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getmisch

2of2 Article from Apr 3. Stock is down 24%, foot traffic down 6%, web traffic down 9%. Protest Works! #TargetFast well exceeded enrollees, at 150K+
I know I deleted my Target apps & have not set foot in one since.
#sour #brand #spend #carefully #diversity #equity & #inclusion #matter, #Target! #DEI #minority #owned #business #investment #program #two #billion #pride #month #merchandise #obeying in #advance #betrayal #customer #minority #base #LGBTQ #trans #rights forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/

ForbesTarget's Foot Traffic Declines For 8th Week Since DEI Boycott. Tariffs Likely Won’t Help, As Stock Hits 52 Week Low.For the eighth consecutive week, foot traffic at Target declined, marking a trend that began shortly after the company announced shifts to their DEI program in January.
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rexi

phys.org/news/2025-03-lyft-dri

(yup. more #woke #science, not giving the benefit of doubt to #lawenforcement, right?)

…group analyzed data for <200K #Lyft drivers in Florida 2017-20.

…compared pullover rates and fine amounts between white drivers and minorities…using…techniques…factoring out vehicle color, make and model and geography…

…minority drivers were ~30% more likely to get ticketed under similar circumstances than #white…#minority drivers received fines 23%-34% higher than white drivers.

Phys.org · Lyft drivers study reveals racial profiling by law enforcementBy Bob Yirka
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Christine M.

#space #minority #uspol

NASA in the not too far past published two comic books on their website featuring "Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon". Fictional, but leaning into the Artemis Project.

Just so happens that Callie is (a) a woman and (b) a person of colour.

Just so happens, too, that the Callie comics were deleted from NASA's website ... you know, that purge DEI nonsense.

Also happens, that Iceland Space Agency saved Callie on their website.

icelandspaceagency.is

Iceland Space Agency Iceland Space Agency - Geimvísindastofnun ÍslandsThe mission of Geimvísindastofnun Íslands / Iceland Space Agency is to facilitate research, testing, training, and operational logistics between Iceland, foreign organizations, academia, researchers, and domestic enterprise as they relate to and are interested in the fields of space/earth science, e
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

Ingersoll - Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.
#quote#quotes#quotation
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Chuck Darwin

Trump moves to gut more agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries, clean energy and National Monuments

Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate several additional federal agencies, including one that oversees the federally funded media outlet
⭐️Voice of America (VOA),
🔥testing the limits of his authoritative power as he seeks to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy.

One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies
— some of which are focused on #minority business enterprises, #museum and #library services and #homelessness prevention
— to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”

It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,”
and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director #Russell #Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.

A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted #clean #energy and environmental goals.

The order terminates proclamations of #national #monuments created by Biden
and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology
(including mandates for electric heat pumps and #solar #panels),
among other Biden-era policies
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump moves to gut several agencies, targeting Voice of America, librariesBy Brianna Tucker
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Gerd_Brodowski

#israel #syria : #humanitarianaid / #civilwar / #minority / #ally

„Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze communities in Syria over the past few weeks, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a further sign of Israel's support for the minority group. (…)
In Israel, many Druze serve in the military, including in the war in Gaza, and some have reached senior ranks.‟

straitstimes.com/world/middle-

The Straits Times · Israel sends humanitarian aid to Druze in Syria, foreign ministry saysJERUSALEM - Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze communities in Syria over the past few weeks, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a further sign of Israel's support for the minority group. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Nonilex

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
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RaymondPierreL3

@DjityDjity
There is some truth in what you toot. The only hope is for #Labor to be returned in a #minority govt with a left-wing crossbench. That ‘shock’ might get the Party to rebalance the Parliamentary #Caucus with more leftists and get the Party back to its core values.

An #AusElection25 outcome to do just that is not far fetched by any means. I’m betting on the newly registered voting cohorts do make it happen.

(Disclosure stmt: I am a Labor Party member)

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Jazmine Isa Qureshi (They/She)

#Responsibility.
Big thing to shoulder.
Isn't it?
It seems to always be the Responsibility of the #black, #brown, #indigenous, #global majority or #local #minority person to step up, call out or withdraw when a space isn't "diverse" enough.
White folks...you good with an entire panel, an entire room, an entire building or an entire lineup, of white people and no one else? Or maybe there's one non white person there and that's enough to tip the scale?

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