For however long this page stays online, this is the CDC's weekly (updated every Friday) bulletin of measles outbreaks.

The LGBTQ+ Bar was founded over thirty years ago by a small group of family law practitioners at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. In 1987, the idea of creating a gay and lesbian bar association was formally introduced at the Lesbian & Gay March on Washington. The first Lavender Law® Conference took place the following year at the Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In 1989, at the American Bar Association’s Mid-Year meeting, bylaws were presented, and a nonprofit board of directors was formalized. At the second board meeting in 1989 in Boston, the LGBTQ+ Bar, then known as the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), had 293 paid members, and initiated a campaign to ask the ABA to include protection based on sexual orientation to its revision of the Model Code of Judicial Conduct for Judges. In 1992, the LGBTQ+ Bar became an official affiliate of the American Bar Association and it now works closely with the ABA’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities and its Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

Our local volunteers pick-up excess healthy food from local food donors and deliver it directly to local social service agencies that feed the food insecure.

Food Rescue US was founded in Fairfield County in 2011 when our founders, Jeff Schacher and Kevin Mullins, recognized that two growing challenges facing their community and the nation, food insecurity and food waste, could be solved with innovative technology, volunteers, and a direct-transfer model. Together, they founded Community Plates and created a unique model of food rescue that is simple, sustainable, and scalable. The organization quickly received vast support from volunteer rescuers, food donors, and social service agencies, and by 2014, the organization had rescued more than 6 million meals and was serving not only Fairfield County but also Albuquerque and Columbus.

In the following years, we continued to expand in order to meet the needs of more communities. In 2017, the organization changed its name to Food Rescue US in recognition of our expanding national presence and simultaneously launched a new version of our app, which we continue to upgrade.

Since our founding, we have provided 166 million meals and kept 199 million pounds of excess food out of landfills. Food Rescue US is now in 39 locations and constantly growing.

Wastewater surveillance may complement other existing human surveillance systems to monitor influenza. Wastewater data cannot determine the source of influenza A viruses. Detections could come from a human or from an animal (like a bird) or an animal product (like milk from an infected cow).

No API but the data can be downloaded as a CSV file: https://www.cdc.gov/e0e53cec-a7e1-4357-a582-dd64f0cc3b1f

There is some data here that can be analyzed: https://www.cdc.gov/wcms/vizdata/NCEZID_DIDRI/FluA/H5N1Map.json

This has a tl;dr: https://www.cdc.gov/wcms/vizdata/NCEZID_DIDRI/FluA/H5N1Databites.json

This is the official California state government website for making sure that you're still registered to vote. It needs your name, birthday, and driver's license and Social Security number.

Technically, it's /either/ your driver's license /or/ your SSN, but if you enter one you'll have to check "I do not have one" box for the other and that might cause erroneous results. Your tax dollars at work.

FUR/HELP is a Furry LGBTQIA+ Refugee Initiative, that helps LGBTQIA+ furry lives in post-soviet region as well as American Trans lives in dangerous states flee persecution and seek safety. We strive to make sure each and every LGBTQIA+ person on the planet gets equal rights. Our vision is to be earth's most human LGBTQIA+ Initiative, we fight for each of our refugees and make sure they get to a safe haven. Our values are : Rights for every human, Responsibility for each action, Amplifying Voices, Planning before Action, Building a Safe Community.

We are refugee-centric with every decision and step we take towards our goals. We take pride in that.

The NOAA runs this project.

The State Climate Summaries provided here were initially produced to meet the demand for state-level climate information in the wake of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment. This 2022 version provides new information and extends the historical climate record to 2020 for each state. The summaries cover assessment topics directly related to NOAA’s mission, specifically historical climate variations and trends, future climate model projections of climate conditions during the 21st century, and past and future conditions of sea level and coastal flooding. Additional background information and links are given below.

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.

RSS: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/rss.xml

Github: https://github.com/mkiser/WTFJHT

API: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/api/v1/posts.json

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.