#Inclusivity and Diversity Committee

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Nathaniel Baptiste at HuffPost:

Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, refused to answer on Thursday during a Senate confirmation hearing if public schools would be in violation of an executive order and be at risk of losing their federal funding if they host groups or clubs based on a race or ethnicity. On Trump’s first day back in office, he signed an executive order that dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government. Federal employees who worked on DEI programs were placed on administrative leave, governmental organizations like the Smithsonian Institution shut down its diversity program, and West Point Academy disbanded its ethnic groups because they believed that these programs ran afoul of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade.

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“You’re saying that it’s possible that if a school has a club for Vietnamese students or Black students where they meet after school, that they could potentially be in jeopardy of receiving federal funding?” he asked. But McMahon again said she would need to know what exactly the clubs are doing before she could commit to an answer. [...] He then asked one final time about clubs or educational programming centered around ethnic or racial experiences, like an African American history class. McMahon still wouldn’t provide a clear answer. “So, there’s a possibility that schools that run African American history classes that’ve been taught for decades could lose federal funding if they continue to teach African American history?” Murphy questioned. “No, that’s not what I’m saying,” McMahon said. “I’m saying I need to look at these programs and fully understand the breadth of the executive order and get back to you on that.”

Linda McMahon embarrassed the whole nation with her refusal to answer a question about funding for ethnic affinity clubs in schools.

See Also:

MMFA: Echoing right-wing media, Trump education nominee Linda McMahon casts doubt on legality of Black history courses

[justbeingnamaste]

The complete incompetence of the ladies of the Secret Service are on full display. One of the agents can’t properly holster her sidearm while another fiddles around with her sunglasses trying to look cool for the crowd.

An assassination attempt was made on former US President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. It happened when Donald Trump was leading a public meeting before the elections. The bullet grazed past the upper part of Trump’s right ear. Recalling this incident, he said that he heard a whizzing sound and shots and immediately felt the bullet ripping through his skin. The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) announced that Thomas Mattew Crook is the individual identified in the assassination attempt of the former President.

After this, the security formed a human chain around him and exited the area, but the video caught the panicking situation of the women security of Secret Services deployed in the area. One of the security personnel was panicking and failed to put her gun in the holster while Trump was sitting in his car.

“Imagine if the sh**ter hadn’t been this kid but [someone] well-trained? Our enemies are looking at us thinking we can take [him] or anyone out now without a problem.”

[brightlotusmoon]

Republicans have already named who they intend to take over each committee, but it won't be official until all members are sworn in on Jan. 3. So, Republicans can make changes before then and ensure there is some female representation in the assignments, but doing so would admit they need more diversity, equity and inclusion.

“It’s unfortunate,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told Bloomberg. She's currently an assistant whip and on the Ways and Means Committee.

“We’ve never been the party that was about checking boxes or identity politics, but the difference is we have women that are qualified to be chairs, and I don’t know why there wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee," she added.

The only woman who sought a chair post was Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO). She lost to Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL).

[projectcatzo]

Scrolling through the Oscar nominations makes it abundantly apparent that most "Academy members" watch approximately four movies at a festival with their friends in the summer and call it a year

[contemplatingoutlander]

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: Welcome to Modern Day McCarthyism

This video is well worth watching! It is about H.R.8706 - Dismantle DEI Act of 2024, which Stansbury refers to as "just the start of the President-Elect's purge."

PARTIAL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

REP. MELANIE STANSBURY: But what is particularly peculiar about this massive bill that's been introduced--and I want to note that the co-sponsor of this bill or this primary sponsor of this bill in the Senate is Mr. J.D. Vance our vice president-elect—is it literally, as the title says, is about dismantling diversity equity and inclusion programs in the federal government. It revokes executive orders, it amends the Civil Rights Act, and it amends other parts of the federal code that protect our federal employees. And then it has this peculiar section that the ranking member talked about, which is actually essentially creating lists of federal employees and contractors that would never be eligible to work for the federal government again. Now we have a word for that in common parlance. We call it “blacklisting.” And blacklisting comes from the 1950s, when here in this House of Representatives there was a Committee on Unamerican Affairs that was convened under Joe McCarthy. The purpose of that was to purge the federal government, and to accuse federal employees, and blacklist them from future federal employment. So I'd like to say: Welcome to the New House Committee on Unamerican Affairs and to the New McCarthyism because we have arrived here today! [emphasis added]

Laurence Tribe: Excellent!

