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William Lindsey :toad:

“These demands to remove and restrict books and other library materials are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment,” read the ALA’s 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, published on Monday. “The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.”

#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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William Lindsey :toad:

"72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library Association (ALA). Just 16% of ban attempts were made by parents, while 5% were brought forward by individual library users."

~ Ella Creamer

#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups, not parentsBy Ella Creamer
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Politics Canada

Poilievre parrots Trump talking points. Video courtesy of Greenpeace Canada #Trump #Poilievre #dei #dogwhistles #woke
instagram.com/greenpeace_canad

InstagramGreenpeace Canada on Instagram: "DON’T TRUMP CANADA >> LINK IN BIO << It’s time to bring it home…to reality. Saturday was “Canada Flag Day” – a moment to contemplate why someone who is suddenly “Canada First” sounds just like the administration threatening to make Canada the 51st state. And why far right parties around the world all use the same formula with the same phrases 👇🏻 - Country first - Common sense - Bring it home - War on woke - Immigrants bad - “drain the swamp” (which, fun fact, was originally Hitler’s phrase: “den parlamentarischen Sumpf trockenlegen”), to cut government bureaucracy - deregulation - repetitive slogans - Demonize journalists - focus on defeating enemies, militarization - Nostalgia for a better past (that may or may not exist) For those wanting to know where deregulation, draining swamps + cutting bureaucracy leads – you could look at what has resulted from electing “common sense country first” parties (such as in the US, New Zealand or France). Why, when these far right populist parties get into power, do the tax breaks go to the wealthiest few, while those on the bottom continue to experience a worsening cost of living crisis. Now may also be a good time to contemplate why Poilievre claims to be Canada First and yet holds lavish fundraisers at the private mansions of those who have made their fortunes off of privatization. Such as the fundraiser he held on Jan 20, 2025: at Sharon and Aaron Stern’s 26,000-square-foot Westmount mansion—so large it has its own postal code. Stern owns Converium Capital, which is the majority owner of Medical Facilities Corp (MFC)—which owns 4 American private for-profit hospitals in the United States. It brags of “capitalizing on the attractive industry fundamentals for alternative surgical facilities” and boasts that it has “a history of consistent profitability and competitive dividends.” In Sept 2022, MFC announced its hospitals will “focus on returning capital to shareholders.”  After this, PP promised to lower taxes for people making $1.4 million a year in capital gains. Canada First - or Canada First to the highest bidder? Beware of wolves in working class clothing. Don’t drink the syrup."7,156 likes, 568 comments - greenpeace_canada on February 17, 2025: "DON’T TRUMP CANADA >> LINK IN BIO << It’s time to bring it home…to reality. Saturday was “Canada Flag Day” – a moment to contemplate why someone who is suddenly “Canada First” sounds just like the administration threatening to make Canada the 51st state. And why far right parties around the world all use the same formula with the same phrases 👇🏻 - Country first - Common sense - Bring it home - War on woke - Immigrants bad - “drain the swamp” (which, fun fact, was originally Hitler’s phrase: “den parlamentarischen Sumpf trockenlegen”), to cut government bureaucracy - deregulation - repetitive slogans - Demonize journalists - focus on defeating enemies, militarization - Nostalgia for a better past (that may or may not exist) For those wanting to know where deregulation, draining swamps + cutting bureaucracy leads – you could look at what has resulted from electing “common sense country first” parties (such as in the US, New Zealand or France). Why, when these far right populist parties get into power, do the tax breaks go to the wealthiest few, while those on the bottom continue to experience a worsening cost of living crisis. Now may also be a good time to contemplate why Poilievre claims to be Canada First and yet holds lavish fundraisers at the private mansions of those who have made their fortunes off of privatization. Such as the fundraiser he held on Jan 20, 2025: at Sharon and Aaron Stern’s 26,000-square-foot Westmount mansion—so large it has its own postal code. Stern owns Converium Capital, which is the majority owner of Medical Facilities Corp (MFC)—which owns 4 American private for-profit hospitals in the United States. It brags of “capitalizing on the attractive industry fundamentals for alternative surgical facilities” and boasts that it has “a history of consistent profitability and competitive dividends.” In Sept 2022, MFC announced its hospitals will “focus on returning capital to shareholders.”  After this, PP promised to lower taxes for people making $1.4 million a year in capital gains. Canada First - or Canada First to the highest bidder? Beware of wolves in working class clothing. Don’t drink the syrup.".
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Translator @ TRADCO

