As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

The State Department has begun updating their website to reflect organizational changes. My latest GovSpeak link check identified many simple URL changes, but also many offices that appear to have been terminated - or, at least, don't have an obvious new page. ucsd.libguides.com/govspeak_err...

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

Your vote is your voice. This #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, we join in solidarity with all who work to ensure that everyone has the right to vote and to be heard. Check your registration status today! nationalvoterregistrationday.org

As much as I enjoy working in academic libraries, issues like this make me miss working in public libraries. So many more opportunities to have personal, meaningful impact in library users’ lives.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

U.S. consumers have long enjoyed the ability to buy goods from anywhere in the world and have them delivered to their doorstep without paying an import tax.  That’s over now. 📝: Jake Kincaid

Today the SCOTUS green-lit racial profiling by ICE, & sided with xenophobia over the Constitution. Read this piece that I wrote for @boltsmag.org back in April on @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social & their example of leadership to form community watches & counter patrols. boltsmag.org/how-voluntee...

It's been a while since I posted the Trump Trackers page and I've added a few additional trackers recently. These resources can help you keep up with executive orders, immigration actions, litigation, regulatory changes, tariffs & more. ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumpt...

Great article. Much gratitude for everyone involved in this work.

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

You can now sign up for the lottery to speak at the next mtg of RFK's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice 9/18-9/19. Especially since they removed med orgs as liaisons, this is the only way they will receive critical feedback. www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...

This is very smart — @19thnews.org has started a newsletter about menopause 19thnews.org/newsletters/...

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

This thing where people BREAK NEWS in all caps but don't include a single source has got to stop.

Recommend for anyone interested in federal government information. The book is also available for free download at freegovinfo.info/pgi

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

The FBI started publishing monthly crime data last week, so this week I wrote about what this new dataset brings (a lot!) and how cautious people should be when using it (a lot!). jasher.substack.com/p/the-10-dos...

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,

NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

This is theft. Full stop. Stealing library books is an act of censorship that encourages and normalizes criminal activity targeting public property. By removing books to silence voices and viewpoints, these individuals seek to indoctrinate and harm young readers. https://bit.ly/3HHERcK

🧵NASA isn't just about space missions. The agency's satellites collect 25 terabytes of Earth data daily, tracking air pollution, temperature changes, and disease patterns that have become crucial for public health research worldwide.

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What happens when public info becomes inaccessible? Join James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster for PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION; a #booktalk on access, archives & democracy. 📖🏛️ 📅 Aug 28 🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303... @authorsalliance.bsky.social

In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“What we're learning is that two of the country's most popular home improvement stores are contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet coordinated by Flock Safety,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @404media.bsky.social.

Data collected by some weather balloons halted. Statistics for HIV among transgender people scrubbed from the CDC website. President Trump has been wielding influence over data used by researchers and scientists — drawing more attention after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump administration shrinks Defense Technical Information Center staff from 154 to 40. This marks the latest move in an ongoing series of personnel reductions at DOD under the second Trump administration. via @brandivincent.bsky.social defensescoop.com/2025/08/05/t...

We’ve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with @kqednews.kqed.org, @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com @calmatters.org 1/

It’s so bleak that the people running the US government and US mega-corporations no longer believe that “being able to know things about the real world” is a strategic asset

In the disinformation war, reality is losing. The people who have promoted disinformation and conspiracy theories are now in charge of the US government. It runs beyond Trump in this admin. Reality, science, and education are losing to disinfo. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm. No longer. Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

Are revisions - even significant revisions - to economic data unusual? Might the President have a point here? No to both. Katrina Stierholz, a (now retired) librarian at the Research Division of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank explains in this column from 2017: journals.ala.org/index.php/dt...

Reminded of Mr. Rogers' testimony before Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian has removed Trump from the impeachment exhibit at the History Museum. The exhibit now says that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal,” referring to Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton. The exhibit now looks the way it did in 2008.

A new tool from @scrippsocean.bsky.social forecasts sewage contamination at beaches in the San Diego-Tijuana border region up to five days in advance—helping you avoid health risks and plan safer days by the water. ➡️ bit.ly/3IT740A

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

Hi 👋 Librarian at the Internet Archive here. Last week’s announcement that @archive.org is now a Federal Depository Library sparked some great questions—so we put together a new FAQ to explain what this means (and what it doesn’t). 👉 help.archive.org/help/federal...

Excellent, if also infuriating, article.