Not Unmindful weekly digest #6
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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Timothy Truxell
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Ohio State bans land acknowledgments in latest bout anti-DEI dipshittery
The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to drop any mention of diversity, equity, and inclusion at public universities.
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Another university president falls: Northwestern's Schill resigns under Trump administration pressure
The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.
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When bad AI meets history
The troubling rise of sanitized American narratives Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction. Plus a joke written by AI that could have been the whole post.
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Emory University caves, dismantles DEI programs amid federal pressure
Emory University announced today the discontinuation od its DEI programs, offices. Georgia’s largest private university had previously embraced diversity efforts.
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When MAGA intellectuals say the quiet parts out loud
The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be. A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
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The future of voting rights is on the line at the Supreme Court
A supreme court voting rights case could reshape American politics. And we haven't even noticed. And that's not the weird part.
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The administration wants military women to know their place
The systematic removal of women from military leadership: a return to 1955? Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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Not Unmindful weekly digest #5
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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Trump administration returns traitor's portrait to West Point
The Pentagon is returning a portrait of General Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
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