The 2021 transition from President Donald Trump to President Joseph R. Biden was the most tumultuous and disorderly of any transfer of presidential power in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. It was a transition that swung between opposites, with the incoming president presenting an experienced administrative team and a list of policy priorities well before his inauguration.
He promised to wipe out trans rights with sweeping orders when he takes office.
Donald Trump made sweeping promises at a far-right event this weekend to end trans rights in several areas, including education, health care, and military service.
Speaking at an event organized by Turning Point USA, Trump also promised to end transgender rights across the board on his first day in office, saying that it will be official policy that “there are only two genders, male and female.” He also said he would sign an executive order to “end child sexual mutilation.”
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and its director pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848, the U.S. election interference authority. As affiliates of the IRGC and GRU, these actors aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate during the 2024 U.S. election. Today’s actions build on sanctions previously imposed on the IRGC, the GRU, and their numerous subordinate and proxy organizations, pursuant to several authorities targeting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and malicious cyber-enabled activities.
I created this website in 2014 to host my personal collection of backing tracks for music practice, making them available for any musician to enjoy and help improve their playing. It has since grown to contain 160+ popular Bluegrass tunes as well as Old-Time, Gypsy Jazz and now 100+ Traditional Irish session tunes.
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In this delightful and challenging activity, students will transform exponential functions so that the marbles go through the stars. Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge.
Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...
This "color wheel" arrangement is a compact and visual way to represent a whole range of colors. I was reminded of the named/web colors by a recent Hacker News comment thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647207], and thought again of arranging them into a color wheel. So here it is: a color wheel, with only "web colors" on it. Each color is placed on the wheel, then grown to a polygon to fill the wheel with a Voronoi diagram. Hover colors to see their name (plus extra preview color swatch and hex code). Click one to "lock" it. The idea is when picking colors for a design, choose visually here from these few (139 distinct) colors, rather than trying to choose from the millions that are actually available. And you can refer to them by name in your CSS! The arrangement of the wheel has been tweaked from a pure HSV interpretation, to make sure all names have a distinct location.
Cyber Security Body of Knowledge, a comprehensive body of knowledge to inform & underpin education and professional training for the cyber security sector
P. Haindl, G. Buchgeher, M. Khan, and B. Moser. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ACM, (May 2022)