TRUMP EFFECT: Meta Announces End to DEI Programs

The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end its major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Meta put out a memo to employees explaining the move, which was published by Axios. “The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” the memo reads. “The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. It reaffirms long…

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NEW AD: Future Forward, MoveOn, Working Families Party Launch Swing-State Push to Make Final Case That Harris Sides With Working People, Trump Doesn’t

Watch the ad here WASHINGTON, D.C. – MoveOn Political Action, Working Families Party National PAC, and Future Forward (FF PAC) have a seven-figure swing-state digital ad campaign to run during the last week of the presidential campaign. The ad is airing in all seven battleground states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the campaign will reach late-deciding, less political, working-class voters on streaming services and YouTube. The targets also include the third-party-curious voters that MoveOn has communicated to this entire cycle. The ad, “Backs,” delivers a pro-Harris message about Kamala Harris…

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Why A Second Trump Term Would Be Much More Dangerous Than His First

Trump has a detailed plan.  Project 2025 contains more than 900 pages of detailed plans for unprecedented levels of deportation, nationwide abortion bans, and major setbacks for public health.   He would install Trump loyalists throughout the government. As detailed in Project 2025, Trump plans to fire tens of thousands of government officials and replace them with his own loyalists so he can do whatever he wants and not be stopped. If Donald Trump wins in November, he’d completely reshape every level of government to expand his power without any…

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The President Trump Is Pushing Aside

Only one historic site bears the name of America’s 22nd and 24th president—and it’s no Monticello. The Grover Cleveland Presidential Library and Museum occupies a one-story building in Caldwell, New Jersey, behind the house where its namesake spent the first few years of his life. The museum is the size of a small living room. A Dunkin’ sits across the street. The site befits Cleveland’s legacy. He was a large man but not larger than life; his two terms in the White House were most remarkable for the four years…

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Trump names his nominees for deputy defense secretary, other top DoD positions

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his picks for key Pentagon positions, including deputy secretary of defense and undersecretaries for the policy, acquisition and sustainment and research and engineering offices.  On Sunday, Trump’s team said in a press email that Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cerberus Capital Management, would serve as deputy defense secretary in Trump’s second term. Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm that has made investments across a wide range of industries, including financial services, real estate, and military and defense,  previously owned the…

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Biden Ramps Up Search for DEI Hires Ahead of Trump Administration

Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory, 33 DEI-related jobs were posted by the federal government. Now, with barely a month until Trump takes office, The Daily Wire reported that the feds are “currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on … [diversity, equity, and inclusion]—employees who would be embedded into the permanent federal workforce headed into the Trump administration.” The outlet noted that the posted “jobs have annual salaries of up to $ 310,000 and could add up to total salary payouts of…

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