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Andrea Lyn
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Small town girl with a ginormous heart for humanity. She/her
I'm a mother, a wife, sister and ally 🌈💙💕🙏✨️ Here to learn, spread love and hopefully laugh sometimes
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Stephen King said he couldn’t write a more horrible story than the one being played out before our eyes🥺
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jan 22
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly: (1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025. (ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease: (A) Promoting "diversity"; (B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and (C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin. (iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002 (Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws. (iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award: (A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States Code; and (B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Trump’s first executive orders preview his second administration’s chaos and cruelty.

“They provide a disquieting preview of the shambolic, lawless and cruel four years ahead of us,” writes @speechboy71.bsky.social.

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s first executive orders preview his second administration’s chaos and cruelty
President Trump used his first day back in power to attack birthright citizenship and trans people — and try to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
www.msnbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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NEW: The ACLU, Lawyers for Civil Rights and 22 Democratic-led states filed four lawsuits challenging President Trump's executive order revoking birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States whose parents are not citizens. The suits claim Trump's action violates the 14th Amendment.
Democrats, Pro-Voting Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Here's an article about it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
The United States has a rich history with effective uses of nonviolent resistance. It’s time to become familiar with it
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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jamellebouie.net
if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits
January 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
nhandrealyn.bsky.social
I've always liked Vivek, to a degree. Credit where credit is due, I appreciate him sticking to his own intuitions even if it cost him favor woth Trump. Our hope lies in the few sane Republicans in Congress. The ones who actually believe in and fight for our Country over blind loyalty
January 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In gratitude for her service over the past four years as the trailblazing first female Vice President of the United States, we're sharing Kamala Harris's powerful words from her concession speech.

For children's books telling her story, visit our Kamala Harris Collection at bit.ly/3ClmSWV
January 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM