These freaking racist segregationists!
You can not accurately talk about the Civil War (U.S.) and talk about unity and harmony; you can’t accurately describe the Underground Railroad without noting that slavery was something white people violently imposed on Black people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/04/06/national-park-service-underground-railroad-history-slavery/
#GiftLink #racism #segregation #bigotry
A district court judge had blocked the #Education Dept from canceling more than 100 grants that funded 2 programs— #Teacher Quality Partnership & Supporting Effective Educator Development—while #litigation challenging the decision continued. Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & #SCOTUS’ 3 liberal justices said they would have denied #Trump’s request to intervene in the case.…
The initiatives provide leadership development, #teacher residency programs, training & other services. A coalition of Democratic-led states that challenged the funding freeze said it would trigger teacher #layoffs & other harm to #schools, weakening the teacher pipelines #Congress intended to enhance when it created the programs.
I'm saddened (but not surprised) by Google's decision to enable hate speech based on gender identity on their platform. The company joins a line of others waiting to kiss the feet of a president who cares as much about them as how far he could throw them.
The only purpose of such a policy is to pander to, enable and embolden bigots. Allowing such speech to remain on the platform and to stay published is almost certainly an illegal act in Australia if it is aimed at an Australian resident.
I am seriously considering my future of my YouTube channel.
Via @taylorlorenz https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from
It noted that the #DOJ could sue for breach of contract if it found federal funds were spent while violating *#CivilRights* laws.
The fed govt accounts for ~8% of local #school #funding, but amounts vary. In MS about 23% of school funding comes from federal sources, while NY receives just 7%, acc/to the Pew Research Center.
[#TitleI schools receive additional funding see #Project2025’s plan to eliminate the funding entirely https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025s-elimination-of-title-i-funding-would-hurt-students-and-decimate-teaching-positions-in-local-schools/]
In a memo sent to top #PublicEducation ofcls across the country, the #Education Dept said that #funding for schools w/high percentages of #LowIncome #students, known as #TitleI funding, was at risk pending compliance w/the #Trump admin’s directive.
The memo included a *certification* letter that state & local #school ofcls must sign & return within 10 days, even as the admin has struggled to define which programs would violate its *interpretation* of #CivilRights laws.
#Trump Admin Threatens to Withhold #Funds From #PublicSchools
State #education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [#DEI] that the administration deems *unlawful* [uncomfortable for #FarRight #bigots] according to a new memo.
#censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #extortion #law #USpol #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/public-school-funding-trump-dei.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=AEB43A0E-0ED5-401C-9960-8E17975F9091
Via Austin Kocher:
#USCIS just sent out an email announcing that it only recognizes "two sexes - male & female" & generally only sex assigned at birth.
Redditor explains how #republicans are criminalizing and demonizing #transgender people - with receipts. This post lays it out with links to back it up. This is just the tip of the iceberg, part of the process to attack #trans and #LGBTQIA communities. It you’re not horrified after reading this post, you are not paying attention. #gender #GenderFluid #LGBTQ #facism #RepublicansOwnThis #bigotry #discrimination
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-boyega-star-wars-white-fans-reject-black-heroes-1236352669/
John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’
By Zack Sharf
Mar 31, 2025 8:35am PT
“The govt's arguments are not persuasive, & it is not an especially close question…. The govt's unrelenting reliance on deference to #military judgment is unjustified in the absence of any evidence supporting 'the military's' new judgment reflected in the [#transgender] Military Ban—in its equally considered & unquestionable judgment, that very same military had only the week before permitted active-duty plaintiffs (& some thousands of others) to serve openly.
United States Court of Appeals for DC ordered the #Pentagon not to take action against any #transgender servicemembers while a judge's order blocking #Trump / #Hegseth's ban is appealed.
“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal”
#law #military #bigotry #discrimination
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69800554/01208724672/nicolas-talbott-v-usa/
New filing by the plaintiffs in Talbott v. United States — the challenge to #Trump's ban on #transgender #military service members.
Last Friday, the DOJ asked the court to dissolve the injunction.
Plaintiffs also argue DOJ gave no legitimate reason for a stay pending appeal.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845/gov.uscourts.dcd.276845.96.0.pdf
https://www.motherjonesmuseum.org/
Mother Jones, "I belong to a class robbed, exploited, jailed, persecuted all down the ages and...have an instinct to go and help break the chains."
#WomensHistory #bigotry
#Trans #Transgender #HarryPotter #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #JKRowling #Hogwarts #bigotry #HBO #HBOMax
I know you loved the books, but it's time to put that shit down.
"#AntiVaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From #Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'"
This is the weight of prideful #ignorance
People for whom the death of their child is not as painful as saying "I was wrong" or "I didn't know" or "I'm sorry"
It is weighing on society as well
This will be the death of us
From #climateChange to #bigotry to #cult obedience leading to #fascism
#americans are fucking stupid
they treat #voting as a joke
americans are removed from the consequences of living under #autocracy and #fascism, unlike other places that understand the stakes
#alienated and #entitled on a topic that will *personally* harm them, no need for glorious appeals to #society and #responsibility
they need to learn to fucking #vote
or not vote for their own impoverishment and rights removal under #bigotry and #plutocracy
they will learn
the hard way
fucking morons
@tshirtman @mloxton @tarheel @inthehands
agreed. in this regard, #socialMedia can be a force multiplier for good as well as what it is now: a force multiplier for #bigotry and #plutocracy
but that makes our communities a target
so we need something like #mastodon where we can squash the #trolls without the "fReEzEpEaCh!" #bigoted morons and #centralized #corporate social media indifference or tacit support for #ignorance and #hate
we need the #fediverse to grow