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Washington Post no paywall: “The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements. White House officials last year secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in …
Washington Post no paywall: “Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure [link added by beSpacific – not included in the article] shows he earned at least $1.2 billion in 2025 from cryptocurrency and memecoin ventures. The filing reports more than $588 million in income from World Liberty Financial, the crypto company co-founded by Trump, his sons, and …
404 Media: “…Hide My Email is part of Apple’s paid iCloud+ product. It lets users generate an anonymous email address which they can then use to sign up to services or email people with instead of their personal email. These email addresses are often two random words and a number ending in the @icloud.com domain. …
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University via LinkedIn – “Three years ago this month, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump under the Espionage Act for concealing and refusing to return classified documents—the first time a president had been charged with a crime, let alone one so grave. But President Trump hasn’t had to face …
Tech Policy: “Political violence is on the rise in the United States. According to a summary of key trends from the Princeton University Bridging Divides Initiative, this rise is reflected across a range of different statistics, from an increase in targeted violence and assassination attempts to an increase in the overall volume of threats and …
CIO.com: “Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries,” According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools, …
Fagan, Frank, The Coming Law Review Shortage (November 05, 2025). Illinois Law Review Online (forthcoming 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5732967 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5732967 Today, law reviews sit near equilibrium: roughly 5,000 annual submissions for about 5,600 slots. Tomorrow, large language models are likely to drive output toward 8,000. The result is a systemic shortage of publication …
ProPublica: “For more than 40 years, oil companies have been funding research at prestigious universities into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Among their favored fixes is carbon capture and storage. An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that boosters of CCS have ignored evidence …
The Guardian: “The US supreme court has ruled that Donald Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions, ending 90 years of court precedent that curbs executive power. The vote in the case of Trump v Slaughter is 6-3, with dissents from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. The case was …
The Economist, no paywall: “As well as inventing cases, AI chatbots often encourage people to litigate, urge them not to settle and overstate their chances of winning. Antony Sendall, a British employment barrister, says chatbots embolden litigants to bring a host of discrimination claims. “A grievance that would have been a few sentences is now more …
“Impunity is the exercise of power without accountability, which becomes, in its clearest form, the commission of crimes without punishment. Impunity is not experienced equally across the globe. Where accountability is strong, citizens benefit from institutions that protect human rights and personal freedoms and impose just consequences on those who abuse power. Where it is …
Gallup: “As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, 33% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be an American, the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend dating back to 2001. Another 20% say they are “very proud,” which means just over half of Americans express high levels of pride in their country. The …