“Quebec businesses in the U.S. are adjusting their corporate language by removing “diversity” from their platforms in response to a Trump administration directive. Canadian National Railway rebranded its DEI section to “Inclusion at CN,” while CAE renamed its policy page to “All Together for Progress.” Other companies, like CGI, shifted focus to “culture.”“ #DEI #diversity #politics #USA #web #WordsMatter

actualnewsmagazine.com/english

Impact of Trump's Decree: The Vanishing Presence of "Diversity" on Quebec Websites
Actual News Magazine · 2025 - Impact of Trump's Decree: The Vanishing Presence of "Diversity" on Quebec WebsitesQuebec businesses in the U.S. are adjusting their corporate language by removing "diversity" from their platforms in response to a Trump administration
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Canvases By Peter

More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the US government invents civil rights violations at both schools

apnews.com/article/trump-corne

A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in Ithaca, New York, on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
AP News · Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for NorthwesternMore than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell and around $790 million for Northwestern have been frozen as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both universities. That's according to the White House. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to comply with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. The White House late Tuesday confirmed the funding pauses to both schools, but offered no further details on what it entails, or what grants to the schools are being affected. The moves come as the Trump administration has increasingly begun using governmental grant funding as a spigot to try and influence campus policy.
#Corruption#Fascism#Nazism
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Bi Sasquatch

Source: @kffhealthnews

From the article: "For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf.

"No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy groups say. Gone, too, are the American Sign Language interpretations that used to appear on the White House’s YouTube channel. A White House webpage on accessibility, whitehouse.gov/accessibility, has also ceased working.

"From halting diversity programs that benefit people with disabilities to staffing cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm those with impairments or chronic health conditions. Decades of hard-fought gains risk being undone by cuts to federal programs, freezes on research funding, and a White House ban on practices that support diversity."

#Disabled #Elderly #DEI #Accessibility #Deaf #ASL #Research #USPolitics

kffhealthnews.org/news/article

KFF Health NewsTrump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People - KFF Health NewsFrom halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm people with disabilities.
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Simona Zompì

From The NY Times: On at least three recent occasions, senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters’ questions because the journalists listed identifying pronouns in their email signatures.

“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios […] as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary wrote.

#dei #genderequity

nytimes.com/2025/04/08/busines

“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, wrote to a New York Times reporter.
The New York Times · Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their PronounsBy Michael M. Grynbaum
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zephry

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

"The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

"Cornell and Northwestern are both facing investigations into allegations of antisemitism and into accusations of racial discrimination stemming from their efforts to promote diversity."

trump has flipped the historical meaning of 'racial discrimination' by implying dei programs are discriminatory against white people.

#trump#dei#resist
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DrALJONES

Interview: "Black Americans Are Not Surprised”:Trump’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history.

"There has been a systemic erasure of Black history [that] is not only intellectually dishonest, but will also cause the U.S. economic & social harm.

“We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past".

~Christina Greer

democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trum

#blm #dei #trump #fascism #uspol #blackhistory .

Democracy Now! · “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer on Trump’s Attacks on Students, <span class="caps">DEI</span> & HistoryBy Democracy Now!
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DoomsdaysCW

#DemocracyNow: “#BlackAmericans Are Not Surprised”: #ChristinaGreer on #Trump’s Attacks on #Students, #DEI & #History

Story April 08, 2025

"'There has been a systemic erasure of #BlackHistory.' Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The erasure of the history of racism and resistance is not only intellectually dishonest, says Greer, but will also cause the U.S. economic and social harm. 'We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past,' she says."

Listen / watch / read transcript:
democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trum
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsARacist #USPol

Democracy Now! · “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer on Trump’s Attacks on Students, <span class="caps">DEI</span> & HistoryBy Democracy Now!
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The #USAF has removed training courses with videos of its storied #Tuskegee #Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or #WASPs — #WW2 #pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the #military — to comply with the #trumpmeltdown administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of #DEI courses they took during basic military training.

apnews.com/article/air-force-d

...just another ecxuse to erase us from #history

Tuskegee Airmen, from left, Audley Coulthurst of New York, William Johnson of Glen Cove, N.Y., Wilfred R. DeFour of New York, and Herbert C. Thorpe of Rome, N.Y., are honored by members of the New York Assembly upon their 75th Anniversary of the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps during a recognition ceremony in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol, June 16, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
AP News · DEI ban: Air Force removes course videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female pilotsBy Tara Copp
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