They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/pam-bondi-trump-doj-memo-prosecute-dei-companies.html
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"It is my deeply held CHRISTIAN belief, based on the story of the Samaritan, that diversity, equity, and inclusion was mandated by God. I am allowed to run my company by my faith."
https://www.instagram.com/nick.mckim/reel/DFrEd8gTLEk/
Jews were the target then and were systematically removed from German public life. Some left, notably Einstein, but many more couldn’t.
We now know how it all ended for them, the Sinti, and Roma.
They successfully regressed America into George Wallace level of racist
😈 😡
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f?r=2lkf6n&utm_medium=ios
I mean, they want companies to be able to do all sorts of regressive, discriminatory actions, based on the companies’ beliefs.
Can companies have progressive beliefs, too?
Or is all that just more performative BS from wannabe Nazis?
It's a win win for everyone.
Encouraging applicants from poorly represented groups has to be a good thing?
Kick over the statues.
I believe there's a word for that.
NYT is a billionaire mouthpiece and that's it. It once was 'great', but now it just a trashy rag full of the lies the rich wish to push.
https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccasolnit.bsky.social/post/3lgt3olc6b22e re
It crossed my mind earlier, and I brushed it off as “too far”, but…
If you missed it, the Bimbet in the White House Press Office, has already called DEI illegal. 😡
These chuds want the bad old days back
This is MAGA. Turn us back to the time blacks sat in the back of the bus, LGBTQ+ were in the closet and women were bared from opening their own credit.
Huh.
They object to desegregation. We need to bring back the blunt words. Segregation. Desegregation. Apartheid.
what has been normal daily life in the US for 40 years(?) is now illegal two weeks later, without even any new laws
Please explain ?
(1/?)
We made the mistake of assuming that the resistance to more diversity would come from the fringes, not from the center of government.
It’s not companies that “do DEI”.
It’s companies that refuse to create a hostile work environment through systemic racism and segregation.
Come on fourth estate, you are better than this.
Thats why the white suits need to get out there.
They want j6 type riots..
If we can't find common cause and support for scapegoated fellow citizens, I'm not sure what we're fighting for anyway.
Here’s a list of words that have triggered NSF reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/darbysaxbe.bsky.social/post/3lhcvn4hxwk2o
Call out Fetterman on this one
Nevertheless, the threat is real.
So, for instance, they've lost the argument *empirically* on all the civil-rights era stuff: racial integration, women in the workforce, abortion (yes, the ills of abortion they way
Nevertheless, they've been able via "animal spirits" to do their thing, backlash, so, yes, the threat is real.
His “ look at my African American over there”
Token Blacks like Clarence Thomas give people like Trump a thin veneer of racial tolerance
So long as Thomas obeys he’s necessary until he’s not…
https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccasolnit.bsky.social/post/3lgt3olc6b22e re
A fucking peep?
Pic unrelated.
Which would be wrong and awful and yet poetic.
Her and Uncle Rukus.