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Executive Order Establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission – May 1, 2025 – “…The Commission shall produce a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, the impact of religious liberty on American society, current threats to domestic religious liberty, strategies to preserve and enhance religious liberty protections for future generations, and programs …
100 Days In, Trump is Blocking At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People ***VIEW NEW TRACKER HERE*** Inside Climate News – In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment. Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” …
The Eagle: “A team of four librarians at American University is joining a nationwide effort to preserve removed or redacted data in a Government Information Data Rescue guide. Editors Jessica Breen, Gwendolyn Reece, Olivia Ivey and Sarah Gilchrist each bring their own expertise to the table. The effort follows multiple executive orders starting Jan. 31, …
Engagement Recedes for the First Time in Four Years – Global employee engagement declined to 21% in 2024, with managers experiencing the largest drop. This marks only the second decline in engagement in the past 12 years — a worrying sign for organizations already struggling with productivity. Global employee life evaluations declined for a second …
“As the Library Celebrates its 225th Anniversary, A New Book Tells the Story of the Library and Its Impact from Jefferson’s Vision to the Digital Age. “The Library of Congress: From Jefferson’s Vision to the Digital Age,” publishing May 2, is a new comprehensive history of the nation’s library as the institution turns 225 years …
College Towns – The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. “We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic. The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, is …
8 New Articles and 6 New Columns – https://www.llrx.com – LLRX.com® – the free web journal on law, technology, knowledge discovery and research for Librarians, Lawyers, Researchers, Academics, and Journalists. Founded in 1996, published monthly by a solo, independent, self funded owner, editor, publisher, researcher and writer. The U.S. as an Authoritarian State: Danger to …
RollingStone [no paywall] – “The president and his administration have waged a corrupt, chaotic, and cruel assault on the United States and its people. Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the most chaotic and consequential in modern political memory. He has wielded the presidency like a king, seeking to bend America (and, far less …
“The New York Times [no paywall] has created a visualization mapping the distribution of federal funding to universities across the country using data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. Each circle on the map represents a university, with size indicating the amount of federal funding received in 2023—ranging from $10 million to …
Mostly Lawful Substack – Kyle K. Courtney – So here we are again — libraries as one of the last vanguards of real democratic values. When political power leans too hard, when laws are bent or broken, when public institutions are treated like disposable relics, somehow it’s librarians — and the people who believe in …
“Here are the big AI, but none of them are privacy-oriented: Deepseek – owned by China Gemini – owned by Google Copilot – owned by Microsoft OpenAI – NSA board member So which AI can we trust? Is there one run by someone trustworthy?”
The Guardian – “From mass firings to unprecedented influence…Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has …
