It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
https://wapo.st/4dQh5Hm
Careful if you think about writing a novel that has your children in it…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/style/molly-jong-fast-memoir-erica-jong.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.TsiD.W-6qDcalSXcw&smid=url-share #literature #giftarticle
Eric Spofford, who we last saw losing a #SLAPP defamation claim against NHPR reporters, has now been indicted* for the harassment campaign he allegedly orchestrated in response to their reporting
#Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than #Harvard
If the government succeeds in bullying the richest #university into submission, what institutions will be safe?
by Greg Lukianoff
“If the government can coerce the richest school in America without #DueProcess, it can crush a community college—or a #CivilLiberties nonprofit—without batting an eyelid.”
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #authoritarianism #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-harvard-higher-education-law/682985/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxS5x1hLBlSHdD9SFEpdRurk
Police have issued an....A.P.Bee. [not my joke, it was in the piece]
250 Million #Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State
I hope they team up with the orcas, but I'm guessing that's too much to hope for right now.
#GiftArticle link thanks to @20002ist & @kateiacy
As #ElonMusk became one of #Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies & donating about $275M to help him win the presidency, he was also using #drugs far more intensely than previously known [tho pretty obvious to the casual observer], acc/to people familiar w/his activities.
#law #USpol #kakistocracy #FederalGovernment #DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.ddlK.-OF3BB7k5PGN&smid=url-share
#politics #ElonMusk #drugs #MoreDrugs #EvenMoreThanThat #BoyHowdyThatsALotOfDrugs #GiftArticle
'He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.'
US government using CheatGPT or some other #LLM hallucinating “scientific studies”…
not really a surprise, but.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.PDZD.f34SLOfJDP51&smid=url-share #chatgpt #ai #kennedy #giftarticle
Well, this will free up space for us to be sent to the RFKJr farm gulag program.
In the meantime, don't expect your food prices to go down.
So awful to see these families hiding in fear. This is the bad place now.
"White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say"
#politics #AI #research #PublicHealth #GiftArticle
'The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues.
But the report, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma.'
WaPo focuses on the obviously bogus AI citations, but to me this misses the bigger problem: If the citations are #AI generated slop, it strongly suggests they started by asking AI to write to their preferred conclusions, rather than, you know, actually surveying the literature and *then* forming conclusions, and *then* citing the literature that got them there
So after firing thousands of highly trained and conscientious federal scientists, the White House released a health report that was written by AI and full of errors.
