Trump Tariffs: Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trump Trade War

April 7 – Global Stock Markets Crash as United States Likely Next – Global stock markets have crashed overnight, the United States is set to have one of the worst stock market days in recent history, recession fears are rising fast, and Trump will not lift his tariffs. The Tax Foundation: “Key Findings President Trump has …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer’s Research Could Be Lost Forever

404 Media: “Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down. “The problem with archiving this data is that …

Subjects: E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

Corners of the Internet Database

Matthew Prebeg – I put together this spreadsheet as a living resource for websites and digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement and curiosity while exploring the internet. Somewhere along the road, corporations and recommendation algorithms made the internet feel loud and unescapable. I like to think of the internet as a place where you …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Biglaw Is Under Attack. Here’s What The Firms Are Doing About It.

Above the Law – “The President of the United States is using the might and power of the office to attack Biglaw firms and the rule of law. It’s pretty chilling stuff that is clearly designed to break major law firms and have them bend a knee to Trump or extract a tremendous financial penalty. …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract Cuts

Bloomberg – no paywall – “The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could snarl operations at several labs. A contract for the services across NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Search Engines

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

DeSmog: Unraveling a $122 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties – “As scrutiny of Project 2025 continues to grow, defenders of the Heritage Foundation-led initiative, which would reshape federal governance and give the next Republican president unprecedented new powers, say it’s the criticism — not the 922-page plan itself — that’s …

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 5, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 5, 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 increasingly complex and …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice

Law Forward, April 4, 2025 – Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice. No. 25-716 (BAH) “Today, we joined 507 firms across the country in urgently asking a federal court to act to cease an unprecedented abuse of executive power. In filing this amicus brief, we supported Perkins Coie’s motion for a permanent injunction of …

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

These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library

The New York Times: “Maya Angelou’s seminal autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and books on the Holocaust were included on the Navy’s list of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites

Slate – “The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison. In a court filing, the government acknowledged that it had deported at least one migrant to El Salvador due …

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

DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world

Ars Technica: “As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities. If today’s AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn’t work …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research