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Minnesota Star Tribune: America’s vacation photos are pouring into one library in Minnesota. When Donald Trump threatened to erase history from America’s parks, Save Our Signs mobilized to preserve a record. Thousands upon thousands of snapshots of signs. Signs at the Grand Canyon. The Liberty Bell. Manzanar. Alcatraz. Little Bighorn. Little Rock Central High. The …
Indicator: “Grokipedia launched on Monday as a self-styled alternative to Wikipedia. While some pages are simply an AI-generated regurgitation of the very Wikipedia it’s supposed to replace, other entries reflect the biases of its main owner, Elon Musk. The entrepreneur’s page, for instance, “describes him in rapturous terms while downplaying, or even omitting, several of …
Above the Law: “Will we actually have Midterm elections next year? That was the question posed to three veteran conservative election law experts last week and they unanimously agreed that there would be elections… and that they probably would not be free and fair. These aren’t crazies who thought 2020 was fixed by Venezuelan Jewish …
Pew Research: Many Americans often encounter news they think is inaccurate, and those who do are more likely to find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, including 42% who say this happens extremely often or often. Just …
EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …
Decoherence Media is an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods. At a time when masked agents of the state act with impunity, emboldened neo-Nazi groups march in the streets, and one institution after another legitimizes authoritarian consolidation, there is a need for unflinching reporting to hold these forces …
Poynter – An ongoing catalog of federal government actions affecting journalists. “A free press is the bedrock of American democracy, vital enough to be enshrined in the Bill of Rights. It informs citizens, holds leaders accountable and preserves democratic principles. After decades of relative freedom, the press now faces a precarious future. Since January, President …
Keeping up with 2025 executive orders and related litigation – Michelle M. LaLonde, Michigan Bar Journal, October 2025. “One of the most memorable photographs from the 2025 presidential inauguration showed President Trump at the Resolute Desk with a large pile of binders as he signed new executive orders (EOs) targeting his highest-priority campaign issues. Since then, …
The Verge – no paywall – “The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records The “real-time …
DefectTechTimes – “The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly signed a new $5.7 million deal to use advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software for social media surveillance. Federal records show that ICE will now have access to a system called Zignal Labs, a platform that can analyze more than 8 billion online posts every …
Washington Post via MSN: “Smaller law firms are being pressed to their limits as they try to pick up the legal slack. The largest law firms in the United States have been far less likely to challenge President Donald Trump’s policies than they were during his first term, and smaller firms are carrying much more …
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 …
