Benjamin Jullien

McDonald and key members of the DOGE team bypassed authorized record preservation requirements and violated the Federal Records Act by conducting official government business regarding the cuts using Signal, a messaging application unauthorized for federal employees, and intentionally set to automatically delete messages. DOGE fed grant descriptions into OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, asking it to decide if grants were “DEI.” They then entered ChatGPT’s responses into a spreadsheet compiling all NEH grants, including its “DEI rationale” and “Yes / No DEI?” replies. This ChatGPT-generated list was used in place of the list created by NEH staffers to identify which grants to cut. Projects Grants that were flagged as “DEI” and then terminated included a documentary sharing the story of Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust; an archival project on the lives of Italian Americans; a project to digitize photograph collections of Appalachian residents; and multiple projects to preserve endangered Native American languages and cultures. DOGE staffers violated the Federal Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment by flagging grant descriptions as “DEI” solely because they included “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “homosexual,” “LGBTQ,” and “Tribal,” among other terms. DOGE staffers also flagged grants that NEH leaders concede had no connection to DEI, including grants that had been awarded for collections management after a natural disaster, preservation training, and improving HVAC systems. After the termination of previously awarded grants, Michael McDonald asked an NEH staff member to solicit the Tikvah Fund’s application for a single-source award; the NEH ultimately granted it $10 million.

“The principle that knowledge of history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts is necessary to sustain a strong and resilient nation drove Congress to establish the NEH,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “Our lawsuit reveals this administration’s contempt for that principle and for public investment in research for the common good. DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking.”

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"DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking"

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« Le gouvernement Lecornu actionne tous les leviers pour empêcher les collectivités de protéger leur eau, au risque de piétiner l’Etat de droit » CHRONIQUE. En instaurant un moratoire sur toutes les décisions concernant la politique de l’eau, l’exécutif fait une nouvelle fois primer les desiderata de l’agro-industrie sur l’intérêt collectif, re...

« Le gouvernement Lecornu actionne tous les leviers pour empêcher les collectivités de protéger leur eau, au risque de piétiner l’Etat de droit »
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“A Call to Conscience” from the Archbishop of Chicago

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store"...

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Wait, *another* one?

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales
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... de l'Iran ? je leur souhaite bien du plaisir...

Blog: How Article 6 could undermine climate ambition In this blog post, we examine how Article 6 is being implemented and outline key risks that could undermine climate ambition – unless safeguards are strengthened and clear limits are placed on the rol...

Climate targets achieved on paper while domestic net emissions keep rising ↗️

In our latest blog post we examine how #Article6 is being implemented in 3 key countries and outline risks that could undermine climate ambition – unless safeguards are set.

Read the full piece🔗 bit.ly/408xjpd

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

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Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, says politicians must stop prioritising “socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits of the world’s richest individuals and corporations.

L’État a versé 79 millions d’euros au concessionnaire de l’A69 : une somme «fantasque», dénoncent les opposants Auto thunes. Alors que le chantier de l’autoroute contestée avait été interrompu par la justice pendant trois mois en 2025, l’État a reconnu avoir versé 79 millions d’euros à Atosca pour prendre en ch...

L’Etat a versé 79 millions d’euros au concessionnaire de l’A69 alors que le chantier de l’autoroute contestée avait été interrompu par la justice pendant trois mois en 2025. « Totalement extravagant », dénoncent les opposants vert.eco/articles/let...

Picture of an industrian chimney emitting smoke with text:"Transformation is a reordering of capital, infrastructure and income streams. It is about who pays, who benefits and who owns." Till Kellerhoff, Director at Earth4All and Ken Webster, Visiting Professor at Cranfield University

Till Kellerhoff and Ken Webster delve into how carbon pricing needs to be embedded into a broader fiscal architecture that addresses rents, ownership and distribution, for it to be fair and successful ➡️ vist.ly/4ttak

🚮 L'actualité nous déprime ? Objectivement, il y a de quoi. Comment garder le cap et essayer de se concentrer sur ce qui compte ? Comment faire avancer les choses dans le marasme et la guerre ? Voici 5 chouettes idées portées par des invités du 2e Festival des idées Chaleur humaine (1/8)

The Predatory Hegemon Ever since Donald Trump first became U.S. president, in 2017, commentators have searched for an adequate label to describe his approach to U.S. foreign relations. Writing in these pages, the political...

The United States is now a predatory hegemon—a dominant great power that “views all bilateral relations as inherently zero-sum and seeks to extract the greatest possible benefits from each one,” writes Stephen Walt.

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Iran attacks show the perils of following America’s economic lead A growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US

In the Financial Times, senior trade writer Alan Beattie argues that, in light of the Iran war, a “growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US”

via @carbonbrief.org

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Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout Employees at Alphabet and OpenAI are pushing for stricter limits on the military's use of AI, as tensions rise following the blacklisting of Anthropic's models.

Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout

Employees at Alphabet and OpenAI are pushing for stricter limits on the military’s use of AI, through a number of letters that are circulating at tech companies.

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Careful, there is a typo in your tweet that could be wrongly construed as a revealing slip of the pen ;)

Précision: ce chiffre représente le "coût total"... des dommages directs uniquement - il ne prend pas en compte les pertes indirectes liées aux impacts sur l'offre, la demande, les chaînes d'approvisionnement, ni les pertes de revenus (par ex celles des travailleurs saisonniers dans l'agriculture)

That YouGov poll yesterday:
Britain's working age population 18-65:
🟢Green 26%
🟣Reform 21%
🔴Labour 16%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🔵Tories 13%

Britain's retired population 65+:
🟣Reform 33%
🔵Tories 26%
🔴Labour 15%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🟢Green 6%

Spain’s Sánchez emerges as the EU’s chief critic of Trump’s war in Iran The Socialist prime minister has slammed the war as unjustified and illegal, and his criticism has sparked the threat of a trade war from Trump.

Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S. President Donald Trump over a war against Iran, calling it unjustified, dangerous and illegal:

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Spanish PM Sanchez said Spain will not support actions that harm peace or contradict its values, responding to Trump's trade threats over Spain's refusal to grant US military base access. Sanchez said world politics must not be built on bombs and conflicts. #Iran

maybe, but it would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the risk that Reform UK gets a majority...

Democracies should not be afraid of having a Parliament that actually represents the people. (including thise elites don't like), and PR is the best way to achieve this

Also, seen from outside, fun, messy haircuts are very much associated with the UK - and this was the case even before BoJo

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

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anything that is rude has to be French, I guess ;)

«La justice ne leur fait pas peur» : des pelleteuses repérées sur une parcelle illégale du chantier de l’A69, malgré la décision du tribunal Rien affaire. Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opp...

Mercredi, sur le chantier de l’autoroute A69, des engins de travaux ont été aperçus sur une parcelle censée avoir été évacuée par Atosca après une décision judiciaire de janvier. Les opposant·es dénoncent un passage en force du concessionnaire.

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Trump's’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats

This does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well

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Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

Anthropic Says AI Has a Catastrophic "Collective Action" Problem Anthropic has rewritten its flagship safety framework to acknowledge that no single AI developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophe — and to explain what it will and won't commit to doing alone.

Anthropic rewrote its AI safety framework and the core message is blunt: no single developer can unilaterally prevent catastrophic AI risk.

Full breakdown at Risk Market News ⬇️
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