Day archives: September 29th, 2025

Censorship Returns to the CDC: At Least 22 Websites Are Down

MEDPAGE Today – “Trump administration’s HHS back to targeting public health resources deemed too woke. Censorship is back at the CDC, Inside Medicine learned, from an active agency employee who listed nearly two dozen websites that are now offline. Many of the 22 removed sites appear to have been taken down recently, having been online …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Opening Doors with AI: How Free Law Project and the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Are Reimagining Legal Research

“At Free Law Project, we believe the law belongs to everyone. But for too long, the information needed to understand and use the law—especially in civil rights litigation—has been locked behind paywalls, scattered across jurisdictions, or buried in technical complexity. That’s why we teamed up with the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse on an exploratory grant …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Trump OPM Furlough Guidance

Overview Shutdown Furlough Administrative Furlough This page provides information on shutdown furloughs [Note – this site does not provide comprehensive, detailed, accurate and actionable information on the consequences of the shutdown for the pay, insurance and employment of federal employees. In accordance with  Circular A-11, agency contingency plans for a lapse in appropriations are hosted …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Bye Bye, Google AI removes AI from Google Search

ghacks: “Bye Bye, Google AI is a browser extension that gives you control over the features. Google does not provide options to turn off AI content on Google Search, which this extension rectifies. The extension displays the options right after installation in a compatible browser. It is available for Chromium-based, which covers most desktop browsers. …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

SCOTUS Hands Trump Huge Win on Lawless Rescission

TMP: “In a stunning win for President Trump, the Supreme Court on Friday used its emergency docket to clear the way for him to continue to withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid despite congressional authorization of the monies. The decision implicitly ratified the president’s use of a pocket rescission, the refusal to spend the …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

Politico: “The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO. The words on the DOE list are at the heart of EERE’s mission: It is the government’s …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research