Sources
Where the board gets what it prints
Four tiers, published in full. Every item on this site names the publisher we read it from and that publisher's tier. Health is measured only for the publishers this console polls directly: those rows carry the result of the last read, with the reported reason when a read fails. A publisher we do not poll carries no status rather than a claimed one.
The four tiers
The four-tier sourcing rule
| Tier | Who | What they publish | The rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | US federal and state agencies | Official American public notices, agency dashboards and state-level bulletins. | Used as the standing record for anything happening in the United States. Where an agency notice and a press report disagree, the agency notice leads the item. |
| Tier 2 | Allied and partner governments | Public notices from governments the United States shares intelligence and emergency-warning arrangements with. | Used to describe what another government has put in writing about its own territory. It is never treated as confirming what is happening inside the United States. |
| Tier 3 | International and non-aligned state media | Broadcasters and news agencies funded and directed by a foreign government. Every one of these is labelled wherever it appears. | Used only for events we cannot see any other way, and always as a single named claim. We do not repeat their characterisations, and no item rests on state media alone. |
| Tier 4 | Independent and trade press | Independent wires, specialist and industry publications, and regional reporting. | Used for early signal, industry detail and anything an agency has not yet published. An item sourced here says so, so a reader knows it is reporting rather than an official notice. |
Source architecture
The three layers
Layer 1 · Seconds to minutes
Sensors and raw data
Machine to machine. No editorial layer.
Instruments reporting their own readings. Nothing here has been summarised, contextualised or approved by a human — it is the measurement itself, updating continuously whether or not anyone is watching.
Sources: USGS seismic, NWS alerts, River gauges, NASA FIRMS fire · No editorial layer
Layer 2 · Hours to days ahead of press
Primary documents
The document itself.
The order, the filing, the agency release, the docket entry. This is what the desk reads first: an official document is quotable, dated and attributable, and it usually exists before anyone has written about it.
Sources: Federal Register, Agency releases, Court dockets · Read at the source
Layer 3 · Last to arrive
News reports
Already interpreted.
The last layer to arrive, and by then the layers beneath it have moved. A report is a summary of a document you could have read, written by someone else, with their emphasis on it. Useful, late, and second-hand.
Sources: Wire copy, Newspapers, Broadcast, Reposts · Interpreted
The register
Source directory
| Publisher | Tier | Country | Used for | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CISA — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | T1 | United States | Actively exploited vulnerability notices, sector advisories, critical infrastructure alerts. | Publishes what it is willing to confirm. Recently disclosed flaws may appear here before a vendor patch is widely installed. |
| NOAA / National Weather Service | T1 | United States | Watches, warnings, advisories and forecast-office bulletins for every US county. | Warning polygons change by the hour. Always read the bulletin for your own county rather than a state summary. |
| USGS — U.S. Geological Survey water services | T1 | United States | Live streamflow gauge readings at active US gauges, with the gauge’s own reported time. | A gauge reports what its sensor reads. A missing reading means the gauge did not report, not that the river is unchanged. |
| NOAA / National Hurricane Center | T1 | United States | Tropical cyclone advisories, cones, watches and warnings for the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific. | Track forecasts beyond about five days are genuinely uncertain and we say so on the item. |
| FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency | T1 | United States | Disaster declarations, assistance programmes, sheltering and evacuation guidance. | Declaration processing lags the event. Absence of a declaration does not mean absence of a hazard. |
| US Energy Information Administration | T1 | United States | Fuel inventories, refinery utilisation, regional supply and price data. | Weekly data is an estimate and is revised. We do not present a weekly figure as a settled fact. |
| FDA — Food and Drug Administration | T1 | United States | Recalls, safety alerts, drug and device shortages. | Recall notices classify severity; we always carry the classification rather than implying danger ourselves. |
| PHMSA — Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | T1 | United States | Pipeline incidents, hazmat release reports and transport safety notices. | Incident reports are filed by operators and can be corrected later. We flag items under revision. |
| US Department of Transportation and state DOTs | T1 | United States | Road, bridge, rail, port and transit disruption notices at national and state level. | State DOT notices vary in format and frequency. Some states publish only during business hours. |
| State health and environmental agencies | T1 | United States | Boil-water advisories, air quality notices and recall information. | Advisories are issued and lifted by district, so a statewide summary is never enough on its own. |
| NCMEC / AMBER Alert and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit | T1 | United States | State-issued AMBER Alerts for missing and endangered people, read through NCMEC's published records. | There is no single national AMBER register — alerts are issued state by state under individual state protocols, and NCMEC publishes a searchable interface rather than an open record feed. A count of zero therefore means no qualifying alert is currently published, not that the source is broken. |
