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John Oliver on the federal judiciary and the importance of voting

I think John Oliver should run for Congress. He’d be a great public advocate and would do it in an extremely informative and funny way. Take this most recent segment regarding the federal court system and the right wing’s decades-long systematic takeover of the judiciary. Watch on and be sure to vote in November!

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Reposting from Information Observatory: “Academic libraries in class society”

Over at Information Observatory, Shinjoung Yeo and Dan Schiller just co-wrote a thoughtful piece called “Academic libraries in class society.” Since I consulted a bit on the piece, they graciously agreed that I could re-post it here on FGI. Please have a read and let us know in the comments what you think. A shocking […]

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EDGI’s new public comments initiative

Every once in a while, I get a question from a researcher about finding public comments for some regulation administered by an executive agency. All public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper form, are now made available for public viewing in the electronic public docket at Regulations.gov, but that was not always the case. […]

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End of Term crawl 2024 is now underway!

Well itโ€™s that time again. The 2024 End of Term web crawl of the federal .gov/.mil web space (and other domains ๐Ÿ™‚ ) has begun. We have just posted our first public announcement on the Internet Archive blog. As we have done since 2008 (NARA did the first comprehensive crawl in 2004), a group of […]

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HHS launches Heat and Health Index to identify communities hit hardest by extreme heat

This is a very interesting new tool. According to Nextgov/FCW, The Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has launched a new tool called the “heat and health index” to identify communities hit hardest by extreme heat. The assessments are done by top code and include […]

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