Day archives: July 20th, 2026

OPM Delivers Major Modernization for Federal HR

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today announced the launch of the Guide to Processing Personnel Actions (GPPA) Navigator, a new digital tool that modernizes how federal Human Resources (HR) professionals access and apply personnel action guidance. The GPPA Navigator transforms decades of document-based guidance into an intuitive, searchable digital experience, giving more than 40,000 …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Legal Research

DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.

Washington Post – no paywall: “…DOGE has evolved from its radical cost-cutting mission, with some of its members and agenda embedded across the government, continuing to reshape the federal bureaucracy behind the scenes. “DOGE is a way of life. … It never terminates,” former DOGE staffer Katie Miller said on X on July 4, the …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Legal Research

These consumer brands are bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress

Popular Information: “From the outset of President Trump’s second term, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and US citizens. During the operation, there have been 28 incidents where immigration agents shot at people, resulting in eight deaths, according to an …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Legislation

How AI makes people confidently wrong

Machine Society – The accuracy of people using AI drops by one-third, but their certainty that they’re right more than doubles. New research published last week reveals the mechanism behind the workplace pandemic of people who are overconfident and underqualified. The mechanism is fluency-based substitution: The ready availability of a syntactically coherent, decisive AI answer is …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Meet the Alien Terrorist Removal Court

“The Alien Terrorist Removal Court has existed since 1996. The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal. According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding. Until this week.. Seamus Hughes of Court Watch broke the news Saturday of its first use — and the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Trump’s New Anti-Legal Immigration Rules Target Students, Spouses of US Citizens

Cato Institute: “Today, the Trump administration made public two new rules limiting legal immigration: one, a massive overhaul of the international student visa system; the other, a rewrite of the public charge ground of inadmissibility that will primarily hit relatives of US citizens—overwhelmingly their spouses and minor children.  As I have detailed, Trump had already cut …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Inside Higher Education: “Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm this spring. Quite a few students had …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management