China says US seizure of ships 'serious violation' of international law reut.rs/45jFeCQ

No kings. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

An antidemocratic Supreme Court ruling means that Texans will vote in the 2026 midterms using a map that a trial court found had been aggressively redrawn to target the seats of five Black and Latino members of Congress. bit.ly/44BBnku

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The Guardian: ‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/20/crop-pests-food-losses-climate-crisis #Climate #climateemergency #foodsupply

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We’ve secured a court order blocking HUD changes that would worsen the homelessness crisis. If the Trump Administration wants to stop losing in court, it should stop breaking the law.

This is why people say our economy is rigged. Watch.

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BREAKING: Court rules the Trump-Vance admin cannot block Members of Congress from conducting oversight at federal immigration detention facilities. This victory in our case comes at a critical moment where reports of people being detained, and the abuses they endure, are only growing.

Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.

"Inflation and growth: the role of institutions" is available at the Journal of Economics and Finance: rdcu.be/d3Nys

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The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the interest of transparency, we will continue to release photos from the Epstein estate. We have released an additional 70+ photos sent to our Committee. More to come. See them using the link below. ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fq3vn...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Frontrunner open.spotify.com/episode/4OpV... youtu.be/PqBsRNUXWfs?...

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🗞️ Just published in Research Information Read this piece from OASPA's Malavika Legge outlining why it not only matters that open access is the predominant output for scholarship, but also how and for whom open access works. Read the article to see how you can share your views.

Few institutions match #libraries in advancing inclusion, labour market integration, and fighting poverty. #IFLA showcased this at the #UN World Summit on Social Development—catch delegate insights here: tr.ee/ujpKWu and read more: tr.ee/xdjkXI

The opening keynote at #STMInnovation, Rachel Gubermann-Hill of U Bristol and UKCORI says there's no real evidence that the public doesn't trust scientists Here's the key article she recomended: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Our first webinar of 2026 is "Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Real-World Importance of Open Access Today" We will explore why do we care about opening up access to scholarship? And what is the risk of not having this content openly available? Full info & bios: bit.ly/4aBRXnU bit.ly/registration... #OA

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JSTOR is excited to welcome @ncstate.bsky.social to the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. As a new charter participant, NC State will use JSTOR Seeklight to accelerate the processing of unique digital archival collections. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XJiKal

Powerful new AI features have been added to #OCLCworldshare Record Manager and #OCLCconnexion, helping catalogers save time and improve accuracy by automatically suggesting classification numbers and subject headings. ⤵️ Read more. 🧵 1/4 #OCLCnews

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New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording www.404media.co/border-patro...

Every year, our experts grade each state based on the strength of their gun laws, and it’s no coincidence that our top 10 ALSO have some of the lowest gun death rates in the nation. If your state didn’t make the cut, see how they can improve: giffords.org/scorecard

Rachel Carson on wonder, parenting, and why it's more important to feel than to know www.themarginalian.org/2013/12/23/r...

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Today the Census Bureau released an updated estimate of the US immigrant population in 2024, and it shows that despite all the legal and illegal immigration under Biden, the immigrant share of the US population had grown at the slowest pace for any decade since the 1970s www.cato.org/blog/immigra...

The US-Venezuela relationship as seen through the price of an oil-linked bond reut.rs/4iP2P3Z

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

You want stars? We got stars.🌟 Our December issue is a literary walk of fame featuring all of the 2025 starred reviews, our editors' choice lists, fav picks from the Booklist staff, and more! Preview now: bit.ly/4pOF7ap

✍️In this post, Maryna Nazarovets and @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social discuss editorial endogamy - how university journal publishers can uphold editorial independence and avoid nepotism #ScholComms #editors #endogeny #BestPractice @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy 🔗 blog.doaj.org/2025/12/04/e...

NEWS: Ranking Member @raskin.house.gov’s statement on Chairman Jordan’s refusal to let the American people hear directly from former Special Counsel Jack Smith:

Judge Boasberg wasn’t funneled these cases by design or favoritism. The federal court in DC assigns cases to judges based on an automated, randomized system. Cases against Trump are no different. The facts speak for themselves. 
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In this week’s scorching edition of Grave Injustice, @thelisagraves.bsky.social holds Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ feet to the fire and dissects how his decisions are moving the law further away from justice.

Checking in on the president who said he'd lower costs "on day one."

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Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir Technologies, the backbone of Trump's anti-immigrant police state.

Republicans would rather give tax breaks to their billionaire friends than extend healthcare subsidies for 24 million Americans. Visit 10stepscampaign.org/just-fix-it to tell us more about the impact of the healthcare crisis on you and your family. Our stories matters.

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