Really American: WATCH Rep. Melanie Stansbury issue a fantastic, full-throated repudiation of Trump's mostly unqualified clown car cabinet, and Republicans' attempt at modern day McCarthyism. No, the gentlelady will NOT yield. 🔥🔥🔥

[thedialoguedilemma]

President Donald Trump held a press conference today to discuss the tragedy that unfolded last night when a military Blackhawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane resulting in over 60+ deaths.

During the press conference, he blamed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former President Biden and former President Obama for the crash.

President Trump fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee and fired 100 Federal Aviation Administration agents.

Elon Musk forced the FAA Administrator to resign once Trump took office because the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes causing the position to be currently vacant.

Absolutely disgusting.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they're cutting ties with the organization after seven years. The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon. The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada's oldest ballet company "a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization," the ballet's website says.

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[allthegeopolitics]

Shopping giant Target is facing a huge backlash, including calls for a boycott from a Black pastor and civil rights leader, after it said it was ending some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. Just four days after Trump’s inauguration, Target issued an announcement stating that it planned to eliminate hiring goals for minority employees, as well as ending an executive committee focused on racial justice. Target also stressed the need for “staying in step with the evolving external landscape,” CNN reports. The new Republican administration has repeatedly attacked diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, which help to provide equity for marginalised groups, particularly in work environments.

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[samueldays]

That Which Does Not Want To Be Named

There is a Thing of many names and none, which used to be called D&I, standing for "Diversity and Inclusion", later DEI with the addition of "Equity", later DEIA with the addition of "Accessibility", sometimes also "Office of Multicultural Affairs", and more names too, including sometimes "affirmative action", and called "tokenism" and "quota hiring" by its enemies too.

Trump has ordered an end to the Thing. One of the reactions by Thingists has been to generate more new names to hide behind, and then say they're not doing the literal name Trump tried to ban. This reaction was probably anticipated, as Trump's executive order included the following instruction:

and an assessment of whether these positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures have been misleadingly relabeled in an attempt to preserve their pre-November 4, 2024 function;

Another reaction by Thingists has been malicious compliance by equivocating between the Thing's name of quote "Diversity, equity and inclusion" unquote, and any activity which could be described as diverse, equitable or inclusive. Then they pretend that Trump's order bans the second and is overbroad or illegal.

Paul Krugman says:

About the broad attack on the civil service: The Trump administration has ordered an immediate end to all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the federal government. That’s pretty shocking, especially because it’s open-ended. What counts as D.E.I.? Is it forbidden even to mention anything involving race, gender or socioeconomic status? Probably. Public health agencies, even more than the rest of the government, are in the firing line. You can’t talk seriously about health policy without taking race and gender into account; yet according to the New York Times, one contractor collecting demographic data for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already been told to stop work, and the results of an already completed survey won’t be released.

What counts? I wish the Thingists had been honest about that, instead of playing name-games. But they dragged everyone into their stupid games and now everyone wins stupid prizes. Trump is working to remove the Thing, which has superglued itself to institutions to make it hard to remove, and when it's pulled off then those institutions are going to get some metaphorical torn skin as acceptable collateral damage. Public health agencies are in the firing line because Thingists used public health agencies as a hostage, deliberately conflating public health in general (goes back millennia) with That Which Does Not Want To Be Named (summoned sometime last century).

[queen-boudicca]

he was so funny for this tbh

(transcript under the cut)

video description: a video of Brad and David from Mythic Quest talking to each other in a hallway.

Brad: Sure, we created the platform, but should we be the ones to decide who stays and who goes? It's the same problem facebook and twitter had to deal with.

David: Hey, look, somebody has to put their foot down!

Brad: I agree. But let's think about this. What's it going to look like when people find out that foot belongs to a straight white man writing the laws everyone has to live by? Does that seem fair? Does that seem inclusive? *long pause* Okay, see ya!

David: Uh—wait—Brad, I—I want to be more inclusive. We should consult some diverse perspectives, like you.

