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Local prosecutors warn Trump: “If you send ICE to the polls, we’ll put them in jail.”

Defiance News: “Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ever Been a Member of the Federalist Society or Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory

A serious claim requiring serious consideration. Christopher Armitage – “The Federalist Society spent forty years building a captured federal judiciary, and we are now living inside the result. The doctrine they built it around has a name, unitary executive theory, and the doctrine has a method. The method is to read every Democratic exercise of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Is AI Profitable Yet?

Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026). “WHY I BUILT THIS Many industry experts and companies claim AI profitability by 2030 is possible, so I wanted to see how close we really are. This site tracks cumulative spend versus revenue across most major AI companies in one place, allowing you to …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System

Agroecology Map

Agroecology Map is an Open Platform that aims to assist in the mapping and exchange of experiences with the aim of bringing people together to strengthen and create new collaborative networks that enhance the sharing of real (and imaginary) experiences in Agroecology (Agroforestry Systems, Permaculture, Food Sovereignty and Others) Agroecology is an integrative approach to …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition

Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens?

Via LLRX – Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen. Erik D Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, Macquarie University ask us to acknowledge the critical fact that reading might appear to be an easy task, but this impression is …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought

Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Thousands of journalists’ data exposed to dark web

Proton Blog: “Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths. Today the threats they face are evolving, with political pressure and surveillance coming not only from authoritarian regimes but also from backsliding liberal democracies. Bad actors can use hacks and data breaches to disrupt their …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System. Xu, Huihui. University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026. 32672122. Personalized legal summarization for individuals’ interests allows legal professionals and the general public to understand the complex legal reasoning. The lengthy legal case opinions can be hard for readers to peruse and find information of interest. Summarizing legal opinions …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ocean Census project discovers 1,121 new species of ocean life around the world in one year

ABC.net.au: “An alliance of marine scientists has discovered more than 1,121 new species of sea creatures around the globe since April 2025. This marks a 54 per cent increase in the number of species discovered annually, but experts warn undiscovered species might go extinct before they are identified and catalogued…Thousands of previously unknown species have …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

DOJ Scrubbed its Website of Documents Related to January 6th Crimes

Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies, Decoding Fox News – The DOJ website now shows a blank page. Links to documents have been eliminated. I posted real time reporting throughout January 6, 2021 and identified a number of sources to access government documents specific to the event. These documents are …

Subjects: Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation