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Follow up to Epstein survivors sue Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon – The Hill: “Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new facility where she is being given custom meals and access …
Forbes: “The government shutdown has officially entered its 36th day, becoming the longest federal funding lapse in U.S. history—surpassing the 35-day shutdown that took place during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Millions are feeling the impacts: SNAP benefits used by roughly 42 million Americans will only be partially funded for November. Beyond the …
Opinion, The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 31, 2025. Gift Article – Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have …
NBCNews: “The White House has launched a spoof MySpace-style webpage that mocks Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and blames them for the government shutdown. The page, called “MySafeSpace,” appeared on the White House website over the weekend as the shutdown entered its second month on Saturday, with President Donald …
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 4 – This the fourth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, and censorship of government …
State-by-state guide: what happens when SNAP benefits stop Nov. 1 – NPR: “The federal government shutdown continues without an end in sight. In just a few days, tens of millions of people are at risk of losing federal food and nutrition benefits as a result. This includes the nearly 42 million people who rely on the …
CJR: “Researchers routinely rely on websites like data.census.gov, but this month, the top of the site displays a banner that reads: “Due to the lapse of federal funding, this website is not being updated.” Dozens of reports—from critical spending data to disease surveillance—are not updated or completely dark due to the ongoing government shutdown. Earlier …
Tara Calishain – “With the government shutdown, I’ve been seeing a lot of different members of Congress on TV. Some of them I’d never seen before. It made me uncomfortable to listen to their statements and not have any context of who they were and their past political activities. So I made a tool called …
Via LLRX – Keeping up with 2025 executive orders and related litigation – As of October 1, 2025, Donald Trump has signed a total of 210 executive orders during his current administration. Attorneys in many areas of practice need to know how to keep up with the latest EOs, as these orders may impact the funding, …
ProPublica: “…Although ICE is conducting itself out in the open, even inviting conservative social media influencers to accompany its agents on high-profile raids, the agency operates in darkness. The identities of DHS officers, their salaries and their operations have long been withheld for security reasons and generally exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information …
The New York Times [read free]: Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits. More than 700,000 federal employees have been sidelined and thousands more are at risk of being fired as the government shutdown drags on. But the workers …
ProPublica and via YouTube: “Russell Vought is the architect of Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies, and he’s a big reason the second Trump administration has been more effective at accomplishing its goals than the first. In the video shared by Trump, Vought appeared as the scythe-wielding …