| NCMEC — National Center for Missing & Exploited Children | T1 | United States | The Center’s own AMBER Alert listing, read as the notice records it is. The page is rendered in a headless browser — the Center writes its active-alert list into the page with its own page script — and the notice records are taken from the rendered active-alert region rather than from the first response body. An entry is filed only where the Center’s own listing carries the AMBER Alert designation and the record names the law-enforcement agency that issued it. | Not polled. Every read of this listing now answers HTTP 401 — the Center answers that authentication is required to use the browser-rendered feature and asks for a valid API key — and this desk holds no such key. It is therefore listed here rather than graded: no status is claimed for it, rather than a failure it could never clear, and it is not counted among the publishers this console reads. The row and its feed slug are kept so its coverage is switched on the moment a key is held. Nothing was ever inferred from this publisher: an entry is filed only on the Center’s own AMBER Alert designation and a named issuing authority, and never from a headline or from the poster list of long-unresolved cases further down the same page. |
| US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs — AMBER Alert portal (amberalert.ojp.gov) | T1 | United States | The second, independent AMBER Alert address, carried beside the Center’s own listing so AMBER does not rest on one publisher. | Not directly polled: as read at the time this register was written, the portal’s own active-alert page carries no alert records of its own — it routes readers to the Center’s listing — so this console records it as not directly polled rather than claiming a status for it, and no address is inferred for the portal. It is given its own measured row on the day it carries a listing of its own. |
| Montana Department of Justice | T1 | United States | The Department’s own news posts and press releases, read from its public state-agency feed as news items on the national board. | Records from this publisher are news posts and press releases, not structured missing-person notice records. They carry no AMBER Alert, Silver Alert or Missing Indigenous Persons designation and no issuing-authority notice field, so every item read here is filed once, in Public Safety, and never in a notice class — whatever a headline happens to mention. Nothing is inferred from a headline or a body: a notice files into a notice class only on the publisher’s own notice designation and a named issuing authority. |
| UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) | T2 | United Kingdom | Joint advisories, threat campaigns and guidance usually published in parallel with US agencies. | Written for UK organisations. Where it names UK-specific law we do not carry that part over. |
| UK Met Office | T2 | United Kingdom | Severe weather warnings in the UK and, occasionally, modelling that US forecasters cite. | Domestic warnings are outside our coverage area and are not carried on the national board. |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | T2 | Canada | Weather warnings at the northern border and cross-border air quality notices. | A Canadian warning directly across the border is often the first signal for northern US states, but it is not a US warning. |
| EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) | T2 | European Union | Sector threat guidance, incident reporting patterns and vulnerability assessments. | Its guidance is European in scope; techniques usually reappear against US targets, but we never assume they have. |
| Copernicus Emergency Management Service | T2 | European Union | Satellite-based flood, fire and drought mapping used to check ground reports. | Mapping is a record of conditions at the time of the pass, not a live reading. |
| Japan Meteorological Agency | T2 | Japan | Seismic and tsunami bulletins relevant to Pacific coast warning chains. | US tsunami warnings come from US authorities. A JMA bulletin is context, not a US warning. |
| Australian Bureau of Meteorology | T2 | Australia | Southern Hemisphere cyclone and fire-weather information affecting shared supply chains. | Seasonal timing is inverted relative to the US; we say so on items where it matters. |
| Xinhua | T3 | China — STATE MEDIA | Reports of events inside China that no independent outlet can reach, and shipping or port traffic claims. | State media. We carry a claim only as a named claim, never as fact, and label it on the item. |
| CGTN | T3 | China — STATE MEDIA | Broadcast statements from Chinese officialdom on trade and energy policy. | State media. Language changes here usually signal an official position before it appears in any filing. |
| TASS | T3 | Russia — STATE MEDIA | Official Russian statements on energy, transport and border closures. | State media. Statements of intent are not statements of fact; we require a second source before an item rests on it. |
| RT | T3 | Russia — STATE MEDIA | Monitoring for narratives that later appear in the US information environment. | State media. Not used as a source for any factual claim on this board. |
| Press TV | T3 | Iran — STATE MEDIA | Official Iranian positions and regional statements where nothing else is available. | State media. Single-source claims stay unconfirmed until a second independent source reports them. |
| Global Times | T3 | China — STATE MEDIA | Reading official sentiment on trade, tariffs and export controls. | State media and editorial in nature. We do not use it to state a policy as fact. |
| Anadolu Agency | T3 | Türkiye — state-affiliated | Regional reporting from the eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus and the Middle East. | State-affiliated. Useful for reach into places others do not cover; treated as single-source until corroborated. |
