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An intense day at the @EU_Commission College Seminar, looking at some of the big transformations shaping Europe’s future: climate change, AI and migration. 🌍 The Mediterranean is on the frontline of climate change. Through the #PactfortheMediterranean, we are investing in clean https://t.co/NlAB2wY1In #ClimateChange #AI #Migration #EU #MT

State laws bring censorship to US universities, professors fear they could get in trouble for what they teach — Nearly half of college students attend institutions in states with at least one law or restriction censoring topics to discuss in the classroom https://t.co/nU9UY8Thxj #Censorship #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #US

🇫🇷📵 FLASH | Ça fait 2 JOURS que l’école a repris et des collégiens de Haute-Savoie ont déjà trouvé des techniques pour ouvrir les pochettes censées empêcher l’utilisation du téléphone. 520 000 € investis dans le dispositif et les élèves ont déjà trouvé la parade. https://t.co/9ajfNUcaZV #Éducation #Téléphone #Collège

🚨 NEW YORK PUTS A STOP TO AI IN SCHOOLS The city of New York imposes a one-year moratorium on generative artificial intelligence in public schools, from kindergarten to the end of middle school (8th grade). Almost 600,000 students are affected. For one year, the city (translated)

Voces frescas en el Congreso. Habla español, palenquero e inglés. Fue el primer joven afro en llegar al Concejo de Barranquilla. Su mamá fue madre comunitaria y es doctora en educación, su padre obrero. Estefanel Gutiérrez Pérez @EstefanelGP fue elegido como presidente de la Comisión Afrocolombiana del Congreso. Es del barrio La Manga de Barranquilla, de origen palenquero. Es abogado, especialista en Derecho Constitucional, magíster en Gerencia y Práctica del Desarrollo de la U Andes, y L.L.M. del American University Washington College of Law, formación en derechos humanos. Ha sido becario del Departamento de Estado y de la ONU. #Afrocolombianos #Barranquilla #DiversidadCultural

Het Rijk voert de druk richting Oldebroek - vanuit de #Spreidingswet - op. Ons college is duidelijk: dwang en drang bij asielopvang is ongewenst en destructief. Trek deze wet daarom in. En pak de werkelijke oorzaak aan: beperk de asielinstroom! https://t.co/7TVUrvIBf1 #asiel #Spreidingswet #Oldebroek

🚨 Et si la boîte à outils de l'École devenait celle de la prévention santé ? 📒 « Les essentiels — Éducation aux médias et à l'information » (édition 2026, CLEMI) ✍️ CLEMI – Réseau Canopé Une rumeur qui circule, une image détournée, un conseil de chatbot mal calibré : autant de messages qui orientent, chaque jour, des comportements de soin. La désinformation, l'IA générative et l'économie de l'attention ne sont pas que des sujets « scolaires » — ce sont des déterminants concrets de santé. Bonne nouvelle : les méthodes de vérification pensées pour la classe — sourcer une information, faire une recherche inversée d'image, repérer un angle, décrypter un algorithme — se transposent telles quelles à vos ateliers info/intox santé, à l'éducation du patient ou à la prévention auprès des jeunes. Reste à savoir comment les mobiliser, dès demain, sur le terrain. 👉 Mon analyse et le document source sont à retrouver ici : https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/les-essentiels-education-aux-medias-et-a-l-information-ecole-college-lycee-edition-2026-referencee-par-le-clemi-dans-le-cycle-2026-2027-6158 🎙️ À écouter également : la capsule de Pratiques en Santé. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1zisY2Wcs #PratiquesEnSante #ÉducationAuxMédias #LittératieEnSanté #EspritCritique #DésinformationSanté #EMI

Compassion as a Weapon Western civilization is increasingly trapped in a culture of entitlement, where victimhood can become a route to status, privilege, and power. Some elite universities report unusually high disability registrations—e.g., 20%+ at Brown and Harvard and around 40% at Stanford—far above community colleges. Whatever the causes, it raises a troubling question: when systems meant to protect the truly vulnerable become incentives, what happens to everyone else? Rob Henderson describes how accommodations can turn into “status games.” Extra time, special housing, and exemptions can make diagnosis feel like the logical choice, and the lesson travels outward: tomorrow’s leaders in journalism, HR, law, academia, and politics may learn that displaying weakness is rewarded. Research links habitual victimhood displays with traits associated with the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy). That doesn’t mean genuine victims are manipulative—it means rewarding victimhood gives manipulators an incentive to enter. In the “virtue game,” grievance becomes currency. Pity can also function as covert power: the weak person gains leverage, while the giver gains moral superiority. When compassion is treated like a currency, it can become a mutually reinforcing racket. The danger isn’t helping the weak. It’s teaching that appearing weak is the surest way to gain power.

