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The Observer: “Last week, several workers in the art and preservation unit of the General Services Administration (GSA) were placed on leave before being informed that their offices and positions would soon be eliminated. According to reporting by the Washington Post, the action affected more than half of the division’s approximately three dozen staff members …
The New Yorker [no paywall]: “Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE? The deletions began shortly after Donald Trump took office. C.D.C. web pages on vaccines, H.I.V. prevention, and reproductive health went missing. Findings on bird-flu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned …
The New York Review: A Constitutional Redline. “It is unprecedented for the federal government to proceed with a challenged action while in a court hearing on whether they can lawfully do so. It is a subversion of the rule of law.” March 22, 2025. David Cole, interviewed by Daniel Drake – This week the NYR Online …
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies. If you were terminated from your position since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 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 …
Multistate: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation. “Lawmakers are increasingly addressing AI through legislation. As AI technologies have burst on the scene, state lawmakers have responded by addressing concerns with this ubiquitous technology through public policy. In 2023, we saw less than 200 bills introduced across state legislatures addressing the issue of AI. But that shifted in …
Society of Authors: “Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI programmes. Yesterday (20 March 2025), The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. This data set, called Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’ for short, is full of pirated material, and all of it has …
Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do? Jordan Furlong states that “If anyone’s going to speak up, it should be law firms. If anyone’s going to take a stand, it should be law firms.” This position resonates as more than 20 major law firms have been directed by Trump’s EEOC to provide …
The Hill: “A nearly 400-page list provided to Congress may give rare insight into the scope of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which have already roiled the global humanitarian community and shut down programs around the world. Some of the cuts on the list appear to …
It began with an Executive Action, Paul Weiss blackball order, and a Paul Weiss Fact Sheet targeting Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss). “On March 14, 2025, the President of the United States issued an Executive Order titled “Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss.” Exec. Order No. __, 90 Fed. Reg. __ (Mar. …
TechCrunch: “Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe — claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google’s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it …
The New York Times: “…For government workers, it has been a lifeline in recent months. With the Trump administration’s rapid downsizing of the federal bureaucracy, subreddits where government workers previously posted the occasional tale about a Zoom meeting mishap or health plan question have become crowded forums for fears, anxieties and tidbits of intra-agency observation. …