A former DEI manager for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nike</a> was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing over 5 million dollars from those two companies. 
Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-diversity-program-manager-facebook-and-nike-sentenced-federal-prison-5-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of orchestrating a scheme where she used fraudulent vendors, fictitious paperwork, and cash kickbacks to steal $4.9 million from Facebook and over $120,000 from Nike. Furlow-Smiles was ordered by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Grimberg to pay restitution for the funds she stole and given five years in prison with three years of supervised release. 
“Furlow-Smiles shamelessly violated her position of trust as a DEI executive at Facebook to steal millions from the company utilizing a scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fake invoices, and cash kickbacks,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “After being terminated from Facebook, she brazenly continued the fraud as a DEI leader at Nike, where she stole another six-figure sum from their diversity program.&#8221;
The DOJ said that she used the stolen money to fund a “luxury lifestyle” in California, Georgia, and Oregon.
Furlow-Smiles ran diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at Facebook from January 2017 until September 2021. Using her access to company credit cards and payment platforms, she paid friends, relatives, and other associates for goods and services, according to the Justice Department. 
The DOJ said that Furlow-Smiles was aided in the scheme by nannies and babysitters, a hair stylist, and her university tutor.
She later went to work for Nike from November 2021 to February 2023 after she was fired from Facebook. At Nike, Furlow-Smiles was the company’s senior director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, where she was tasked with organizing DEI-related events. 
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While at Nike, she linked her company card to her personal PayPal and Venmo accounts and made up fake expenses for a Juneteenth event to submit fraudulent payment claims. 
“After she was fired, she carelessly continued her fraudulent schemes at Nike, thinking she was untouchable. As a result, she not only threw away a lucrative career, but will serve time behind bars for her excessive greed,” said FBI agent Keri Farley.
The sentencing comes as DEI programs have come under scrutiny at universities and corporations across the country.

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-kicker-says-parade-shooting-wasnt-about-the-guns-we-need-strong-fathers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Butker</a> criticized President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies while delivering a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS7RIKSaCc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commencement address</a> at a Catholic liberal arts school over the weekend.
The three-time Super Bowl champion suggested that Biden, who like Butler is Catholic, has betrayed his faith with his support of abortion access.
&#8220;Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues,&#8221; Butler said on Saturday during the <a href="https://media.benedictine.edu/2024-benedictine-college-commencement-celebrates-the-largest-graduating-class-in-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undergraduate ceremony</a> at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.
Butler said &#8220;things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values in media, all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.&#8221;
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The place kicker then made reference to Biden without mentioning his name, describing how the president made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/devout-catholic-president-makes-sign-of-the-cross-at-pro-abortion-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sign of the cross</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-makes-sign-of-the-cross-during-pro-abortion-speech-in-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during a pro-abortion speech</a> by a fellow Democrat in Florida last month.
&#8220;Our nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,&#8221; Butker said.
&#8220;He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure to many people, it appears you can be both Catholic and pro-choice,&#8221; he added.
Biden is &#8220;not alone,&#8221; Butker went on.
&#8220;From the man behind the COVID lockdowns, to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common — they are Catholic,&#8221; Butker said. &#8220;This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn’t cut it.&#8221;
Butker previously <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/harrison-butkers-wardrobe-makes-pro-life-statement-chiefs-white-house-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> for wearing a tie emblazoned with the Latin pro-life phrase &#8220;Vulnerari Praesidio&#8221; — which translates to &#8220;Protect the most vulnerable&#8221; — as he and his Chiefs teammates celebrated one of their Super Bowl victories at the White House last year.
Later in his commencement address on Saturday, Butker took aim at DEI before going on to critique <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-bill-to-codify-definition-of-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a House-passed bill</a> to codify a definition of anti-Semitism.
&#8220;The world around us says that we should keep our beliefs to ourselves whenever they go against the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We fear speaking truth because now unfortunately truth is in the minority.&#8221;

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The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill&#8217;s board of trustees has voted to gut funding for the school&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department and give the money to campus police instead.
UNC Chapel Hill’s board <a href="https://www.wunc.org/education/2024-05-13/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police">voted</a> unanimously to redirect $2.3 million in diversity funding toward campus safety and police at a special meeting on Monday to address the university&#8217;s budget.
The move could essentially eliminate the school&#8217;s diversity office.
The beefed up funding for campus police comes in the wake of weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, which have <a href="https://alumni.unc.edu/news/students-others-arrested-during-pro-palestinian-demonstration/">resulted</a> in several arrests.
The school&#8217;s budget committee introduced the amendment to cut the diversity budget.
