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In #Italien gibt es nun einen fortgeschrittenen Gesetzesentwurf zu #KI. Mit Blick auf #Urheberrecht werden da zwei Dinge klargestellt:
1) Das Training von KI-Modellen (auch generativen KI-Mod…

Trump's billion-dollar settlement spree (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-dei-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p7#a250730p7

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

Education Department calls back civil rights, some DEI employees | Education | miamitimesonline.com
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/education/education-department-calls-back-civil-rights-some-dei-employees/article_32ef876c-2731-4b70-afb2-384578b8e41b.html

LA GIOIA
DEI NOSTRI
ARTISTI

What does the DEI rollback mean for the music technology industry? https://musictech.com/features/intervi

What does the DEI rollback mean for the music technology industry?
As DEI becomes a toxic term in the corporate world, we talk to advocacy groups and music professionals about what it means for music

Let's remove the 'woke' from the people who hate it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMK96jduS-J/?igsh=amdjMjdpbm54bXY1

Vegan Lawyer Girlfriend and I have been meaning to go get #Costco membership; they're a good employer who pays well but it was after their refusal to cancel #DEI programs that we really wanted to support with our wallets.
We grabbed good stuff on trip #1, but I'm not sold on the ludicrous amount of plastic p…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/17/l-opus-dei-mis-en-cause-dans-une-affaire-de-traite-…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
Suite à des plaintes de femmes affirmant avoir travaillé sans salaire et dans des conditions très difficiles pour l’institution catholique conservatrice, le numéro deux de l’organisation, basée à Rome, pourrait être mis en examen. Quatre responsables argentins ont déjà été mis en examen en 2024.

'Sanitized view of our history': Judge blows up Trump's plans to scrap 'DEI-related' grants and history projects that do not conform to 'preferred, triumphalist version of the past'
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sanitized-view-of-our-history-judge-blows-up-trumps-plans-to-scrap-dei-related-grants-and-history-projects-that-do-not-conform-to-preferred-triumphalist-version-of-the-past/

You know what to do.

✅ Target CEO Out After 11 Years Amid Slumping Sales And DEI Backlash
#dei

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi, Mary Sanchez-Gordon, Anna Szlavi, Letizia Jaccheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14232

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Not long ago, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were a top priority for leading software companies. However, in a short period, a wave of backlash has led many firms to re-assess their DEI strategies. Responding to this DEI backlash is crucial in academic research, especially because, currently, little scholarly research has been done on it. In this paper, therefore, we have set forth the following research question (RQ): "How have leading software companies changed their DEI s…

McCarthyism was rate limited by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

Fuck #TMobile
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/t-mobile-ends-dei-programs-in-attempt-to-win-deal-approvals-from-the-fcc-202…

T-Mobile ends DEI programs in attempt to win deal approvals from the FCC
In a letter to the FCC, the telecom said that it "is ending its DEI-related policies [...] not just in name, but in substance."

Virginia Candidates Show You Can Try to Kill DEI, But You'll Fail (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/virginia-candidates-dei-diversity-maga-racism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p20#a250623p20

University of Virginia president resigns under pressure from Trump
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/27/university-virginia-james-ryan-trump-dei

Major US brands like Bud Light have shifted advertising strategies away from DEI themes, sources say due to fears of a Trump administration backlash (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/88949dbf-7be3-47ed-a6e2-48064bd3fa26

How the culture war is remaking advertising
Brands are diluting or scrapping campaigns with social purpose as the movement against DEI intensifies

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Davide Fasiello:
🎵 Geometria dei Cieli (Edoardo Gastaldi Afterimage)
#DavideFasiello
https://davidefasiello.bandcamp.com/track/geometria-dei-cieli

Mein Arbeitgeber hatte einen Stand auf der Kleinstadtpride des deutschen Ortes, in dem der Firmensitz ist.
Die Firma hat Standorte und hohe Umsätze in den USA.
Angesichts dessen, was andere Unternehmen gerade in Bezug auf DEI machen, hat mich das berührt. Es eine kleine Geste, aber sie ist wichtig.
#Pride

