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The Pentagon is shredding all records and evidence of its DEI agenda.

The Pentagon is in "absolute disarray" with "generals scrambling" due to the incoming Trump administration's plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources.

One source compared it to a hornet's nest being kicked over and that "DEI pages are starting to disappear off the main websites."

The scramble to hide evidence comes as President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has begun gathering names of senior officers who pushed DEI.

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Shoemate, who is soliciting names of senior military officers from his vast network of service members and veterans, said in a phone interview with Breitbart News, "They are interested full speed on DEI."

"They want to lop off the head of the Marxist snake. And so that's the primary criteria that I'm trying to focus on," he said.

Shoemate said he is differentiating between officers who have promoted DEI to the detriment of the force, and those who simply have gone along with it.

"We're looking for those who have aggressively pursued DEI policies, and then potentially been the worst about retaliation against troops for the COVID mandate and stuff like that."

A shredding company truck also pulled up today in front of the corrupt criminal DOJ:

(Anti-)Scientific American's woke incompetent Editor in Chief has resigned after attacking half of the country as fascists -- and having turned the once-respected journal into a gonzo leftwing agitprop site little different from Pink News.

Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. "I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief," she wrote on Bluesky. "I'm going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I'd like to share a very small sample of the work I've been so proud to support (thread)."

Helmuth may in fact have been itching to spend more time bird watching--who wouldn't be?--but it seems likely that her departure was precipitated by a bilious Bluesky rant she posted after Donald Trump was reelected.

In it, she accused her generation, Generation X, of being "full of fucking fascists," complained about how sexist and racist her home state of Indiana was, and so on.

"Fuck them to the moon and back," she said of the dumb high school bullies supposedly celebrating Trump's victory.

Whether or not Helmuth's resignation was voluntary, it should go without saying that a few bad social media posts should not end someone's job. If that were the whole story here--an otherwise well-performing editor was ousted over a few bad posts--this would arguably be a case of "cancel culture," or whatever we're calling it these days.

But Helmuth's posts were symptoms of a much larger problem with her reign as editor. They accurately reflected the political agenda she brought with her when she came on as EiC at SciAm--a political agenda that has turned the once-respected magazine into a frequent laughingstock.

Sometimes, yes, SciAm still acts like the leading popular science magazine it used to be--a magazine, I should add, that I received in print form every month during my childhood.

But increasingly, during Helmuth's tenure, SciAm seemed a bit more like a marketing firm dedicated to churning out borderline-unreadable press releases for the day's social justice cause du jour. In the process, SciAm played a small but important role in the self-immolation of scientific authority--a terrible event whose fallout we'll be living with for a long time.

When Scientific American was bad under Helmuth, it was really bad. For example, did you know that "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy"? Or that the normal distribution--a vital and basic statistical concept--is inherently suspect? No, really: Three days after the legendary biologist and author E.O. Wilson died, SciAm published a surreal hit piece about him in which the author lamented "his dangerous ideas on what factors influence human behavior." That author also explained that "the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against." But the normal distribution doesn't make any such value judgments, and only someone lacking in basic education about stats--someone who definitely shouldn't be writing about the subject for a top magazine--could make such a claim.

Some of the magazine's Helmuth-era output made the posthumous drive-by against Wilson look Pulitzer-worthy by comparison. Perhaps the most infamous entry in this oeuvre came in September 2021: "Why the Term 'JEDI' Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion." That article sternly informed readers that an acronym many of them had likely never heard of in the first place--JEDI, standing for "justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion"--ought to be avoided on social justice grounds. You see, in the Star Wars franchise, the Jedi "are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of "Jedi mind tricks," etc.)"

You probably think I'm trolling or being trolled. There's no way that actual sentence got published in Scientific American, right? No, it's very real.

But her greatest sin was claiming there was scientific proof that sex-change hormones reduced suidiciality -- there is no such proof at all, just repetitions of this dogma by Big Chop -- and making all other kinds of anti-scientific claims about the wonders of cutting off children's healthy body parts so that they can stop feeling uncomfortable in their bodies and begin a new life of feeling uncomfortable in mutilated, chemically-castrated bodies with a lifetime dependency on drugs and further surgeries. See the link for that.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

Reminder: Despite losing the election & polls repeatedly showing Americans favor mass deportations & restrictions on the number of migrants in the country, the Biden/Harris admin is still allowing up to 1,500 migrants to enter the US every day via the CBP One cell phone app & up to 30,000 per month to fly into the US via the controversial CHNV mass parole programs.

Trump & his border czar, Tom Homan, have said they will terminate both of these programs on day one.

The programs have allowed approx 1.4 million migrants into the U.S. in less than two years.

At current staffing levels, ICE does not have the resources to track down & remove those who overstay their parole grants via these programs. The incoming Trump admin has said they will focus first on deporting public safety threats , criminals, and the more than 1 million illegal immigrants who have final orders of removal (already ordered deported by a judge after their cases were heard, but are still here).

Regarding the man who dresses as if he were a woman and insists on being able to make women feel uncomfortable in isolated spaces: Mike Johnson sounds very cuckish. Yes, he did offer his own private belief that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, but (and you can always ignore everything someone says before the "but," which is a conjunction used to mean "that bullshit out of the way, here's my real position") he wants to treat this Person Place or Thing with "kindness and dignity," which I take to mean "he will be allowed to use the women's bathrooms and locker rooms."

Nancy Mace, however, says she'll fight this all the way.

posted by Ace at 05:50 PM

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