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DEI -is- a merit based principle. DEI means that more candidates are brought forward to be assessed for their merits, before being rejected for their skin, their handicap, their gender, their sexual orientation, etc. It brings all candidates to the same line in the hiring process as the straight white man (like Poilievre) who would otherwise be put first. The "comfortable" candidate who will "fit in" (regardless of their qualifications), especially the ones with all the same "connections".

DEI does not "force" anybody to be hired, it merely keeps them in the competition. Anti-DEI rhetoric is inconsistent with merit-based principles, period. If you're scared of DEI, then you're scared of competition and want to remain safe in your privilege.

Poilievre Endorses Petition to Dismantle DEI Programs in Canada Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre endorsed a petition by MP Vincent Neil Ho on October 13, 2025, calling for the end of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Canadian institutions to restore merit-based hiring. The petition, launched on X, quickly gathered over 10,000 signatures, with supporters citing $1.2 billion in annual taxpayer costs for equity programs. Critics highlighted Poilievre's recent electoral loss in Carleton and a by-election arrangement to secure a new seat as inconsistent with merit principles.

Report: A US judge has ruled that the Trump administration "unlawfully targeted pro-Palestine student activists with deportation to silence criticism of Israel, violating their right to free speech."

In a blistering opinion, Judge William Young said Marco Rubio & Kristi Noem "misused their powers in the deportation campaign."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/30/us-deportation-drive-against-pro-palestine-students-is-illegal-judge-rules

@palestine .

Content warning Fascism, ICE, Human Rights Abuses

Francesca Albanese spoke at the Together For Palestine event in London:

“Such cruelty did not start 700 days ago. For nearly a century, the Palestinian people have lived under the weight of a brutal settler colonial project."

“Britain planted the seed of this catastrophe w/ the Balfour Declaration, promising away a land that was not theirs to give"

https://aje.io/8v8svm?update=3963051

@palestine @fedibird.com .

Francesca Albanese

I'm delighted to share that our special issue of Geschichte & Gesellschaft on "Racism and Antiracism in Europe", edited by Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and me, has been published.

"It provides historical depth to current debates by examining the history of and in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Poland, asking how racialized thinking is constructed, encoded, normalized, and put to work, and showing how antiracist actions have exposed and contested these discourses and practices. Taken together, the articles in this special issue retrieve local and national histories while challenging ingrained notions of “non-racialized” Europe that emerged in opposition to the racist atrocities of the era of European colonialism and National Socialism." (From our introduction.)

If you would like to read the articles but don't have institutional access, please email us.

https://www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/50/3

I dont know what to say.
Hyundai is building a 15 billion dollar battery plant in Georgia.

ICE just raided the plants and arrested over 400 people, including executives from LG, who not only make more than half of the TV screens in the US, but automotive batteries.

This is an ongoing racist crisis, and news reports will be covering this for weeks, but at least 30 Koreans were seized.

Hyundai sent lawyers, Korea, Diplomats.

https://electrek.co/2025/09/05/hyundais-new-ev-plant-raided-by-ice-hundreds-arrested/

🗣TELL TO TAKE OUT OF THEIR CHICKEN SHIT SETTLER COLONIAL MOUTHS
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115135450867753447

we have spent OVER A CENTURY calling out the the insists in enabling as recently as the attacks and refusing to call what is happening in .

now that fascism has caught up with y’all, you want to use Puerto Ricans as human shields against your own fascist families.

DO YOU EVEN READ WHAT Y’ALL WRITE? …🧵

"5 months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid prgms, the Trump admin:🚨to incinerate food instead of sending it to ppl who need it🚨waste, fraud..: it costs $130K to burn food worth $800K."

I post about the atrocities committed by the , but this is one of the worst Trump/Rs have ever perpetrated.💔Torching food instead of sending it to starving ppl, mostly black & brown ppl (promised thru ) is beyond the pale.
Amplify.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zJJXeoRe3IYCW9n7SieVJ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

An 11-year-old girl just set the record for the youngest person ever to graduate from high school in Germany, and the media bend over backwards to avoid mentioning the plain fact that she is from a refugee family from Afghanistan.
For no other reason than not to trigger their racist readership. They are helped by the fact that the family's surname in transcription matches a common German name and her first name is culturally non-specific…

Content warning Discusses offensive racist terms

I hope everybody understands that Laura Loomer is not talking about immigrants. There are not 65 million immigrants in the US, there are 65 million Latinos in the US.

She is calling for an ethnic cleansing of all American-Latinos to internment camps, like President Roosevelt did with the American-Japanese during WWII (which was also done with an Executive Order, but during wartime).

Did You Know? 65.2 million The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2023, making it the nation’s largest racial or ethnic minority — 19.5% of the total population. Source: <Excel Download> Vintage 2023 Population Estimates
Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Alligator lives matter. The good news s, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now. 5:41PM - Jun 30, 2025 - 7.2M Views

Speaking as someone who is Jewish, Paul Krugman addresses attacks on Zohran Mamdani as an antisemite:

"I’m Jewish, and anyone who knows their history realizes that whenever right-wing bigotry is on the ascendant, we’re always next in line. Are there really people out there naïve enough to believe MAGA’s claims to be against antisemitism, who can’t see the transparent cynicism and dishonesty?"


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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-all-rats-now

"No KingsDay": more than 2000 anti-Trump protests today

Protesters say the admin has “defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, & slashed our services”.

The protests "will coincide with a military parade in Washington, DC, marking the US Army’s 250th anniversary, & with Trump’s 79th birthday."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/what-are-the-anti-trump-no-kings-protests-planned-across-the-us

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