“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell - ThreadSky

joycewhitevance.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

Reposted from Brian Tyler Cohen

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

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peaceseeker69.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Real question: Why on earth are they taking things so far? Everything they do, every move they make, is so hateful. I mean, I realize they want to erase our history but why? Why?

pjlm.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I remembering visiting my som on the base and there was a small kiosk about how 1 in 7 males have been sexually assaulted and to get help if you needed it. Seemed like a good thing.

lynnieles.bsky.social•20 hours ago

What do any of those things have to do with DEI ?

kzediker.bsky.social•12 hours ago

To a white supremacist, anything that doesn’t center you as a white person and advantage you is considered DEI

sdrocher.bsky.social•19 hours ago

That's the point. It doesn't.

demsrock2024.bsky.social•8 hours ago

How can this be allowed to happen?

klpnanny.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Purging Holocaust references seems a little anti-Semitic to me.

daebid.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The good news regarding the history Hegseth has tried to remove is that it still lives on and people like you, Heather Cox Richardson, Joanne Freeman and Tad Stoermer are standing up for our history! Keep up the great work you all are doing

jazonbco.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Just because you try to hide our history, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. I just don't get it. Our kids are smart and will find out about it anyway, and it will be amplified on social media. This adds fuel to the fire.

jw1958.bsky.social•12 hours ago

“Memoryhole”

momoduff.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I hope that some astute techies have taken screenshots of government websites. The book burning of the past is the website scrubbing of today

pattidezgn4u.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Didn't some say that our soldiers would never follow treasolini's orders and attack us, their fellow Americans?
Hope they rethink that

fvmht.bsky.social•just now

What in God’s name do any of those topics have to do with DEI?

cristabel.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Sept 11 is woke now?

irispirus.bsky.social•18 hours ago

When someone says they are against DEI, you should ask them when they realized they were white supremacists? Do they blame their parents? Are they being paid to hold these opinions? How do they feel about slavery? Say you're trying to understand why they are filled with hate and insecurity. 😒

ratiod.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Only a villain must rewrite history to become a hero. @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

ladyfax1973.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well I know there’s a banned book list, but it seems too much to believe(?) that our history could be erased given all the means and methods to maintain it and make it available.

dvbee.bsky.social•10 hours ago

How is this normal? Violations of Democratic Principles under Trump

raindropsbc.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Odd! - not the deletion, but the brains of those who did the deletions.

jmal52.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Cancer awareness? Whyyyyyy? Why would the military do the fascist bidding of these yayhoos?

kmryan.bsky.social•8 hours ago

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

drbearbaker.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I checked a couple of these at their website and they are still up?

beverlymann19.bsky.social•6 hours ago

So ... y'all, I read through this very quickly. But if there's anything in it indicating that this guy is an actual federal government official or employee, I missed it.

This is true; I'm not being sarcastic.

Does this guy have any actual legal authority at all?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/technology/elon-musk-steve-davis-doge.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

beverlymann19.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Parody-like anti-DEI dopiness is a lead balloon. THESE are the "swing" voters now. Those showing up at @sanders.senate.gov's rallies in small-cities in WI, IA & Warren MI don't CARE right now that they're on the same side as college graduates. Pundits need to recognize that.
https://bsky.app/profile/beverlymann19.bsky.social/post/3lkrlwcvars2w

beverlymann19.bsky.social•6 hours ago

But, but ... SWING VOTERS, y'know.

They don't WANT no structural-economic-progressive working class SENATOR!!!

@jenrubin.bsky.social https://substack.com/@demwinsmedia/note/c-101791459?r=76ya

bryanttl1953.bsky.social•10 hours ago

When I read about what Hegseth/Trump did yesterday, “1984” immediately came to mind. Project 2025 seems to be the updated version of Orwell’s book.

ignatzfattis.bsky.social•7 hours ago

That was the brazen strategy of the Spanish in Peru, etc. using newly-conquered slave labor to bury evidence of their own civilization until the story became "we were primitives until the Spanish brought civilization"

They're still digging up structures and complexes buried during that time

annie74strong.bsky.social•17 hours ago

🤬

inkonelbows.bsky.social•9 hours ago

@senjoniernst.bsky.social DOGE cheerleader must be so proud of her tech bro frat boys.

vintagemuckabout.bsky.social•20 hours ago

WWII in its entirety will be erased next. It’s offensive to Trump and the gop to mention the USA defeating Nazis and fascists.

siarapita.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I wonder what SECBRO plans to do with the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon. Pretend it’s not there???

sunerendal.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Suicide and suicide attempts is a major problem among veterans.
They really don't give a shit.

phan-878.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's Jim Crow 2.0
Thanks Donald for taking the country back to 1950.

epremo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

What's that got to do with warrior readiness? 🤔 tear down any historical references to a woman or non-white person's accomplishments.

aapo432.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Grant victory over the powers of evil that have arisen and bless Ukraine with your gifts of liberty, peace, tranquility, and good fortune🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

ver68.bsky.social•18 hours ago

This will make it harder for the next defense of secretary to make things right or normal. America cannot go down without a fight.

theender.bsky.social•18 hours ago

WHEN WE WERE WARNED ABOUT TRUMP OVER 20+ YEARS AGO (from 2002)

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theender.bsky.social•18 hours ago

WHEN 27 MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CAN'T BE WRONG.

