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    I thought there was already a topic about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) but I could not find it in search.
    Anyway, it seems one of the main goals for republicans is to destroy anything (even if only vaguely) DEI related

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    The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America

    President Trump’s anti-DEI playbook doesn’t just affect the makeup of America’s workplaces. It also impacts cultural production. Just ask Netflix’s former head of diversity.
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    Optimus Prime said:
    The Trump administration took aim earlier this year at diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private sector. And last week, it took another step towards creating a way to crack down on federal contractors with DEI programs.

    On May 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the establishment of the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act to “investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly violates federal civil rights laws.” The initiative will be co-led by the DOJ’s Civil Division’s Fraud Section and the Civil Rights Division, and each group will be tasked with identifying a team of attorneys to “aggressively pursue this work.”

    “America has watched a tidal wave of anti-Semitism sweep our universities and seen public institutions codify inherently divisive policies like DEI at an unprecedented rate,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote in a statement. “The days of using federal funds to further discrimination are over.”

    Traditionally, the False Claims Act is used to combat fraud, such as the misuse of federal funds in billing, procurement, or administration, according to Kate Driscoll, a lawyer and partner at Morrison Foerster’s investigations and white collar defense practice group, who previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. For example, if a manufacturing company said they would provide a certain number of products to the government and underdelivers, or a health care provider bills Medicare for services it never provided. Using the law as a way to target companies over their DEI programs, according to Driscoll, is unprecedented.

    “This really is a novel extension of the False Claims Act to address an enforcement priority for this new administration, and address what it views as unlawful DEI,” says Driscoll. “The DOJ bases investigations on a preponderance of evidence, so these claims are easy to prove and the damages are tremendous.”

    Trump’s missives from earlier this year, as well as a May memorandum, make it clear that the DOJ is looking for the public’s help in calling out institutions over their DEI practices. Any individual with knowledge of discrimination by federal funding recipients are “strongly encouraged” by the department to file whistleblower claims against an organization for their DEI programs. These individuals are even financially incentivized to do so.

    Penalties for violating the False Claims Act include both civil penalties and potential for damages of up to three times the government’s losses. The DOJ says it obtained close to $3 billion in settlements and judgments from general claims during the 2024 fiscal year. Whistleblowers can receive up to 30% of what the government recovers...........

    fortune.com

    Donald Trump is creating a 'civil rights' initiative to target DEI programs in the private sector

    A new government initiative plans to use the False Claims Act to further target companies with federal grants or contracts that have maintained their DEI programs.
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    The only wave of anti-Semitism comes from MAGA.
     
    (The Center Square) – UNC Charlotte, third largest of 17 state public system campuses, has fired an employee connected to a viral social media video about diversity, equity and inclusion policies at the school.

    Led by Chancellor Dr. Sharon Gaber, the Queen City institution said in a social media post early Thursday afternoon the statements were not accurate in addition to the person’s lack of authority on policy or compliance. The incident played out over a couple of days and drew the attention of respective General Assembly leaders.

    The Board of Governors for the UNC System a year ago in May voted 22-2 to change diversity policy on all campuses. Dismantled was the 2019 policy language to “foster an inclusive environment.”

    The UNC Charlotte statement said the video showed “an employee making statements that suggest the university is failing to uphold DEI-related policies and laws.”

    “The employee’s statements were inaccurate and do not reflect the university’s action,” the school said in part. “UNC Charlotte continues to uphold both the letter and spirit of UNC System policy and all federal and state laws. The individual featured in the video had no policymaking authority, no role in compliance matters and was not authorized to speak on these issues. Following an internal review, the individual is no longer employed by UNC Charlotte.”

    Noted school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, with more than 208,000 followers on X, amplified the situation by identifying in the video Janique Sanders as the assistant director of leadership and community engagement. He said an “undercover journalist” – DeAngelis said this was Adam Guillette – broke "the story."

    The Charlotte Observer also identified Sanders.

    Per state personnel laws, the employee relieved of duties was not identified by UNC Charlotte. Thursday afternoon, there was no one by that name in the department staff website where all 14 have pronouns on the line between names and titles.

    Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, president pro tempore of the chamber, on Wednesday responded to DeAngelis by saying “DEI, no matter what name or acronym you use, doesn’t belong in education. The NC Senate has already taken concrete steps to address this by passing SB558, a bill I filed to eliminate DEI from UNC System schools and community colleges.”..............

    www.thecentersquare.com

    UNC Charlotte denies accusation, fires employee linked to viral DEI video

    (The Center Square) – UNC Charlotte, third largest of 17 state public system campuses, has fired an employee connected to a viral social media video about diversity, equity and inclusion
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    Optimus Prime said:
    The Trump administration took aim earlier this year at diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private sector. And last week, it took another step towards creating a way to crack down on federal contractors with DEI programs.

    On May 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the establishment of the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act to “investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly violates federal civil rights laws.” The initiative will be co-led by the DOJ’s Civil Division’s Fraud Section and the Civil Rights Division, and each group will be tasked with identifying a team of attorneys to “aggressively pursue this work.”

    “America has watched a tidal wave of anti-Semitism sweep our universities and seen public institutions codify inherently divisive policies like DEI at an unprecedented rate,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote in a statement. “The days of using federal funds to further discrimination are over.”

    Traditionally, the False Claims Act is used to combat fraud, such as the misuse of federal funds in billing, procurement, or administration, according to Kate Driscoll, a lawyer and partner at Morrison Foerster’s investigations and white collar defense practice group, who previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. For example, if a manufacturing company said they would provide a certain number of products to the government and underdelivers, or a health care provider bills Medicare for services it never provided. Using the law as a way to target companies over their DEI programs, according to Driscoll, is unprecedented.

    “This really is a novel extension of the False Claims Act to address an enforcement priority for this new administration, and address what it views as unlawful DEI,” says Driscoll. “The DOJ bases investigations on a preponderance of evidence, so these claims are easy to prove and the damages are tremendous.”

    Trump’s missives from earlier this year, as well as a May memorandum, make it clear that the DOJ is looking for the public’s help in calling out institutions over their DEI practices. Any individual with knowledge of discrimination by federal funding recipients are “strongly encouraged” by the department to file whistleblower claims against an organization for their DEI programs. These individuals are even financially incentivized to do so.

    Penalties for violating the False Claims Act include both civil penalties and potential for damages of up to three times the government’s losses. The DOJ says it obtained close to $3 billion in settlements and judgments from general claims during the 2024 fiscal year. Whistleblowers can receive up to 30% of what the government recovers...........

    fortune.com

    Donald Trump is creating a 'civil rights' initiative to target DEI programs in the private sector

    A new government initiative plans to use the False Claims Act to further target companies with federal grants or contracts that have maintained their DEI programs.
    fortune.com fortune.com
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    McCarthy would be proud.

    Trump’s so-called “civil rights initiative” isn’t about protecting rights—it’s about targeting progress and punishing companies for trying to build more inclusive workplaces. This is classic authoritarianism dressed up as patriotism.
     
    President Donald Trump announced the firing of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery director.

    The president terminated Kim Sajet from the post she's held since 2013, saying the Nigerian-born, Australia-raised Dutch citizen was too in thrall to the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion to oversee the museum's collection of about 26,000 objects that draws about 2 million yearly visitors..............

    www.rawstory.com

    Trump announces he's firing 'highly partisan' art director from Smithsonian

    President Donald Trump announced the firing of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery director.The president terminated Kim Sajet from the post she's held since 2013, saying the Nigerian-born, Australia-raised Dutch citizen was too in thrall to the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion...
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    Optimus Prime said:
    President Donald Trump announced the firing of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery director.

    The president terminated Kim Sajet from the post she's held since 2013, saying the Nigerian-born, Australia-raised Dutch citizen was too in thrall to the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion to oversee the museum's collection of about 26,000 objects that draws about 2 million yearly visitors..............
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    a lack woman of course she has to go. But I am sure he will put some white MAGA guy that likes paintings on velvet.
     
    MT15 said:
    This just couldn’t be more stupid.

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    CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretary of the Navy to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk, according to a defense official.

    The ship, which was launched in 2021 and named after the gay rights activist and Navy veteran, who was made to resign from the force because of his sexual orientation, is set to be officially renamed later this month, the official said. It is not clear what the new name will be, but the timing is notable given that June is Pride Month.

    Military.com first reported the expected name change.