“I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” budget committee vice chairman Marty Kotis <a href="https://www.wunc.org/education/2024-05-13/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police">said</a>. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just the 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university&#8217;s operations,&#8221; Kotis <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unc-board-slashes-diversity-program-funding-divert-money-110182543">said</a>. &#8220;It takes away resources for others.&#8221;
&#8220;My personal opinion is that there’s administrative bloat in the university,&#8221; Board Chairman David Boliek <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article288473709.html">told</a> the Raleigh News &amp; Observer. &#8220;Any cuts in administration and diverting of dollars to rubber-meets-the-road efforts like public safety and teaching is important.&#8221;
Anti-Israel protests have roiled UNC Chapel Hill&#8217;s campus for weeks. Last month, police detained more than 30 people at a pro-Palestinian encampment where protesters took down the American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag.
“When you destroy property or you take down the U.S flag and you have to put up gates around it — that costs money,” Kotis, the budget committee vice chairman <a href="https://www.wfae.org/race-equity/2024-05-13/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police">said</a>. “It’s imperative that we have the proper resources for law enforcement to protect the campus.”
Dozens of protesters have been arrested across multiple campuses, including at Northeastern University in Boston, Emerson College in Boston, Emory University in Atlanta, Virginia Tech University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
UNC Chapel Hill is the flagship school of North Carolina&#8217;s public university system, which is currently approaching a broader vote next week to replace its diversity policy. The move would reverse a 2019 DEI regulation for the university system&#8217;s 17 schools and likely eliminate a number of DEI jobs at those schools.
If approved, the school system&#8217;s new policy <a href="https://abc11.com/post/dei-funding-unc-board-of-trustees-diversity-program-diverts-money-to-public-safety/14808731/">would</a> take effect immediately.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled against the University of North Carolina’s and Harvard&#8217;s affirmative action policies in a decision that has had a profound effect on the admissions processes at schools across the country.

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The Biden administration has launched a sweeping effort to embed the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy, leveraging race and sexuality-based employee associations to push for leftwing ideology within the administrative state.
Biden’s June 2021 <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive order</a> on “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce” ordered the bureaucracy to allow for the creation of employee resource groups. The groups, <a href="https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/training-and-development/working-groups-and-guilds-101/">described</a> by the government as &#8220;spaces where employees of similar identities can talk freely amongst themselves and come together based on shared identities,&#8221; were supposed to &#8220;eliminate&#8221; the &#8220;barriers to equity.&#8221;
It advertises several invite-only groups, including for Latinx, Working While Black, and even one called Not Your Dude, which is intended for “cis women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people, and those who are otherwise marginalized (i.e., non-hegemonic masculine folks).&#8221;
“Some groups are available by invitation-only,” a government website explains. “If you do not share that identity, show your allyship by respecting those private gatherings and giving space for people to gather and talk freely amongst themselves.”
The program has support from the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources division, which has <a href="https://www.opm.gov/about-us/agency-equity-action-plan/summary-of-equity-progress-and-early-accomplishments/">hosted</a> two government-wide summits on employee resource groups and affinity groups. OPM says the groups serve to “support agency efforts to strategically advance DEIA.”
At the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of the Interior, these newly-created identity-based employee groups have been used organizing hubs for leftwing bureaucrats.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the top intelligence agency that oversees the CIA, NSA, FBI, and elements of the Pentagon, explained in a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/DF-2024-00143-Dive-Winter-23-24.pdf">document obtained</a> by The Daily Wire that affinity groups led a race-based leadership development program. The African American Affinity Network and the Latino Intelligence Network hosted a leadership summit where attendees “learned about unique opportunities at other agencies” and were invited to a workshop on building a professional brand.
The document also shows that employee resource groups within the intelligence community for those who are Asian or Pacific Islander have influenced how America’s intelligence apparatus refers to our foreign adversaries. The employee organizations “have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China,” the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/DF-2024-00143-Dive-Winter-23-24.pdf">document</a> obtained by The Daily Wire reads.
At the National Security Agency (NSA), there are 10 different <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/culture/diversity-equity-inclusion-accessibility/employee-resource-groups/">employee resource groups</a>, the majority of which are based on employees’ racial or ethnic backgrounds. “These employee-led groups are composed of individuals who work together to foster an inclusive and unified culture,” the NSA states. “Individuals may join ERGs as either a member or ally.”
The CIA’s Pride Employee Resource Group, for those who identify as LGBT, organized the Intelligence Community’s 2022 <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3078934/2022-ic-pride-summit-embraces-bringing-authenticity-to-the-workplace/">Pride Summit</a>, which included sessions with titles like “Pride &amp; Color: A Queer Person of Color Experience,” “Transgender Inclusion Training,” and “LGBTQIA+ &amp; Disability.”
&#8220;LGBTQIA&#8221;+ employee resource groups from the U.S. Geological Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service held a panel discussion as part of a celebration of “transgender day of visibility,” The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">revealed</a>. Federal bureaucrats were invited to watch a mini-documentary on LGBT representation in the field of marine biology.
