#diversity
"Transformation? The transgressive and the queer? Diversity? It is all around us. IT IS US. It is the force which energises the universe and the characteristic which enables its longevity."
(Black Seeds)
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Disabled By Society just shared this. Thought you might like it. 
Enjoy your weekend!
"FULL VIDEO: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivers State of the City Address"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFuF7eF67Q
#Boston #Massachusetts #Mapoli #MayorWu #StateOfTheCity #Politics #Education #Diversity #Police #Families #AffordableHousing #Business #NetZero #Science #Opportunity
"After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.
The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies."
The Way Texans Elect School Board Members Plays a Key Role in What Students in Diverse Districts Learn
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In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven conservatives successfully helped elect school board members who have moved aggressively to ban or remove educational materials that teach children about diversity.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-boards-richardson-keller-at-large-voting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
At the start of the live video of the Crew-9 splashdown, there was a short intro on the brief history of NASA. It included the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford, the first female commander, Eileen Marie Collins, and the first all-female spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.
History will not be erased, and the rebels are alive and well inside of #NASA.
"Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled 'DEI.'
From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II."
~ Erin Alberty
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #CodeTalkers #Navajo #military
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"By Monday, 1,000 [USAGM] journalists were placed on indefinite leave for not being MAGA cheerleaders. Others were locked out of their Washington, D.C., headquarters."
~ Dan Rather
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USAGM #VoiceofAmerica
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"On their first attempt to enter the Institute for Peace, the DOGE staff were accompanied by FBI agents. On the second attempt, DOGE was reportedly accompanied by US Marshals and—after a call to the DC police—were assisted by the DC Metropolitan police."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"Rachel Maddow reported on Monday evening about two disturbing instances in which DOGE hackers effectively forced their way into government agencies with the help of armed escorts. In the latest instance, the US Institute for Peace—an independent agency created by Congress—resisted the efforts of DOGE staff to enter the building."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/yes-we-still-have-a-constitutional
"The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police. That came after an earlier confrontation in which DOGE was accompanied by the FBI."
~ Will Sommer
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"With apparent help from the FBI and DC police, DOGE took over the independent U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday in a surreal scene that spilled out onto city sidewalks."
~ David Kurtz
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/showdown-between-trump-and-the-courts
"The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police. That came after an earlier confrontation in which DOGE was accompanied by the FBI."
~ Rachel Maddow
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of a broader effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”
~ Tobi Raji and Michael E. Ruane
#Trump #fascism #purges #diversity #Black #Hispanic #women
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/14/arlington-cemetery-website-dei-removals/
As @laffy likes to say, irony is dead.
"The booing incident prompted a retort from Grenell: “It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength.”
You know what troubles me? concentrations camps. & if diversity is our strength, why delete medal of honor recipients who aren't white men? The computer programming instruction says deimedalofhonor.