@… Ask it about:
* Gemtrails
* The Kennedy Assassination
* DEI
* Space Karen

MOSQUITOS ON SALE!!
Buy your own mosquitos.
Only males.
Only sterile males.
Only sterile males for companies that work in the field of pest control.
Only in Italy
https://www.…

As pesticide leaches into residents’ wells
EPA said grant to provide clean water was a ‘wasteful DEI program’
White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

Daniel Dae Kim Calls Out 'Chilling Effect' On Speech, DEI In Hollywood
https://deadline.com/2025/08/daniel-dae-kim-chilling-effect-dei-hollywood-1236496146/

Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt (Diana Nerozzi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/trump-to-pull-us-out-of-unesco-over-dei-policies-pro-palestinian-pro-china-tilt/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p18#a250722p18

Il datore di lavoro può raccogliere i log di navigazione e i metadati delle mail dei dipendenti solo in presenza di specifiche condizioni e garanzie.
Il provvedimento del #GarantePrivacy è stato deliberato al termine di un ciclo ispettivo sui trattamenti dei dati dei dipendenti

IBM verabschiedet sich von jahrzehntelanger Diversitätsarbeit: Keine Diversity-Ziele mehr, keine Boni für Vielfalt, kein Diversity Council. Die Heritage Foundation reklamiert den Kurswechsel als Sieg – ein Signal für den „Great Unwokening“ der US-Konzerne. #CIO.DE #Diversity

Wie Tech-Konzerne das DEI-Rad zurückdrehen
Nach Anweisungen der Trump-Administration haben viele Tech-Unternehmen ihre DEI-Initiativen gekappt. Nur wenige stemmen sich gegen den Trend.

Doing my bit for DEI at the lily show, talking about how wide crosses have diverse genomes, that bring out interesting traits, and then sometimes we double (tetraploid) the chromosomes, so as to allow even more diverse mixtures and more interesting crosses.

Skydance promises to eliminate DEI, review CBS after merger
https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5417901-skydance-promises-to-eliminate-dei-review-cbs-after-merger/

Cansei. De acordo com meu celular, hoje eu dei doze mil passos, quase nove quilômetros.

McCarthyism was rate limited
by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

lol this project can go fuck itself
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

You have to buy your own Sharpie to write “with a Vengeance” on it tho.
https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114976845733588861

Steve Faulkner (@SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image ✊🏽 Drink in the revolution #DEI #merch #antifa https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4346821262/dei-harder-mug-with-color-inside

Judge temporarily blocks DEI ban in Mississippi (Miriam Waldvogel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5412399-federal-judge-restrains-mississippi-dei/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p123#a250721p123

Jeder Sticker an der Kaffeemaschine im Büro erzählt eine Geschichte!

Bock, Gärtner und was weiß ich.
Wichtig in Erinnerung zu behalten: ein Schwerpunkt in Trumps kürzlich veröffentlichter KI-Stretegie ist der Export von KI-Technik und Services an "Freunde und Partner". Der auf "amerikanische Werte" getrimmte Müll soll auch hier die Hirne fluten. Die Fristen zur Umsetzung laufen, wer nächstes Jahr noch ChatGPT, Perplexity usw. nutzt, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen.

T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular, after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Anyone know if #Helldivers2 creative director Johan Pilestedt gotten any better in his public statements since misunderstanding DEI and apparently spouting anti-immigrant sentiment? https://www.

Arrowhead Director: “[DEI] doesn't add to the game experience, it detracts. And games should be a pure pursuit of amazing moments”
Before twitter changed to hide people's likes, I took a deep dive through this dude's stuff and yeah, this outcome was always only a matter of time. Pilestedt had liked a bunch of posts over the last few years that were anti-immigration/borderline xenophobic etc. He cleaned up his feed a bit...

Skydance tells the US FCC that once its Paramount Global acquisition is complete, it will initiate a "comprehensive review" of CBS, hire an ombudsman, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Skydance Tells FCC It Will Create CBS News Ombudsman, Commits to “Comprehensive Review” of Network Post-Transaction
The company also said that it would eliminate all DEI initiatives at Paramount.

Kann euch das Buch "Opus. The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" von Gareth Gore empfehlen. Sehr lesenswert. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Besetzung des US Supreme Court und Opus Dei war mir bspw. völlig neu.
Tatsächlich sehe ich nach dem Buch Papst Benedikt XVI in einem etwas positiveren Licht und Johannes Paul II in einem noch negativeren.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini, Bolette Roed & Arte dei Suonatori:
🎵 Recorder Concerto in F major
#GiuseppeBaldassareSammartini #BoletteRoed #ArtedeiSuonatori

An Office for Civil Rights complaint filed against Smith College
raises questions about how women's colleges will navigate Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans campaigns.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/instit

Women’s Colleges Face a Unique Challenge Under Trump
An Office for Civil Rights complaint filed against Smith College raises questions about how women's colleges will navigate Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans campaigns.

What’s the current word on the boycotting of Target?
The way they ran fleeing from DEI at the first whiff of Trump admin pressure left a bad taste in my mouth that’s not going away regardless — but is there still an organized call to boycott them specifically vs similar competitors?

During the Browser Wars, I met this gasbag who was a middling, wannabe PoS then & he's an even bigger entitled, racist PoS now.
Think Larry Ellison but more slimy.
☑️ Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
https://www.

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

Judge Halts Mississippi's New Anti-DEI Education Law - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/judge-halts-mississippis-new-anti-dei-education-law/

How cities are scaling back Juneteenth celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks (Michelle Watson/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/18/us/juneteenth-cancelations-trump-dei-rollbacks
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p121#a250619p121

The On-shell Gravity Action and Linear Dilaton Holography
Andrea Dei, Kiarash Naderi, Savdeep Sethi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

The On-shell Gravity Action and Linear Dilaton Holography
Computing the Euclidean spacetime action on-shell provides a useful way of both testing holographic proposals and determining the string theory sphere partition function. We consider families of three-dimensional linear dilaton spacetimes for which there are holographic proposals that share features of a $T\overline{T}$-deformed CFT. We extend the holographic renormalization program beyond AdS to this class of geometries by identifying the boundary terms needed for a well-defined variational pr…

Dass #ttt ausgerechnet den Wagenknecht-nahen Stegemann kommentieren lässt, dass Trump DEI abschafft: Problematisch.

Premio letterario-giuridico “DATA! The game” 2026
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2025/08/13/premio-letterario-giuridico-data-the-game/
@…

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate $783 million in NIH grants linked to DEI initiatives - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-terminate-783-million-in-nih-grants-linked-to-dei-initiatives/

Man, it took me a while to warm up to Costco, but it's really is one of the better corners of capitalism. They pay people fairly, sell only quality stuff, didn't disavow DEI, and aren't owned and run by hedge fund assholes.
It's amazing how nice it is not to have to evaluate every purchase. If it is there, it's usually because it has been proven to make customers happy and thus earned its shelf space.
And, no surprise, the CEO dogfoods himself.

The Pants Cost $20. They Explain $86 Billion of Costco Sales. — The Wall Street Journal
Kirkland Signature is now bigger than some of the world’s biggest companies—and it has become essential to Costco’s business

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Ennio Morricone:
🎵 La Resa Dei Conti (La Seconda Caccia)
#EnnioMorricone
https://enniomorriconemusic.bandcamp.com/album/la-resa-dei-conti-the-big-gundown-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-remastered-edition

Vou trabalhar durante as férias mas tenho este pequeno consolo: agora vou também estrear minha caixa de som nova, que me dei de presente de aniversšrio adiantado.
@…

My daughter told me she is getting a third job. (Yes, she two right now!) And then mentioned (jokingly) that she is a DEI hire.
It's at a climbing gym, where her partner has been working for a few years, and she hang out there (works out, climbs) all the time.
I said, "It's all duded there, right?" and she confirmed it's almost all male employees...
1/2

@… Isn't this true of any measure used to judge the performance of managers? We regularly see scandals of colleges juicing up their USN&WR rankings, DEI managers faking their hiring records, etc etc.
From a market socialist perspective, the problem with capitalism is not profit as a motivator, it's giving the owner the profits. That excessive…

‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-boycott-2025-dei-taxes-price-gouging-when-b2775624.html

INNO DEI TREVISANI NEL MONDO
Trevisano non scordare
Quella terra tanto bella A cui devi le tue doti
Di profonda umanitŠ
Hai raggiunto nel migrare
Le nazioni più lontane
Ed hai fatto ovunque onore
Alla trevigianitŠ
Sei di casa in tutto il mondo
Ti conoscon tutti i cieli
Ma la veneta tua terra
Porti sempre in fondo al cuor
Rit. Accendi una candela
Trevisano nel mondo
E tutta la terra s'illuminerŠ
Impisa na cande…

Mio padre è in condizioni disastrose, abbandonato a sé stesso e alle piaghe da decubito, senza essere lavato e curato in modo adeguato da nessuno dei miei parenti che vivono vicino a lui.
Come faccio per farlo andare a prendere subito da qualcuno che lo porti in una struttura? Perché, stante la situazione, non credo che durerŠ più di una settimana o due e vorrei, almeno, fargliele passare in un letto pulito.

"A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?"
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-the-holocaust-just-got-harder-in-mississippi-hb-1193-dei-slavery-tate-reeves

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Jan Dismas Zelenka, Martina Jankovš, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak, Felix Rumpf, Dresden Chamber Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra & Všclav Luks:
🎵 Missa Dei filii
#JanDismasZelenka #MartinaJanková #FelixRumpf

El Opus Dei es una secta que lleva desde sus inicios utilizando mano esclava. Que ahora la justicia Argentina impute al número dos de la secta por trata de mujeres es una buena noticia. El Opus debería estar prohibido y sus líderes en la cšrcel.

Das Aus für Diversitätsprogramme bei T-Mobile US: Unter Trumps FCC-Druck streicht die Telekom-Tochter jede DEI-Initiative – ein Präzedenzfall für Wirtschaft vs. Werte. Demokratisierung durch Rückschritt? Eine bittere Pille im Namen angeblicher "Chancengleichheit". #managermagazin #Telekom

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p33#a250618p33

Texas Attorney General Thinks DEI May Be Behind Devastating Fires
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-attorney-general-thinks-dei-may-behind-devastating-fires-2114247

T-Mobile tells FCC it's scrapping DEI as it waits for deal approvals from the agency (Bryan Metzger/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-tmobile-end-dei-policies-deal-approval-2025-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p113#a250709p113

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston explicitly called out the Trump administration for its
“palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities
and LGBTQ Americans
in a case involving canceled grants from the National Institutes of Health.
“Have we no shame?”
Judge William Young asked,
in an unmistakeable echo of attorney Joseph Welch,
who famously punctured Joe McCarthy’s popularity with his simple plea for decency.
Seventy-fiv…

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring (John D. Sailer/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-hiring-dei-diversity-checks-discrimination
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p35#a250708p35

Microsoft 365 e protezione dati: 5 lezioni per le aziende sul caso della Commissione europea
La Commissione europea ha ottenuto il via libera dell’EDPS sull’uso della suite Microsoft 365. Ma la struttura cloud, le funzionalitŠ “intelligenti” e i flussi internazionali di dati implicano rischi concreti per la protezione dei dati personali. Ecco cosa possono imparare le organizzazioni

nemmeno un sito italiano ha la ricetta dei radicci cotti
#Radicci #Cotti
Che vergogna! Dai veneti ... date da fare, dio buon!
https://

Something along the line of 'I can't define art/porn, but I know it when I see it'
DOJ Attempts to Define Illegal DEI: Warning Recipients of Federal Funds to Take Notice | Baker Donelson - JDSupra
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/doj-attempts-to-define-illegal-dei-7993010/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Antoine de Févin, The Brabant Ensemble & Stephen Rice:
🎵 Missa Ave Maria: Agnus Dei
#AntoinedeFévin #TheBrabantEnsemble #StephenRice

Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-usda-dei-lawsuit-5a524fedc611cb201a43c1967e3f12bf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p72#a250616p72

T-Mobile scraps DEI while seeking deal approvals from FCC
https://thehill.com/business/5396999-t-mobile-dei-trump-fcc/

Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years (Lauran Neergaard/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nih-research-trump-cuts-dei-rfk-4fec9f308f3ff427185a12e88f260c81
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p3#a250617p3

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

USDA Ends Policy That Helped Black Farmers Access Aid - Capital B News
https://capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-policy-black-farmers/