Brad: What do you mean?

David: Well, you know, 'cause you're... Can I say "Indian"?

Brad: Well why can't you say it?

David: I don't know. I mean—I—

Brad: What's wrong with being Indian?

David: Nothing!

Brad: I mean, I'm also Polish, if that's better for you.

David: No! I mean—yes, or—I don't know. Ugh! I'm just trying to do what's right here! Will you please help me? Please? Oh! We could form an ethics committee, huh? Make the decisions together!

Brad: Hmm, okay, a committee.

David: And, you know what? We should get some girls involved.

Brad: *correcting him* Women

David: Women, right.

[innerfiresalad]

Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.’s Promises of Protection

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.Nygren said he wanted Kennedy to look at the capital for the nation of about 400,000 enrolled members. The tribal president pointed toward an antiquated health center that he hoped federal funding would help replace and described life for the thousands of locals without running water due to delayed government projects.Nygren said Kennedy had already done a lot, primarily saving the Indian Health Service from a round of staffing cuts rippling through the federal government.“When we started hearing about the layoffs and the freezes, you were the first one to stand up for Indian Country,” he told Kennedy, of his move to spare the federal agency charged with providing health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans.“You’re disrupting real lives,” Cherilyn Yazzie, a Navajo council delegate, told KFF Health News as she described recent changes.Kennedy has repeatedly promised to prioritize Native Americans’ health care. But Native Americans and health officials across tribal nations say those overtures are overshadowed by the collateral harm from massive cuts to federal health programs.The sweeping reductions have resulted in cuts to funding directed toward or disproportionately relied on by Native Americans. Staffing cuts, tribal health leaders say, have led to missing data and poor communication.The Indian Health Service provides free health care at its hospitals and clinics to Native Americans, who, as a group, face higher rates of chronic diseases and die younger than other populations. Those inequities are attributable to centuries of systemic discrimination. But many tribal members don’t live near an agency clinic or hospital. And those who do may face limited services, chronic underfunding, and staffing shortages. To work around those gaps, health organizations lean on other federally funded programs.“There may be a misconception among some of the administration that Indian Country is only impacted by changes to the Indian Health Service,” said Liz Malerba, a tribal policy expert and citizen of the Mohegan Tribe. “That’s simply not true.”Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy.Janet Alkire, chairperson of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas, said at a May 14 Senate committee hearing that those grants paid for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization, and other public health efforts.The government also canceled funding for programs it said violated President Donald Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” including one aimed at Native American youth interested in science and medicine and another that helps several tribes increase access to healthy food — something Kennedy has said he wants to prioritize.Tribal health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.The firings have cut or eliminated staff at programs related to preventing overdoses in tribal communities, using traditional food and medicine to fight chronic disease, and helping low-income people afford to heat and cool their homes through the Low Income Home Energy Program.The Oglala Sioux Tribe is in South Dakota, where Native Americans who struggle to heat their homes have died of hypothermia. Through mid-May the tribe hadn’t been able to access its latest

[friedmentalityyouth]

Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.’s Promises of Protection

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.Nygren said he wanted Kennedy to look at the capital for the nation of about 400,000 enrolled members. The tribal president pointed toward an antiquated health center that he hoped federal funding would help replace and described life for the thousands of locals without running water due to delayed government projects.Nygren said Kennedy had already done a lot, primarily saving the Indian Health Service from a round of staffing cuts rippling through the federal government.“When we started hearing about the layoffs and the freezes, you were the first one to stand up for Indian Country,” he told Kennedy, of his move to spare the federal agency charged with providing health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans.“You’re disrupting real lives,” Cherilyn Yazzie, a Navajo council delegate, told KFF Health News as she described recent changes.Kennedy has repeatedly promised to prioritize Native Americans’ health care. But Native Americans and health officials across tribal nations say those overtures are overshadowed by the collateral harm from massive cuts to federal health programs.The sweeping reductions have resulted in cuts to funding directed toward or disproportionately relied on by Native Americans. Staffing cuts, tribal health leaders say, have led to missing data and poor communication.The Indian Health Service provides free health care at its hospitals and clinics to Native Americans, who, as a group, face higher rates of chronic diseases and die younger than other populations. Those inequities are attributable to centuries of systemic discrimination. But many tribal members don’t live near an agency clinic or hospital. And those who do may face limited services, chronic underfunding, and staffing shortages. To work around those gaps, health organizations lean on other federally funded programs.“There may be a misconception among some of the administration that Indian Country is only impacted by changes to the Indian Health Service,” said Liz Malerba, a tribal policy expert and citizen of the Mohegan Tribe. “That’s simply not true.”Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy.Janet Alkire, chairperson of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas, said at a May 14 Senate committee hearing that those grants paid for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization, and other public health efforts.The government also canceled funding for programs it said violated President Donald Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” including one aimed at Native American youth interested in science and medicine and another that helps several tribes increase access to healthy food — something Kennedy has said he wants to prioritize.Tribal health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.The firings have cut or eliminated staff at programs related to preventing overdoses in tribal communities, using traditional food and medicine to fight chronic disease, and helping low-income people afford to heat and cool their homes through the Low Income Home Energy Program.The Oglala Sioux Tribe is in South Dakota, where Native Americans who struggle to heat their homes have died of hypothermia. Through mid-May the tribe hadn’t been able to access its latest