| Yonhap | T3 | South Korea — state-funded | Peninsula developments and Korean industrial supply news. | State-funded and generally reliable, but it reflects a national framing, so we pair it where we can. |
| Reuters | T4 | International | Fast factual wires on energy, shipping, transport and international events. | Independent wire. Reporting is fast; it can precede official confirmation, so we say which it is. |
| Associated Press | T4 | United States | Domestic breaking news, state-level developments and official statements. | Independent wire. Corrections are issued for early reports; we carry their correction when one is made. |
| Recorded Future News | T4 | United States | Cyber incident reporting and analysis of campaigns against US institutions. | Specialist press. Reporting on incidents is often ahead of victim confirmation, so items stay marked as reported. |
| BleepingComputer | T4 | United States | Vulnerability exploitation in the wild, ransomware incidents and patch status. | Technical trade press. Coverage is detailed but predates vendor confirmation, so we pair it with a vendor advisory. |
| S&P Global Commodity Insights | T4 | United States | Commodity, shipping and refining detail behind fuel and freight cost changes. | Trade press. Often the earliest reliable read on supply, and almost always ahead of official data. |
| FreightWaves | T4 | United States | Freight, port and rail labour and capacity reporting. | Trade press. Labour reporting is by nature subject to change at the negotiating table. |
| Inside Climate News | T4 | United States | State and regional environmental and utility reporting that national outlets do not carry. | Non-profit newsroom. Regional focus means coverage is uneven between states. |
| NetBlocks | T4 | International | Measured internet and communications outages, which we use to check claims of disruption abroad. | Measurement, not reporting. It shows an outage happened; it does not say why. |
| Local US television and newspaper desks | T4 | United States | City-level incidents and conditions before an agency publishes anything. | Local reporting is fast and close, but early details often change. We date-stamp and revisit these items. |
| US Department of State — Western Hemisphere Affairs | T1 | United States | Official statements, travel notices and country policy positions on Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua. | A statement describes US policy; it does not describe conditions on the island. Any figure it gives is a US government figure and is carried as one. |
| Global Affairs Canada | T2 | Canada | Canadian statements, travel advisories and consular notices on Cuba and the Caribbean. | Written for Canadian nationals. It is context for a US reader and never a US warning. |
| UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) | T2 | United Kingdom | Travel advice and written statements on Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela. | Written for British nationals. Where it names UK-specific arrangements we do not carry that part over. |
| Federal Register | T1 | United States | Rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents as published. | The public-inspection copy posts the evening before the printed date, so a document can be cited a day ahead of its official issue date. |
| GovInfo | T1 | United States | The authenticated text of federal publications, cited back to the edition it was read from. | Publications, not reporting. An entry appears when it is published, and nothing is inferred from one that has not appeared. |
| Congress.gov | T1 | United States | Bills, votes, amendments and enrolled text, with the tally as recorded. | The legislative record only. It says nothing about how a provision is carried out once it is law. |
| Regulations.gov | T1 | United States | Docket entries, comment periods and supporting documents on proposed rules. | A posting date is not an effective date, and a docket can stay open after the decision has been made. |
| US Treasury / OFAC — sanctions actions and the SDN list | T1 | United States | Designations, removals and licence actions, read from the action itself. | The list states who is designated and when. It does not state why beyond the action text, and a designation is not a finding by a court. |
| US Bureau of Industry and Security — Entity List | T1 | United States | Export-control entries, additions and removals, with the licensing requirement attached to each one. | An entry carries a licence requirement rather than a blanket prohibition. The scope has to be read from the entry itself. |
| DOJ, SEC and CFTC enforcement releases | T1 | United States | Charges, settlements, complaints and enforcement actions as the agency files them. | An allegation is not a finding. Where a matter is unresolved we carry it exactly as the agency states it. |
| CourtListener / RECAP | T1 | United States | Dockets, filings and opinions, including the entry text rather than a summary of it. | Bulk-paced: an entry appears as it is indexed, which can lag the filing itself. |
| DOJ Office of the Inspector General | T1 | United States | Inspector General findings on agency conduct and programme failures. | Findings are issued under the Inspector General’s own authority and can be contested by the agency reported on. Where the agency has answered, we carry both. |
| GAO — US Government Accountability Office | T1 | United States | Audit and review reports, including recommendations agencies have not implemented. | A report is evidence of what an agency did or failed to do. It is not enforcement, and a recommendation has no binding force. |
| USGS — earthquake hazards programme | T1 | United States | The earthquake catalogue and event feeds — seismology, distinct from the water gauges this console already polls. | A magnitude is revised after an event is reviewed, so early numbers on a large event are provisional. |
