel scientists and historians. More burials have been found, and some are children’s graves. They are children who may have been some of the earliest colonists in St. Augustine.
The dig started in early February. David White, the owner of the Fiesta Mall in downtown St. Augustine, had to rip up his floor because it was damaged by the hurricane. He offered the city archaeologist, Carl Halbirt, to dig underneath. That’s when they started finding human burials.
Kathleen Deagen is a renown archaeologist. She usually leads digs, but for the past couple weeks, she has volunteered, helping Halbirt and his team. The burials are believed to date back to the first years of St. Augustine, between 1572 and 1700. Read more.
Here’s the latest cover of our magazine, featuring the president’s favorite pastime.
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The Resistance is everywhere.
A Rescued Earless Seal Gives a Plush Miniature Version of Himself a Great Big Hug
Sight Specific, A Giant Anamorphic Portrait of Helen Keller Created With Donated Thrift Store Clothing
These kids trapped in Aleppo have a few words for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton…
Aleppo is being besieged and bombed by Russian and Assad forces for days now. Their electricity and water supply are faltering, there’s 30 doctors for hundreds of millions of people, UN supplies are being held up because of the intensity of the attacks, and the people have no way out. This is a humanitarian tragedy on every scale.
After a campaign of insults and a withdrawal of support, the two are poised to clash over Russia and torture. By AUSTIN WRIGHT
Donald Trump went out of his way during the campaign to antagonize and insult John McCain. The president-elect may soon come to regret that decision.
The fireworks over Russian interference in the presidential election made clear McCain will be the rare Republican politician willing to stand up to the soon-to-be Republican president. Having just secured his sixth and probably final term, the 80-year-old McCain has little to lose as he leads the charge for a wide-ranging investigation into Russian cyberattacks.
It’s not just their wildly divergent views on Russia that the two could clash over. As chairman of the Armed Services Committee, McCain will wield enormous sway over Trump’s Pentagon, with the ability to derail Defense Department nominees and an outsize voice in shaping the department’s annual budget.
Trump, who declared a month into his presidential bid that McCain was “not a war hero” and that “I like people who weren’t captured,” reached out to McCain recently in an apparent attempt to move past the election. The Arizona Republican told Politico that Trump called him to discuss the nomination of retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis for defense secretary and “several other issues.”
It was a small gesture, coming before the flare-up over Russian meddling in the election, but one McCain said he appreciated.
“I’m always glad when a president-elect of the United States calls,” McCain said. “Why wouldn’t I be?”
But despite that conversation — Trump had an ideal ice-breaker in Mattis, whom McCain has called “one of the finest military officers of his generation” — there’s evidence McCain is still smarting over the election of a man who ran for president embracing Russia and bashing core principles long espoused by McCain and other pro-interventionist defense hawks.
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Ilhan Omar says she was "subjected to the most hateful, derogatory, Islamophobic, sexist taunts and threats I have ever experienced" in a cab during her visit to the nation's capital.
John Glenn, astronaut and U.S. senator, dies at 95
His long career in public service was spotlighted by two trips to space.
By DAVID COHEN
John Glenn, who earned worldwide acclaim by orbiting the Earth in 1962 and then parlayed his achievements into a notable career in the U.S. Senate, has died.
Glenn died Thursday at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week, said Hank Wilson, communications director for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, according to The Associated Press. The former astronaut, whose space flight earned him comparisons to aviator Charles Lindbergh, was 95.
The Ohio Democrat had some setbacks in the 1980s — a failed presidential bid in 1984, followed by the Keating Five scandal — but served four terms in the Senate and then bookended his career by returning to space in 1998.
President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
“The first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn became a hero in every sense of the word, but he didn’t stop there serving his country. As a senator, he found new ways to make a difference. And on his second trip into space at age 77, he defied the odds once again,” Obama said at the ceremony.
In November 2011, Glenn joined fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in being presented with Congressional Gold Medals. As he honored two fellow Ohioans (Glenn and Armstrong), House Speaker John Boehner cried.
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