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#MARC MARC Train - MARC Penn Line - Additional afternoon departure Rail Advisory
Published: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:30:07 GMT
Summary: **Correction** The extra 6:30pm departure WILL have a MARC Bike Car. Train 492 (5:28pm departure) will not have a Bike Car

Penn Line weekend service is experiencing significantly increased ridership today. We are adding an additional train this afternoon which will depart Washington at 6:30pm, making all stops to Baltimore Penn Station. Boarding will begin at 6:...

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Chuck Darwin

Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants

A federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars
told government lawyers they had to produce
“some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions.

Climate United, which coordinates investment in clean energy projects,
sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by #Lee #Zeldin,
the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Judge #Tanya #Chutkan asked lawyers for the EPA:
“Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal,
or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery
– that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr Zeldin doesn’t like it?”

#Marc #Sacks, a government lawyer, said:
“The determination is based on the information contained in the termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“That’s pretty circular,”
then asked if Climate United had violated federal regulations.

Sacks said:
“I think the agency cited both of those regulations within their termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“I can cite cases all day long, but you have to have some kind of evidence or proffer to back it up.”
She also said:
“You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is.”

There is plentiful evidence that Zeldin is implementing an assault on attempts to tackle the climate crisis.
The EPA issued a slew of rollbacks of rules to combat pollution on Wednesday.

Zeldin said he was “driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.
Climate groups reacted with horror.
#Jason #Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told the Guardian:
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.
This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”

Climate United is not the only group to have sued over access to grants.
In New York, the Coalition for Green Capital has sued over the cancellation of a $5bn grant,
an act it called “patently and plainly unlawful on its face”
and “arbitrary and pretextual”.
In Washington, lawyers for Climate United argued that the EPA had not followed the law,
meaning Chutkan could rule on the matter.
Lawyers for the government said it was a contract dispute, so she could not.
Chutkan said:
“The government didn’t decide who it wanted to contract with.
A new administration came in, didn’t like the contract any more.
That’s what new administrations do.
But there are procedures that have to be followed.
And it doesn’t appear, at least on the record before me, that those procedures have been followed.”

The hearing ended without Chutkan issuing a ruling or temporary restraining order,
but asking both sides to make
👉new filings by Monday evening:
Climate United to amend its lawsuit
and the government to provide information about alleged wrongdoing.
“I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required,” Chutkan said.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grantsBy Martin Pengelly
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Washington, DC, USA Transit

#MARC MARC Train - Update: MARC Penn Line - Service Remains Suspended Rail Advisory
Published: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:19:50 GMT
Summary: Penn Line service remains suspended due to police activity near West Baltimore Station. Penn Line trains will not operate between Washington Union Station and Baltimore Penn Station until service is restored. The extent of delay is not known. Updates to follow.

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Chuck Darwin

2021:
Five years after mocking India's colonial past, #Marc #Andreesen, one of Silicon Valley’s foremost venture capitalists and a member of Facebook’s board, now wants to make money off India’s fancy for cryptos.

Andreesen’s venture, #a16z [founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz], along with Coinbase Ventures, has invested $260 million in Series C round of CoinSwitch Kuber, the four-year-old Indian start-up which is an aggregator of crypto exchanges.

Existing investors Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global have also participated in the round.

Following the massive fund infusion, CoinSwitch has become the country’s second crypto Unicorn, valued at $1.9 billion, after CoinDCX hit $1.1 billion after a $90 million Series C round in August.

fortuneindia.com/opinion/hi-pm

Fortune India · India-baiter Andreesen back to tap crypto boom’By V. Keshavdev
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St John

I've been fooling around with a #Python script for converting #MARC bibliographic records to #Markdown for use with a static website generator. Probably only has an audience of one (me), but it's not complicated and it solves an interesting problem for private #librarians: how can we get our collections out there when LibraryThing isn't enough but a full OPAC is too much?

github.com/dazzlepansy/marc2md

GitHubGitHub - dazzlepansy/marc2md: Convert MARC bibliographic records to MarkdownConvert MARC bibliographic records to Markdown. Contribute to dazzlepansy/marc2md development by creating an account on GitHub.
#Libraries#Cataloging#Code4Lib
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Stabi Hamburg

Library of Congress has been experimenting with using gen #AI to create #MARC records.

LCCNs and ISBNs extracted from ebooks at around 85% accuracy, but subject headings, genre, and dates were only generated accurately at or under 50% blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/1

The Library of CongressCould Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The SignalCatalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine learning (ML) …
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Chuck Darwin

Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers
or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities.

But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder #Palmer #Luckey and the venture capitalist #Marc #Andreessen, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology
and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.

There were tech up-and-comers, too:
Donald Trump #Jr. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital.

And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary,
Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation.

Ms. #Wiles also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.

“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer #Omeed #Malik, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.

➡️Rockbridge began with more humility.

Back in 2019, Mr. #Vance, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named #Chris #Buskirk began informally hosting a series of small dinners
that would eventually become called Rockbridge.

The group drew early support from the venture capitalist #Peter #Thiel and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.

Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla.,
or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking.

Speakers included people like #Tucker #Carlson; the Thiel protégé #Blake #Masters; the casino mogul #Steve #Wynn; the investor #David #Sacks; and #Woody #Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.

Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind.

Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.

#RockbridgeNetwork#RebekahMercer#ElonMusk
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Chuck Darwin

After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary

Donald Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week

Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role:
the former Federal Reserve governor #Kevin #Warsh.

Trump is also considering the Wall Street billionaire #Marc #Rowan.

He had been expected to pick either #Howard #Lutnick, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,
or #Scott #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management and a former money manager for George Soros.

And he had been seen as likely to make the selection late last week.

But he has been having second thoughts about the top two candidates, and has slowed down his selection process.

He is expected to invite the contenders to interview with him this week at Mar-a-Lago.

Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Mr. Trump’s transition operation, has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.
Mr. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Mr. Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.

A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Bessent as a "knife fight", with Mr. Lutnick as the primary aggressor.
nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

The New York Times · After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury SecretaryBy Jonathan Swan
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