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theender.bsky.social•18 hours ago

WHEN HISTORY COMES BACK TO REMIND US ABOUT FASCISM.

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goodboypilgrim.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I will never understand why so many Americans voted for someone who was intent on destroying all that was good about America.

foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social•19 hours ago

WTF is wrong with these people?

lpersonius.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Cancer awareness is DEI now? I had a melanoma diagnosis last year (traumatic!) and now I am super dooper aware, guess you could say "cancer-woke" and I get a total body skin check every 3 months for surveillance... or will they be trying to eliminate that too?

riverstarfel.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This makes sense to the strategy when you remember that Zio's redefined what "Holocaust" means in their indoctrination and their leader was flaunting his power last year when he showed up at Congress to applause. They're getting America ready for an influx of Zio's and new indoctrination.

djpgreen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I appreciate all the pundits weighing in on this but you are seriously not raising enough of an alarm about how bad it is when the President of the United States defies a court order

izziemiller.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I pray everything has been archived outside the government so it can be restored after this dark chapter is put down.

okayaboutthat.bsky.social•1 hour ago

These Orwell quotes are becoming far too appropriate…

homewatch.bsky.social•8 hours ago

How communists work

grubert.bsky.social•19 hours ago

In order for this to work, either long time employees or soldiers are doing this or the new civilians in charge are just deleting everything.

Media needs to clarify. Because if it’s our military then they are participating in a coup.

cobe1020.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is what happens when an alcoholic goes sober without help.

izbells.bsky.social•7 hours ago

But these same people are going after higher ed for “antisemitism”. Smells like rotten fish.

starlightwishes.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It's what conquerors ALWAYS do. From ancient times, right down to Muck & his Dodgy Boys.

diggtruth.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is a horrific sign of what is yet to come.

miaganga.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Those Basturds

021248.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Absolute disgrace!

ejn71.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Why? Simply, why? What does removing these do to benefit the Trump administration? Ask yourself that question. Trump and his authoritarian cabinet members do not do anything that does not benefit them... One of those reasons is noted above.

bseadeer.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Is the info anywhere??? This is history that happened

luvieh.bsky.social•19 hours ago

its weird how orwell, atwood & octavia butler predicted all of this with so much accuracy.

catmofree.bsky.social•20 hours ago

WTF

allgood2024.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Remove Jewish history? I'm down with the Jews.

mykel11.bsky.social•20 hours ago

How is that DEI? Hegseth is a piece of crap.

fenderp.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Say Hegseth you card carrying nazi piece of shit..as my ww2 761Tank unit said to a nazi who had no clue my uncle spoke German..as my uncle cracked his fucking head open..leck mich am Arsch..twice..🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿🖕🏿

radfence.bsky.social•8 hours ago

911 remembrance banned. WTF? Every a Republican brings up 911 to make a point, break one of their fingers

pennylover.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It worked in “Animal Farm”

sassyvan.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The implications are terrifying.

I didn’t think a high school mandatory read was a blueprint for our future. 🥺

ronaldjoosten.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Now that the #JFK files have been released, it is also time to release #Trump's pee tape!

mrlinas.bsky.social•20 hours ago

World War 2 is a bad word according to MAGA. Cause you know, they like to Nazi around.

stand4s.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Definitely Orwellian! So vile!

philoof.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It’s a coordinated global push to subdue us.

pufamo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Does the content remain in the National Archives or The Library of Congress?

jonesro.bsky.social•8 hours ago

please tell me that they were archived somewhere so they can be put back when all this shit is over.

liberal-g.bsky.social•13 hours ago

So the military is all in with Trump. And not the constitution. Got it. So much for their ”oath”. I knew I was expecting too much.

nycnewsfeed.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Can we stop saying anti-DEI and just say white-supremacist? It’s so much easier than the double negative convention.

stagemgr.bsky.social•19 hours ago

How stupid arm these idiots?

bassdownlow.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Not stupid. This is very calculated and smart if this is the desired outcome.

etdanslesilence.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Won't work on America's ~indigenous~. America and before them the English, tried for more than 4 centuries. In our history, that's a blink of an eye.
Besides, oral history is the superior to written history.

