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The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE ) 
tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
according to a class-action lawsuit. 
The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for t…

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before cancelling them
JTA – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tagged Jewish themes as “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit.  The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature, and hundreds […]

Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-ce…

⚰️ The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
#games

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
A eulogy for the console soul.

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

Feds cancel conservation group's Montana bison grazing leases • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/13/repub/feds-cancel-conservation-groups-montana-bison-grazing-leases/

Pentagon Abruptly Cancels Deployment to Europe as Part of Trump's Drawdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-abruptly-cancels-deployment-to-europe-as-part-of-trumps-drawdown-7365b3b5?st=PGgnm2&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p28#a260514p28

NBCUniversal will no longer produce first-run syndicated TV programming, ending shows including Access Hollywood, which has been in production for 30 years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

‘Access Hollywood’ Canceled Along With ‘Karamo’ and ‘Steve Wilkos’ as NBCU Ends Syndicated Production
The company will continue to distribute library content, but will end production of first-run syndicated programming in a strategic shift.

Adobe agrees to pay $75M to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/adobe-pay-75

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.