In the 90 minutes after @theguardian.com article went live, BHL received more than US$2,500 in donations. Thank you to everyone helping keep biodiversity knowledge free and open. Please read, share, and help us build momentum.

@storytracer.com shows how volunteers or #GLAMS workers can be responsible actors in the current political climate by protecting datasets from war, political censorship and defunding! #glamlabsfutures

This Is What 500 Days of Trump's Corruption Looks Like. Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social lays it all out. youtu.be/DaQ_95hPhu4?...

Well Deserved! Congrats to the Data Rescue Project on Receiving This Award! www.datarescueproject.org/dttp-award/ #datarescue #libraries @datarescueproject.org

Gov. Doc. Librarians set the record in The Fight for the Public Record. A chat on accessible public information amid political and technological change. Happening live now, starts ~1hr With @merrileeiam.bsky.social & @freegovinfo.bsky.social & @csmarcum.bsky.social & @authorsalliance.bsky.social

check this Calmatters article about proposed modifications to the Public Records Act (allegedly) in response to AI training: "This lawmaker’s proposal could make California ‘the most secretive state in the country’". Headline is a bit hyperbolic though calmatters.org/politics/202...

Government Information Belongs to Everyone: Democracy’s Library in 2026 (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2026/06/22/g... #govinfo #archives #democracy #usgovernment

CNN has an up-to-date tracker in case you're wondering if any ships are moving during the MOU in its current form. (They are not.) www.cnn.com/world/strait...

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

If a President of the United States “has not shown interest in human rights, democracy or the rule of law,” the fundamental problem goes far beyond a different kind of peacemaking. @zannymb.economist.com Congress has the tools to remove them for corruption. If they won’t, the crisis will fester.

What a dumb time to be alive. The whole article is just absurd.

I spoke with @darializaforny.bsky.social about her campaign and bid to unseat a 71 year old AIPAC backed Democratic incumbent www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

📣 TOMORROW! 📣 There’s still time to join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, a LIVE #FutureKnowledge #podcast conversation on one of the defining information challenges of our time. 📅 Tues, Jun 23 🕙 10AM PT 📍ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fight-... @merrileeiam.bsky.social

Read the latest Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) blog: A Survey of GREI Repositories' Data Packaging Practices & Plans A new GREI survey highlights growing consensus on the value of data packaging for FAIR reuse, interoperability, & AI readiness. 📝

I'll have an *evening* livestream (trying to catch folks unable to join earlier!) at 6pm PT on Mon, Jun 22. I'll be discussing upcoming potential for widespread elevated-to-critical Western U.S. fire weather, & also offering another federal science update.

It warms our hearts to be part of this kind of collaboration. But it also speaks to how serious this order is that 5 orgs agreed on and issued a joint statement.

I wonder how the rents are? :-) techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/t...

Breaking: 20,000 people are calling on leadership at @theatlantic.com @nytimes.com @usatoday.com to be reasonable and let @archive.org preserve the news as it has for 30 years. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

new blog post from @csmarcum.bsky.social and @dataindex.us This is an ongoing attack on the federal data system. dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

⏰ LIHEAP COMMENTS DUE TODAY Thank you for joining us for our Rapid Response Data Briefing on LIHEAP and its proposed removal of sex, race, & ethnicity. Check out the recording here: 🔗 youtu.be/hQeunk-_MCs?... Make sure to submit your comment today by emailing [email protected].

That’s called a bribe.

More From the Article: apnews.com/article/nati... #SaveOurSigns #librarians

❤️🫶🛟 #SaveOurSigns

Announcing WARCbench: an open-source command-line tool for exploring, analyzing, transforming, and extracting data from WARC files—built on a decade of Perma.cc experience to help archivists wrangle real‑world, messy web archives. #WebArchiveWednesday lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

MuckRock is building a pool of freelance researchers and investigative journalists to contribute to @sunlightresearch.bsky.social projects. We’re hiring experienced researchers, journalists and investigators for freelance contract positions.

Open-source tools power nearly every web archive, including Perma.cc. From bot defenses to shrinking funding, sustaining this critical preservation infrastructure can't be an afterthought. Takeaways from #iipcWAC26 keynote: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06... #WebArchiveWednesday

In partnership with dataindex.us, LIL's #PubDataProject Team investigates solutions for detecting and monitoring changes in data over time at scale. Read more about our methods in our newest blogpost: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

The best videos on the web are here:

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to disagree with any of the conclusions.

Wow. They’re openly defending the deletion of DOJ records about a man accused in a child solicitation case who assaulted police on January 6. Truly the Epstein administration.

The separation from reality in the Republican Party today - vaccines are poison; Iran can be conquered; January 6th was staged by Democrats - should really really worry people. These folks just aren’t fit to govern anymore.

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

Congressional Research Service is hitting it out of the park on Federal Data these days. Here's an excellent comprehensive report by Clinton Brass and Meghan Stuessy on Data.gov: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48954#_Ref229337035

Report: #Chatbots Struggle With #News Accuracy and Sourcing Ahead of Midterms (via @bloomberg.com via MSN) #media #AI #GenAI #LLMs #elections www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

The Disassembly Of The NASA Advisory Council nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction in our case with @freedom.press requiring the Trump administration to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve records for posterity. This is a huge win against their absurd stance that the law is unconstitutional.

“Libraries and Public Access to Federal Data”. @csmarcum.bsky.social interviewed by Public Data Project. Thanks @harvardlil.bsky.social for posting this great interview. freegovinfo.info/node/15026/

14th Amendment prohibits compensation for those who engaged in insurrection. The US shall not “assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the US but all debts, obligations & claims shall be held illegal & void.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

White House OLC says Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. CRS and many others beg to differ. freegovinfo.info/node/15024/

GPO doubles congressionally mandated reports on govinfo. A policy commentary. freegovinfo.info/node/15018/

Rarely do I like the headlines put on anything I write, but "You’re being tracked. Vermont can do something about it." for an opinion piece I wrote for @vtdigger.bsky.social is pretty good. 📚 vtdigger.org/2026/05/10/o...

This!

Through these reorganizations, the Trump administration is not only hindering the missions of these agencies – it’s enacting long-term institutional changes that shift its structure away from science-based decision-making and concentrate decision-making power in the hands of political leadership.

This week’s main story is about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, why it exists, how it’s advancing the Trump administration’s agenda, and how it’s bringing John closer to his estranged son. Come home, Nathaniel.

We're still looking for signatories to our Preserving Govt Information Call to Action. We're so close to 100, help push us over that threshold! publicinformationtrust.org

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️