cabs2000.bsky.social•9 hours ago

This is going to come back on them.

cdaleco.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Totally disgusting. White washing history. Hitler here we come

marsyd.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It’s not like we need any more proof of how cruel and despicable Musk and Trump can be.

chrisliotta.bsky.social•6 hours ago

WTH?

oraclebungee.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Let me say it again. Hegseth is a neo nazi klansman white supremacist fascist.

jongar.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Amazing how delicate it is. Even the perpetually incompetent seem capable of erasing history.

realgirlvibes.bsky.social•19 hours ago

These sick criminals delete history. It’s right out of the playbook of every dictator and Hitler. Sick sick people.

campbellsj.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I hate it here.

johnnyboyyy6.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is abominable!

levelheaded101.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Denying education and instilling disinformation are just two other ways to make manipulating the masses easier.

rokerforever.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Musk history still available.
Born in Apartheid South Africa. Canadian citizenship from mother.
Became a US citizen in 1999.
Lost bid to become Dictator of United States via Donald Trump in 2020. Bought US Dictatorship in 2024 and the rest is a fantasy that must STOP NOW because it’s dangerous!

n-l.bsky.social•17 hours ago

My Recommendations: Destroy Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, Neuralink & Boring Co. Designate Musk a foreign and domestic enemy. Seize his companies, employees & his assets. Give him the equal to Capital Punishment on live stream. Deal with the employees uniquely and publicly for being traitors. #Reposted

churchdrummer.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The most solemn and over arching sentiment from any Ministry of Defense event I have ever attended is

‘LEST WE FORGET’

lwitten.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I did nazi that coming.

petersonranch.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Never forget ... but don't remember either.

intrepidintellect.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Despicable!

tryingtohelp.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Horrific

eightmjc.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Proof that this administration and its supporters do not support anyone except themselves.

s-st.bsky.social•14 hours ago

bosielady.bsky.social•19 hours ago

We stand defenseless to this mockery of our democracy! Clearly we don’t have one!

fightlies.bsky.social•19 hours ago

9/11?

rkfatheree.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Every action he takes vibrates with echoes of the US’ past atrocities.

irishrock.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Get to your local city hall, state capitol, government center, but please, just get out there. We need numbers never seen peacefully protesting this.

irishrock.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Full on dictatorship being put in place. Rise up people.

tomcopp.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It's not DEI policy. It's White Supremacy policy.

dacullington.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This is absolutely ridiculous and it’s getting more dangerous daily!

hgvancouver.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I feel like we were slow to understand that the right is not just anti “DEI programs”, they are “anti Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” itself. As in, the goal is re-segregation and exclusion. Or maybe I was just slow. It was right there.

bbeshoar.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I'm convinced that the ultimate goal is a return to chattel slavery.

towanda01.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It’s all bad but why 9/11 remembrance ?

dbach55.bsky.social•19 hours ago

We have plenty of catching up to do with China and Russia, but with fearless leader in charge, I’m sure the Civil War will now be how the woke North destroyed the freedom fighters of the South.

bassdownlow.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Shhh!

watchnow25.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The drinking womanizer’s handy work. Brought to you by the Trump Admin’s merit-based hiring!

danylwms.bsky.social•19 hours ago

And tomorrow the Dept of Ed.

Education is the antidote to MAGA-which is why they are tearing it down and creating their own history.
And the maga congress is letting him do it.
Unbelievable.

murray104.bsky.social•1 hour ago

As an anthropologist and historian, I am horrified.

violinwoman24.bsky.social•20 hours ago

How stupid is it to try to erase history by erasing names on buildings and removing icons, especially in this day and age.We will always remember their lame efforts.

8morebacon.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The 9/11 Remembrance? Of all incidents in recent history, they delete this sacred and hallowed Remembrance? I shouldn't be shocked, but I am!

hunee5.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This is tells a lot.

reesee53.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This is really terrible. 😡

grayhiker.bsky.social•20 hours ago

We are witnessing a Hatred for life itself. That is the ideology at work here. They are trying to purge the human memory of care. Their effort may be tragically immense, but ultimately it is impossible to complete.

justsayin57.bsky.social•18 hours ago

So if you are a person of color or a woman, your contribution to our country doesn’t count

andrewsfca.bsky.social•20 hours ago

"𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁"
--𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗢𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟰

susubrooks.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Project 2025 is kid's stuff. 1984 is their real playbook.

windybrookgale.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Why not just call it what they really want, DIE. They just want everyone to DIE.

moneill16.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The Convicted Felon and Rapist is using Hitler's Playbook

freefran.bsky.social•18 hours ago

UNFORGIVABLE

mbond79.bsky.social•19 hours ago

WTF is going on? Only white males are to kings?
Phucking nuts

billdiamond.com•18 hours ago

When will they purge World War 2 and the Civil War?