[mysticlovetidalwave]

Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.’s Promises of Protection

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.Nygren said he wanted Kennedy to look at the capital for the nation of about 400,000 enrolled members. The tribal president pointed toward an antiquated health center that he hoped federal funding would help replace and described life for the thousands of locals without running water due to delayed government projects.Nygren said Kennedy had already done a lot, primarily saving the Indian Health Service from a round of staffing cuts rippling through the federal government.“When we started hearing about the layoffs and the freezes, you were the first one to stand up for Indian Country,” he told Kennedy, of his move to spare the federal agency charged with providing health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans.“You’re disrupting real lives,” Cherilyn Yazzie, a Navajo council delegate, told KFF Health News as she described recent changes.Kennedy has repeatedly promised to prioritize Native Americans’ health care. But Native Americans and health officials across tribal nations say those overtures are overshadowed by the collateral harm from massive cuts to federal health programs.The sweeping reductions have resulted in cuts to funding directed toward or disproportionately relied on by Native Americans. Staffing cuts, tribal health leaders say, have led to missing data and poor communication.The Indian Health Service provides free health care at its hospitals and clinics to Native Americans, who, as a group, face higher rates of chronic diseases and die younger than other populations. Those inequities are attributable to centuries of systemic discrimination. But many tribal members don’t live near an agency clinic or hospital. And those who do may face limited services, chronic underfunding, and staffing shortages. To work around those gaps, health organizations lean on other federally funded programs.“There may be a misconception among some of the administration that Indian Country is only impacted by changes to the Indian Health Service,” said Liz Malerba, a tribal policy expert and citizen of the Mohegan Tribe. “That’s simply not true.”Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy.Janet Alkire, chairperson of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas, said at a May 14 Senate committee hearing that those grants paid for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization, and other public health efforts.The government also canceled funding for programs it said violated President Donald Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” including one aimed at Native American youth interested in science and medicine and another that helps several tribes increase access to healthy food — something Kennedy has said he wants to prioritize.Tribal health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.The firings have cut or eliminated staff at programs related to preventing overdoses in tribal communities, using traditional food and medicine to fight chronic disease, and helping low-income people afford to heat and cool their homes through the Low Income Home Energy Program.The Oglala Sioux Tribe is in South Dakota, where Native Americans who struggle to heat their homes have died of hypothermia. Through mid-May the tribe hadn’t been able to access its latest

[furryballoondestiny]

Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.’s Promises of Protection

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Below them, tribal government buildings, homes, and juniper trees dotted the tan and deep-red landscape.Nygren said he wanted Kennedy to look at the capital for the nation of about 400,000 enrolled members. The tribal president pointed toward an antiquated health center that he hoped federal funding would help replace and described life for the thousands of locals without running water due to delayed government projects.Nygren said Kennedy had already done a lot, primarily saving the Indian Health Service from a round of staffing cuts rippling through the federal government.“When we started hearing about the layoffs and the freezes, you were the first one to stand up for Indian Country,” he told Kennedy, of his move to spare the federal agency charged with providing health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives.But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans.“You’re disrupting real lives,” Cherilyn Yazzie, a Navajo council delegate, told KFF Health News as she described recent changes.Kennedy has repeatedly promised to prioritize Native Americans’ health care. But Native Americans and health officials across tribal nations say those overtures are overshadowed by the collateral harm from massive cuts to federal health programs.The sweeping reductions have resulted in cuts to funding directed toward or disproportionately relied on by Native Americans. Staffing cuts, tribal health leaders say, have led to missing data and poor communication.The Indian Health Service provides free health care at its hospitals and clinics to Native Americans, who, as a group, face higher rates of chronic diseases and die younger than other populations. Those inequities are attributable to centuries of systemic discrimination. But many tribal members don’t live near an agency clinic or hospital. And those who do may face limited services, chronic underfunding, and staffing shortages. To work around those gaps, health organizations lean on other federally funded programs.“There may be a misconception among some of the administration that Indian Country is only impacted by changes to the Indian Health Service,” said Liz Malerba, a tribal policy expert and citizen of the Mohegan Tribe. “That’s simply not true.”Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy.Janet Alkire, chairperson of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas, said at a May 14 Senate committee hearing that those grants paid for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization, and other public health efforts.The government also canceled funding for programs it said violated President Donald Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” including one aimed at Native American youth interested in science and medicine and another that helps several tribes increase access to healthy food — something Kennedy has said he wants to prioritize.Tribal health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.The firings have cut or eliminated staff at programs related to preventing overdoses in tribal communities, using traditional food and medicine to fight chronic disease, and helping low-income people afford to heat and cool their homes through the Low Income Home Energy Program.The Oglala Sioux Tribe is in South Dakota, where Native Americans who struggle to heat their homes have died of hypothermia. Through mid-May the tribe hadn’t been able to access its latest

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sarah Stankorb at The New Republic:

The small hearing room at the Ohio Statehouse is packed. The overflow room next-door is full, as well—and both are roped off. State Highway Patrol officers in tall hats direct people who have come to oppose the bill that’s on the Workforce and Higher Education Committee’s docket to a second overflow site set up in the Capitol crypt. So far, 80 people have signed up to fill the three hours allotted for opposition testimony in a hearing timed to spring break for many public universities. More than 700 people have submitted written testimony. They’re all out in force against the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which detractors say is an attack on student diversity and intellectual freedom that will destabilize higher education across the state and touch off a brain drain that might permanently and detrimentally alter the course of the state’s economy. If passed, the 76-page Frankenstein bill, known under its state Senate number Senate Bill 1, would prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion from scholarships, job descriptions, orientations, and trainings at Ohio public colleges and universities. It would shutter DEI offices or departments and require institutions to respond to complaints alleging noncompliance with the DEI ban. S.B. 1 would also prohibit institutions from endorsing or opposing any belief or policy deemed politically “controversial,” such as “climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage and abortion.” Schools that do not comply would risk losing state funding. Apparently to ensure no one sneaks any DEI into the curriculum, the bill would also require faculty to post their syllabi online, which opponents note would make them searchable for anyone online trying to ferret out DEI in coursework—or, more broadly, would allow would-be trolls to target individual professors. While some of Trump’s anti-DEI federal orders are being blocked by injunctions, S.B. 1 would codify a higher-ed DEI ban at Ohio’s 14 public universities and 23 public colleges, impacting over 440,000 enrolled students. By imposing processes to report complaints concerning DEI, S.B. 1 would also establish a grotesque surveillance system that would stifle classroom debate and expression. Then, as a cudgel for any “problem” faculty, the bill would also effectively end job protections via faculty tenure and limit faculty collective bargaining.

Ohio Republicans are supporting an economy-wrecking bill (SB1) that would further speed up brain drain in the name of “stopping DEI.”

[saywhat-politics]

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) slammed diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the U.S. military – all while using a placard that misspelled “military.”

On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee convened for the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host that President-elect Donald Trump tapped to be Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, a U.S. Army veteran, has been a lightning rod of controversy. An unidentified woman claimed that Hegseth raped her in a hotel room in Monterey, California in 2017. Police investigated the matter, but declined to bring charges. Hegseth vehemently denies the allegation, but acknowledges paying the woman.