OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants - Live Updates - POLITICO

“That really sounds to me like you all are trying to turn the entire federal government into this one big slush fund to reward those aligned with the administration and punish everyone else,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator, told Duncan on Tuesday, during his first confirmation hearing before the Budget Committee…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/17/congress/omb-pick-talks-grant-shakeup-00964909

 

Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

Officials given 21 days to comply with order after Angel Kelley condemns administration for ‘telling half-truths’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-national-park-trump-displays

 

For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: Women : NPR

"It has completely infected the white supremacist realm," Beirich said. "Misogyny is as important, I would argue, as racism or neo-Nazi-ism now to people that traffic in these kinds of ideas and live in these cultures."

 "It is an ideology that is heavily invested in the idea of 'cultural degeneracy' and what are the sources of it," said Elliot Chandler, CFO and researcher at Revontulet, a Norway-based company that does online threat monitoring. "And historically, femininity and the excessive expression of femininity is a core aspect of degeneracy. That is the classic 'This is what the Nazis think' way of approaching it." 

 This panic over the "feminization" of society also plays a role in the extreme hostility toward LGBTQ+ people, and to inclusive agendas, said DiBranco…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835586/san-diego-mosque-anti-women

#PeteHegseth embarrassed himself at West Point. #diversity #DEI

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P0i75ypNdF4

 

 

House rejects Smithsonian women’s history museum bill after partisan split - Live Updates - POLITICO

New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States” and prohibited the institution from seeking to “identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/21/congress/house-smithsonian-womens-museum-00932675

 

Why Conservatives Are Easy To Fool - Diversity of Thought #psychology

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXQKq6L3bmg

 

Listen to this man.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/85smvbxVzyw

 

Let’s debunk this viral graphic #politics #education #politicalscience

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ABmXh4SAqNw

 

Doge slashing of humanities grants in 2025 ruled biased and unconstitutional

US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/doge-humanities-grants-unconstitutional

 

Federal discrimination watchdog sues New York Times for editor snub - POLITICO

Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s sole Democratic appointee, blasted the Republican majority’s decision to file the lawsuit as politically motivated. 

“I fear this litigation is driven not by the merits, but by a desire to advance the administration’s political agenda, which weakens civil rights protections for workers and undermines employer efforts to advance equal employment opportunity,” Kotagal wrote in a statement posted on social media…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-discrimination-watchdog-new-york-times-lawsuit-00907157

 

US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

Other Hawaiian educational initiatives have been targeted through legal challenges aimed at diversity programs. The Kamehameha Schools, a private school system established with the inheritance of Hawaiian princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, was specifically created to boost educational outcomes of Native Hawaiians...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/native-hawaiian-healthcare-scholarships

 

Trump’s Minions Have Quietly Disappeared Most Federal Data on Gender Identity – Mother Jones

These change have affected "really critical programs like the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline or data collections about runaway and homeless youth," Klein says. These have been among the removals that, over the past year, have garnered widespread concern because trans people are known to experience higher rates of suicide and homelessness than others—crises that have grown worse as a result of the administration's anti-trans policies and rhetoric. 

"Without the data, disparities don't just magically disappear, but they do become more difficult to document and address," says Caroline Medina, a senior advisor for data policy at the Movement Advancement Project (MAP)…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-agencies-health-human-services-hhs-federal-data-gender-identity-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/

 

DOGE staffer who flagged grants for 'DEI' struggles to define the term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbGF7l-t2w

 

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong - The Atlantic

...Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser, had written: "Migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands." In Minnesota, the opposite was happening. The "conditions and terrors" of immigrants' "broken homelands" weren't being re-created by immigrants. They were being re-created by people like Miller. The immigrants simply have the experience to recognize them. 

The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren't possible: "Social bonds form among people who have something in common," Vance said in a speech last July. "If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally." Vance's remarks are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them… 

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force. 

No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors. These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one's heroes, no one's saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/

 

 

Vance announces aid restrictions for groups that promote diversity, transgender policies abroad - POLITICO

That means that any organizations receiving U.S. non-military funding will not be able to work on abortion, DEI and issues related to transgender people, even if that work is done with other funding sources...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/vance-mexico-city-abortion-dei-transgender-march-for-life-00744792 

 

Trump Fan Instantly REGRETS Bringing Up DEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBEBFPR1_0

 

Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push

Mary and Sherman, though, say it's clear that CBS's methodology for who they chose to lay off reflects the Trump administration's assault on diversity. "I'm not accusing any one person of looking at my department and deciding to lay off all the people of color," Sherman said, "but I am saying that it's not a coincidence that the layoffs that they chose to do fell along racial lines."…

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/journalists-of-color-layoffs 

 

Pulse Oximeters Are Still Failing Black Patients. Why No Fix?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dBJyD2KWr5E

 

Hegseth reportedly plans to cut support to US scouts group for being ‘genderless’

Scouting America decries accusations by defense secretary that the organization is attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/pete-hegseth-scouting-america-gender

 

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future

Democracy flourishes when Black Americans advance. The evidence is clear: birthright citizenship, constitutional due process, anti-discrimination laws from education to housing to employment and equitable small business investments, are all byproducts of the systemic corrections known today as DEI. Yet, in recent years, DEI has been used as a smokescreen by cynical politicians and activists to roll back progress and consolidate power. Across classrooms, museums, boardrooms and federal agencies, the key pathways to opportunity and success are under attack through a coordinated disinformation campaign of erasure, distortion and suppression...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/22/us-black-history-dei