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The withdrawn chapter is available in the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org/web/20260203...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

I've rounded up the latest agency shutdown contingency plans (several agencies released new ones this month) and updated my library guide.

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San Diego installed bike lanes on a busy commercial street in North Park in 2021. Ridership jumped 67% the next year. Now, 4 years later, bike and scooter trips on 30th Street have hit another record high. Foot traffic and business activity is also booming. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

Women in politics Feminist theory Sociology of deviance World literature Philosophy of religion

Amid big crackdowns in other blue cities, DHS has quietly arrested record numbers of immigrants in San Diego, CalMatters' @WendyFry_ reports: calmatters.org/justice/2026...

This was such an excellent webinar! Thanks to @dataindex.us and @apduorg.bsky.social for hosting the event and to the presenters & their colleagues for their efforts in preserving & providing access to federal data in a challenging time. You can find links to these & other orgs on my library guide.

USCP has a new press release out today, showing an increase in investigations of threats against members of congress from 9,474 in 2024 to 14,938 in 2025. www.uscp.gov/media-center...

Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research.

Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now

Publishing for Planners: A New Era for Island Press

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action Register here: tinyurl.com/webinar-data... Co-hosted by dataindex.us and @apduorg.bsky.social

🙏We need your help!🙏 Mass grant terminations are back, this time at SAMHSA. We're tracking terminations to support advocacy and possible litigation. Please report info on specific SAMHSA grant terminations here: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... We'll have a tracker online ASAP. Spread the word!

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

In case you missed it, registration is now open for Sunshine Fest! From March 15-17, we'll discuss the state of the freedom of information and government transparency in Washington, D.C. Learn more about conference and how to register: sunshineweek.org/sunshine-fest/

"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation...Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats."

Attacks on the federal workforce were astounding in 2025. Federal employment has shrunk an alarming 277,000 since January. The vital services federal employees provide cannot be done without these essential workers. The cost of these losses are only beginning to be felt. #EconSky #NumbersDay

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I watched this last night. The top two women's skaters in the US are queer women, with pride flags waving in the audience in support. That really meant something to me in this moment.

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This actually brought tears to my eyes, in a very good way.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

NEW: President Donald Trump’s EPA said it’s reconsidering whether the agency has the legal authority to update air pollution rules based on new scientific knowledge.

The final Household Food Security in the United States was released yesterday by the USDA Economic Research Service. ers.usda.gov/publications... Also released was the related statistical supplement. ers.usda.gov/publications...

I am always struck by the simple beauty of this one.

Little #StrangerThings spoiler ahead…I loved Will’s coming out scene and ugly cried through the entire thing. Part of it, for me, is that I was also a teenager coming out in 1980’s small town Indiana. Will’s struggle was real and relatable, and it was lovely to see the easy love and support he got.

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