Category «Civil Liberties»

How to remove yourself from the internet

BleepingComputer – Want to prevent people from harvesting your personal information? Keep reading to learn how to remove your data from people search sites. “Protecting your digital footprint is crucial if you want to prevent phishing, scams, and other unwanted side effects caused by online data harvesting. Every day, people around the globe suffer from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

‘Not a buyout’: Attorneys and unions urge federal workers not to resign

NPR: “Federal employee unions and attorneys are urging government workers not to accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and be paid through the end of September. “This ‘fork’ thing is not a buyout,” said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees, …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress – Search by your zipcode or address and the results will include the Members, name, website, address, telephone number, party affiliation, length of service, bio, contact information, and bill history associated with the member’s actions.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy

ProPublica – “ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future …

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

Career civil service across the government fired, programs suspended – list continues to grow

Via LLRX – Career civil service across the government fired, programs suspended – list continues to grow – Democracy, the Constitution, the Federal Government – All At Risk. Since his inauguration on January 20, 2025 Donald Trump has rapidly implemented key recommendations of Project 2025 using actions executed by non career government personnel as well conservative …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Trump Freezes All Grant Funding to Libraries, Archives, and Museums

everylibrary – “While this “pause” will negatively impact millions of Americans, it will also considerably impact libraries. rump has demanded a freeze on all federal grants and for all agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo also calls for each agency to perform a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

The Impoundment Crisis of 2025

One First: “The Trump administration’s Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of “impoundment”—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon. The move was announced in a cryptic and thinly reasoned two-page memo that went out over the signature of Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

Trump’s death by a thousand cuts to D.C. federal workforce

Axios: “It’s only been a little over a week since President Trump took office, but already he’s unleashed a ream of actions targeting the federal workforce — a sort of government death via a thousand cuts. Why it matters: This unprecedented stream of executive orders and memorandums is unsettling Washington households as people scramble to …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Big Brother Becomes Little Brother

Ken Klippenstein – Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits – Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize”  and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

Angela Levine – “The day after President Donald Trump began his second term, people noticed that they could no longer access a .gov web page outlining women’s rights to abortion and contraception under US law. The Biden administration created the web page, reproductiverights.gov, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups

Joe Katz‬ ‪@joekatz45.bsky.social‬ – Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups – Google Sheet Please note all organizations listed on this spreadsheet have some public-facing presence. Any who would like to be removed please contact [email protected]. This list is dynamic and growing. If you have additions, edits, criticisms, suggestions, etc. please contact [email protected] . Last Update 1/25/25 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research