"So when Target bowed to pressure from Republicans to scrap DEI, it effectively threw its goodwill in the ethnic and LGBTQ communities out of the window. The company even lost some of its white customers….
When a company makes business decisions based on dogma instead of data, the result should come as no surprise."
Marlon Weems reports on how Target shot itself in the foot when it ditched its DEI commitments to kowtow to Trump:
"Target’s DEI decision came on the heels of its alienation of the LGBTQ community by removing its Pride-friendly kiosks from stores. While there is no exact customer data in this category, according to a report by Collage Group, the company’s brand favorability stood at almost 70%."
#Target #DEI #Trump #Republicans #LGBTQ #Black
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https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/target-corporation-a-cautionary-tale
https://www.europesays.com/2372430/ Lisa Cook standing up for the Federal Reserve is a ploy to turn a blind eye from her mortgage scandal #business #congress #DEI #DonaldTrump #Economy #FederalReserve #FederalReserveSystem #JeromePowell #JoeBiden #LarrySummers #SupremeCourt #WallStreet
@Cloudslave
It is revealing how many of them there are… gives credence to the notion that Australia remains a deeply divided and racist society despite the efforts of the majority (guessing on proportions here, i’ve not facts to back it up).
It’s also the feeling I get during conversations with many white males, it all seems easy going and tolerant yet there are sub-texts here and there coverred by jest and what some would dismiss as harmless humour.
Lots of work yet to be done on this society, and the govt should lead the charge brazenly so IMO
Holy crap! In a world of institutional boot lickers, be ACOG.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, rather than abandon #DEI and rubber stamp anti-science policies, told the #Trump regime to stick their federal funding where the sun doesn't shine. 
ACOG and AAP are being everything our media and academic leaders are not.
#censorship #DEI #museums #TrumpRegime
In the past five years, legislators in at least forty-four states introduced bans on so-called 'divisive topics,' some of which banned critical race theory directly. This makes it less likely for students to discuss chattel slavery in an open, academic forum. Sentencing the topic to obscurity is unjust, especially considering the emphasis on preserving White people's history. Threaten to dismantle a Confederate general's statue in the deep south, and you will quickly see that resistance. While some may have assumed that such censorship would primarily impact students, President Trump's emphasis on targeting museums reveals a broader agenda of limiting the presentation of historical narratives, arguing that exhibits should reflect his personal views. He criticized the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History for focusing on how bad slavery was.' Trump claimed curators didn't put enough 'brightness' on display. His criticism is reminiscent of when White visitors go to southern plantations and complain if the tour guide discusses the lives of enslaved people. Such a comment promotes historical erasure.
To attend a museum centered on the legacy of African Americans and suggest that slavery should become a minor footnote is to prioritize pleasant narratives over historical accuracy. The institution lasted for 246 years if you start the clock with African enslavement in Jamestown (1619), and 339 years if you consider those enslaved in the Spanish colony, Florida (1526). Black Americans endured slavery in this land longer than they've been free and continued to face racial persecution after its abolition. For instance, there's a loophole in the 13th Amendment, which permits involuntary servitude for those convicted of a crime. States have used this measure to target Black people and force them into exploitative labor arrangements. Also, given the impact of Jim Crow, an apartheid system of racial segregation and oppression that persisted from 1865 to 1968, it is dishonest to suggest anti-black racism in general, or slavery in particular, had a limited impact. Indeed, the racial wealth gap produced by chattel slavery has never closed. And disparities in the criminal justice, healthcare, and educational systems point to a society still grappling with racial inequality.
This, of course, all started with African enslavement. Why, then, should anyone be able to demand that part of their story be removed? In authoritarian regimes, it's common for leaders to keep a tight grip on the messaging the public has access to. In this case, the Trump administration is trying to whitewash the history of chattel slavery, to claim it wasn't that bad, even though, if we listen to those Black people who survived it, it certainly was. Seven years after Fredrick Douglass self-liberated, he told a group of abolitionists about the horrors that enslavers subjected him to, using 'the lash, the chain,' and 'thumbscrew.'
Louisiana sugar parishes had a pattern of 'deaths greatly exceeding births,' Khalil Gibran Muhammad noted in The 1619 Project. 'Back-breaking labor and inadequate net nutrition meant that enslaved people in the United States were far less able to resist the common and life-threatening diseases of dirt and poverty.'
