May 2025

Nonprofit research organization LGBT Tech launched the LGBTQ+ Archive, a living, community-informed project created to preserve and make accessible federal LGBTQ+ resources that have quietly disappeared from public websites in recent months. This site is an independent effort to preserve and make accessible the critical information and resources for LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety originally hosted on now-defunct federal websites.

In a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Sen Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) asked him to expedite the review and release of updated guidance for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program and urged that West Virginia not have to redo significant portions of its application. "When the BEAD program review was initiated on March 5, my state was 6 weeks away from completing the arduous application process after so many steps including a completed fair project selection process.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr could not have found a much more sympathetic interviewer than Ajit Pai, Chair of the FCC during the first Trump Administration. That left the conversation between the current and former FCC chairs at this week's CTIA 5G Summit 2025 devoid of fireworks, but it did cast a little light on Chairman Carr's policy priorities. His first goal is one that few voices in Congress publicly object to: securing a renewal of the FCC’s authority to