In “Cancer Alley,” Black Communities Get All the Pollution, But Few of the Jobs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/louisiana-cancer-alley-black-communities-pollution-employment-jobs/

Trump’s “DEI Purges”? Yeah, It’s Just Racist Bigotry.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trumps-dei-purges-yeah-its-just-racist-bigotry/

How Black Americans Can Fight Trump’s Plot to Capture a Generation of Minds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/media/2025/03/karida-l-brown-battle-for-the-black-mind-donald-trump/

Republicans’ Social Security Attacks Disproportionately Harm Retirees of Color

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-musk-doge-social-security-race/

The Tragedy—and Tyranny—of Donald Trump’s War on “Woke”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-doge-attack-woke-dei-keywords-ai-search/

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include #female, #disability, and #LGBT, among a host of others.

The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found, which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed.

According to the Washington Post, a word like #women appearing will get the content flagged, but it will need to be manually reviewed to determine if the context of the word is related to a forbidden topic under the anti-DEI order. Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word #women is on the forbidden list while #men doesn’t initiate a review.

Straight white men are seen through the #MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

Some of the terms that are getting flagged are particularly eyebrow-raising in light of the Nazi salutes that Trump supporters have been giving since he took office. For example, the term #hateSpeech will get a paper at NSF flagged for further review. Redefining terms like #hateSpeech is obviously part of the fascist project.

Darby Saxbe, a professor at the University of Southern California, tweeted the list of banned words on Monday, including a decision tree she says had been sent to all program officers at NSF.

Forbidden keywords that initiate a review at NSF, according to Saxbe:

#activism
#activists
#advocacy
#advocate
#advocates
#barrier
#barriers
#biased
#biasedToward
#biases
#biasesTowards
#BIPOC
#BlackAndLatinx
#CommunityDiversity
#CommunityEquity
#CulturalDifferences
#CulturalHeritage
#CulturallyResponsive
#Disabilities
#Disability
#Discriminated
#Discrimination
#Discriminatory
#DiverseBackgrounds
#DiverseCommunities
#DiverseCommunity
#DiverseGroup
#DiverseGroups
#Diversified
#Diversify
#Diversifying
#DiversityAndInclusion
#DiversityEquity
#EnhanceTheDiversity
#EnhancingDiversity
#EqualOpportunity
#Equality
#Equitable
#Equity
#Ethnicity
#Excluded
#Female
#Females
#FosteringInclusivity
#Gender
#GenderDiversity
#Genders
#HateSpeech
#HispanicMinority
#Historically
#ImplicitBias
#ImplicitBiases
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#Inclusiveness
#Inclusivity
#IncreaseDiversity
#IncreaseTheDiversity
#IndigenousCommunity
#Inequalities
#Inequality
#Inequitable
#Inequities
#Institutional
#LGBT
#Marginalize
#Marginalized
#Minorities
#Minority
#Multicultural
#Polarization
#Political
#Prejudice
#Privileges
#PromotingDiversity
#RaceAndEthnicity
#Racial
#RacialDiversity
#RacialInequality
#RacialJustice
#Racially
#Racism
#SenseOfBelonging
#SexualPreferences
#SocialJustice
#Sociocultural
#Socioeconomic
#Status
#Stereotypes
#Systemic
#Trauma
#UnderAppreciated
#UnderRepresented
#UnderServed
#Underrepresentation
#Underrepresented
#Underserved
#Undervalued
#Victim
#Women
#WomenAndUnderrepresented

#Trump #ForbiddenWords #DEI #ExecutiveOrder #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #Women #LGBT #Disability #MAGA #HateSpeech #Fascism #Censorship #PoliticalAgenda #WokeCulture #SocialJustice #IdentityPolitics #USPolitics #GenderEquality #CivilRights #PoliticalControl

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#exposed #aEvl

"Envisioning a more just Genomics" Open access report courtesy of the Hastings Center.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1552146x/2024/54/S2

#bioethics #genomics #raceandethnicity

Not One of Us: Trump Uses Old Tactic to Sow Suspicion About Harris

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/us/trump-tactic-suspicion-harris.html

Black Voters Feel Excited, and Worried, about a Kamala Harris Campaign

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/kamala-harris-black-voters.html