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Futurism: As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They’ve been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health. One …
Bloomberg gift article: “Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing. Before he was called a patriot and a traitor for following Elon Musk to Washington to join DOGE; before …
NiemanLab: “Erlend Ofte Arntsen has filed more Freedom of Information Act requests than he can count — triple digits by one tally, quadruple when you include follow-ups and related requests. Now, a new newsroom assistant at one of Norway’s largest newspapers is transforming Arntsen’s workflow, saving time that could be better spent on shoe-leather reporting …
The Brennan Center, August 5, 2025 via YouTube – The executive branch has amassed increasing power in recent years, challenging the constitutional balance among branches of government. This year alone, the president has unlawfully attempted to eliminate birthright citizenship, unilaterally frozen funds, and deployed the military as a domestic police force. And all of it …
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog, a centralized, searchable platform designed to connect researchers with a vast array of biomedical datasets from multiple repositories, thus accelerating scientific research. Powered by NLM’s DATaset Metadata Model (DATMM), researchers can now effortlessly explore over 2 million biomedical datasets in one …
People – “The Kennedy Center was opened as an interactive memorial for the late president, per Public Law 88-260, which explains why no other memorials are permitted within the center. Kennedy, a devoted supporter of the arts, frequently advocated for what he called “our contribution to the human spirit,” per the center’s site. Though plans …
Homeland Security Newswire: “Jews only make up around 2 percent of the U.S. population, but reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised 16 percent of all reported hate crimes and nearly 70 percent of all reported religion-based hate crimes in 2024. Hate crimes data released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that while reported hate …
Austin Kocher – Substack: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released updated detention statistics on Thursday, and we’ve already updated Detention Reports accordingly. The website now includes 184 facility reports based on ICE data from June 23, 2025, and July 21, 2025. Thanks to the valuable feedback of many users, we have already made improvements in …
Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Use and Management at Federal Agencies (GAO) – “Recent growth in AI capabilities has spurred a corresponding rise in public interest. Developments in generative AI—which can create text, images, audio, video, and other content when prompted by a user—have revolutionized how the technology can be used in many industries. However, generative …
Free Law Project: “We’re thrilled to introduce the latest upgrade to CourtListener: transcripts for oral arguments! CourtListener already hosts the largest collection of oral argument audio online—over 3.2 million minutes (and counting). Now, thanks to our partnership with OpenAI, we’re making these recordings even more powerful. With today’s release, you can now search them, set …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The Trump administration’s sweeping policy changes have been resisted with a wave of lawsuits. Hundreds have been filed by state attorneys and media organizations, physicians and nonprofits, migrants, international students, law firms and unions. Jump to a section – The dozens of lawsuits fall into these categories. Birthright citizenship …
USAFacts: “The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law on July 4, is set to introduce a host of changes to everything from tax reform to government assistance programs to immigration and border policy. It introduces some brand-new policies and expands, restricts, or ends others. A number of these changes took effect the moment President …
