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Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

Fast Company Tech

Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week , throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwideand a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. People giving to natural disasters this fall is a bigger concern than election giving.”

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. State-based contact tracing apps could be a disaster. Hurricane Season — Jak (@crownme_kay95) May 31, 2020. Tony Romm / The Washington Post ).

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