This is awful. Trump orders immediate closure of all US federal diversity offices Staff placed on paid administrative leave as president repeals executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 41 days ago

This is awful. Trump orders immediate closure of all US federal diversity offices

Staff placed on paid administrative leave as president repeals executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices

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grayola.bsky.social•40 days ago

First they came for LGBTQ and I did nothing…..

gremlin2c.bsky.social•41 days ago

We are seeing the start of another dictatorship with the blessing of those with money. All those so called “God fearing Republicans” should rethink their view of Christianity. I find this all terrifying. When will the camps start?

valwilson.bsky.social•41 days ago

And so the madness begins.

castrogacio.bsky.social•41 days ago

Apparently it's not really fascism! 🙄

kevingrobinson.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nothing should shock anyone. We all knew he'd be worse if he got in again and he's proving that daily.

Revenge of The Felon has well and truly begun!

#AshesandRuins

kentbeaverwatcher.bsky.social•41 days ago

Is there any news coming out of the States now that isn’t “awful”?

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•41 days ago

🤡✅

finn3012.bsky.social•41 days ago

😢😢

brexitbin.bsky.social•41 days ago

Sprinting backwards.on human rights, a decade per day.

ern400.bsky.social•41 days ago

How fragile are our hard-fought rights and how quickly are they effectively cancelled.

brexitbin.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes. Most people are unaware how hard we had to fight for our rights. How much blood was spilled. How many sacrifices made. New technology has become a "soma" to keep people sedated while the sociopathic 1% tries to claw back what it lost.

johnthepope.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is reminiscent of that German guy in 1939

cindymichels.bsky.social•41 days ago

Don't worry the UK will do this too (Probably in 4 years). Heritage Foundation have plans in London.

ledbelly.bsky.social•41 days ago

No need for diversity in the white man's country!

saxoften.bsky.social•41 days ago

Paid leave? DOGE must be crapping its pants.

greeneggzandsam.bsky.social•41 days ago

Well until they all get fired...by month end...sadly. There are like entire departments in some agencies. Devastating

ses67.bsky.social•41 days ago

But so boringly predictable, and coming to a country near you soon if we don't get our acts together.

somnousbutler.bsky.social•41 days ago

Americans needs to stand against him. He's absolutely lost it. He's degrading people who are or could be helpful for the people just because they're different. Sickening.

althomas-sci.bsky.social•41 days ago

He’s a spiteful child. I bet this is because the preacher called him out to his face. Still USA, you reap what you sow.

rach58.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is awful

baselgooner.bsky.social•41 days ago

And to think football fans were worried about a World Cup in Saudi Arabia

nellie1.bsky.social•41 days ago

Anyone else feel themselves grimacing as they read this?

vivacat.bsky.social•41 days ago

More than grimacing. I want to loud, ugly cry. And I'm a straight non-American. I am female though, and women are getting trampled on by this absolute scump too, but at least we're allowed to exist!

sunriseflight.bsky.social•40 days ago

Same exactly. Cis, straight, white woman in Europe, and I want to SCREAM all the time. I can't imagine what it's like to be in the US right now

alan160755.bsky.social•41 days ago

White supremacists on the White House. As we knew

federateuk.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's gonna have to pardon half the country at this rate.

"Chapman explained that all human embryos start by developing female sex organs, meaning that, if gender is decided at conception, every person in America is “now legally classified as female.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/donald-trump-executive-order-has-legally-classified-every-american-as-a-female-388704/

jw-here.bsky.social•40 days ago

does that make Donald the "first lady" of the U.S.?

kompani101.bsky.social•41 days ago

Trumps progrom and Kristallnacht. Nazi history repeating with American characteristics.

skullkidtermina.bsky.social•41 days ago

At least now we might actually get a culture war rather than just a Twitter war

Human beings aren’t going to stand for being told the world has been mean to the straight white man

And I say that as a 52 year old straight white man who grew up with violence and discrimination

wilde22.bsky.social•40 days ago

It is awful and just the start of the USA declining into I don’t know what . But policies like this will create fear and will get people killed .

aury-iel.bsky.social•41 days ago

The Guardian is a transphobic rag. Just fyi.

But yea, this shit was expected. Still waiting for the "allies" to stand up and do something.

minutello1.bsky.social•41 days ago

I hope there are some legal actions taken against this order.

jovicu.bsky.social•41 days ago

... but not unexpected.

brizzle-goblin.bsky.social•41 days ago

💔for all LGBTQIA+ people in the US right now. I hope you all have the strength to fight. This is a horror show.

suzie707.bsky.social•41 days ago

My thoughts too! Very, very scary.

meteorgirl.bsky.social•41 days ago

Trump really is just a useful and empty vassal for the really dangerous men behind him. He is a vacuous piece of shit, an easily manipulated idiot, his hate comes from the same place as an angry child and he has no real idea about what he’s hating and why. A perfect puppet for fascists.

sterlingsexotics.bsky.social•40 days ago

Please help me spread that we are not alone in this 🫶🏻🏳️‍🌈

https://bsky.app/profile/sterlingsexotics.bsky.social/post/3lge4jqt4a22b

yourfullhandle.bsky.social•41 days ago

The UK gov haven't updated the travel advice for the US yet. Hope they don't just ignore these changes.

