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The Hill: “New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday said the state would launch a portal for residents to provide pictures and videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in New York City and the rest of the state. The effort comes after a high-profile ICE raid on Canal Street in New …
NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …
EFF Social Media Monitoring: “Social media includes some of the most intimate details of our lives, including our health information, likes and dislikes, political views and religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and people with whom we associate. Its content includes usernames, bios, contact information, status updates, comments, photos, videos and streams, event postings, friend or follower …
Data Rescue Project Portal – 1289 datasets across 86 government offices compiled through the efforts of over 500 volunteers – Browse Datasets Browse Government Offices Browse Categories. About the Mission – The Data Rescue Project (DRP) serves as a clearinghouse for preserving at-risk public information. What began as a simple Google Sheet has evolved into a …
The Atlantic [no paywall]: “Last week, Donald Trump’s White House anticipated the impending government shutdown like an album release, placing a massive countdown clock at the top of WhiteHouse.gov. “Democrat Shutdown Is Imminent,” read the online home of the People’s House, on a black background. Now that the shutdown has happened, a clock is counting …
MakeUseOf: “Your inbox might look clean once spam is filtered out, but that doesn’t mean it is private. Marketing emails and newsletters include tracking pixels that call back to the sender when their images load. Each request registers an open with a timestamp and can be linked to earlier opens to build a profile of …
Follow up to Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown – See Also: Mashable: “The U.S. federal government shut down at midnight on Wednesday, bringing a halt to numerous government services after Congress could not agree on a crucial funding bill. Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration was quick to …
DataIndex.us: “Demography has historically been a quiet field with little time in the national spotlight. Between the three of us, we have spent nearly 5 decades working at the nexus of applied demographic modeling and public policy. We have built population estimates for the United States Census Bureau (Chris and Mark), built population estimates and …
NextGov/FCW – “At least 15 government oversight websites were down — and with them, access to watchdog reports and required hotline and whistleblower links — as of Wednesday evening. That’s not due to the federal shutdown that began at midnight; it’s a deliberate move by the White House, whose Office of Management and Budget is …
Wired – no paywall: “On Wednesday, the first day of the US government shutdown, employees at the Department of Education (DOE) set their automatic out-of-office email responses to inform recipients that they would be unable to respond until after the shutdown. Hours later, many DOE employees realized their response message had been altered to contain …
TechDirt: “…Here’s how the administration leads into its hit list of Democratic politicians (emphasis in the original): The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with “ANTI-ICE” ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays bare the deadly consequences of Democrats’ unhinged crusade against our border …
Via Kelly Smith’s LibGuide – U.S. Government Information: Shutdown – “In the event of a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, agency contingency plans will indicate which of the agency’s activities will continue and which will cease, which staff will be furloughed and which are “excepted” from furlough, and other details. Unlike in …
