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Washington Post [no paywall]: “Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith said the Defense Department dismissed her without giving a reason, according to an email reviewed by The Post. Three months after the Pentagon decried the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes as “woke” and announced it would be overhauled, Defense Department official Sean Parnell fired …
Wes Siler’s Newsletter – “Testifying in front of the House of Representatives on Monday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum revealed that the maintenance backlog in national parks now totals over $35 billion. This is the first time we’ve gotten an estimate on the increase to the backlog caused by the Trump administration’s first year …
Follow-up to Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors – See Washington Post – no paywall: “The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed [the full text of this document is embedded in this WaPo …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts.” How dramatically will that legacy change our legal system and our country? Only the Shadow knows…Just after …
CNBC:” Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be prepared for the task. “If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job,” Bessent told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Invest in America …
The New York Times, Gift Article: Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs. “…When President Trump unveiled his sprawling global tariffs last spring, he boasted that they would generate windfall profits and “make America wealthy again.” But after suffering a significant Supreme Court defeat, Mr. Trump is about to pay the money …
Internet Archive Blogs: “Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and the Internet Archive’s mission to digitize and provide universal access to knowledge, we are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026 Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss, highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
Government Executive: “The Trump administration’s reforms to the federal government cost the U.S. economy more than $165.6 billion, according to a new estimate from the Partnership for Public Service. “This is an administration that has claimed that it is trying to reduce waste, and yet the choices that it has made have created phenomenally larger …
Abigail Haddad: “Want to search public comments from regulations.gov and search across multiple dockets? Eugene Kim put something together, and it’s cool. 🔗 Open it in colab and run it there: https://colab.research.google.com/github/civictechdc/spicy-regs/blob/main/notebooks/search_capabilities.ipynb#scrollTo=QSAA6t-RyqDH This is made possible by Mirrulations, the project from Ben Coleman at Moravian University that pulls in all of the comments from regulations.gov …
Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions: Agencies Should Collect and Apply Lessons Learned to Improve Future Procurements. GAO-26-107859. Federal agencies use AI for facial recognition at airports, analyzing veterans’ benefit claims, and more. They often work with private sector companies to acquire and support AI. We talked with many agency officials about challenges acquiring AI. For example, some …
Follow up to previous post – ICE Seeking Office Space in Over 40 States – See Also ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative – “Under the Detention Reengineering Initiative (DRI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) will fully implement a new detention model by the end of Fiscal Year 2026. This effort …
