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The Atlantic no paywall: “Something strange, and potentially alarming, is happening to the job market for young, educated workers. According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent. Even newly minted …
Bloomberg – no paywall: “The bulk of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda. A panel of three judges at the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan issued a ruling Wednesday siding with Democratic-led …
Follow up to Trump’s disappearing transcripts, via Ben Amata [Government Information Librarian, California State University, Sacramento]: “The White House has removed a database of official transcripts documenting the President’s announcements and appearances. The “remarks” section of the White House website provides only YouTube videos rather than the transcripts that for decades past administrations have published. …
The Intercept: “The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies. The U.S. intelligence community is now buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing the Fourth Amendment. But the surveillance state has encountered a problem: There’s simply too much data …
Damien Charlotin: “This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings. While seeking to be exhaustive (121 cases identified so far), it …
REPORT: “Undermining the Watchdogs: The 19 Independent Inspectors General Fired by President Trump Uncovered Billions in Fraud, Waste, and Abuse” “U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report detailing the Trump Administration’s unprecedented attacks on Inspectors General – the independent watchdogs tasked with rooting …
TMP: “U.S. District Judge John Bates of Washington, D.C. just awarded summary judgment to Jenner & Block, finding President Trump’s executive order against it unlawful and declaring it null and void. This is remarkably strong language from a George W. Bush appointee who served on Special Counsel Ken Starr’s team: This case arises from one …
WSJ no paywall: “Even the hospital walls may soon have ears. A fast-growing technology known as ambient listening is taking over an onerous but necessary task in healthcare: documenting what happens in the doctor-patient encounter. Already gaining traction for outpatient medical visits, the AI-powered systems are also moving into hospital rooms and emergency departments to …
Fact Check: “Is Harvard launching free college courses on basic U.S. government understanding and “how to recognize a dictatorship” or a “dictatorship takeover” in response to recent actions from the Trump administration? No, that’s not true: According to a Harvard spokesperson the “edX” program has existed since 2012 and it takes about 12 to 18 …
Via Legal AF: “Harvard just successfully blocked the Trump Administration’s attempt to get it out of the international students business, trying to destroy what makes “Harvard Harvard.” Read the Motion they filed that was successful, and Judge Burrows TRO against Trump, here – and the Harvard TRO here.” See also The New York Times – “The …
SO 3431 – Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. May 20, 2025 – Sec. 1. Purpose. This Order implements provisions of President Trump’s March 27, 2025, Executive Order (EO) 14253, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” EO 14253 directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to provide sufficient funding, as available, to improve …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 24, 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 a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
