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The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …
The Atlantic Gift Article – The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. “…The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments. The Thirteenth abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, but America needed to do more to prevent the resurgence of the slave-owning South’s caste-based society. The Fourteenth …
The New York Times Gift Article: “The Supreme Court’s Accepting an argument from a law professor that no party to the case had made, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging loss that could lead to more aggressive tactics. The Supreme Court’s refusal on Tuesday to let the Trump administration deploy National Guard …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 28, 2025 – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – 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 …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is helping to rewrite the story of the big, bad wolf, with a surprise twist. Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada …
EFF – We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. “Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship …
Crust News and Dominic Skinner: “The ICE List Wiki is now public. It documents immigration enforcement activity across the United States, not just ICE, but Border Patrol, HSI, DHS more broadly, and the hundreds of local police departments operating under 287(g) agreements. Agent identities, incidents, raids, vehicles, supporting agencies, and companies propping up the regime, …
CNN – no paywall – “Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way. As CNN recently reported, utility customers in Maryland and Washington, DC, are some of the first in the country to …
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required full release of all unclassified DOJ Epstein records by December 19, 2025. To date, DOJ has released two partial, heavily redacted sets, still withholding an untold number of documents in multiple formats, and no schedule of release has been made public. In addition, the DOJ removed and added additional …
CRS Report, Resources for Financial Market Data. R47379. 12/15/2025. Download PDF | PDF Version History. The U.S. financial system contains large and active markets for stocks, bonds, and commodities, as well as digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) and other financial instruments. This report describes authoritative, open-access sources for current and historical information about major financial markets …
The Verge [no [paywall] – “2025 was the year the federal government and consumer protections were gutted…There was the record 43-day government shutdown that threatened food access for millions of low-income Americans, threw air travel into chaos, halted space launches, and delayed consumer products that needed regulatory approval. There was Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan …
tubefilter: “An internal memo sent to TikTok employees has confirmed a rumor that has been swirling for months: ByteDance is about to sell the U.S. version of its social video app to a White House-approved ownership group. In the memo, which was viewed by Axios, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told his staff that TikTok U.S. will be sold to a …