White people who say slavery is no big deal have no interest in enduring the conditions of enslavement, of working all day without pay, of having their cultural practices outlawed, and families separated. So, why do some try to downplay its significance? Doing so is an effort to limit constructive discourse on the lasting impacts of chattel slavery. The Daughters of the Confederacy promoted whitewashed narratives that lionized the actions of slave owners while downplaying the harm they inflicted upon Black people. Similarly, Moms for Liberty, a modern group of conservative women, supports censorship laws that limit or remove black historical narratives."
https://www.levelman.com/censorship-of-black-history-fascist/
TIL that Cracker Barrel had a DEI and PRIDE web page, but after capitulating to the KKK ... er, MAGA ... and changing its logo back to its original, it also got rid of the DEI and PRIDE page. Certainly boycott-worthy for those who still eat there.
https://www.europesays.com/2367956/ DOJ launches investigation into CalEPA over racial equity hiring practices #america #California #DEI #EnvironmentRegulation #GavinNewsom #ImmigrationProtests #jobs #JusticeDepartment #LAImmigrationProtests #LAProtests #LosAngeles #NationalGuard #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
Vegan Lawyer Girlfriend and I have been meaning to go get #Costco membership; they're a good employer who pays well but it was after their refusal to cancel #DEI programs that we really wanted to support with our wallets.
We grabbed good stuff on trip #1, but I'm not sold on the ludicrous amount of plastic packaging used on say produce for example.. so gonna keep going to my local indy grocer for that methinks. And Bulk Barn for non-canned non-perishable ingreds. But otherwise a good deal.
I've added #DEI to my profiles and email signature. It’s a good way to signal which side I'm on. I'd like to see it catch on.
"School districts with programs aimed at lifting up Black students, and others, are finding themselves legally vulnerable. The White House is pursuing a reversal of the federal government’s traditional role on race and schools, going after what it calls “illegal #DEI” or diversity, equity and inclusion":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/black-student-achievement-diversity-trump.html
Some Black voters helped Trump get re-elected. This is their reward.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #AffirmativeAction #racism
This episode critiques the MAGA movement’s strategic assault on “sanctuary cities,” exposing how the term is weaponized to advance exclusionary, white Christian nationalist policies under the guise of national security and legal order. #SanctuaryCities #DEI #RacialJustice #HigherEd
#SWAJ
https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-magas-war-on-education-sanctuary-and-dei/
> Cracker Barrel board member under fire for DEI background after restaurant ditches traditional logo: ‘What qualified him?’ https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cracker-barrel-board-member-under-fire-dei-background-after-restaurant-ditches-traditional-logo
The #chismes at Cracker Barrel continues as the horror is revealed their board has a #Latino member. Dear gods, the humanity!
Professor Nira Chamberlain, President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications from 2020 to 2021 and President of The Mathematical Association in 2023, gets right down to brass tacks:
"Why are CEOs, Board members, Captains of industries, Corporate leaders predominantly White males?"
It is not legal for universities to seek to diversify their student base via “covert,” or "ostensibly neutral” means, per Trump’s DOJ—
…despite the fact that “conservative justices have long suggested schools could maintain racial diversity through nonracial strategies.”
#USA #HigherEd #education #universities #trump #DEI #diversity
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~ Trump's Next Fight With Universities: Racial ‘Proxies' in Admissions~
#DEI #censorship
This is some of the art branded 'too woke' by the administration. They have demanded these 2 paintings and sculpture be removed from the Smithsonian.
(*see alt text)
#DEI #censorship
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art : NPR
"The official White House newsletter has posted an article titled 'President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian.' It calls out some of the institution's artwork, exhibitions, programs and online articles that focus on race, slavery, immigration and sexuality."
https://share.google/lVZxeAZVc86iUlOWp
#FDA employees say the agency's #Elsa #GenerativeAI #hallucinates entire studies
by Anna Washenko, July 24, 2025
Excerpt: "The CNN investigation highlighting these flaws with the FDA's #ArtificialIntelligence arrived on the same day as the White House introduced an #AIActionPlan. The program presented AI development as a technological arms race that the US should win at all costs, and it laid out plans to remove 'red tape and onerous regulation' in the sector. It also demanded that AI be free of 'ideological bias,' or in other words, only following the biases of the current administration by removing mentions of #ClimateChange, #misinformation, and diversity, equity and inclusion [#DEI] efforts. Considering each of those three topics has a documented impact on #PublicHealth, the ability of tools like #Elsa to provide genuine benefits to both the FDA and to US patients looks increasingly doubtful."
Read more:
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/fda-employees-agencys-elsa-generative-203547537.html
Conservative group requests syllabi from Univ of North #Carolina courses
« On July 2, The Oversight Project submitted a public records request to UNC calling for the release of class resources & syllabi for 74 courses.
The group seeks to uncover any materials that defy President #Trump’s executive orders.
The request seeks materials from 29 depts containing keywords #DEI, #LGBTQ+ and anti-racism. »
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025/08/university-oversight-project-records-request
