I first tried to build a collection of congressional press releases starting in 2013. I think I might have finally done it. Introducing Congress Press:

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

April is National Poetry Month! The Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature dates back to 1943 and contains nearly 2,000 recordings of poets, from Audre Lorde to Robert Frost to Margaret Atwood. Explore it: www.loc.gov/collections/...

🔔 Introducing the Disappearing Data Chronology—a timeline tracking the Trump admin’s fundamental changes to the information landscape, including major data losses / restorations, legal challenges, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi... @nsarchive.bsky.social

sorry to break it to you, Andy, but “science is cool and good” is a political statement these days

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

The chron tracks some of the biggest and most unprecedented data / archival losses from 2025. To be honest, after compiling each entry, it was staggering to see just how much we’ve lost and fought for this last year. www.shafr.org/passport-apr... @passportshafr.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social

I continue to add new resources to the Trump Trackers page as I become aware of them, with a few added today. I'm always happy to hear about trackers I've missed, so please feel free to reach out if there's something you think would be a good addition. ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumpt...

RFK Jr. fired all of the legitimate scientific experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with unqualified political appointees. A judge just ruled that the new members were not appropriately appointed, so ACIP cannot meet this week to spread more misinformation.

a whole mini drama here about the role of the archive and the democratization of information for good and ill

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The 1984 primary was the first time I could vote, and I remember watching this debate closely. I’m still glad to say my first vote was for Jackson.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

A great new tracker from the @williamsinstitute.bsky.social shows federal data collections that have had SOGI measures removed. This has been added to my Trump Trackers page, which lists nearly 150 resources to help track actions of the current administration. ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumpt...

Took that leaked database of proposed changes to the historic presentations at national sites and mapped them. www.pbump.net/o/heres-wher...

This was the most enjoyable series I’ve watched in a long time.

I was up at 2:30 this morning to watch the eclipse and was grateful for a relatively clear sky. www.youtube.com/live/JeOlqcK...

The Department of Education has released recommendations to reform the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which is the research and statistics arm of the Department.

How the Trump administration blew up the upcoming one-and-only field test of the 2030 census www.science.org/content/arti...

President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.” A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

hey yo i wrote a reported culture essay for @motherjones.com about solarpunk it was incredibly fun talking to a bunch of solarpunk thinkers and artists! the magazine commissioned some lovely art for it too le voila: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

New project led by former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys tracks and analyzes reversals in civil rights enforcement under the Trump administration. Covers education, disability, housing, LGBTQI+, and more. redlinecivilrights.org

Public lands tell America’s full and true story, yet new Trump administration policies threaten to erase Black history, undermine access, and distort the national memory. https://ampr.gs/4aFBHkf

there should be a microsoft office setting to warn people when your level of irritation is already dangerously high that day

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

President Obama said something that anyone who studies extraterrestrial life understands: The math is on the side of the aliens — but what most people don't realize is HOW MUCH the math is tipping toward the aliens. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/obama-is-r...

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the…

"Using primarily government sources, we identified the removal of at least one SOGI measure from approximately 360 different federal data collections. We consider this a conservative estimate and expect upward revisions as ongoing data reconciliation and discovery of additional removals continue."

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Universe, take the worries we carried today, quiet the overthinking, hold what feels heavy so we can rest; we release what didn’t go right, forgive what we didn’t finish, and wake up tomorrow to a clean page. Goodnight 🌙

The House just passed the "SAVE America" voter suppression bill on party lines; Cuellar was the lone cross. This is going nowhere in the Senate.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

When a headline says it all:

IDK who needs to hear this (Ok, I do, but I'm being diplomatic) but you cannot simply report what DHS says as fact in 2026 without looking into it

The withdrawn chapter is available in the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org/web/20260203...

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

In the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation by Miranda Green and the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

Adding a citizenship question serves no purpose except to discourage census participation. The 14th Amendment says to count everyone. Allowing the ruling party in a census year to change who gets counted would be yet another assault on democracy. www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

I *love* that this is back! “Dial-a-Poem is at (718) 957-2379.”

The announcement that the CIA has killed its long running World Factbook rightfully glows about its usefulness. So why kill it?

Unrelated to everything — but relevant to everything — this map is worth spending some time examining and thinking about. We know so little of our own history — and this wasn't that long ago. Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.

"Eliminating Unnecessary and Overly-Restrictive Regulations Related to... Decennial Census." Hmm. The premise is that these rules of sunlight and decision steps AREN'T NEEDED, bc the Commerce Secretary is a goodfaith public servant, committed to law and dept mission and good govt statistics. (2/3)

We found so many examples of missing federal government data that we couldn’t put them all in this story. “The status quo was, the federal government is going to collect and disseminate data. That is no longer a reasonable assumption.”