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When the Democratic National Committee at long last released its "autopsy" report on former Vice President Kamala Harris' loss in the 2024 election in May, one of the most puzzling aspects was the lack of any conclusions related to her and former President Joe Biden's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Holly Otterbein of Axios reported on Thursday that the document's author, Paul Rivera, did indeed look into the issue of Gaza and found it had a role in Harris’ loss. But he did not submit the findings to the DNC for inclusion in the report. Axios did not include an explanation for that decision.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1320702/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience

You wouldn't just Download An Ecosystem.... would you?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49932334

Try these tools out for yourself in your web browser!!!!

https://joshsim.org/

^ the tutorial for this tool is very thoughtfully done for people that aren't super comfortable with code, worth a look at just for that I think.

https://storage.googleapis.com/fire-recovery-web/dev/fireSeverity.html

https://dse-disturbance-toolbox.org/tools/disturbance-severity/

https://dse-disturbance-toolbox.org/tools/

Last year, the Park Service used the research group’s burn severity assessment tool for the first time after the Eureka Fire in Joshua Tree National Park, which burned just over 200 acres.

“We were able to do a quick assessment of fire severity and help the park with some analysis of how much vegetation and which types of vegetation were within the burned area, and which were in the more severe parts of the fire,” Zomer said.

The park also used the tool after the 2025 Black Rock Fire, which started near a campground in the park and burned 72 acres.

“We used DSE’s Disturbance Severity Tool twice last year to assess post-fire conditions following the Eureka and Black Rock fires,” said Nick Graver, the botany and vegetation monitoring program lead at Joshua Tree National Park and a graduate student in UC Riverside’s Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. “Combined with field assessments conducted by park biologists, it provided the foundation for evaluating fire severity and developing recovery plans for both incidents.”

In addition to the burn severity assessment tool, researchers are now developing a platform to model the future outcomes of potential recovery actions. The platform, called Josh, just launched this year and will be available when the next wildfire sweeps through either park. The park also used the tool after the 2025 Black Rock Fire, which started near a campground in the park and burned 72 acres.

“We used DSE’s Disturbance Severity Tool twice last year to assess post-fire conditions following the Eureka and Black Rock fires,” said Nick Graver, the botany and vegetation monitoring program lead at Joshua Tree National Park and a graduate student in UC Riverside’s Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. “Combined with field assessments conducted by park biologists, it provided the foundation for evaluating fire severity and developing recovery plans for both incidents.”

In addition to the burn severity assessment tool, researchers are now developing a platform to model the future outcomes of potential recovery actions. The platform, called Josh, just launched this year and will be available when the next wildfire sweeps through either park.

You don't know Josh... but you should! Josh is pretty cool actually.______**___**

xkcd #3282: Trick Play

Title text:

I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3282/

explainxkcd for #3282

This is an interim schedule while we continue the consultation necessary. We urge parishioners to continue to attend and participate in the Sunday Mass in their ‘cluster,’ to use their parish envelopes to support their parish...

Ahh, yes. The most important reason. Nothing about spiritual fulfillment, all about cash flow.

Ruling put on hold for two weeks, allowing administration to appeal to US supreme court

A US federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of the US president’s $400m White House ballroom, in a fresh blow to the controversial project.

Donald Trump, who demolished the historic East Wing of the White House last year to make way for planned ballroom, has repeatedly touted it as “a gift” to the US people.

But in a major setback in a case testing ⁠his presidential authority, the Washington-based US ⁠court of ​appeals for the District of Columbia circuit upheld a preliminary injunction in a divided 2-1 order on Friday.

The appeals court put ⁠its ruling on hold for two weeks, allowing the administration to appeal to the ​US supreme court.

Explaining their majority decision, Judges Patricia Millet and Bradley Garcia wrote: “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence.”

The judges also said it was for US Congress to determine whether the ballroom could ultimately be built. “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” they wrote.

“This holding has nothing at all to do with whether the proposed ballroom is desirable, or not, as a matter of policy,” the judges added. “This ruling does not even necessarily mean that the Defendants may not ultimately construct the ballroom.

“What it does mean is that the Defendants may not do so during the district court’s expeditious litigation without securing Congress’s authorization, as the constitution and laws require.”

Perhaps the very best news for Canada's trade negotiators. Strong evidence that Trump's tariffs are harming the American economy more than the Canadian economy.

America's inflation rate is much higher than that of Canada.

YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politics/p/1320645/trump-carried-out-the-largest-monument-land-clawback-in-u-s-history

President Donald Trump’s recent clawback of nearly 3 million acres of protected land in Utah represents the largest removal of land from federal monument status in American history, an Emancipator investigation found. It is more than five times the amount of land all previous presidents combined had removed from monument status.

Officers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month, it was reported on Friday. But experts have questioned the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”.