The DOI and the agencies that operate underneath it have a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pmb/hr/employee-orgs#Employee%20Orgs">long list</a> of employee resource groups, like the Fish and Wildlife Services’ BIPOC ERG, which exists to “promote solidarity and support among BIPOC employees and allies; in order to harness our collective strengths toward creating positive, lasting change that advances justice, equity, diversity, inclusion.” There’s also the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pride ERG, which seeks to “assist in cultivating an inclusive and high-performing workforce that empowers all of its LGBTQ employees.”
The Department of the Treasury explained in its <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/306/Treasury_FY2021-2024_DI_EEO_Strategic_Plan.pdf">diversity and inclusion plan</a> that employee resource groups would be leveraged to push DEI throughout the agency, meeting with bureau leadership “to identify methods to promote D&amp;I throughout the organization. The National Institutes of Health similarly <a href="https://www.edi.nih.gov/people/resources/employee-resource-groups">states</a> that employee resource groups are used to facilitate “employee activism inside and outside the workplace.”
Employee resource groups and affinity groups are just one way in which the Biden administration is embedding the DEI agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy. The Democratic incumbent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/">signed</a> multiple <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> institutionalizing the leftwing doctrine, and his federal agencies have even worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-biden-admin-enables-government-employees-to-change-genders">enable gender transition</a> attempts among government employees, barring the use of biologically accurate pronouns in the process.
While Biden has sought to further embed the DEI agenda within the federal government, former President Donald Trump has pledged to use executive orders of his own to purge far-left bureaucrats who may otherwise undermine his agenda. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Trump’s allies are preparing to fill the void left by outgoing bureaucrats, with the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database that could step into the administration in the event of a Trump victory.

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Corporate giants including Target, US Bank, and Best Buy are teaming up with a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consulting firm to hold a race-based career fair that appears to exclude white people on the basis of their race.
Called the<a href="https://www.peopleofcolorcareerfair.com/"> People of Color Career Fair</a>, the event is set to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota in October and boasts a long list of sponsors, including not only Target, US Bank, and Best Buy, but also Delta Airlines, General Mills, the Minnesota Department of Education, and Minneapolis Public Schools.
“At US Bank, we’re clear about our DEI commitments and what we need to do to diversify our workforce even more,” the financial institution’s Chief Diversity Officer Greg Cunningham said in a statement endorsing the conference, adding that the event allows US Bank to “execute on various aspects of our DEI recruiting strategy.”
The fair is being organized by the<a href="https://www.raemackenziegroup.com/"> Rae Mackenzie Group</a>, a DEI consulting firm that encourages corporations to recruit new employees on the basis of their race.
“It doesn’t matter if your messaging is on point and you’re connected with Black-owned vendors and nonprofits, if People of Color aren’t joining and staying with your organization, then something is missing from your approach,” the<a href="https://www.raemackenziegroup.com/pillars-of-diversity-equity-inclusion"> consulting firm claims</a>. “A lack of diversity is fatal for your business.”
“You simply cannot effectively lead your organization in the right direction if your organization lacks People of Color bringing their perspective and lens to your organization,” the Rae Mackenzie Group goes on to<a href="https://www.raemackenziegroup.com/blog/how-to-reach-and-retain-diverse-talent"> warn</a>. “If you’re not integrating your DEI strategy into every aspect of your marketing and communications, you’re falling behind.”
The DEI consulting firm managed to garner the support of at least two companies that have a history of partaking in DEI programs that discriminate against white people on the basis of their race. Both US Bank and Best Buy partnered with McKinsey and Company to offer professional development trainings that barred white employees and intended to “diversify talent pipelines” and “accelerate racial equity.”
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It is the same program that <a href="https://twitter.com/BestBuy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BestBuy</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyMutual?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LibertyMutual</a> used.
Here are their employees promoting the program:
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Target has also come under heavy criticism for its DEI agenda and faced a boycott last year over its<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-releases-latest-pride-collection-complete-with-kids-books-and-rainbow-items-for-babies"> LGBT children&#8217;s clothing line</a> and merchandise, which included a kid&#8217;s book called &#8220;Bye Bye Binary&#8221; about a non-binary baby.
Discrimination against white and Asian people on the basis of their race has become increasingly common in corporate America, with companies embedding leftwing ideologies into their practices in the name of DEI. A “diversity internship” at NASCAR, for example,<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-illegal-nascar-bans-white-applicants-from-diversity-internship"> banned</a> white applicants on the basis of their race and was called “blatantly illegal” by one lawyer, an investigation from The Daily Wire revealed. NASCAR<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nascar-takes-down-blatantly-illegal-racial-requirement-for-internship-after-daily-wire-report"> removed</a> the racial eligibility requirement following the report from The Daily Wire, but has not yet removed two other programs that similarly discriminate.
