Schools Choose Trump Over Students, AI Causes Droughts, & We Pay an Etsy Witch

In this episode, the Newsgirls get you ready to go back to school amidst Trump’s crackdown on universities for being woke. How will big settlements impact campus and how will students protect their right to free speech? We speak to Mahmoud Khalil’s attorney from the NYCLU. Then, Wren & Mabel investigate how AI data centers are causing droughts across the country. We have the astounding numbers Big Tech doesn’t want you to know. They also get into some other unforeseen downsides of AI– art theft?! Finally, the Newsgirls pay an Etsy witch to tell their future and cast a good luck spell on them! Is this viral trend all it's cracked up to be? SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iDf60iN619rvm6ComYDZuqyxMcVuz7KHM5vvCgoV56s/edit?tab=t.0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome to NEWSGIRLS! Every Thursday, award-winning journalists Wren & Mabel bring you colorful conversations, immersive deep-dives, and riveting stories you might have missed but need to know. They’re investigating everything from a juicy Olympic doping scandal, to NASA x Prada’s spacesuit collab, to Russia secretly funding American influencers. Because who says being informed about the world can’t be cool and exciting? Previously at 60 Minutes and Jeopardy!, Wren & Mabel reimagine news-storytelling to help you cut through the misinformation and find the truth. NEWSGIRLS is named after the original Newsgirls of the 1800s, some of the first women to work in journalism. Full video episodes available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@newsgirlspodcast