    The Office of the Secretary of Defense did not respond to a request for comment.

    It is rare for a ship to be renamed, and it has not happened on the orders of a defense secretary in recent memory.

    The last time a ship was renamed in 2023, the move was based upon the recommendation of a congressional commission established to review names across the military with ties to the Confederacy. As a result of the study, the Navy decided to rename the cruiser USS Chancellorsville and research ship USNS Maury……..


    www.cnn.com

    Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk | CNN Politics

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretary of the Navy to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk, according to a defense official.
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    Linda McMahon, the education secretary, said on Wednesday she was unsure if teaching students about two of the most notorious racist episodes in US history would fall foul of the Trump administration’s onslaught against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

    Testifying before the House of Representatives’ education and workforce subcommittee, McMahon appeared uncertain of her facts when confronted by Summer Lee, a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania. Lee asked her about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and Ruby Bridges, a civil rights workers who as a six-year-old, braved a screaming mob to become the first Black child to attend a previously all-white school.

    The exchange occurred after Lee asked her if teaching an African American history course would breach the administration’s anti-DEI policies.

    “I do not think that African studies or Middle East studies or Chinese studies are part of DEI if they are taught as part of the total history package,” she said. “So that if you’re giving the facts on both sides, of course they’re not DEI.”


    Lee said she was unsure what both sides of a Black history course would be and raised the questions about Tulsa and Bridges, prompting McMahon to respond that she would “look into them”.

    That in turn led to Lee asking: “Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?” McMahon replied: “I’d like to look into it more.”

    The Tulsa episode is widely seen as the single worst outbreak of racial violence in American history, when an attack on the city’s Black community led to the destruction of more than 1,000 homes and business, and the deaths of between 50 and 300 people, according to various estimates. The attack happened during a period of racial tensions marked by the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.

    Lee then asked if it would be illegal to teach Bridges’ book, Through My Eyes, which documents her experience of attending a formerly segregated school in New Orleans in 1960, under the escort of federal marshals. The episode was later depicted in a famous Norman Rockwell painting, entitled The Problem We All Live With.

    McMahon said she had not read Bridges’ book, leading Lee to ask: “Have you learned about Ruby Bridges?”

    McMahon – a billionaire former president of World Wrestling Entertainment – tried to respond: “If you have any specific examples you would like to … ”

    Lee cut her off, saying: “That was an incredibly specific example.”……..

    www.theguardian.com

    Linda McMahon unsure if teaching Black history flouts Trump’s anti-DEI policy

    Education secretary said ‘if you’re giving facts on both sides’ of Tulsa race massacre and Ruby Bridges, it wouldn’t be DEI
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Organising a women’s networking event in the US has become an act of defiance.

    Companies with equality-driven agendas risk losing government contracts. Some are receiving McCarthy-like letters asking them to confirm that they have no diversity policies.

    Activities designed to support women, including healthcare research, are being threatened, and companies are backtracking on former commitments.

    Women’s networking events, the gathering of diversity data and targeted training are being questioned. And some companies are requesting that charities focused on women and girls consider changes to their programmes in order to navigate the current climate. The one I founded, Inspiring Girls, has already been asked to “include men as role models”.

    This anti-diversity wave isn’t just a social backlash to the many excesses of wokeness – it is politically orchestrated and driven.

    It crystallised in 2021, when the senator Josh Hawley devoted his entire keynote speech at the second National Conservatism Conference to “reclaiming masculinity”, calling for boys (not girls) to be taught competitiveness, strength, honesty and courage – as if those were only male values.

    Since then, the movement has reached the highest offices of power: the White House is its headquarters and its commander-in-chief is Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who promised last year to tackle “anti-white racism” if Trump won a second term.

    The anti-diversity brigade has no shortage of money or allies: several “tech bros” (whether out of conviction or FOMO) have joined in – as have tech venture capitalists and other Maga financiers.

    These are men who operate in fields dominated almost exclusively by other men and who wield enormous wealth and influence, yet they often cast themselves as victims. They hide their anti-diversity stance under the disguise of meritocracy.

    On the progressive side, there is a movement claiming that it is actually boys – particularly white working-class ones – rather than girls who are “in crisis”. It is led by the American Institute for Boys and Men, which last week received a $20m grantfrom Melinda French Gates.