The Great Feminization, Measured Seventy-two percent of men under thirty hold a positive view of women; among women under thirty, 50% (a 22-point gap). Among women under twenty-five, the share is 35% (a 37-point gap). Where the manosphere and “toxic masculinity” dominate headlines, the data points elsewhere: young women increasingly sort men into the enemy column. The class divide is sharp. Among working-class young women, 61% view men positively; among professional-class women, 36%—a 25-point gap tied to exposure to universities, HR departments, media organizations, and NGOs. The pattern runs through institutional conditioning. Helen Andrews argued this in 2020: between 2015 and 2020 many Western institutions became majority-female, including the New York Times newsroom (2018), law schools (2016), medical schools and the college-educated workforce (2019). Affirmative-action mandates, discrimination settlements, and diversity requirements helped drive the shift. As institutions changed, so did missions: justice increasingly focused on protecting “oppressed” minorities; newsrooms shifted from reporting toward narrative enforcement; universities moved from arguing to “safe spaces.” The result is a “daycare governance model”: infants to be protected (the oppressed), caregivers to provide protection (the allies), and predators to be removed (the dissenters). Research shows the same frame in speech: FIRE’s 2026 college speech rankings found women less tolerant than men across ideologies, including less tolerance for their allies. A woman entering kindergarten in 2005 has spent twenty years inside this system—she didn’t invent it, she inherited it. The 35% figure suggests sorting into victim, ally, and predator, with no grey zones. Working-class women, less conditioned by these pipelines, still view men positively (61–36). None of this is entirely new; Gustave Le Bon described the mechanism in 1895.

How Feminism Turned Government Into a Daycare For decades, we heard “the future is female.” That future is here—if not in the way people expected. The slogan surfaced in the 1970s among feminist and lesbian activists, resurfaced in 2015 after designer Rachel Burks rediscovered a 1975 photo, and then spread through merchandise and mainstream politics. By 2016 it was used by Hillary Clinton supporters; after her loss, Clinton embraced it. But the real story isn’t the phrase—it’s the institutional shift. Helen Andrews, in “The Great Feminization,” notes that feminism is often framed as progress through votes, universities, or jobs. Yet the decisive tipping point came later, especially from 2015 to 2020, when whole institutions began turning female. The numbers show it: in 1974, women were 10% of New York Times reporters; now they’re about 55%. The Atlantic’s editorial staff shifted from 53% male in 2013 to 36% male in 2024. This reaches beyond journalism: medical schools became majority-female in 2019; women formed the majority of the college-educated workforce that year, became a majority of college instructors by 2023, and now make up about 46% of managers. This isn’t just individuals moving into male-coded fields. It’s institutions changing with their demographics—shifting preferences, priorities, and norms. In many ways, feminism has already won access; now the question is what happens when institutions are increasingly shaped by women. We haven’t studied this before. We’re the experiment.

The Victimhood Economy: Why Young People Prefer Socialism Western civilization is increasingly shaped by entitlement and a culture that rewards displays of victimhood. At elite universities, disability claims have risen: 18% of male and 22% of female undergraduates report a disability, and 54% of non-binary students, with higher rates at some wealthy schools than at community colleges. The issue isn’t genuine disability; it’s what happens when accommodations become status and advantage. Extra time, separate housing, and exemptions can turn diagnosis into leverage. When weakness is rewarded, some will learn to perform it. This matters because today’s students become tomorrow’s institutional elites. If grievance produces rewards, the lesson may spread into journalism, government, HR, academia, and business, letting beneficiaries inherit the power to expand the system. Research on victimhood signaling raises uncomfortable questions: people who habitually emphasize victim status, on average, show higher narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—not to say genuinely suffering people are manipulative, but that systems rewarding victimhood create incentives for manipulators to exploit the category. Rob Henderson describes this as a status game: in elite institutions, grievance can become the currency of virtue signaling. For some, the rational strategy is to manufacture grievance and convert it into status. Nietzsche similarly argued that displays of helplessness can become covert power, while pity can create moral superiority for the caregiver. The danger isn’t compassion; it’s a culture that turns suffering into currency and teaches ambitious people that the easiest route to power is to claim they are powerless.

When the Fog Begins to Lift If you feel as though the world is going crazy, you’re not imagining things. Over the past decade, a media-driven “woke” movement gripped Western societies, creating what Michael Shellenberger calls “mass psychosis.” He argues that Democrats and media figures labeled opponents of DEI, racial quotas, and open borders as far-right—not because those people had changed, but because the political left had moved dramatically further left on cultural issues. Evidence continues to support this view. U.S. General Social Survey data suggests that center- and right-leaning opinions have remained relatively stable since the early 2000s, while left-wing views have shifted substantially. Meanwhile, publications such as *The New York Times* and *The Washington Post* sharply increased their use of terms like “racist” and “white privilege” after 2012. Shellenberger writes: “The media did this. The mass brainwashing came from college-educated elites in control of the most powerful propaganda machine in world history. These elites convinced the public that the West had grown more racist than ever, a blatant contradiction of the evidence. While the public was distracted by manufactured culture wars, governments exploited the chaos to consolidate power. Authoritarianism, spiraling debt, and economic devastation were the crippling costs of this deception.” He describes the political consequences just as bluntly: “By the time we got to 2016, Democrats had become completely unhinged. They made everything political, hunted heretics, and weaponized the government—three core characteristics of totalitarianism.” The fallout has been severe. Institutions lie in ruins, public trust has collapsed, and communities remain deeply divided. This was not simply a political miscalculation. It was ideological warfare, designed to divide and control. As the fog begins to lift, one question remains: Have we learned enough to resist the next wave of fearmongering and manipulation—or will we once again accept the same tactics from new faces?

The situation of a Syrian applicant who was rejected by the Central Bureau of Driving Licenses due to his non-traditional Dutch name, but was invited for an interview under a fictitious Dutch name, led to an investigation by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, which suspected that there was discrimination based on race. (translated)

For the first time in the world, artificial intelligence has assisted in a brain surgery, as the surgical team from University College London Hospital successfully removed a pituitary tumor from 48-year-old patient Rhys Hibbert, using real-time video analysis and localization of important anatomical structures. (translated)