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# Not Unmindful weekly digest #9
- URL: https://www.notunmindful.org/not-unmindful-weekly-digest-98-copy/
- Published: 2025-09-26T15:15:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-26T19:03:15.000Z
- Description: It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
- Author: Timothy Truxell
- Tags: Not Unmindful, Weekly Digest

Here are links to what was published to Not Unmindful this week (ending 26 September 2025).

## Friday

### [Toward a new Reconstruction to rebuild the American polity](https://www.notunmindful.org/toward-a-new-reconstruction-to-rebuild-the-american-polity/)

Where do we go from here? There is so much to repair and build to return us to where we thought we were. This is an outline for democratic renewal.

## Thursday

### [More consequences and reactions to whitewashing the Smithsonian](https://www.notunmindful.org/more-consequences-and-reactions-to-whitewashing-the-smithsonian/)

The consequences of the Trump administration's sweeping efforts to whitewash American history at the Smithsonian and reactions to it.

## Wednesday

### [Behind closed doors: academic freedom under attack at UNC-Chapel Hill](https://www.notunmindful.org/behind-closed-doors-academic-freedom-under-attack-at-unc-chapel-hill/)

Former provost dues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees over closed meetings about eliminating tenure.

## Tuesday

### [Frederick Douglass still resonates](https://www.notunmindful.org/frederick-douglass-still-resonates/)

Frederick Douglass still has something to say for the current moment. Although these words were written after Lee's death, the bombast is all to present again today.

## Monday 

### [The Charlie Kirk assassination: political violence and the dangerous path forward](https://www.notunmindful.org/the-charlie-kirk-assassination-political-violence-and-the-dangerous-path-forward/)

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of Kirk, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy as the American right calls for retribution and a crackdown on the political left.

*Non in cautus futuri.*

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