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It is one of many policies being rolled out by #Hegseth — including new limits on the military’s #independent service #InspectorsGeneral & #EqualOpportunity offices — that may ultimately reduce the number of avenues #ServiceMembers or #defense personnel have to point out potential problems in the #Pentagon without going through their chain of command.
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In one email, a #Trump appointee at the Department of Housing & Urban Development [#HUD] described decades of #housing #discrimination cases as “artificial, arbitrary & unnecessary.”
In another, a career supervisor in the department’s Office of #FairHousing & #EqualOpportunity [#FHEO] objected to lawyers being reassigned to other offices; the supervisor was fired 6 days later for *insubordination*.
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-02-22), Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2474…
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?"
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
No people, least of all a democratic people, will be content to go without work or to accept some standard of living which obviously and woefully falls short of their capacity to produce. No people, least of all a people with our traditions of personal liberty, will endure the slow erosion of opportunity for the common man, the oppressive sense of helplessness under the domination of a few, which are overshadowing our whole economic life.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned. Second, equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable. No man who carries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service to which it is fairly entitled.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
Today is German #DiversityDay!
Meet Johannes Michalke, founder of Sailsetters, and hear why #EducationalEquity matters.
His perspective is part of TUM #DiversityMonth, May 27–June 30, with events on #inclusion & #EqualOpportunity: http://go.tum.de/711899 
go.tum.de“A good education can change an entire life.”Children from non-academic families are significantly less likely to attend university. Johannes Michalke, founder of the student club Sailsetters, wants to cha
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>> #Oligarchs-led #MAGA #enshittification is #equalOpportunity — screwing #customers & #gigWorkers alike 
The phone number that texted her the chat belongs to #Lyft, not the driver.
We've made #America Great! We're now living in #Russia.
#Oligarchs-led #MAGA #enshittification is #equalOpportunity — screwing #customers & #gigWorkers alike
She phoned #Lyft that night looking for answers. In that initial call they told her this was something Lyft was piloting. A week later she received a message from a member of the company which blamed it on the driver for recording her without her consent and said "proper actions" were taken against the driver
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106
CBCShe was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said | CBC NewsA Toronto woman is raising concerns about her privacy being breached after she received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during a Lyft ride last month.
again trying not to go political, but the sheer pettiness here !
https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4
#library #reading #books #communities #literacy #equalopportunity #resist!
AP News · US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotionThe town of Stanstead, Quebec, says U.S. authorities have unilaterally decided to “close the main Canadian access” to the Victorian-style library that straddles the border between the two countries. For decades, Canadian visitors to the town had been able to walk across the border into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the Haskell Free Library and Opera House without having to cross a checkpoint or show a passport. That custom is now ending.
Trump’s new executive order removes federal rules banning segregated workplaces and eliminates DEI mandates for contractors. He is effectually rolling back decades of civil rights progress and opening the door to workplace discrimination. #CivilRights #DEI #EqualOpportunity
'Segregated facilities' are no...
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Is there a platform where all these are on one on going conversation?
#after-school, #non-school, #YouthDevelopment #WorkforceDevelopment
#philanthropy
#research
#media
#policy
#education
#equality
#EqualOpportunity
#SocialCapital
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eabbjcxbu7vlvybsmksh6i52/post/3ljft5gxuuc26
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#DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of #firings
Records show a Dept of #Labor [#DOL] component that enforces #EqualOpportunity employment laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90%.
…At the DOL, cuts proposed…would have a dramatic impact. The internal memo details plans to shrink the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs [#OFCCP] from >50 offices nationwide staffed by nearly 500 people to just 5 offices staffed by 50 people….
#law #Musk #Trump
https://archive.is/2025.02.26-223745/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/26/doge-federal-workforce-firings-job-cuts/
How much did Nazi Elon spend to shoot his car to Mars???
and you think this guy cares about efficiency? you believe he gives a shit about working people?
Wake the fuck up.
"Put plainly, Musk has wasted 48 hours of the federal government’s time to fuck with people’s heads under the guise of achieving greater efficiency."
Marisa Kabas
The #Trump #SocialSecurity Admin said on Tues that it had closed its Office of #CivilRights & #EqualOpportunity, describing the office as redundant & putting its employees on administrative leave.
The closure of the civil rights office, whose workers were responsible for addressing #discrimination complaints & working-condition accommodations for #disabled employees, came one day after the agency said it had eliminated another office.
#law #labor #Musk #DOGE #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/25/us/president-trump-news/the-social-security-administration-closed-its-civil-rights-office?smid=url-share
The New York Times · House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan for Deep Cuts to Taxes and Spending
x7 Firing the people who clean the toilets at Yosemite National Park is going to save taxpayers money?
this is the shit that the world's richest sociopath thinks is an important step toward saving the USA from some non-existent existential crisis?
WTF?!?
Behind a facade Lies, it's always about Power.
$44 billion for Twitter was about controlling a huge media platform. It had nothing to do with free speech.
Seizing control of the federal bureaucracy is about stripping potential opponents of their power. It has nothing to do with efficiency.