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By now, we all know that DEI isn’t about excellence. It’s not about merit. And it sure as heck isn’t about making anything better. DEI is a movement built on charity, not achievement—and it’s dragging America straight down with it. We’re watching the quality of nearly every major institution collapse under the weight of checked boxes and forced diversity quotas, all thanks to political correctness. The airline industry has become a very dangerous punchline. Under the Biden regime, the military was more about trans rights than military might. And now, even once-trusted names in medicine are trading in their reputations...

Move highlights how legal threats from the Trump administration are discouraging DEI.. Illinois has suspended a minority-only scholarship after the Department of Justice threatened to sue the state, the department said Friday. The department’s move, which came in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on the program, is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s legal saber-rattling has deterred the use of racial preferences. The program, which gave minorities financial aid to complete a master's or doctoral degree, was run by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and included some of the top universities in the state,...

*PepsiCo has come under scrutiny after scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that reflects a broader trend among major U.S. companies. Earlier this year, the company announced it would eliminate DEI workforce representation goals and phase out its five-year DEI plan, replacing it with a new “Inclusion for Growth” strategy, The Street reports. PepsiCo said it would broaden its supplier base to support all small businesses, stop conducting surveys focused on single demographic categories, and evaluate sponsorships based on their impact on overall business growth. This change follows President Donald Trump’s executive order banning federal...

KEY POINTS * Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the company’s decision to roll back DEI programs. * The discussion comes as the big box retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slump in foot traffic that began soon after it announced plans to walk away from some DEI initiatives. * Sharpton has not called for a boycott of Target, but said he’ll consider it if the company doesn’t reaffirm its commitment to Black businesses, employees and consumers.

The country’s most privileged private schools canceled their annual diversity, equity and inclusion events after The Post revealed last year’s conference was filled with such rampant “Jew hate” that some students left in tears. The National Association of Independent Schools cited the current “political and legal landscape” when it announced last week its “difficult” decision to pause its People of Color Conference (PoCC) and Student Diversity Leadership (SDLC) Conference. The organization represents 1,300 schools, including the prestigious Dalton, Brearley and Collegiate in New York City. “Amid the rapidly evolving landscape, we are taking time to assess the needs of our...

Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejected request for policy changes

VIDEOI just saw this news broadcast, originally aired a year ago, about a DEI Space Force Colonel. As soon as I saw the Space Force Colonel I had an immediate flashback to a certain role in "Anger Management" which made me wonder if the Space Force Colonel either had a cameo role in that film or has a doppelganger in Hollywood.

DEI: Fort McCoy’s Colonel Sheyla Baez Ramirez refuses to display SecDef and POTUS photographs. When will she be relieved from command?

Hopper clearly stated there are only TWO GENDERS! Thank you, Representative Hopper, for the amendment! TX FIRST! Lara Logan✓ @laralogan This is common sense. The insanity is that this is regarded as controversial at all.

The Pentagon announced Wednesday Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was fired from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” Chatfield, one of only a few female three-star officers in the Navy and the first woman to lead the Naval War College, served in Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot. In her most recent position, she was assigned to the alliance’s nuclear planning group, acting as a liaison between military and political leadership. Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, a persistent critic of the Trump administration, said Chatfield wasn’t fired because...

Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced. Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says.

Neela Rajendra said deadlines are an obstacle to ‘inclusion.’. NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory has parted ways with its top diversity officer, Neela Rajendra, after the Washington Free Beacon reported that the lab had changed her title in an effort to keep her. "Neela Rajendra is no longer working at [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory]," lab director Laurie Leshin said in an all-staff email on Thursday. "We are incredibly grateful for the lasting impact she made to our organization. We wish her the very best." ... Leshin added that the newly formed Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success—intended to replace the...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) is providing a new Senior Professional Performance Appraisal System, and accompanying Senior Professional Performance Plan that all agencies must adopt beginning with the Fiscal Year 2026 performance cycle... the new Senior Professional Performance System and Program, and Plan will reinvigorate the Senior Professional Performance Appraisal System to ensure that it differentiates excellent from mediocre or poor performance; provides a meaningful basis to determine whether Senior Professionals should be retained; and ties Senior Professional bonuses directly to performance.

By now, Americans have grown painfully familiar with the new breed of soft-on-crime, far-left attorneys general. They’re everywhere—installed in one liberal hellhole after another like little ticking time bombs, handpicked to do one thing: dismantle law and order from the inside. They let violent criminals walk free, ignore looters, and go after political opponents instead of real threats—because that’s the whole point. These AGs aren’t just soft on crime; they’re part of the plan to destroy US cities. ... But the AG in Massachusetts? Well, she takes the cake. This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill Soros-style puppet. We’re talking about a...

Space Force Col. Susan Meyers, commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, sent out a base-wide email after a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance last month that undermined President Donald Trump’s position on the territory of Greenland as a vital national security interest being mismanaged by Denmark that would do better under the United States, according to a scoop by Military.com reporter Thomas Novelly published Thursday afternoon. “I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik...

As part of a broader effort to rid the Pentagon of “weak leadership” and inaction, the Trump administration has ousted a senior NATO official, whose firing was previously suggested by a conservative research group. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was reportedly fired from NATO’s military committee over the weekend. She was the first woman to oversee the Naval War College, a position she held until 2023. In addition to leading a joint reconstruction team in Afghanistan, Chatfield was a Navy helicopter pilot and one of the 32 members of NATO’s military committee. On Tuesday, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced...

There’s a price to pay when you go all-in on DEI—and the piper always comes calling. You can’t lower standards, abandon merit, and inject politics into everything, then act shocked when the results go straight into the toilet. Life doesn’t work that way. Businesses don’t work that way. And elite universities certainly don’t work that way. ... DEI, much like its cousin “woke,” turns everything it touches into complete and total crap. Just ask Disney. They threw their brand under the bus to chase a progressive agenda—and now they’re dealing with the wreckage, most recently with their disastrous Snow White...

The federal government has frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell, according to members of the Trump administration. This comes amid an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The move follows the slashing of more than $3.3 billion in federal funding from several Ivy League universities, including Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown and Princeton. The Trump administration also froze $790 million in funding for Northwestern, according to The New York Times. ... A Monday evening statement from Cornell administrators explained that the University was “aware of media reports suggesting that more...

According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard will offer high-school-level math courses to its students. The remedial assistance has rekindled criticism over Harvard’s move away from standardized tests in making admissions decisions. For years, Harvard has been accused of lowering admissions standards to achieve “equity” goals in its classes. The school opposed efforts to uncover its admissions data. When that data was ultimately revealed, sharp differences emerged based on race. The differences led to the historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) barring the use of race in college admissions. As court decisions made it...

- Avoided“gendered adjectives” or “faint praise” - Asked local organizations to “promote DEIA training/programs/lectures” and “annual DEIA awards ceremon[ies]“ or focused foreign law enforcement cooperation on “racial and gender justice issues” - Set race/gender quotas on embassy speaking panels and at other diplomatic events Working with DOGE, @SecRubio has ended this discrimination and restored merit to the foreign service.