The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

The Guardian
Federal judge blocks Trump's passport policy affecting transgender Americans

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

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‘He’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles’: Trump appears to hold up altered image of Abrego Garcia’s hand

The spelled-out ‘MS-13’ doesn’t appear on his hand in recent photos of Abrego Garcia posted on his wife’s TikTok account

Yahoo News
First female Thunderbird pilot removed from Air Force website

(U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.) — In an effort to comply with directives made by the Trump Administration, the U.S. Air Force recently removed online content...

Yahoo News
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's order targeting law firm: 'Shocking abuse of power'

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at Susman Godfrey, the law firm that has for...

Yahoo News
Trump administration plans to end IRS free tax filing program, sources say

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free. Word about the decision comes from two people familiar with the move who weren't authorized to publicly discuss the plans and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Users credit it with making tax filing easy, fast and economical. But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation companies complain the program is a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist. A Treasury Department official hasn't made a decision about the program’s future.

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Bukele tells Trump El Salvador won't return mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia - follow live

Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele are meeting in Washington after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Maryland man's return.

BBC News
New report finds that the economy performs better under Democratic presidential administrations

For well over a decade economists and other social scientists have documented a strong advantage in economic performance during Democratic administrations. A new Economic Policy Institute report updates this work to the latest data available and confirms that this Democratic advantage persists. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product (GDP), income, and wages are…

Economic Policy Institute
The Historical Puzzle of US Economic Performance under Democrats vs. Republicans

We have heard much about the puzzle that US economic performance under President Joe Biden has been much stronger than voters perceive it to be.  But the current episode is just one instance of a bigger historical puzzle:  the US economy has since World War II consistently done better under Democratic presidents than under Republican presidents.  This fact is even less widely known, including among Democratic voters, than the truth about Biden’s term.  Indeed, some poll results suggest that more Americans believe the reverse, that Republican presidents are better stewards of the economy than Democrats.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs