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‘The days of using federal funds to further discrimination are over’: IBM to pay $17 million in first-of-its-kind ‘Civil Rights Fraud Initiative’ settlement – Trump administration anti-DEI push seeks to strip businesses of ‘inherently divisive policies’

The first settlement claim under the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative will see IBM pay $17 million to the US government.

TechRadar

University of Michigan shifts funding from DEI into its free tuition program, Go Blue Guarantee

The University of Michigan has more than doubled its financial aid through the Go Blue Guarantee, awarding nearly $56 million to over 6,300 students this year

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead?

Diversity pledges have curdled into anti-DEI PR, while Black-led organizations receive less than 1% of philanthropic giving.

Fortune

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For these Republicans, the ‘war on woke’ starts at home

Republicans have in recent years waged a “war on woke,” hammering Democrats who embrace progressive policies on race, sexuality and gender. Now they are using the term to beat up on each other. In some of this year’s most bitter House and Senate primaries, Republicans are seeking to paint their…

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Pete Hegseth 'Blocks Promotions' of Black and Female Army Officers Amid Trump DEI Crackdown

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of four senior Army officers, sparking controversy over diversity and inclusion in the military.

International Business Times UK

Trump's Higher Education Crackdown at Year One: What Has Stuck, What Has Collapsed, and What Is Still Being Fought

One year into President Trump's second term, his administration's campaign to reshape American higher education has produced a mixed record — DEI bans largely blocked by courts but still enforced selectively, billions in research funding frozen at Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Duke, visa revocations halted by injunctions, the SAVE…

International Business Times

Deposition Exposes DOGE Bros Can’t Even Define DEI

Deposition videos released by the American Historical Association against former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees made rounds online. For a bunch of appointed personnel, it didn’t seem like they had an understanding of the budgets they wanted to slash.

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DOGE cancelled a $349,000 grant to replace a museum’s HVAC after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, court documents show

Elon Musk’s cost-saving agency uploaded more than 1,000 grant proposals into the chatbot, which determined whether or not they pertained to DEI, according to filings.

Fortune

‘It’s going to upset the balance’: how will Paramount buying Warner Bros change Hollywood?

Warner Bros might have swept the Oscars with Sinners and One Battle After Another, but the impending merger has those in the industry worried about the future

The Guardian - US

DOGE bros exposed: Depositions from Elon Musk’s team reveal ChatGPT process for gutting ‘DEI’ grants

10 hours of testimony uncovers their largely uninformed judgments behind sweeping decisions about grant funding

The Independent UK

Former DOGE Staffer Helped Flag 'LGBTQ+' Grants With ChatGPT and No Expert Input

A former DOGE staffer testifies that LGBTQ+ grants were marked for cancellation, highlighting how federal funding decisions were influenced by anti-DEI directives.

International Business Times UK

The war on DEI reflects the quiet normalization of white nationalism — in the U.S. and beyond

Political theorist Hannah Arendt warned that authoritarian politics rarely begin with spectacles of repression. More often, authoritarianism advances through routine administrative decisions that appear technical or neutral but gradually reshape public life — a kind of bureaucratic normalization of injustice she later described as the banality of evil.

The Conversation

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

The Guardian - US

'The Pitt': a masterclass display of DEI in action

"The Pitt" transforms DEI from something far beyond a moral imperative: nothing less than the difference between life and death.

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The Conversation

Diversity programs have become a tick-the-box exercise. They need to become more political, not less

Diversity programs are a favourite target of right-wing populists who claim they represent a radical left agenda that is politicising workplaces.

The Guardian - US

‘DEI is dead, equality isn’t’: experts chart path forward amid Trump’s culture war

Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins

Reason

Carnegie Mellon Must Provide Discovery About Relationship with Qatar, in Ex-Student's Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Semitism

The student was explaining the concept of an eruv, a feature of certain Jewish neighborhoods, in class to an architecture professor, who allegedly said the time the student had spent on project "would have been better spent if [Ms. Canaan] had instead explored 'what Jews do to make themselves such…

The Times of India

“Recording her crying”: Candace Owens slams Erika Kirk kissing Charlie Kirk casket as filmed funeral video draws criticism

Candace Owens is in a heated online dispute with Turning Point USA after criticizing Erika Kirk’s funeral video. Zach Costello’s post sparked the debate, and Ryan Marty’s “DEI queen” remark made it more intense. Owens denies claims about deleted show episodes and continues to question TPUSA leaders while inviting them…

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The Conversation

White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other groups

In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file more sex- and race-based discrimination complaints against their employers.

Motorsport

25 years after the death of Dale Earnhardt, we remember NASCAR's darkest day

There will only ever be one Dale Earnhardt, and 25 years after the race that claimed his life, his shadow looms large over the sport he left behind

The Texas Tribune

In a contest to regulate Texas’s oil and gas industry, one Republican wants to talk DEI and China

Jim Wright, the GOP incumbent, and several other Republican candidates dismissed Bo French’s campaign rhetoric as distracting from the Railroad Commission’s mission.

Reason

Fourth Circuit Rejects Facial Challenge to Two Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders

"What plaintiffs are really asking us to do is read subtext into the Provision's text."

The Independent UK

Republicans blame ‘woke’ policies as Nashville residents fume about power outages

Power outages in Tennessee stretched into a second week following the ‘historic’ weather events

Euronews

Is Nike anti-white? Trump civil rights chief subpoenas sports giant

The EEOC is seeking court-enforced access to Nike's records as the Trump administration ramps up its crackdown on corporate diversity programmes.

The Independent UK

Programs aim to diversify winter sports, but gaps persist at Winter Olympics

Organizations like the National Brotherhood of Snowsports and Skate Global Foundation are working to diversify winter sports

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