Not Unmindful weekly digest #8
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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Tim Truxell
UC Berkeley turns over 160 names to federal government
The University of California, Berkeley, is among the 10 universities that a Trump administration task force on antisemitism has identified for particular attention.
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Trump's education funding shuffle: a strategic shift toward separation
The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities, to CCBUs, while ending financial support minority programs.
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Harvard ends undergraduate minority recruitment program as Trump targets race in admissions
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
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Trump administration orders removal of slavery exhibits from national parks
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology,” including photo of enslaved man’s scars.
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Trump's $1.2 billion UCLA settlement is a blueprint for conservative campus transformation
The details of Trump’s $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image and its ramifications.
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Not Unmindful weekly digest #7
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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Supreme Court oks racial profiling in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens. The court’s ruling allows ICE to resume its indiscriminate roundups of LA’s Latino residents.
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Charlie Kirk, myth making, and violence
Political violence, memory, and the danger of historical revisionism.
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Rejecting Lincoln's America
We live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that Lincoln’s partisan political descendants, the modern Republican Party, wants to destroy it.
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