The Kraft Group, which is best known for owning the New England Patriots, recently received criticism over a listing for a Sports Management Associate position that<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-england-patriots-owner-under-fire-for-discriminatory-bipoc-job-requirement"> listed</a> a non-white racial background as a qualification for the role. There are also the tech companies<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibm-hosts-internships-that-bar-whites-asians-and-men-with-exception-for-men-who-identify-as-women"> IBM</a> and<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oracle-internship-scholarship-opportunities-bar-whites-and-asians-on-the-basis-of-race"> Oracle</a>, both of which hosted internship programs that excluded both white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race. Microsoft even<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-brags-that-it-pays-white-employees-less-than-non-white-employees-despite-same-job-title"> bragged</a> that it paid white employees less than it paid white people “for the same job title.” Apple hosted entrepreneur training programs that are only open to companies with leaders who are women or who are not white or Asian, an<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race"> investigation</a> from The Daily Wire previously revealed.
Neither the corporations nor the Rae Mackenzie Group responded to requests for comment.

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Target, Best Buy To Sponsor Race-Based Career Fair For ‘People Of Color’ Held By DEI Consultants

A Republican congressman grilled the Biden administration&#8217;s Secretary of Labor Julie Su over a proposed rule that would force companies involved in the Department of Labor’s apprenticeship program to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures.
If enacted, the <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/17/2023-27851/national-apprenticeship-system-enhancements">proposed rule</a> would seek to “diversify the National Apprenticeship System by enhancing worker protections and equity,” embedding DEI practices in the nationwide <a href="https://www.apprenticeship.gov/about-us">program</a> to connect employers with workers looking for skilled labor opportunities.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) highlighted for Su during a hearing on the rule an agency <a href="https://www.apprenticeship.gov/sites/default/files/Final%20ACA%20Biennial%20Report%20-%20May%2010%202023.pdf">document</a> claiming that many apprenticeship programs involved in the DOL initiative are “actively hostile” to the idea of hiring women or racial minorities.
“Can you explain what that means?” Banks asked, referencing the claim that many employers involved in the apprenticeship program are hostile to those who are not white men. “Do you agree that some registered apprenticeship programs are managed by racists? And if so, who are they?”
Su explained that she wasn’t familiar with the document referenced by Banks before adding, “I  think that there is no reason why we should not be able to tap into the full talent and ability and promise of every single American in every single community.”
Banks told The Daily Wire that the Biden administration uses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-used-debunked-mckinsey-studies-to-justify-dei-in-the-military">flawed research</a> to push its DEI agenda, but that policies associated with the leftwing ideology are detrimental to the country. “The Biden administration has no choice but to rely on junk science and lies to sell its woke agenda. The honest truth is that DEI is making America weaker and more divided.”
Banks challenged Su again on the DOL document. “The recommendations also — say that registered apprenticeships have been ‘the domain of white able-bodied men.’ That&#8217;s a direct quote from the recommendation from the committee in your department,” Banks noted before asking “Do you agree with that comment?”
“Is having fewer white men in apprenticeships the goal of all of the DEI provisions in the proposed rule?” Banks went on to press, with Su responding, “Absolutely not.”
The Congressman from Indiana turned his attention to a portion of the rule that would demand that states submit reports outlining their efforts to diversify apprenticeship programs. Banks noted that the rule “would require states to submit a strategic plan for increasing participation from underserved communities that include the current participation by each race and demographic group and set specific targets for increasing participation by each race.”
“Will the Department punish states that do not meet the proposed rules’ racial quotas?” Banks asked. Su dodged the question again, saying, “We have never gone wrong in this country when we have expanded opportunities,” adding, “I don’t even know what punitive scheme you are talking about.”
One <a href="https://www.apprenticeship.gov/sites/default/files/DOL_DEIAFactsheet_v2.pdf">government document</a> advocating for the use of DEI criteria in apprenticeship programs relies on a debunked study from consulting firm McKinsey and Company to incorrectly assert that greater diversity led to increased profitability for corporations. McKinsey’s flawed studies were also used by the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-used-debunked-mckinsey-studies-to-justify-dei-in-the-military">Pentagon</a> to justify the implementation of the DEI agenda.
The Biden administration has directed the entirety of the federal bureaucracy and the military to implement DEI practices, leveraging the might of the administrative state to codify leftist ideology as a matter of official government policy.
Former President Trump and his allies have committed to firing bureaucrats who’ve pushed the leftwing agenda and who may otherwise undermine his policy efforts. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">pledged</a> at a rally. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Others are preparing for the potential outflow of bureaucrats, with Trump’s allies assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.”

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Rep. Banks Grills Biden’s Labor Sec On Claim That Apprentice Programs Are Racist, Sexist

The Biden administration has set out to encourage gender transition attempts among federal bureaucrats, establishing gender transition support plans, holding trainings pushing Left-wing gender ideology, and even telling federal employees that referring to someone by biologically accurate pronouns is discrimination.
In a document published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), effectively the human resources department of the federal government, the Biden administration commanded federal agencies to embed “gender identity inclusion practices” throughout the bureaucracy.
