My traditional Christmas watch has nothing to do with Christmas, but it never fails to make me happy. #ImagineMe&You

Since moving from Indiana to San Diego, rain has been the thing I’ve missed most. Today’s downpour feels like a holiday gift.

"Interesting" timing on this opportunity to provide thoughts about how the government could better support science. The deadline is 12/26/2025! #DefendResearch #SciSky #ScholComm #Academia #AcademicChatter

I don't recall hearing anything about this and don't immediately find any news reports, but the EPA's National and Governmental Advisory Committees (NAC/GAC) have been terminated. The website is down as of today and the FACA database confirms termination. Last IA capture is from 8/25.

well, archivists gonna archive. torrents remain undefeated www.404media.co/archivists-p...

Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense

Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/

Democratic votes to ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirmirng care for transgender minors: -Marie Gluesenkamp Perez #WA03 -Cuellar #TX28 -Don Davis #NC01 -Vicente Gonzalez #TX34 Not voting: Casar Courtney Dean Doggett Fields McBath Swalwell Williams

“The Trump administration intends to make its most forceful attempt yet at restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the U.S.” www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

“With the change in Administration earlier this year, the FCC’s website and materials required updating. That work continues to ensure that they reflect the positions of the agency’s new leadership,” an FCC spox told me, acknowledging the quick edit today. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Since we began tallying school book bans in 2021, thousands of books have been targeted repeatedly – as many as 147X for @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s Looking for Alaska and 142 for @jodipicoult.bsky.social’s Nineteen Minutes. These Are The Top 52 Banned Books Since 2021: pen.org/top-52-banne...

No matter how old I get, the 10-year-old me who wanted to be a paleontologist always springs back to life with articles about cool new dinosaur discoveries.🦕🦖

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Very helpful dive into the status of SOGI data "Trump Administration Actions to Curb Data Collection Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)" www.kff.org/lgbtq/trump-... HT @kffhealthnews.org @kff.org

The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.

Very rare that I’m proud of my home state politicians, but this is one of those times. Vote was 31-19!

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

Just attended an excellent webinar that discussed findings of the American Statistical Assocation's report released today, The Nation's Data at Risk. If you care about federal data, check out the report. It provides valuable information about the current status of our federal statistical agencies.

The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth. capitalandmain.com/this-l-a-mus...

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Join the American Statistical Association's federal statistics health project team for its release of "The Nation's Data at Risk: 2025 Report." A webinar will be held December 10 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Register for this impactful event: tinyurl.com/229r4ybt #STATSSKY #STATISTICS #FEDERALSTATISTICS

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which is closing operations, released its final report today. In addition, they released an Oral History Project document and 33 edited transcripts of interviews with past and current SIGAR personnel. www.sigar.mil/News/Article...

The Kornacki cam is great. Raw, unfiltered numbers and nerdiness. Just heard him gulping water during a pause in analysis. www.youtube.com/live/ZnSSld_...

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

@penamerica.bsky.social is doing such important work surfacing the Trump administration's #censorship! Please support them!

I was thinking how grateful I am to the journalists (and other experts) I follow on Bluesky who inform my work and make me a better government information librarian. Thanks to this list of “media offenders” from the White House, I’ll be expanding my following list over the next couple of days.

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.

Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket. screening-tools.com/blog/protect...

"Gratitude is powerful. It’s both something we offer up and, when we mean it, it’s a gift we give ourselves that can help us to hold grief, move anger, and bring us into right relation with what is." UCS's Erika Spanger shares a few reasons to feel grateful, even in this challenging climate moment.

Something we love to revisit during Native American Heritage Month: 23rd Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s signature project that celebrates the poetry of contemporary Native American poets. www.loc.gov/programs/poe...

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

The Wrapsnet page, with reports on admissions & arrivals through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, has been updated for the first time since the Jan. posting of Dec 2024 reports. These reports were previously issued monthly. The arrivals reports begin with FY26, so there's no data for Jan-Sept.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

#SanFrancisco folks, I'm giving a #LecturesOnTap talk on 12/9 about U.S. gov #censorship & the assault on knowledge. The latest misinformation about vaccines & autism from the CDC/RFK, Jr. shows how critical this topic is. Please spread the word! #DefendResearch www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

On scientific topics, especially in public health, federal government webpages have been a trusted way for the public to find reliable information. A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

San Diego transit agency removes diversity language following Trump administration order. From North County Reporter @katiefutterman.bsky.social and @sandiegodocumenters.org. inewsource.org/2025/11/19/n...

NEW: House Republicans on a judiciary subcommittee are laying the groundwork for a law-defying mid-decade census, claiming counting noncitizens and statistical errors in the 2020 Census justifies a recount to give the GOP more congressional seats.

Good news for historical LGBTQ+ research. The Internet Archive received a grant to digitize local history collections from 6 organizations in the US and Canada. The collections feature LGBTQ+ materials from Colorado, Mississippi & Alabama, San Francisco, Rochester NY, and Canada.

Very happy to see oversight.gov and several related Inspector General websites back online today!

The Trump administration demanded UCLA pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. n.pr/4hYa0pY

"The health of our community depends on the health of these landscapes. Now, their future seems increasingly uncertain." @alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com