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New Warren Report and Bill Exposes Potential Trump Corruption, Bribery Through Presidential Library Donations

“Warren analysis reveals at least half a billion dollars in monetary contributions, gifts, in-kind donations flowing into Trump Presidential Library. Donations come while Trump makes critical decisions that may impact donors; raises serious concerns about bribery, influence-peddling. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a new Report (PDF) exposing how companies, special interests, and foreign governments …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

Food Policy Tracker

Food Policy Tracker – “Every day, decisions are made in Washington, D.C. that have profound consequences for how we grow, process, transport, and consume food in this country. We’re keeping track: Consider this your go-to source for actions taken by the president, federal agencies, and Congress that directly relate to or have significant implications for …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care

White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, in charts

Washington Post – no paywall: “President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash staffing. The Supreme Court has revived the administration’s efforts to lay off workers, allowing planned reductions in force to resume …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Courts, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents

The End of Cheating As We Know It

The Augmented Educator: “After decades of playing cat-and-mouse with academic dishonesty, we’ve reached an inflection point. I strongly believe that the old definition of cheating is obsolete and pretending otherwise helps no one. As I reflect on the rapid transformation of educational assessment over the past two years, I’m struck by how fundamentally generative AI …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

OPM will disclose civil service benefit and payment data to SSA

Federal Register on 07/17/2025 and available online – SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. [Docket No. SSA-2025-0031]. Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program AGENCY: Social Security Administration (SSA). ACTION: Notice of a new matching program. SUMMARY: In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the Office of …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

What’s Happening to Reading?

The New Yorker [no paywall] – For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown’

NextGov/FCW: “Days after President Donald Trump took office again in January, thousands of government pages with critical data were taken down as agencies rushed to comply with executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as well as what the administration calls “gender ideology.” That day activated a community, said Denice Ross, the government’s former …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence

The Cambridge University Press & Assessment Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence (2025), edited by Nathalie Smuha, KU Leuven – is a comprehensive 600-page resource that brings together 30+ leading scholars across law, ethics, philosophy, and AI policy [Open Access – PDF and HTML]. It’s structured into three parts: AI, Ethics & …

Subjects: AI, Defense, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government, Freilich, Janet et al. The Lancet. Published July 3, 2025 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01249-8 – “A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in the …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

The Atlantic – no paywall – “Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Legal Research

How to find spyware and other hidden apps on your iPhone

Proton VPN Blog: “In recent years, journalists have emerged as one of the top targets of surveillance by governments around the world. If you’re a reporter working on sensitive topics, no country is safe for privacy in the context of an international market for spyware apps that can secretly monitor all the data transmitted and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Privacy

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