​​Titled “<a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/reference-materials/guidance-regarding-gender-identity-and-inclusion-in-the-federal-workplace.pdf">Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace</a>,” the document was published on “transgender day of visibility,” March 31, and it instructs agencies to “take actions to ensure that all Federal employees have their respective gender identities accurately reflected and identified in the workplace.” The document specifically tells the federal bureaucracy to ensure that name and pronoun changes are respected, warning that those who use “incorrect” terms might “contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment.”
It also directs agencies to host gender identity trainings, saying they should “take steps to implement or increase the availability of training programs on gender identity and inclusion in the Federal workplace for employees, managers, and leadership.”
While the OPM document further formalizes the Biden administration’s support of transgenderism, numerous federal agencies have already established policies to encourage transgenderism in the federal workforce. The Department of the Interior (DOI), for example, published a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/document-library/human-resources-policy/pb-23-03-supporting-gender-transition-federal-workplace">document</a> called “Supporting Gender Transition in the Federal Workplace” that lays out how the federal agency will offer support to bureaucrats who are attempting to change their sex.
The guide includes a list of gender identity vocabulary terms and instructs employees to avoid using someone’s “dead name,” a term for the name one used before attempting to change sexes. “Repeated, intentional refusal to use the employee’s affirming … or repeated reference to the employee’s dead name/gender/pronouns … is contrary to the goal of treating all employees with dignity and respect,” the document reads. “Such intentional conduct could constitute unlawful discrimination.”
All departments are encouraged to “establish, in collaboration with their supervisor/manager, a support team … to assist in the development and implementation of their Workplace Gender Transition Plan.”
The DOI has also set out to celebrate transgenderism through trainings and activities. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">recently revealed</a> that the agency celebrated “transgender day of visibility” by screening a documentary calling for more queer marine biologists. It also hosted a “Trans 101” employee training course in December. The course was led by Ben Greene, a “transgender advocate and educator” who discussed “the issues that the transgender community is facing in the world and workforce, and what individuals and organizations can do to create a safe, supportive environment for all people.”
The National Security Agency (NSA) has implemented its own policies on “misgendering,” effectively prohibiting its employees from using biologically correct pronouns when referencing someone who is attempting to change sexes.
“Intentional misgendering shall not be permitted or tolerated,” one 2021 <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/nsa-css-policies/NSACSS_P_1-78_20210525.pdf?ver=VA4t45iPZ83RG18Hz3NZXA%3D%3D&amp;darkschemeovr=1">document</a> from the NSA reads. The intelligence agency also pledges to “provide transgender and gender identity–awareness training to its workforce in order to promote an inclusive work environment for transgender personnel and to facilitate in the workplace gender-affirmation processes when appropriate.” It also states that the agency will &#8220;establish a Transgender Resource Coordinator&#8221; tasked with &#8220;assisting supervisors and civilian employees in navigating gender affirmation process&#8221; as well as be the agency&#8217;s primary resource for &#8220;transgender-related questions.&#8221;
The NSA also created a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">glossary</a>, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that promoted “gender-neutral” pronouns like “ze” and “zir” and complained of “transmisogyny.”
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LEAKED NSA DOCUMENT📄: We just published a never-before-seen <a href="https://twitter.com/NSAGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NSAGov</a> “diversity glossary” in my new exclusive investigation with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a>.
It blames “White Europeans” for “settler colonialism,&quot; attacks &quot;white fragility,&quot; and warns of “transmisogyny.”
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The NSA is not the only institution within the intelligence community that has celebrated transgenderism. A diversity newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">obtained exclusively</a> by The Daily Wire, featured an article from an anonymous agent who claimed that crossdressing made him a “better intelligence officer.” The ODNI has its own <a href="https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_125-Gender-Identity-and-Inclusivity.pdf">policy</a> against “misgendering,” warning that offenders could face disciplinary action. “Intentional and repeated misgendering, including use of the incorrect name, pronoun, honorific, and gender-related language of an individual, could contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment or discrimination claims, and may result in disciplinary action.”
NASA announced similar policies in a 20-page <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/new_gender_transition_guidance_final_tagged.pdf">document</a> titled, “Supporting Gender Transition/Affirmation in the Workplace,” even encouraging employees to report others who use the “incorrect” pronouns to their supervisor.
“Be a good ally,” the document commands. “If you hear or observe a co-worker using an incorrect name or incorrect pronouns after an announcement or request to refer to the transitioning employee by a specific name and with specific pronouns, gently and discreetly correct them or discuss the matter with your supervisor.”
The United States Air Force Academy similarly embraced a policy against so-called misgendering, telling The Daily Wire that &#8220;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment under our Equal Opportunity Policies.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Air Force Academy just told me that &quot;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment.&quot;
Our military faces record-low recruitment and the Air Force is enforcing transgender dogma on cadets and just hosted a trans Pentagon official 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/7lyQMce9nW">pic.twitter.com/7lyQMce9nW</a>
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When asked if it is the official stance of the Air Force Academy that men can become women and women can become men, a spokesman responded: “Yes, the U.S. Air Force Academy recognizes that an individual’s internal or personal sense of gender may not match the individual’s assigned sex at birth,” adding that “individuals assigned male at birth may transition to female.”
