WTF Just Happened Today is today's essential newsletter, blog, and community chronicling the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation. The goal is to capture the most important news coming out of the White House in a digestible form inspired by The Skimm, Techmeme, and tweetstorms. It’s like the Wirecutter for politics.
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A free political research tool to study more than 100 million voter records.
America’s most comprehensive dictionary of campaign finance jargon.
Welcome to the website for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Our team of experts is leading the U.S. government’s efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. Since its establishment in July 2022, AARO has taken important steps to improve data collection, standardize reporting requirements, and mitigate the potential threats to safety and security posed by UAP. We look forward to using this site to regularly update the public about AARO’s work and findings, and to provide a mechanism for UAP reporting. Thank you for visiting.
The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is a map released every Thursday, showing where drought is and how bad it is across the U.S. and its territories. The map uses six classifications: normal conditions, abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4).
The U.S. Drought Monitor has been a team effort since its inception in 1999, produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Meteorologists and climatologists from the NDMC, NOAA and USDA take turns as the lead author of the map, usually two weeks a time. The author’s job is to do something that a computer can’t. When the data is pointing in different directions, they make sense out of it.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is committed to its free and open data by making it available through an Application Programming Interface (API) and its open data tools. Hourly operating data, power generation stats, capabilities, and more.
Public data about businesses, government entities, military agencies, police, and so forth throughout the United States.
TOOOL's overview of lockpick laws in the United States.
The FDA's official directory of pharmaceuticals that are in shortage, officially discontinued, or recoveraged from shortages.
Unfortunately, no RSS feed or API.
Congress.gov shares its application programming interface (API) with the public to ingest the Congressional data. Sign up for an API key that you can use to access web services provided by Congress.gov.
Github (with better documentation): https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/
If you need to check on the status of your application for or renewal of your United States passport, here's where you can check.
A directory of the CDC's REST APIs.
Has JSON and XML APIs: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/file-case/developer-resources
Needs an account.
We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.
Database of local and national community-based alternatives to calling the police or 911, broken down by city.
Find phone numbers, addresses and other contact information for US corporations.
A site where you can search by city and state or ZIP code and find out what your options for net.access are.
A searchable database of doctors around the country and how much money they got from pharmeceutical companies.