this is just part of their strategy. They know they will lose some, but as we react to the most extreme offenses, they are just pushing the boundaries further to their side.
Same as Target. Return to fair and equitable practices and we can go back to our former favorite store. Not as important as the Navy of course, but fair is fair.
Can’t meet your quota when you say women, black and Hispanic need not to apply. You believed all those young white dude will stop playing video game war and do physical work? Sure, let’s see those numbers.
Trump does something Unconstitutional. Declares win.
Courts reverse his unconstitutional order, forcing him to put things back the way they were.
All MAGA remembers is the "win."
Winning!
An additional silver lining is that members of the military check out books and read them. If they didn't, the MAGA folks wouldn't care. Good for you, military personnel!
I assume the real Navy heart and soul know what's what. But they have to follow orders first. I'm sure they saw the example of the Air Force colonel fired for speaking the truth. And a General fired for no reason. So a few books got sacrificed to the greater good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxib6lUV9_E
1. Not what I said.
2. Yes it does (cops get away with following procedure to kill people regularly)
3. Military puts top value in "Following orders" and doing your job.
So, was doing that fraud, abuse, or waste? How much did that process cost taxpayers!
The greatest example of fraud, waste, and abuse is Elon Musk and the DOGE and what the 🍊💩 is doing to our Constitution and government!
Not to be a cynic, but it seems the GOP is allowing some small wins here and there to keep y'all distracted from the fact that he is stealing the last bit of unfettered power that he needs in his big bill. We know he/they love to flood the zone to keep everyone's head spinning instead of focusing
That said, we can’t all be everywhere at once all the time. Pick your issue, your hill to die on. Let others take the lead on other things. Have each others backs rather than undercutting other’s efforts.
My issue might be academic freedom. My friends might be Palestinian rights. Maybe yours is immigrant rights. They are all overlapping, but not identical. We’ll be more successful if we follow our passions, support each other, but divide and conquer at the same time.
I hope so, though there is very little evidence in the news to support this claim. Of course most are too afraid to stand against him. Hitler is proof that no man is invincible.
There isn't very little evidence 😂😂😂😂 please don't use Caucasian American Vernacular English on me to avoid accountability on things you don't even care to look up
Americans are just not educated enough to understand what will happen. It shines. Majority of people still isn't understanding that they are a fascist regime now, like that they have concentration camps isn't a clear sign. Hell, they don't even understand what a trade deficit is.
Libraries are a source of knowledge and learning.
Don't be detached and deceptive by withholding knowledge and depriving people of their right to information and to know.
If only people would access that store of knowledge. Case in point why Trump wants to defund libraries and strip them of anything that contradicts his/their agenda. He’s just a puppet of Putin and the authors of 2025 anyway.
We need to make at least 15-20 calls to congress a day forcing them to start screaming loudly and forcefully that trumps are pocketing from every possible scam & breaking every ethical rule while in office. They must go on newsmax & Fox & force attention to this. This wimpy politicking must end!!
I’m willing to also bet most of these books were originally identified because they had select words and then DOD realized these books did not meet the intent of their DEI delusions or that there was actual application to the US Navy Mission.
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How can anyone in this charade be believed? Administration officials are proven unapologetic liars, Sailors have orders not the truth, and ABC News surrendered to President Trump lawsuit.
Imagine if no books were touched and 4 tweets created this much distraction.
You want to ban 10 books, so ban 400. Then when everyone bitches say you will unban 390 and keep the 10 you wanted to ban at the very start. The public thinks they won. Don't ban any book anywhere.
Yes. Every bit helps. We will be persistent and we will persevere. I wish our elected officials would wake up from thinking that it is NOT business is usual. They need to act accordingly. So far I give them a grade F. (With a few outliers.)
Goes to show that ot was all theater. MAGAts heard about book banning and felt satisfied even though the issue was DOGE getting OUR data. They won't "hear" about the return of books.
They promote books with stories of gang rape, child prostitution and sex trafficking. It’s this book and many others like it that needs to be banned. I’m unaware of any other book to cause its readers to commit genocide, mass murders, in belief that a book gives them the right to do so. The Bible.
Your government is a club of deranged imbeciles without wisdom nor plan. Get rid of it as soon as you can! Otherwise your formerly splendid nation will derail completely.
Well, that "splendid" is contested.
There is no "going back" to "normal" after Trump. The democrats' own approval rating is down.
Someone needs to come up with a better (new) idea or plan.
And it's not only happening in the US. The rest of us is just behind.
Implement outrageous policy. Walk it back. Rinse and repeat. In the meantime, prices are going up because of tariffs, planes are crashing because of supposed cost-saving Federal job cuts, infectious diseases are on the rise because of anti-vax BS, and this is what they focus on. Stunning!
You have to keep the scared fragile men and Bible beaters from stealing from you or you end up a boring ass tart, reading the same book your whole life on Sunday.
I think one of the best ways that things become popular is to ban them. I smoked pot for years. I didn't quit because it became legal, but I sort of laugh at the timing of it. I've always kinda wondered if that was part of the attraction. Maybe that's why Republicans like being criminals.
The problem is minority rule. Only a sliver of our elected officials mirror the wishes of their constituents. If a president fails to achieve at least 50% of the vote, how can he perform his duty? Keep running elections until consensus is achieved, I say.
Being so afraid of knowledge and ideas presented in print that you have to take them away is one of the weakest things I can imagine. It definitely wouldn't be a good look for our military.
'Almost' is pathetic. Getting back to the status quo is not enough. Mearly that this was allowed to happen is cause enough to justify reprisals. Fascists need to be made so afrade that they crawl back into the dirt for another hundred years, and this time we keep them out of our public offices.