ziggyman.bsky.social•41 days ago

Aha! The great unifier...

horses4ever.bsky.social•41 days ago

Why is he still here

jamessteel2008.bsky.social•41 days ago

Anyone that was registered and stayed at home is just as guilty as someone that voted for the tangerine turd. I hope that eats away at their conscience over the next four years.

nigelloveshistory.bsky.social•41 days ago

I hope only 4 years

truthseeker73863.bsky.social•41 days ago

You can’t have a conscience to vote in this turd and greasy money grabbing family and friends

ern400.bsky.social•41 days ago

People died to give others the right to vote, a right that could be removed.

jaze.bsky.social•41 days ago

irritatedllama.bsky.social•41 days ago

Rolling back civil rights just like Project 2025 promised (which he denied)

sugarcanebook.bsky.social•41 days ago

I'm so scared for all the fallout that's coming. Such irresponsible behaviour with not a fuck given about how his actions are going to impact real lives. Absolute horror. If Putin wanted to show the world how "Democracy" fails he couldn't have done a better job than put this fuckwit back in charge.

irritatedllama.bsky.social•40 days ago

We're here with you. You're not alone X

darkestsophie.bsky.social•41 days ago

Fuck Trump

vivacat.bsky.social•41 days ago

These words ring in my head at every news bulletin and new announcement.

vizslaspgh.bsky.social•41 days ago

White America. Shame.

prettyhatmachine.bsky.social•41 days ago

All the while Lammy and Starmer getting their kneepads ready for some serious grovelling to Trump.

johnimator.bsky.social•41 days ago

Well, if trump-y & his team are right, this should deliver an almost immediate boost to the economy.

fireintheminds.bsky.social•41 days ago

Christian values
🤔

seedoubleyew.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's just an evil megalomaniac with a far right following.

gus75.bsky.social•41 days ago

I wonder if Tim Cook feels like a traitor to his own community, having donated and attended the inauguration?

chestmat.bsky.social•41 days ago

It's going to be interesting seeing the Apple, Amazon, etc pride-washing later this year. Because we really see them.

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's doing exactly what he said he would. None of this should be a surprise, even if it's shocking.

andrewzcooper.bsky.social•41 days ago

Quite. But 74,999,166 of those who voted didn't vote for him. He got 77,284,118 votes. And he sure as hell doesn't represent the just under 75 million. Let's hope they make their voices heard.

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•41 days ago

I've been shocked at the silence, to be honest. Loads of pods out there condemning what's happening, boasting millions of subscribers, but where is the action?

welbyl.bsky.social•41 days ago

First they came for….

skullkidtermina.bsky.social•41 days ago

In fairness, growing up in Scotland taught me all I ever wanted to know about discrimination within communities

welbyl.bsky.social•41 days ago

I was lucky not much of that in my 57 yrs. we lived in Edinburgh and mixed well Catholic Protestant etc.

skullkidtermina.bsky.social•41 days ago

I'm 52. Glasgow and its suburbs was a hell hole. I have never lost the mental scars of seeing potential violence everywhere

As for sectarianism at school, in the workplace, racism, homophobia ...

welbyl.bsky.social•41 days ago

Honestly, we didn’t have issues like that where I was in Edinburgh. Not that it wasn’t there but I didn’t see it. I turned out gay also & never had an issue…

btnstu.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh... But The Village People assured everyone it would be OK.
😐😬

thebigotbasher.bsky.social•41 days ago

There's only one from the Village People left and he is a Trumper who says YMCA is not gay and will sue you if you say it is.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/entertainment/ymca-not-gay-anthem-scli-intl/index.html

seedoubleyew.bsky.social•41 days ago

Obviously he missed the memo that fact checking doesn't it exist in Trumpelon World.. 🤣🤣

thebigotbasher.bsky.social•41 days ago

Fact checking to MAGAts is like sunlight to vampires.

btnstu.bsky.social•41 days ago

Of course, it's the cop...
😬😁

cretophile.bsky.social•41 days ago

I see no end of the tangerine turd's close associates are questioning what clerics are doing involving themselves with politics - and are doing so having just had photo ops in a church! Pity Dolan doesn't have the balls Budde does.

justj1.bsky.social•41 days ago

🙏 for US

jc420.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes, he has. Trump rescinded LBJ's EO that forbade awarding federal govt contracts to companies that remained segregated or racially discriminated in hiring.

catcat1999.bsky.social•40 days ago

I am surprised he didn't fire them on the spot as I understand there are few employment protections in the USA.
Thanks to trade unions we have rights in the UK.

mechanicalmodel1.bsky.social•41 days ago

This will be a tough four years for white women since they have generally benefited the most from DEI programs. #ThoughtsAndPrayers

snickersnacker.bsky.social•41 days ago

And they will have the job of teaching empathy to their white husbands and children

ozryem.bsky.social•40 days ago

GOP bringing hate and bigotry back in a big way.

We always knew MAGA wanted to drag the US kicking and screaming back into segregation and legal discrimination.

Fuck these racist and transphobic asshole.

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