Category «Government Documents»

Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies

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 …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Tech, crypto, tobacco, other companies fund Trump’s White House ballroom

Follow up to previous post – Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete, see also: Via Bellingcat – New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House – and as follows: The New York Times “Obituary” A Pile of Rubble: After …

Subjects: Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI

Via LLRX – Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI – AI in Law & Legal Tech Expert Nicole L. Black frames how AI is changing how legal work gets done, and the effects aren’t limited to law offices. Other legal organizations are equally impacted, including the courts. As judicial offices around the country grapple with …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump Is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

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 …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Ring’s CEO says his cameras can almost ‘zero out crime’ within the next 12 months

The Verge Jamie Siminoff’s new book, Ding Dong charts how his video doorbell startup turned into a home security behemoth. A set of changes to TikTok’s law enforcement policy make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with government and “regulatory authorities.” TikTok did not respond to repeated questions about the changes. …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

Salon – The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump’s White House: “The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete

Law Dork: “Photos obtained exclusively by Law Dork on Tuesday show that President Donald Trump is completely demolishing the East Wing of the White House as part of his stated plan to build a ballroom befitting his standards on the White House grounds. Although Trump earlier had said the ballroom “won’t interfere with the current …

Subjects: Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Social Media

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters

The New York Times Gift Article includes dozens of images: “…Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Social Media

Updated Map of US Copyright Suits v. AI companies

(Oct. 19, 2025) – “We added Woulard v. Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio, a case filed by independent music artists against the music generator company Uncharted Labs. This is the 3rd lawsuit against Uncharted Labs in the United States (others filed by UMG Recordings and Justice). DOWNLOAD PDF OF MAP WITH CLICKABLE LINKS TO EACH DOCKET

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels

The New York Times [read free]: Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits. More than 700,000 federal employees have been sidelined and thousands more are at risk of being fired as the government shutdown drags on. But the workers …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

404 Media: “A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group did …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Privacy