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The New York Times Gift Article – “Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted. The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what …
Follow up to Trump Strategy Names Antifa Among “Major Types of Terror Groups” – See also Dean Blundell: “If you are an American who disagrees with Donald Trump, the President of the United States, you have now put your name on a list. He didn’t say your name. He didn’t have to. He had Sebastian …
The Guardian: “…In the early days of the Data Rescue Project, there was a mad dash to save data from any agency they thought Trump or Doge would target next. Volunteers would download every dataset from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) webpages as backup copies …
The New York Times The Editorial Board: “The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. President Trump’s war with Iran is the most significant military action in American history that a president has undertaken without any …
LawSites: “The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, …
“NewsGuard today announced that it has upgraded its browser extension, (available for download here) to work inside ChatGPT and Google Gemini — displaying its nonpartisan trust scores and providing access to its “Nutrition Labels” next to every source those AI tools cite. The upgrade enables users to see, at a glance, whether the websites on …
Press release: “…The report, “Acquittal by Removal: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Abandons Crime Victims and Allows Perpetrators to Avoid Justice,” finds that in its push to meet deportation quotas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has deported victims, witnesses, and even criminal defendants before trials could be completed—derailing prosecutions and leaving serious crimes unresolved. As …
Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence, LitHub – “In the summer of 1951, a month after the Declaration celebrated its 175th anniversary, an unmarked panel truck pulled into the basement of the Library of Congress. Once loaded, it drove to the Maryland campus of the National Bureau of Standards, …
Wall street Journal Gift Article – “President Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter, prompting an aggressive push at the Justice Department to pursue those investigations. Blanche vowed to secure subpoenas specifically targeting the …
Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so low. Since 2001, the expansion of increasingly restrictive legal arsenals — particularly those linked …
404 Media – Palantir is making ICE faster. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest, according to comments made by a …
Press Gazette: “Round-up of the main cases where AI use in journalism has gone wrong. AI is being widely used in journalism and can lead to reputation-killing scandals and mistakes if not monitored closely. Here Press Gazette rounds up some of the main examples of where AI has gone wrong. Most recently, The New York …
