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Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit | Reuters

A member of the media records U.S. President Donald Trump speaking during a press conference, after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald…

By Andrew Goudsward, July 14, 20256:29 AM PDT, Updated July 14, 2025

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  • Federal Programs Branch loses nearly two-thirds of staff since Trump’s election
  • Exodus strains unit defending Trump’s policies amid legal challenges
  • Political appointees fill vacancies

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies – such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University – has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.

Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump’s election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former Justice Department lawyers and reviewed by Reuters.

The tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.

Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump’s administration.

“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit | Reuters

#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Health #History #LawyersLeavingTrump #Legal #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #ResigningDOJ #Resistance #Reuters #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpLawsuits #TrumpLawyers #TrumpPolicies #UnitedStates

Prompt 2025 – The Washington Post

The Washington Post Newsletter
Asking the big questions about Washington and beyond.

By Philip Bump, Columnist

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’” a frustrated President Donald Trump groused on Truth Social over the weekend. The cause of his frustration: A revolt among typically allied commentators over his administration’s handling of the case around billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who died in federal prison in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

For years, MAGA circles had hyped the existence of a client list that would implicate a web of Epstein’s powerful friends, while also calling into question whether Epstein’s death had been a suicide.

Instead, the FBI and Justice Department announced that no such list existed and that Epstein had indeed killed himself.Now, top members of Trump’s administration, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, are being berated in right-leaning media circles for either not releasing more information or overhyping what had existed. How does the president get out of this mess? I discussed the question with my colleagues James Hohmann and Megan McArdle.— Philip Bump, columnist…

Philip Bump: Which do you think is true: That there were never any secret files about the disgraced financier in the first place or that the administration is now trying to keep them under wraps? Or neither?

James Hohmann: Whatever or whoever is actually in the files aside, there’s a pending cert petition in front of the Supreme Court on this case. No responsible U.S. attorney would release info that could upend Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction. Trump’s team painted themselves into this corner though, so I don’t exactly feel sympathy for the dog that caught the car. I hope the files get released — whatever exists.

Philip: Right — but the administration didn’t say “we can’t release the files because of SCOTUS.”

Megan McArdle: I suspect that the files got to Bondi’s desk and turned out to be … well, boring is not the right word. But not the exciting conspiracy she had imagined. There’s a sort of a Catch-22 here: Releasing files that do not validate the conspiracy would simply convince people they were in on the conspiracy.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Prompt 2025 from The Washington Post

#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #History #JeffreyEpstein #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #MAGA #Politics #Prompt2025 #Resistance #Science #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

"It is with great pleasure that we welcome Nicholas E. Johnson as the Director of AI at SBU Libraries. This newly minted position is among the first of its kind in libraries nationwide. Nicholas brings a wealth of experience leading the strategic integration of AI technologies to enhance library services, support academic engagement and promote ethical and responsible use of AI."
library.stonybrook.edu/2025/06
#AI #libraries #KI #Bibliothek

Mein neues Lieblingsthema #meshtastic 😁

Was ich mich frage:
Die Nodes laufen ja alle auf bekannten Mikrocontrollern, z. B. dem #esp32 und wir können sie programmieren, z. B. über die #arduino IDE oder #platformio
Können wir dann auch eigene Programme schreiben, die auf die Meshtastic-Funktionen (senden, empfangen usw.) zugreifen?
Gibt es dafür #libraries ?

Würde da gerne etwas im Zusammenhang mit #geocaching programmieren.

Weiß jemand was? Habe bisher im Internet nichts zu dem Thema finden können, außer der Library „Meshtastic-arduino“
github.com/meshtastic/Meshtast

Die dient aber nur dazu, Meshtastic-Nodes über #serial oder #bluetooth zu steuern, also nicht direkt das, was ich suche.

Driver for interfacing with Meshtastic nodes over WiFi and Serial connections. - meshtastic/Meshtastic-arduino
GitHubGitHub - meshtastic/Meshtastic-arduino: Driver for interfacing with Meshtastic nodes over WiFi and Serial connections.Driver for interfacing with Meshtastic nodes over WiFi and Serial connections. - meshtastic/Meshtastic-arduino

Letters from an American – July 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

By Heather Cox Richardson, Jul 13, 2025

This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.

The conflict began last Monday when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo saying that it had conducted a thorough review of all the evidence the department had collected about convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, who died in his prison cell in 2019 awaiting trial on additional sex-trafficking charges. The memo said that the department’s “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list’” and that there was “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.” It said the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which operates within the DOJ, had determined “that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”

The memo also said FBI investigators had concluded that Epstein died by suicide, releasing footage from a camera from the unit in which Epstein was being held at the time of his death.

For years now, Trump and his loyalists have claimed Epstein was murdered to protect the rich and powerful men who were preying on children. This theory dovetailed with the QAnon conspiracy theory that Trump was combating a secret ring of cannibalistic child molesters who included Democratic politicians, government officials, film stars, and businessmen. MAGA influencers, including Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, pushed the Epstein theories, and MAGA followers believed them, hoping to bring down Democratic politicians like the Clintons.

Once in power, they vowed, they would release the client list and provide the truth about Epstein’s death. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi told the Fox News Channel that the client list was “sitting on my desk right now.” Patel is now director of the FBI—in part because MAGA senators like Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) believed he would release more information on Epstein and child sex trafficking rings—and Bongino is the FBI’s deputy director. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) called for Americans to vote for Trump in 2024 because “Americans deserve to know why Epstein didn’t kill himself.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: July 13, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Health #HeatherCoxRichardson #History #LettersFromAnAmerican #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Politics #Resistance #Science #Substack #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

It sometimes feels that (at least) the whole #DigitalHumanities and #Libraries bubble is looking scared at #AI and trying to cope by either embracing it without too much second thought ( #FOMO ) or meeting in support groups repeating again and again how evil #AI is and how powerless we are with the workflows we got used to. #dh2025

Overexaggerated of course. And yes, I know there are good initiatives. 🤓

Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, writes the head of Oxford University’s libraries
observer.co.uk/news/internatio
#Libraries #Archives #Democracy #Bodleian #Reading #Readers #FreedomToRead

‘There is no political power without power over the archive’
The Observer · ‘There is no political power without power over the archive’By Richard Ovenden

As I am working my way (slowly) through the Harvard Classics, a thought occured to me. It is mostly philosphy and literature; which is fine, but is there a "science" version of Harvard Classics or some other science focused anthology?

Bonus question! If you could create your own science anthology, what would you include in it? Bonus points if it is in the public domain!