Trump admin asks staff to report cases of bias due to DEI directives (Danny Nguyen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/trump-admin-asks-staff-to-report-cases-of-bias-due-to-dei-directives-00441564
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p115#a250707p115

Is Trump sacrificing infrastructure to his anti-DEI obsession?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337100/-Is-Trump-sacrificing-infrastructure-to-his-anti-DEI-obsession?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina & Stile Antico:
🎵 Missa Papae Marcelli - 5 Agnus Dei
#GiovanniPierluigidaPalestrina #StileAntico
https://open.spotify.com/track/6w5DuM3fCkiaK51sb80MvD

Il plugin #Docusaurus gist aggiungeva una pagina all'istanza di Docusaurus, mostrando tutti i gist pubblici degli utenti GitHub che lo usano
Le versioni di docusaurus-plugin-content-gists precedenti alla 4.0.0 sono vulnerabili all'esposizione dei token di accesso personale GitHub negli artefatti di build di produzione quando vengono passati attraverso le opzioni di configuraz…

#LB Dei boost no meu próprio toot porque eu acho que esta história foi hilšria e merece ser apreciada por mais pessoas rs.
https://social.linux.pizza/@matematico314/1145993…

With Deep N.I.H. Cuts, Research Into Health Disparities Falters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/health/nih-grant-cancellations-dei.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p46#a250813p46

Trump’s war against DEI isn’t going so well in Virginia
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5337479-trump-dei-policy-fairfax-schools/

Stephen Miller-backed group files complaint against Dodgers over DEI (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/stephen-miller-sues-dei-dodgers-america-first-legal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p147#a250702p147

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to
restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants
that it suspended at UCLA last month,
delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement. 
California district court judge Rita F. Lin ruled Tuesday
that the suspensions violated her June  preliminary injunction
in which she ordered the National Science Foundation
to restore 114 grants it had terminat…

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore hundreds of UCLA research grants
The grants were terminated over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the actions were arbitrary and capricious.

Florida AG Declares War On Law Firms Over DEI - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/florida-ag-declares-war-on-law-firms-over-dei/

Concorso musicale TELERO SIAMO NOI!
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2025/08/07/concorso-artistico-musicale-telero-siamo-noi/
@…

Tech billionaire Trump adviser
Marc Andreessen
recently said universities will
“pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against Trump supporters,
according to messages he sent to a group chat with White House officials and technology leaders.

The billionaire’s messages cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
and the National Science Foundation.

“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying o…

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

Trump-aligned legal group sues Michigan Law Review over 'Illegal DEI' bias (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3447681/trump-aligned-legal-group-sues-michigan-law-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p93#a250619p93

Shoppers were already leaving Target behind - now half employees say they have little faith in store | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/target-shoppers-employees-survey-dei-prices-b2805730.html

MAGA Gay Porn Star Gets UNC Staffer Fired Over DEI - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/maga-gay-porn-star-gets-unc-staffer-fired-over-dei/

DEI, antisemitism, and transgender athletes are not the real reasons for these attacks on higher education. They’re excuses to give the Trump regime power over America’s colleges and universities.
Why do Trump and his lackeys want this power?
They’re following Hungarian president Viktor Orbšn’s playbook for creating an “illiberal democracy”
– an authoritarian state masquerading as a democracy. The playbook goes like this:
First, take over military and intelligence ope…

Threats to local school officials have nearly tripled, research finds : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5428534/school-board-members-threats-harassment-dei-lgbtq-covid-pandemic-princeton

San Francisco schools urge judge to block AmeriCorps grant cuts over DEI | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-schools-urge-judge-to-block-americorps-grant-cuts-over-dei/

Community Colleges Have Been Hit by Trump's War on Elite Universities (Ben Austen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p5#a250804p5

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p99#a250703p99

Trump DEI Purge Made Black Women in Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a humiliating federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives
—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government
—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which e…

New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…

"The white supremacists told Reuters they love Trump’s repeated praise of “Western values,” his attacks on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, and his opposition to immigration."
Nazis are having a moment—and they’re thanking Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/8/2337463/-Nazis-are-having-a-moment-and-they-re-thanking-Trump

'Pervasive and repugnant': Half of the states are defying Trump over his signature policy - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-policies-dei/