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ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 21: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter sits docked at Coast Guard Island Alameda on November 21, 2025 in Alameda, California. In response to mounting public and congressional backlash, the U.S. Coast Guard reversed a proposed policy that would have called swastikas and nooses “potentially divisive,” reinstating a strict prohibition on those symbols as “divisive or hate symbols” under its updated guidance. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Coast Guard: Swastikas are bad, actually

Garrett Owen
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Anti-war veterans say no to Hegseth

William Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Protesters gather around the William McKinley Monument at the Ohio Capitol building on May 1 during a May Day action focused on public education. (Tatyana Tandanpolie)

Ohio activists fall short — for now

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people learned of their freedom, is now a federal holiday. But some are hesitating to honor it amid recent rollbacks to DEI efforts and cultural programming. (Kholil Wahyudi / Getty Images)

Juneteenth: "Resilience and resistance"

CK Smith
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Judge: Trump must restore NIH funds

Garrett Owen
President Trump has signed many executive orders in four months. One instituted merit-based hiring, which MAGA turned into a loyalty test. (MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images)

Loyalty now part of job application

CK Smith
Protesters gather around the William McKinley Monument at the Ohio Capitol building on May 1 during a May Day action focused on public education. (Tatyana Tandanpolie)

"Underdogs" fight Ohio's education law

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Donald Trump showing a signed executive order. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Black women "target" of Trump DEI purge

J. David McSwane - ProPublica
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Stand up comedian, actor and author George Carlin is shown performing on stage during a live concert appearance on January 13, 1996. (John Atashian/Getty Images)

George Carlin warned us about words

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hegseth’s Orwellian purge strikes fear

Jeffrey Colvin
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters as he leaves the Russell Senate Office Building on November 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Hegseth's Pentagon signals MAGA distress

Heather Digby Parton
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Vance undermines Trump on student visas

Amanda Marcotte
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Diversity and inclusion. (designer491 / Getty Images)

Disability advocates fight DOGE cuts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson addresses the media after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on December 12, 2023 in Washington, District of Columbia. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Mike Johnson tantrums over working moms

Amanda Marcotte
Woman stressing over a computer with Donald Trump in the background. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

DEI was never for us anyway

Oneya Fennell Okuwobi
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

DEI hysteria is a national security risk

Rann Miller
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

What the fight against DEI is all about

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the U.S. Capitol on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Paranoid Hegseth bans the Enola Gay

Amanda Marcotte
General view of Sephora loves Fenty Beauty by Rihanna store event on April 5, 2018 in Milan, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

A new paradigm for fairness at work

Iris Bohnet, Siri Chilazi
Mom's for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice speaks with Maud Maron, Jennifer Sey, Tulsi Gabbard, and Texas State Rep. Shawn Thierry at the 2024 Mom's for Liberty National Summit in Washington D.C., Friday, August 30, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Moms for Liberty partnering with feds

Russell Payne
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U.S. Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, presides over Howard Lutnick, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, during his Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Collateral damage in war against DEI

Teresa Carr, Margaret Manto - Undark
The exterior of an Apple store (Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images)

Apple rejects push to end DEI program

Quinn Sental
Urban City Street Night Szene with Shopping Cart and Traffic Lights (Getty Images/Matthias Makarinus)

Boycott targets economic injustice

Vanessa McGrady
Pete Hegseth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Hegseth's church predicted "DEI" firings

Amanda Marcotte
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