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# Not Unmindful weekly digest #3
- URL: https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-3/
- Published: 2025-08-15T19:17:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-15T19:17:28.000Z
- Description: It's been busier than usual on the site this week.
- Author: Timothy Truxell
- Tags: Not Unmindful, Weekly Digest

It's been busier than usual on the site this week. My ongoing goal is to publish one story a day during the work week, but the stories within our purview just keep coming and there are still many I can't get to. So posting has been heavier than normal because of what is happening and my actual availability.

I will still occasionally send out a longer story on it's own, but most will be captured here.

All that said, here are the stories we posted on the site the week of August 11, 2025.

## Monday

### [Trump administration takes new aim at higher education with new directives.](https://www.notunmindful.org/trump-administration-takes-new-aim-at-higher-education-with-new-directives/)

The administration tightens it's grip on higher education, trying to exert more control on who colleges enroll and which grants are funded.

### [Turning back the clock, women's suffrage edition](https://www.notunmindful.org/turning-back-the-clock-womens-suffrage-edition/)

Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

## Tuesday

### [An assault on civil rights 60 years in the making](https://www.notunmindful.org/an-assault-on-civil-rights-60-years-in-the-making/)

Sixty years after its groundbreaking passage, the Voting Rights Act faces its gravest threats yet. It has evolved into a legal battlefield where the very foundations of American democracy are being contested.

### [The Lost Cause lives on](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-lost-cause-lives-on/)

Hegseth's order to restore a confederate memorial (without calling it what it is) perpetuates America's most pernicious historical lie.

## Wednesday

### [VCU preemptively caves on DEI](https://www.notunmindful.org/vcu-caves-on-dei/)

VCU scrubs race references from scholarships amid federal DEI crackdown.

### [LGBTQ+ rights back in the crosshairs](https://www.notunmindful.org/lgbtq-rights-back-in-the-crosshairs/)

Supreme Court may face first direct challenge to same-sex marriage rights Since 2015, courtesy of Kim Davis, of course (15 minutes weren't enough).

## Thursday

### [White-washing the Smithsonian](https://www.notunmindful.org/white-washing-the-smithsonian/)

White House orders sweeping review of Smithsonian Museums to ensure they align with their mythologies.

### [Civil servants at risk](https://www.notunmindful.org/civil-servants-at-risk/)

First they came for the universities. Now for the expertise in state craft. Federal workers are now also under fire. How a pro-Trump group Is waging war on civil servants.

### [Update](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-return-of-a-confederate-general/) on the Pike Statue story:

Pike didn’t serve in the Confederate Army for long before resigning in July 1862 after he was [accused](https://www.newsweek.com/washington-confederate-statue-albert-pike-2108887?ref=notunmindful.org) of committing war crimes against Union soldiers. And he's thus honored? Jeebus. These assholes.

## Friday

### [DHS goes fully fascist in plain sight](https://www.notunmindful.org/dhs-goes-fully-fascist-in-plain-sight/)

DHS's troubling social media campaign is more than mere "mean memes." It's full on use of imagery from fascist and white supremacist propaganda.

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