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“In the second country case study published under the Disarming Disinformation project, we examine the critical role played by the ethnic and Indigenous press in countering disinformation in the U.S. We highlight unique challenges ethnic and Indigenous outlets face related to disinformation during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.The findings come from a far-reaching, mixed methods …
JTA: Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property. “The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis. Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution …
The New Yorker [no paywall]: “Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, in 1989, but people informed of this often respond with a joke: Wasn’t that Al …
“This is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way. There are over 12,100 bird tracks from nearly 200 species, including new tagging data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, USGS Bird Banding Lab, and Movebank. The Bird Migration Explorer now has …
Jewish Insider: “The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’. Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of …
404 Media: Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples’ phones. “The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of …
From the “this is not normal’ section of the The New York Times: [we are] looking for generals and admirals who are quitting the military following an address from the defense secretary. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s vision of the military and what it should be was almost entirely defined by his 12 months of service …
Via Kelly Smith’s LibGuide – U.S. Government Information: Shutdown – “In the event of a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, agency contingency plans will indicate which of the agency’s activities will continue and which will cease, which staff will be furloughed and which are “excepted” from furlough, and other details. Unlike in …
MEDPAGE Today – “Trump administration’s HHS back to targeting public health resources deemed too woke. Censorship is back at the CDC, Inside Medicine learned, from an active agency employee who listed nearly two dozen websites that are now offline. Many of the 22 removed sites appear to have been taken down recently, having been online …
“At Free Law Project, we believe the law belongs to everyone. But for too long, the information needed to understand and use the law—especially in civil rights litigation—has been locked behind paywalls, scattered across jurisdictions, or buried in technical complexity. That’s why we teamed up with the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse on an exploratory grant …
Overview Shutdown Furlough Administrative Furlough This page provides information on shutdown furloughs [Note – this site does not provide comprehensive, detailed, accurate and actionable information on the consequences of the shutdown for the pay, insurance and employment of federal employees. In accordance with Circular A-11, agency contingency plans for a lapse in appropriations are hosted …
MakeUseOf: “ackups are one of those chores we all know we should be doing, but most people either put it off or do it halfway. That’s because backing up an entire digital life is overwhelming, and storage space isn’t exactly free. Also, just to be clear here, backing something up is not the same thing …