President Biden has issued multiple executive orders intended to institutionalize the DEI agenda in the federal government, all while former President Donald Trump pledges that he will gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> of his own if he is reelected.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats, making them more difficult to fire.
Trump is charging ahead with his plan to fire federal bureaucrats, with his allies at the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats who’ve pushed the far-Left agenda.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet certainly has a way with words — and he did not mince any when he delivered a blistering takedown of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> (DEI) standards that now limit him and others who share his profession.
Mamet made the comments during an <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-21/david-mamet-hollywood-diversity-dei-initiatives-festival-of-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Los Angeles Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan and the outlet&#8217;s Festival of Books — hosted by University of Southern California — where he was promoting his memoir, &#8220;Everywhere an Oink, Oink.&#8221;
&#8220;DEI is garbage. It’s fascist totalitarianism,&#8221; Mamet told Brennan. His memoir, which was published last fall, tells his life story in a series of anecdotes — and follows his political metamorphosis as well. Mamet refers to himself as a &#8220;red diaper baby,&#8221; the child of two communists — and details how he made the journey from the far Left to his current position: supporting former President Donald Trump.
The award-winning playwright and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screenwriter</a> — whose works include &#8220;Glengarry Glen Ross,&#8221; &#8220;The Untouchables,&#8221; and &#8220;Hannibal&#8221; — also took issue with the new &#8220;inclusion standards&#8221; that have been implemented by the Academy of Motion Pictures, noting that for films to even be considered for awards, they had to check certain boxes according to DEI standards.
&#8220;I can’t give you a stupid f***ing statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that,&#8221; Mamet complained. &#8220;It’s intrusive.&#8221;
He did not spare the feelings of those charged with implementing the new standards either, referring to them in his memoir as &#8220;diversity capos&#8221; and &#8220;diversity commissars.&#8221;
Mamet conceded that Hollywood had long been a place where discrimination had thrived — but argued that the executives dictating the new rules were better suited to &#8220;selling popcorn&#8221; than to creating a less restrictive environment.
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&#8220;The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,&#8221; he said.
Despite his long career in Hollywood, Mamet said that he&#8217;s been shuffled off the main stage in recent years — but he did not blame the shift in his political views for that. Instead, he said that his age was the likely culprit — and younger directors preferred to work with people closer to their own age.
&#8220;Nobody’s going to pay me a lot of money anymore. Nobody’s going to let me have a lot of fun,&#8221; he said.

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In the latest edition of UCLA’s queer student magazine, featuring so-called “Freaks,” students at the prestigious university cry for the acceptance of furries  and other fringe sexual preferences and identities into the larger LGBTQ movement.
The magazine, which can be <a href="https://issuu.com/outwritenewsmag/docs/w24-final-pages">read in its entirety online</a>, begins with OutWrite magazine’s editor-in-chief claiming classmates in high school would openly bully a trans student as a “freak and a monster.” This edition of the queer student magazine is fashioned as a “love letter to the freaks: the queers, cringelords, furries, kinksters, and monsterf***ers alike,” the editor, Rainer Lee, writes. 
“Explore with us what it means to be human and beyond,” Lee writes. “Come be a freak.” 
In one essay titled, “For The Love of the Furries,” the author writes that he is “advocating for furries.” 
“The way anti-furry stigma manifests is strikingly similar to past and present sexually-motivated constructions of queerness as an illness and a cause of moral panic,” the student writes, adding that it’s a “bigoted generalization” to say being a furry is a fetish.
The OutWrite magazine is copyrighted by the Associated Students of UCLA’s Communications Board, the student government of UCLA, and is another example of its embrace of radical liberal ideology. First-year students at the university were recently encouraged to listen to the “Idigenae” podcast that discusses people identifying as &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; and &#8220;womxn.&#8221; The university has also come <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-dei-medical-school-garbage-this-time-its-ucla">under fire</a> for its medical school infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion into the curriculum, hosting a mandatory “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course where students read about wars of indigenous resistance including a massacre of white people by Native Americans to “imagine what liberation could look like.&#8221;
Another article in the OutWrite magazine argues that BDSM kinkiness — the common acronym for  bondage, discipline, dominance and submission — should be included in the larger LGBTQ+ movement. It argues that the pushback regarding exposing children to inappropriate material “reinforces the stigma of kinky people as dangerous deviants.”
“What difference does it make to see someone wearing a collar at Pride or see a parade float full of dominatrixes? The student writes. “The average viewer might take only a slight note of it, but it would make a world of difference to those involved in the kink community and those who want to be.”
The magazine includes a page that features a student who says he started “dressing like a freak to gain agency over the reason why the conservative Christrians I grew up with hated me.” Other students disclose suicidal thoughts that they attribute to the failure of society to accept them, a rejection that they say they are now choosing to embrace. 
