I've updated the DEI tracker. Not many new sources, media's attention span is short. But I did validate a Reddit list of companies holding the line.
We see the effect the #Tesla boycott is having. Let's not only punish companies backing away from diversity but also reward those courageously upholding it.
From what I found there are more #heroes than #cowards. If true, that's an unreported story!
Some, of course, like Walgreens, are bending but not breaking.
Columbia University cowards!
Facing Trump’s threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-campus-protests-trump-congress-ba0eddec4679d70287202831c52ebed6
Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson urged fellow Republican lawmakers on Tues to avoid #public #TownHall meetings with #voters after some events turned into angry confrontations over #Trump's moves to fire #FederalWorkers & defund government programs.
#cowards #PublicDisservice #Republicans #GOP #RepresentationMatters #USpol #Musk #DOGE #FederalAgencies #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Veterans #children #seniors #disability #PublicHealth #weather #DisasterPreparedness
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-urges-lawmakers-avoid-town-hall-meetings-2025-03-04/
Tim Walz, wonderful man, has announced he will show up in any district Republican cowards have cancelled Town Halls, to help host a Town Hal/ For citizens, who deserve to be told what's going on, and to be LISTENED TO.
AMERICA is its citizens, not it's arrogant leaders.
Yeah, #Congress Do your friggin' job! #Cowards #GOPCowards #MAGACowards #BowingToFOTUS
"The extraordinary public appeal was signed by Lloyd Austin, Jim Mattis, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta and William Perry — who served in Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to the 1990s — after Trump’s Friday night firings caused an uproar on Capitol Hill and among many military veterans.
“We are deeply alarmed by President Trump’s recent dismissals of several senior U.S. military leaders,” the letter opens. “We write to urge the U.S. Congress to hold Mr. Trump to account for these reckless actions and to exercise fully its Constitutional oversight responsibilities.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/27/mattis-defense-secretaries-trump-pentagon-firings/
"While the network has said Trump’s complaints are “completely without merit” and legal experts have described his suit as “frivolous and dangerous,” Paramount executives feel like a settlement would increase the chances of the Trump administration approving a pending merger with Skydance Media."
Wonder many of these companies that settle are soon to find out all they did was fuck around?
Amusing that fascists push their women to the front to take the bullets for them.
"Alpha male masculinity" for you.
But a top official was notably absent: #RFKJr, #Trump’s pick to lead the Department of #Health & Human Services [#HHS], the pivotal agency when a #pandemic strikes. “The one guy who should’ve been there wasn’t there,” said one attendee, who, like several others [#cowards], spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private session led by the #NationalSecurity Council [#NSC]. Most of those attendees said they were mystified by Kennedy’s absence & wondered where he was.
How disgusting is this? Village People will now play for Trump & proclaim: “We will sue every news organization that falsely refers to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ as a gay anthem. The idea is damaging to the song.” #cowards https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/village-people-trump-inaugural-performance-20032438.php
This is so 100% on target.
It's not bad enough fearing what is coming next month, but to see the Dem reaction to it, and the wimpy, get-along vibe they're projecting is enough to make me sick.
Via the always-excellent Paul Waldman:
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/too-many-democrats-dont-understand
Please stop watching Joe and Mika. If you need similar material, please consider the link below.
@deadline A disgusting failure of nerve. I'll never watch them again.
While newsrooms like those at the L.A. Times and Washington Post are full of dedicated career journalists, Big Newspaper and billionaires own the presses their fishwrap is printed on.
It disgusts me as a career journalist that these RW owners refuse to endorse Harris over a convicted felon and obvious fascist. Read the room, assholes.
I do not subscribe to either but if I did, that would end today.
Fucking cowards. What's the point of "journalism" if you stay silent about the existential threats?!?
Washington Post Will No Longer Endorse Presidential Candidates
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-25/washington-post-will-no-longer-endorse-presidential-candidates
#Terrorists are all #cowards
#coward
It doesn’t matter what color your skin is or what nation you live in.
If you are a terrorist hiding in a tunnel or in a safe western bubble provided for you while you spread #antisemitism, then you are a coward.
#Iran
#Canada
#Uspol
#cdnpoli
#Hamas
#Hezbollah
#MAGA
I guess calling out a bigots here in Mastodon gets your post deleted.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well...
@McSpocky Wow, Lawrence O’Donnell was on point and amazing.
All this, especially about how the networks jumped to give Trump more than an hour live and then did not cover VP Harris (which they knew in advance had been scheduled). They did this exactly with Hillary Clinton, Trump would throw something last minute to disrupt her coverage and the #media jumped each time. #MediaFail #FeatureNotABug #Cowards
Gus Posey 