jw1958.bsky.social•12 hours ago

MAGA: “The what nows?”

susanovans.bsky.social•20 hours ago

bassdownlow.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The new meaning of DEI: Destroy Everything Inside. The country, the history, the people. But we won’t let that stuff go. #resist

barredowlfriend.bsky.social•5 hours ago

What does mentioning these things have to do with hiring?

delmarcooper2.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Just like so many indigenous peoples, where their history was spoken, more than written. Language carries culture, and we’ve destroyed countless languages, here. We’d be so much further ahead, as humans, if destroying what we don’t understand wasn’t our default setting.

sandraeb.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Hegseth is destroying the history of those who fought in the World Wars if they weren’t white men

ptitcombjr.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Yes, but of course, cancer prevention is too woke.

comen-tator.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Ordering removal of history is an ILLEGAL Order and the military has a duty to disregard Illegal Orders ...

That is part of the Military Code of Conduct!

Those reluctant to disobey such an order must stop for a moment and consider, when will you be targeted by an illegal order, and what then?

traceywags.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We can not let them

bishop7.bsky.social•20 hours ago

"1984" was supposed to be a novel, not a "how to" book.

I'm very disappointed.

dano53.bsky.social•20 hours ago

So much for the Pentgon coming to the country's rescue from russia's grip.

hbservetus.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Related:

"It means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when party discipline demands this. It means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary."
-Orwell

lin11c.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Now they are denying the Holocaust? I thought that was a "red line" of fascism that we would never cross. 🤬

looking-for-clues.bsky.social•20 hours ago

My suggestion would be to simultaneously post the material they took down as much as possible.

bigg1.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Universities teach history for fun
The military teaches history for tactical advantage
Stopping this is so stupid

dmokaren.bsky.social•8 hours ago

chazmn78.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And Pentagon allows it?

katillogical.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Is it a five alarm fire yet?

old-as-dirt.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Just smoke.

michaelericross.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Madness. This isn't anti-DEI. Our government is performing a self-lobotomy. And we're being told: "Learn to forget."

marcjmartin.bsky.social•9 minutes ago

Aren't Republicans the ones complaining so loudly over the years about "cancel culture"? They just wanted it for themselves.

retep47.bsky.social•19 hours ago

So according to the Trumpf administration the Holocaust never happened? What is wrong with these people?

wrennco.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Hopefully that people are storing data on the Internet.

yourauntifa.bsky.social•20 hours ago

American Taliban

cupecoy4me.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Can any of the MAGAts out there explain how the 911 Tragedy is DEI? As idiotic as this has been so far? That might be the dumbest.

insistent-resist.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Really stretching that DEI definition to cover everything they don't like, aren't they? We're way past ridiculous here. 🤡

rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social•20 hours ago

"They are operationalizing, as we speak, a plan to convert our democracy to something fundamentally different, an oligarchy, a kleptocracy in which only a handful of people have power and the rest of us are just pawns for profit and gain to that small set of elites."

Senator Chris Murphy

urtrippin197.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They’re so devious. Will we survive this?

caquail3.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It’s up to us whether we survive. Countries have survived horrific civil-military dictatorships and come back to democracy: the brutal regime in Argentina.The catalyst that ended the regime started with a group of women peacefully demonstrating,carrying photos of their children killed by the gov’t.

caquail3.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Unfortunately, Argentina is now under the grip of a South American Trump. Over 50% Argentinians now below poverty level as a result of his election.

webb1701.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Sick fuckers

bitcp11050.bsky.social•12 hours ago

We need a back-up of the Library of Congress before they erase and destroy that....

mcgrawfan.bsky.social•3 hours ago

This is so shameful can’t believe we are here

dianenh.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I agree. It's heartbreaking it's shocking. Its unbelievable. And it gets worse every day.

mrnelson59.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The Crazy never stops. Wow.

kevinmulhall.bsky.social•3 hours ago

And Netanyahu is fine with that as long as Trump is helping him annex Gaza so the Israeli right will still keep him put of jail.

dudaatam.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Someone want to ask @chuckschumer.com if it’s time yet?

barronwtramp.bsky.social•17 hours ago

There's no one to enforce federal laws or judicial rulings.

So... what do we do?

spudder78.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Let’s stop them now!

bjabuckeye.bsky.social•9 hours ago

"There is none so blind as he who will not see."

lswma.bsky.social•18 hours ago

But we still remember. Apparently they want to play some giant game of pretend, like anything that ever made them uncomfortable doesn't exist.

They are also erasing the pictures. Soon we will only see white, straight, cis-gendered people on official government material.

https://apple.news/A7-x-gOh2TCiODUCTWH4XNw

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