One writer, a self-described immigrant person of color whose actual gender is unclear based on the writing, complains that the United States he or she arrived in reinforces “capitalistic, heteronormative patriarchal circumstances” and pushed him or her to embrace “Void Punk,” a “subculture that refutes normative society’s idea of what it means to be human and instead celebrates the idea of not being human.”
The author states that “Void Punk” was created for “marginalized communities” who decide that they “don’t need to feel human.”
“Created for marginalized communities who often face dehumanization by an oppressive, normative society, it is commonly expressed through aesthetics of the inhuman,” the author writes. “The rhetoric surrounding humanity is largely decided by oppressive forces who find it convenient to decide who gets to be human and who does not. Dehumanization is a familiar instrument of colonization and conquest, a forced cognitive dissonance that allows the oppressor to justify violence.”
“I don’t feel human, and I don’t need to feel human,” the author concluded. “Instead, of having the label of humanity shoved onto me, I will choose to be with other people and care for them by not virtue of the ideal of humanity but for the sake of shared experience and care for the living.”
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj/index.html">Recent polling</a> shows that nearly one out of every three people in Gen-Z identify as “LGBTQ,” a massive spike from previous generations. And while much of the magazine is devoted to the defense of “kink” in this community, the magazine paints a depressing picture of the mental state of many of its members. 
A Virginia school district also recently put a BDSM-supporting sex therapist in charge of deciding if books parents are complaining about are inappropriate for children, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-largest-school-district-put-a-kink-affirming-bondage-specialist-in-charge-of-reviewing-parent-complaints-about-books">the Daily Wire previously reported</a>
Though this embrace of radical gender ideology has become commonplace on college campuses, it has broken through to the highest levels of government. The Biden administration raised eyebrows when it hired a transgender-identifying cross-dressing man who once taught a spanking seminar at a Los Angeles kink conference, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/slap-happy-thieving-nonbinary-biden-official-leads-spanking-seminar-at-sex-conference/">Washington Free Beacon reported</a>. The man, Sam Brinton, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-arrested-as-fugitive-from-justice">was fired</a> after he was exposed for stealing multiple women’s clothing from airports.

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The Biden administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) is dumping more than $2 million in taxpayer funds to back efforts aimed at diversifying marine biology and climate science, deriding the fields as “some of the least diverse STEM disciplines.”
The <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/about">NSF</a>, which controls $9.9 billion of federal money and exists to “promote the progress of science,” “advance the national health,” and “secure the national defense,” is backing four different universities engaged in the study aimed at diversifying the two scientific disciplines.
“The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and workforce,” the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314915_4900">program description</a> reads. The study seeks to discover how to develop “equity-driven and anti-racist educational collaborations, infrastructures, and pathways” to implement in the scientific fields, with a specific focus on “BIPOC storytelling and standpoint centering.”
“We are focused on advancing change in structures and sociocultural practices in MCS that can improve their racial equity outcomes,” said Chrystal George Mwangi, an Associate Professor at George Mason University and the principal investigator behind the study. The three-year long study, which began in September of 2023 and will conclude in August of 2026, seeks to build “a replicable and scalable model for equity-centered support in STEM collaborations”
The study claims that the climate and culture in marine and climate sciences “have been identified as actively contributing to the low participation and retention of BIPOC individuals in the disciplines and their disparate academic and professional outcomes, through gatekeeping, professional barriers, and other obstacles.”
George Mason University in Virginia is the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314915_4900">biggest recipient</a> of government funding for this effort and is slated to receive a whopping $1.2 million to back the DEI program. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Temple University <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314918_4900">comes in second</a> and will receive $400,000, while the University of South Carolina will receive <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314917_4900">another $375,000</a> from the NSF. Another $327,000 will be given to Salem State University in Massachusetts to fund the DEI effort.
The Biden administration’s NSF is not content with only diversifying marine biology and climate science, however. <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2237564_4900">Another $323,000</a> will be allocated to Florida International University to “transform engineering classrooms towards racial equity,” a project description explains. “In general, engineering professors are not engaging as active change agents for racial equity in their own classroom,” the grant proposal bemoans, adding that the effort, which will include DEI training for professors, hopes to have a “substantial impact on the formation and professionalization of black, latinx, and indigenous engineers.”
The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-to-drop-1-million-to-study-latina-resistance-and-intra-minority-solidarity">reported</a> that the Biden administration’s NSF pledged to allocate nearly $500,000 to a study on “Latina resistance” at “predominantly white institutions” as well as over $600,000 to back a study on “intra minority solidarity.”
The NSF is far from the only agency within the Biden administration that has embraced far-left ideologies on race and gender. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated to highly ideological DEI efforts as the Biden administration has worked to embed leftwing ideology throughout the government through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a>.