| National Park Service | T1 | United States | Closures, burn restrictions and hazard notices on park land. | Notices are issued park by park, so a national summary is never enough on its own. |
| US Forest Service | T1 | United States | Forest orders, fire restrictions and road closures on national forest land. | Orders are issued by forest and by district; a forest-wide statement may not name the district that matters. |
| State game, fish and wildlife agencies | T1 | United States | Season changes, wildlife disease notices, fish kills and access closures, state by state. | Every state publishes in its own format and on its own calendar, so coverage is uneven between states. |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal affairs | T1 | United States | Tribal consultation notices, trust land decisions and BIA releases. | A federal notice is not a tribal position. Where a nation has spoken for itself we carry that separately and name it. |
| NASA FIRMS | T1 | United States | Satellite fire and thermal detections, used to check ground reports of fire. | A detection is one satellite pass over hot ground. It does not confirm a fire, and it does not say what is burning. |
| NOAA Storm Prediction Center | T1 | United States | Convective outlooks, including the severe-thunderstorm and fire-weather outlooks. | An outlook forecasts conditions, not a warning for a place. Warnings come from the local forecast office. |
| EPA RadNet | T1 | United States | Environmental radiation readings from the fixed monitoring station network. | It reports a measured reading at a station, not an interpretation of what that reading means. |
| GDELT | T2 | International | A global news and event index, used to find reports rather than to stand behind them. | An index of what was published, not a check on it. A tally from it counts mentions, not confirmations. |
| Cloudflare Radar | T2 | International | Measured internet traffic, routing and outage data. | It measures the networks it can see. A gap can mean an outage, or simply a path this measurement does not carry. |
| ACLED — Armed Conflict Location & Event Data | T2 | International | Coded conflict events with dates, locations and actors attached. | A coded event is a research record and its coding lags the event. Counts are not comparable with reporting tallies. |
| UCDP — Uppsala Conflict Data Program | T2 | International | Conflict data with consistent definitions, used where a figure has to be defined rather than quoted. | An academic dataset with a publication lag measured in months. It is a record, never a live count. |
| NVD — National Vulnerability Database / CVE | T1 | United States | Vulnerability identifiers and their scored severity, as the reference layer beneath the CISA KEV alert layer already carried. | A scored vulnerability is a characteristic, not an incident. It does not say whether anyone is exploiting it. |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1 | United States | The reference set of adversary techniques, used to place an advisory inside a known framework. | A framework rather than reporting. It describes technique in the abstract and never a specific incident. |
Cadence
Source rhythms
| Source | Carries | Cadence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| USGS seismic | Earthquake catalogue and real-time event feeds | 60 seconds | Publishes on its own clock; nothing has to be requested. |
| NWS alerts | Active watches, warnings and advisories | Continuous | Pushes each product as it is issued, and retracts it as it expires. |
| River gauges | Stage, flow and forecast crest by station | 15 to 60 minutes | The range reflects individual station telemetry, not the network. |
| CourtListener | Dockets, filings and opinions | Same day | Bulk-paced; an entry appears as it is indexed rather than as filed. |
| Federal Register | Rules, proposed rules and notices | Daily, around 8:45am ET | Public-inspection copies post the evening before. |
| EIA | Weekly petroleum and storage data | Wednesdays, around 10:30am ET | A fixed weekly slot, and the market moves on it. |
| FEMA | Disaster and emergency declarations nationwide | Continuous, as declared | Declarations post as signed, with the incident period and the designated counties attached. |
| GDELT | Global news and event index | Throttled | Requires 15+ minutes of spacing between requests; it is not a live feed. |
Polled directly
Feeds this desk polls directly
| Source | Feed | Public URL |
|---|---|---|
| NOAA / National Weather Service | Active weather alerts, US | https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?status=actual&message_type=alert |
| USGS — U.S. Geological Survey water services | Streamflow gauge readings | — |
| CISA — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | Cybersecurity advisories | — |
| NCMEC / AMBER Alert and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit | Active AMBER Alert and Missing Indigenous Persons notices | — |
| NCMEC — National Center for Missing & Exploited Children | Active AMBER Alert notices | — |
| NOAA / National Hurricane Center | Active tropical cyclone advisories (Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific) | — |
| FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency | Recent federal disaster declarations | — |
| State Silver Alert and endangered missing adult notice listings | Silver Alert / endangered missing adult notices (state-issued) | — |
| US Department of Energy OE-417 and public energy data | National power outage picture by state | — |
| Montana Department of Justice | State-agency news posts and press releases (Montana Department of Justice) | — |
Only the publishers this console polls directly can be graded here. The other publishers are read through the named items they appear on, so no status is claimed for them either way.