    They argue that boys lag behind girls in education and employment. It is true, of course, that many of the manufacturing jobs that many young men used to rely on are vanishing due to automation and tech (ironically, for the benefit of mostly male tech moguls).

    Unfortunately, however, this well-meaning movement is fuelling the anti-diversity brigade’s narrative – because they can now claim that even progressives admit it is white men who are suffering.……

    www.theguardian.com

    Trump is strongarming companies elsewhere into cutting DEI. Those that cave in now will regret it later | Miriam González Durántez

    Spinelessly going along with the US’s perverse programme is not just a moral failure – it directly contravenes EU and British law, says lawyer and Inspiring Girls founder Miriam González Durántez
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    Florida’s university leaders on Tuesday blocked Santa Ono from becoming the University of Florida’s president after a weeks-long campaign against him by conservative commentators who opposed his past support of diversity initiatives.

    The 17-member Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s public universities, rejected Ono’s candidacy 10-6, with one member absent. The vote came a week after the University of Florida’s board of trustees voted unanimously to make him the school’s next president. Ono, a longtime university administrator, was the only finalist in the selection process.

    But conservatives in the state, including some who led a social media campaign, criticized Ono’s past support of diversity, equity and inclusion — or DEI — programs. Some also objected to Ono’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests when he was president at the University of Michigan.

    Several Florida Republicans, including Sen. Rick Scott and Donald Trump Jr., encouraged the Board of Governors to vote against Ono’s candidacy. Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R) in a post on X this week accused Ono of being “a DEI acolyte.”

    “Leave the Ann Arbor thinking in Ann Arbor,” Patronis said, referring to Ono’s time at the University of Michigan.

    Ono was being offered a contract at the state’s flagship university with a base salary of $1.5 million that could have grown to as much as $15 million over five years with performance and retention bonuses. That would have made him one of the highest-paid university presidents in the country.

    Mori Hosseini, chairman of the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees, said before Tuesday’s vote that Ono is “one of the most respected leaders in higher education” and would elevate the school in national rankings.

    “There are very few people with the combination of ideological alignment with Florida, and the operational expertise to run a research powerhouse like UF,” Hosseini said at the Board of Governors meeting in Orlando.

    But several board members questioned Ono’s views on DEI policies and other issues his critics have called “woke.” Florida passed a law in 2023 prohibiting colleges from spending money on DEI efforts.

    Ono wrote in an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed last month that while he supported what he “believed to be the original intent of DEI,” he saw it become “something else — more about ideology, division and bureaucracy, not student success.”.............

    University of Florida presidential pick rejected after criticism of past DEI support​


     
    When President Donald Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for the deadly January crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, some aviation officials were appalled. Some were simply perplexed. But few officials inside the Federal Aviation Administration took the president’s remarks seriously.

    Not so for the political leadership of the Department of Transportation. The FAA’s parent agency agreed in March to spend as much as $2.1 million on an investigation into DEI policies and their impact on recent safety incidents. To conduct that investigation, the Trump administration has turned to Alex Spiro, a former prosecutor and a prominent defense attorney who has represented Elon Musk, among other billionaires and celebrities.

    I obtained the “scope of work” document for Spiro’s investigation, which is marked “privileged” and “confidential” and has not been previously reported. It shows how the president’s musings—his accusations, he said at the time, were based on “very strong opinions and ideas”—translate into taxpayer-funded government action.

    It also reveals the cost of the administration’s fixation on DEI at a time when the FAA is struggling to hire and retain air-traffic controllers, linchpins of aviation safety, and when Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, is seeking funds to overhaul the country’s antiquated air-traffic-control system. Recent radar outages at Newark Liberty International Airport have caused severe flight delays and spotlighted just how deep technology and staffing problems run.

    The investigation by Spiro, a partner at the elite firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, is due to conclude soon, a person familiar with the dynamics told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the confidentiality of the work. Contrary to what Trump may hope, it’s not expected to find that programs aimed at ensuring representation for women and people of color are responsible for this year’s string of aviation disasters, including the January crash at Reagan airport, which killed 67 people and prompted Trump’s tirade against DEI.............

    The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes​


    www.theatlantic.com

    The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

    The president may be disappointed by the findings.
    www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
     

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