College Grads Are Rejecting AI En Masse – Mother Jones

To these young people, the commencement speakers are representatives of a dumbed-down, even greedier elite—a class that embodies what you could call the banality of venal...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/ai-commencement-student-graduation-speeches-booing-ai-mills-stanford-tech-elite/ 

Eli Frost: How I Moved My Graduation Out of a Megachurch | FFRF Conventi...

Minnesota student Eli Frost receives FFRF’s Beverly & Richard Hermsen Student Activist Award after leading a successful campaign to move Chaska High School’s graduation from a discriminatory megachurch to a secular venue. Eli shares how he organized petitions, worked the media, collaborated with FFRF’s legal team, weathered a setback and ultimately walked at a church-free ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7umzyc_0hQ

 

A bigot's graduation speech sparked a walkout at a Catholic university in Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waoTyMeWek8

Bigoted Athlete Turns College Graduation into a MAGA Hate Rally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr2WTR5H0AU

Republican Senate hopeful overstated academic achievements for years

Herschel Walker, frontrunner for party nomination in Georgia, claimed to have graduated in top 1% – but never actually graduated…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/02/herschel-walker-republican-senate-overstated-academic-achievements-for-years

One dead, two injured after Friday shooting at Georgia high school commencement; arrests made - Daily Kos

Friday morning started with a school shooting that left 10 dead in Santa Fe, Texas, and it ended with deadly gunfire at a graduation in Jonesboro, Georgia, south of Atlanta. One woman was killed and another was injured when gunfire was exchanged around 8 p.m. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1765580