Introduced last week, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill has already made it to the House floor.

And document it we must, because in addition to the removal of words now considered too “woke” to be published, entire government websites are being gutted or disappearing entirely. This should concern every US-American, regardless of political party or ideology. When I say the government is erasing our history, that “our” applies to all of us.

The crypto industry has been spreading a tale of federal bank regulators persecuting crypto and forcing banks to "debank" crypto companies. Like the grossly mischaracterized Operation Choke Point, the crypto debanking narrative is utter and self-serving bs. At best, the actual evidence shows the FDIC expressing very normal and reasonable risk management concerns—that is, the FDIC was just doing its job. There is zero evidence that the FDIC ever threatened or directed banks not to do business with crypto companies. The simple truth is that crypto companies were debanked by the market, not regulators. Banking crypto poses a unique, correlated credit risk that should rightly concern any bank's risk committee. Crypto companies present a risk of correlated chargebacks that makes them all potential Fyre Festivals, so banks with prudent risk management practices determined that it was a value negative proposition to provide banking services to crypto companies. That's the invisible hand of the market at work, not the invisible hand of the Deep State.

In its exaggerated critique of Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources, the Media Research Center attempts a striking feat of false equivalence

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.

In the wake of the anti-trans legislation by the Trump Administration, Wikipedia stands as a reliable source for information on trans topics.

Yet my — and I'd imagine your — frustration isn't borne of a hatred of technology, or a dislike of the internet, or a lack of appreciation of what it can do, but the sense that all of this was once better, and that these companies have turned impeding our use of the computer into an incredibly profitable business.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use. We’ve built this project on our long-standing commitment to preserving government records and making public information available to everyone. Libraries play an essential role in safeguarding the integrity of digital information. By preserving detailed metadata and establishing digital signatures for authenticity and provenance, we make it easier for researchers and the public to cite and access the information they need over time.

Wikimedians in Residence face underfunding, broken tools, and a lack of support from the Wikimedia Foundation. With the political winds shifting, can this profession survive?