Daily Wire investigations found that the Department of Defense, for example, spent as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> on DEI efforts over the course of three years while the State Department spent at least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">$77 million</a> taxpayer dollars on DEI initiatives in 2022 and 2023. The Daily Wire also obtained a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">DEI glossary</a> from the NSA that included terms like “white fragility,” “queer theory,” and “settler colonialism.”
The National Science Foundation does not appear to be the only agency preoccupied with diversity in marine biology. The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">revealed</a> that the Department of the Interior, tasked with the management and conservation of federal land, screened a documentary on queer representation in marine biology in honor of transgender day of visibility.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged that he will gut the federal bureaucracy through executive orders of his own which aim to remove civil service protections from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden hopes to preempt this move and recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen the civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats. Trump and his allies are still preparing to gut the bureaucracy, however, with the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats.

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NPR&#8217;s president and CEO said she abandoned the idea of a &#8220;free and open&#8221; internet as the mission of Wikipedia, which she used to lead, because it is a &#8220;white, male, Westernized construct.&#8221;
In a newly resurfaced video clip, Katherine Maher, who took over as NPR&#8217;s chief executive in January says she found Wikpedia&#8217;s &#8220;free and open&#8221; ethos &#8220;inherently limited.&#8221; The clip was posted to X by Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Maher served as chief executive at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, from 2019 to 2021.
&#8220;I have come to the opinion and the perspective that &#8216;free and open&#8217; was a way of looking at the world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve,&#8221; Maher says in the clip.
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&#8220;&#8216;Free and open&#8217; has the best of intentionality, but in the end what &#8216;free and open&#8217; often ended up doing, and particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline, prior to the advent of the internet,&#8221; Maher said.
One of the problems with Wikipedia is the way it relies on a &#8220;written tradition&#8221; and &#8220;reliable sources,&#8221; Maher said.
&#8220;You see the exclusion of communities, of languages because of the ways in which Wikipedia is based on reliable sources. The idea of a written tradition, which is particular to some cultures and not to others,&#8221; the former Wikimedia CEO said.
&#8220;The ways in which we ascribe notability often really comes from sort of this white, male, Westernized construct around who matters in societies and who is elevated and whose voices. And so some of these ideas of sort of this radical openness really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be,&#8221; she said.
X owner Elon Musk responded to the clip, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1780962477011796287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a>, &#8220;That’s literally the point of Wikipedia.&#8221;
Maher has recently come under fire from conservatives after a former NPR editor blew the whistle on the outlet&#8217;s liberal bias. Former editor Uri Berliner resigned Wednesday after NPR suspended him.
In the wake of the NPR editor&#8217;s accusations, a slew of since-deleted tweets and previous statements from Maher have surfaced, adding fuel to the outrage.
In another clip posted by Rufo, Maher says she is interested in how we can &#8220;immerse ourself in good information,&#8221; not just &#8220;stamp out bad information.&#8221;
In yet another clip, Maher says the &#8220;number one challenge&#8221; for her in fighting disinformation is the First Amendment, which she calls a &#8220;fairly robust protection of rights.&#8221;
&#8220;It also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from,&#8221; she said.
She has been accused of expressing explicitly biased views in her previous tweets.
In 2018, Maher <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/us-news/nprs-new-ceo-katherine-mahers-woke-tweets-arise-as-editor-claims-bias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>, “Donald Trump is a racist.”
In 2020 she wrote, &#8220;I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.&#8221;

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The Biden campaign recently announced that it is hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director who will be responsible for the campaign’s DEI strategy and receive a salary of up to $120,000.
The role, recently <a href="https://www.daybook.com/jobs/pZ6LgARxLuHKrkAAN">advertised online</a>, will pay between $95,000 and $120,000, with the director being responsible for DEI strategy and programming on the Biden campaign, educating staff on the topic and even influencing hiring practices.
“The DEI Director will focus on creating and executing a comprehensive strategy to attract and support diverse talent to further the campaign’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the job listing reads. “They will also be responsible for upskilling and further educating campaign staff around DEI.”
The Biden campaign’s DEI director will also be responsible for implementing “DEI-focused workshops for management and other staffers in service of educating and upskilling campaign staff on the DEI space and specific initiatives,” as well as managing and reporting “on the campaign’s diversity efforts, leveraging best in class tools including developing an internal dashboard to support data analysis and reporting.”
The position will also have direct influence on the campaign’s hiring decisions, with the DEI director being tasked with reviewing “hiring practices and outcomes to ensure diverse talent is represented and successful in candidacy at all levels of the campaign.”
The Biden campaign’s decision to hire a DEI director comes as the Democratic incumbent has ordered the federal bureaucracy to embrace the leftwing agenda and institutionalize it throughout the federal workforce’s policies. Biden signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive order</a> in 2021, called the “Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce,” that formalized the presence of the ideology within the administrative state.
Former President Donald Trump has since pledged to gut the administrative state by re-issuing an executive order called Schedule F, which would remove civil service protections from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”

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