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The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking …
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades [New York Times, no paywall] – The reporters analyzed 35 years of grants funded by the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at …
SciLit: “How a little-noticed tax and a bureaucratic cap could reshape U.S. innovation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 today, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sweeping reconciliation bill intended to implement key components of the Trump administration’s fiscal agenda. Among its most controversial implications are those for science. You can read …
Robert Reich: H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act – This text has been loaded in plain text format due to the large size of the XML/HTML file. Loading the XML/HTML in a new window (2MB) may take several minutes or possibly cause your browser to become unresponsive. “…But I want to alert you to one …
Via LLRX – Cultivating obedience: Using the Justice Department to attack former officials consolidates power and deters dissent – Political science scholars who study the origins of elected strongmen, Professors Joe Wright and Erica Frantz discuss how President Donald Trump’s first three months in office has been distinguished by how his administration has targeted dozens of former …
CREW sues US DOGE Service to compel transparency – includes all related legal documents. “…May 14, 2025. The DC Circuit Court ruled unanimously—with judges appointed by both Democrats and Republicans—that DOGE must submit to discovery. Read it here….US DOGE Service wields shockingly broad power over all manner of federal operations—which far exceeds its limited legal …
The New York Times – no paywall: “The Food and Drug Administration will permit Covid vaccines for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards detailed on Tuesday by agency officials. But the F.D.A. may require data from additional clinical trials before approving the vaccines for …
Politico: “Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative sought last week to gain access to the government’s central publishing operation, a congressional offshoot that provides public access to federal documents. The Government Publishing Office is the fourth legislative branch agency that President Donald Trump’s administration has recently attempted to access. DOGE made an inquiry about …
Via Jason Kottke – The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations of what’s happening to our government and why it matters”. Their first three are on Medicaid, Transgender Healthcare, and Equality at Work.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a new report [Read the report here] uncovering the far-reaching scope of Trump’s attacks on science and their impact on public health. “Since January, Trump has launched an unprecedented, illegal and outrageous attack on science and scientists. …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “Fearing the loss of federal funding, the nation’s largest anti-sexual-violence organization has barred its crisis hotline staff from pointing people to resources that might violate President Trump’s executive orders to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The organization, RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) has removed more …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The decision by nine of America’s biggest law firms to “bend the knee” to President Trump drew condemnation among lawyers across the political spectrum, including from attorneys inside the firms who quit or launched resistance campaigns. Others have chosen a less career-limiting form of rebellion. That would be offering …