The military is key to people's revolution. Trump is nothing without a standing army on his side. The military should protect the people, not the president's whims.
I think the Naval Academy got the headlines because they proactively pulled the books from shelves when ordered to conduct the review, while it appears, from what I can gather online, that the USMA and USAFA kept the books in the library pending review completion. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/army-air-force-libraries-dei-books
Looks like each service secretary used their own internal memos to direct their respective service academies in implementing the memorandum, the result of which was a different interpretation by each service academy's respective Commandant.
Typical Kegseth clusterfuck.
I cannot imagine all the hard work it took for those cadets to get into the academy. and all the hard work and physical training it takes to stay there. and then to deal with all this BS coming from losers who have no regard for what it takes to be there.
Uh oh! They will all B fired, court-martialed & kicked out of the Military for being "Woke"& pro-DEI. That is 'Verboten!"We R now in a "merit based society."There is no more racism or sexism in America.We R"perfect."We don't need any government intrusion that only discriminates against white people.
Thank the powers that be, the fear was temporary. The threat still looms howevet and we have got to stay strong and wary. It's rare that the nemesis is so comically obvious to most. Let's use this era to practice our resilience and demonatrate our follow-through correction.
In the meantime, they managed to get a lot of local libraries and private buyers to purchase copies of the books they had banned. "The Women with Silver Wings" is a fascinating read.
Like the Pentagon or Military couldn't handle a little DEI. These people are nuts and good on you, whoever, got the books back. Should be in all libraries too. Readers decide to not read, not one person on a rampage to ban.
There are no children at this library. Books are being taken out of reach of adults who have the constitutional right to choose for themselves what's appropriate to read.
No shining light, no beacon of hope here. Just white christian nationalists ripping our country apart in the name of donald trump. Not a free country anymore. So very sad.
No, it's in reference to the golden calf in the old testament, when Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments he found his people worshiping an idol... a golden calf. But the bull in the image? That's the bronze Wall Street bull. A symbol of capitalism.
Disgusting segregationist Republicans believe including black people is discrimination & excluding them is not. Meanwhile, Democrats are terrified of becoming more diverse in hopes to gain some of their votes. They should instead double down on diversity to gain more diverse votes. It's how we win.
I cannot understand how a man who ran from the sound of the guns got in charge. He now wants a parade and raps the flag around him. Err. Stolen valor...-
Too many people (i.e. Republicans) are missing the parallels with Nazi Germany, a country that loved to ban books (and burn them).
Why are the people who are screaming loudest about erasing history when a Confederate statue comes down are ignoring the history that's right in front of their face?
The time is now
Now is the time
Time for what?
Time to decide
Time to get ready make up your mind there's no middle no more ya gotta pick a side
this is the place now is the time
You guys just need to pile on the pressure to get rid of the instigator of this anti-DEI insanity, before the "national socialism" flags are hoisted...
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Parades and golf trips have eaten into the budget...
I'm forwarding this to Stars and Stripes.
We need good news for a change.
In the 3rd paragraph is a link to the “381 titles” (attached):
Navy reverses course on DEI book ban after Pentagon review - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/navy-reverses-dei-book-ban-after-pentagon-review/story?id=122081512
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMOVED%20BOOKS%20FROM%20NIMITZ%20LIBRARY.PDF
Courts reverse his unconstitutional order, forcing him to put things back the way they were.
All MAGA remembers is the "win."
Winning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxib6lUV9_E
2. Yes it does (cops get away with following procedure to kill people regularly)
3. Military puts top value in "Following orders" and doing your job.
The greatest example of fraud, waste, and abuse is Elon Musk and the DOGE and what the 🍊💩 is doing to our Constitution and government!
Fuck, I miss DEI
Whatever floats our boat.
Just accidentally dive a submarine while Hegseth is up top.
They do flood the zone - pushing for everything in order to get something. It’s explicitly detailed as part of Project 2025 strategy.
So we need to push back on all fronts, everywhere, simultaneously.
Apparently we hurt his little feelings when we went after him.
Let's go for ALL his feelings going forward. Maybe he'll do us all a favor and disappear himself.
Don't be detached and deceptive by withholding knowledge and depriving people of their right to information and to know.
Ban no books. None.
Does @georgetakei.bsky.social even have control of his account?
Disobedience is key… 👍🏽
#GoNavy
Thrown in the dumpster or burned, it's still fascism.
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Imagine if no books were touched and 4 tweets created this much distraction.
There is no "going back" to "normal" after Trump. The democrats' own approval rating is down.
Someone needs to come up with a better (new) idea or plan.
And it's not only happening in the US. The rest of us is just behind.
The Constitution,
Don’t tread on Me..
Men and women of all ethnicities fought and died for the US. They must NOT be forgotten.
Why have I heard noting about books being taken off their shelves?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/army-air-force-libraries-dei-books
Typical Kegseth clusterfuck.
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Why are the people who are screaming loudest about erasing history when a Confederate statue comes down are ignoring the history that's right in front of their face?
which books didn't make it back?
A proverbial gut punch to the GOP!
Very Best and warm wishes from Somerset in the UK!
Now is the time
Time for what?
Time to decide
Time to get ready make up your mind there's no middle no more ya gotta pick a side
this is the place now is the time
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Peteville—tippling Heggy has struck out.
Do not submit to bullies, even temporarily!
Which begs me to wonder-
WHERE were they stored?
Were they available to the favoured few?
You mean ... they didn't have a book burning bonfire?