If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Archive.ph is an incredibly valuable tool. I use it frequently to capture .gov webpages and other sources, such as certain social media posts, that the Internet Archive is unable to capture.

hilarious graphic right now on msnbc as they call it in california

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Historical perspective on Virginia election results- Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment. Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987. A BIG night.

Help us plan for a more transparent future! We’re partnering with @rcfp.org, @brechnerfoi.bsky.social and state-level transparency organizations around the country to invest in resources that help better equip requesters to get access to government information. forms.gle/DB6DBfqQuYsznbw97

Bird nerds and Halloween fans, this one's for you! 🪶Scripps alum and current postdoctoral scholar Tammy Russell shares more about why our beautiful campus is a prime spot for birdwatching year-round. #HappyHalloween!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Thousands of LGBTQ+ veterans were supposed to get pardons. A year later, only four have succeeded. From our friends at @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social:

Once again the GOP is weaponizing the complexity and nuances of scientific and statistical processes to sow confusion for political gain. www.wired.com/story/republ...

Yes, and…Importantly, the article includes a link to a website that helps locate local food banks.

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I think it's elitist to say ordinary, non-DC Americans don't care about Trump reducing part of the White House to rubble. The White House for a lot of people is somewhere they visited as a child, want to visit, and see as a symbol of civic pride. It's a real thing that means something.

​BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

this is a) objectively correct b) important because some of us are giant babies who cannot stomach actual horror movies but still want seasonal entertainment

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Take a few minutes to actually read the Declaration of Independence today. It's unsettling how much of it resonates with what's going on today. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m a government information librarian and even I support blocking all of these gov accounts. Don’t let them troll you or grab your social media content.

Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

❗❗❗ You may have heard that USDA ended a long-running data collection on food insecurity and called it "redundant." Our friends @kcww.bsky.social and Isabel Pastoor at @ipums.bsky.social fact-checked that claim. Read what they found: blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

New homelessness data: The number of people becoming homeless in San Diego County continued to outpace the number moving into homes in September. @rtfhsd.bsky.social reports that 1,106 people became homeless for the first time and 1,032 exited homelessness.

"We need help deciding what to look for, which school districts and cities to seek public records from, and need leads on where we should point our reporting efforts."

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

We have the right to read what we want, no matter what politicians or school officials say. Let us know what your favorite banned book is below. 📚

Friendly reminder that the good folks at the Congressional Research Service have an appropriations process tracker going back to fiscal 1999, showing what each chamber did or didn’t do in a given year. www.congress.gov/crs-appropri...

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace, took part in a deeply reflective interview for the Netflix show Famous Last Words, recorded to be shared only after her passing. Now, as the world mourns, her voice answers the question of who she was. ♥️

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

It's Obamacare health insurance prices — and how much help 24 million Americans will get with their premiums — that are in dispute.

Not that this does anything for the larger problem, but I’ve tried to capture all IG reports in the Wayback Machine pretty much every day for the past several years.

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

What do Trump and Hegseth’s inflammatory speeches to military generals signal? | Moira Donegan

Since OMB isn't compiling agency contingency plans for a shutdown, I've done a first pass through updating the list from the Biden administration. I'll continue updating if/as new plans are published. ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/shutdown

I somewhat expected other departments to follow suit as shutdown time draws closer, but I'm not seeing that yet.

Amazing splash on the HUD website.

The information can help in enforcement of civil rights laws, the suit notes.

With the U.S. government eight days from its 15th partial shutdown since 1981, Washington is in familiar territory with an important difference: President Donald Trump's administration has not widely shared its plans for what functions will cease and what will continue if Congress fails to act.

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.

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...

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...