Issue #1,099 Friday, November 13, 2026
Donald Trump and his administration, especially Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, are racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, corrupt, and totally and completely just plain cruel. As soon as the second Trump administration started, the administration called for an end to private and governmental DEI programs, thinking that would bring extreme harm to Black, brown, and female people, and that is exactly what happened. They didn’t realize or didn’t care that DEI programs are also meant for veterans, LGBTA+, and the disabled.
Pete Hegseth, in particular, has weakened our military readiness by firing or refusing earned promotions to Black and brown people and women. He even called for those people's accomplishments to be removed from official Defense Department websites.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are organizational frameworks that promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups that have historically been underrepresented, marginalized, or subject to discrimination based on identity or disability. Together, these three notions (diversity, equity, and inclusion) represent “three closely linked values” that organizations seek to institutionalize through DEI frameworks.
Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics, such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, politics, culture, class, veteran status, or religion.
Equity refers to concepts of fairness and justice, such as fair compensation and substantive equality. More specifically, equity usually also includes a focus on societal disparities, allocating resources, “decision-making authority to groups that have historically been disadvantaged”, and taking “into consideration a person’s unique circumstances, adjusting treatment accordingly so that the end result is equal”.
Inclusion refers to creating an organizational culture where “all employees feel their voices will be heard” and a sense of belonging and integration.
If a person, governmental or educational official, or private organization is anti-DEI, that means that they are instead for homogeneity (especially white supremacy), for inequity, and for the exclusion of everyone and everything not white, Christian, and male.
They are instead promoting “WEI”: White, Entitled, and Incompetent.
These anti-DEI programs and policies began in January 2025.
Then came November 2026.
The “Blue Tsunami” that occurred with the 2026 midterm elections signaled the beginning of the end of MAGA and the severely weakened chokehold of Donald Trump himself.
Not only will Democrats, including the party’s progressive wing, hold significant majorities in both houses of Congress, but they will also hold a majority of the country’s governorships, including the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, Muslim, disabled people, and women will soon be in charge, and even current MAGA influencers have all but determined that MAGA is all but dead.
And with the incoming Democratic Congress, Pete Hegseth will be impeached and removed, and the Senate will not approve any nominee for Secretary of Defense who signals a continuation of Hegseth’s DEI purges.
As Sam Cooke once sang: “A Change Is Gonna Come!”
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