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Lit Hub: “Only one library book ban case has ever been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico (1982). In 1975, the Island Trees school board in Nassau County, New York removed nearly a dozen books from the high school and junior high …
YouTube: Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Park Service is nothing less than catastrophic. Among other measures, the budget proposes firing 5,500 more Park Rangers, reducing the agency’s budget by $1 billion, and selling off 350 of the Park System’s 433 Units. Defenders of Wildlife has called it an “extinction budget,” and …
AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
404 Media – The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI, according to an early version of the website and …
Semafor: “The Trump administration will civilly and criminally prosecute [some] companies that have employed migrant workers, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an interview with Semafor’s Ben Smith Wednesday, a new dimension of risk for executives. “Worksite enforcement operations are going to massively expand,” he said. “They’re coming here for a better life …
“AI is reshaping work. What does it mean for your team? Fortune has unveiled a new hub, Fortune AIQ, dedicated to navigating AI’s real-world impact. Fortune has interviewed and surveyed the companies at the front lines of the AI revolution. In the coming months, we’ll roll out playbooks based on their learnings to help you …
Axios: “President Trump quietly took a red pen to much of the Biden administration’s in a little-noticed move late Friday. Why it matters: Until now, it has been unclear which Biden-era cybersecurity policies the Trump administration would keep — if any. Cybersecurity is a rare bipartisan area. It’s pretty common for new administrations to keep …
CRS Report – Social Security’s Projected Shortfall: The Role of Demographic Factors, June 5, 2025 – Referenced Legislation: P.L.98-21 – “Social Security is a social insurance program that provides income replacement to workers and their families due to a loss of earnings after a worker’s retirement, death, or disability. Yet Social Security, the federal government’s …
Democracy Defenders Fund: “A new white paper, Cut to Shreds: How Elon Musk Profited While Decimating the US Government, offers a blistering account of Elon Musk’s tenure as a “special government employee” under President Trump. Far from a symbolic role, Musk used his position as de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
Wired – “AI scammers. A grid attack. Quantum cracks. A GPS blackout. Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven’t prepared for.”
SparkToro: “… Folks who claim AI will destroy the labor market have claimed this radical change is “only a few years away,” “on the immediate horizon,” or “imminent,” for the last 5 years, yet we’re at historically low unemployment (yes, even accounting for underemployment and the way the BLS counts employment). The US labor market …
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