<p>Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases<br>—</p><p>A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/race/" rel="tag">#Race</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#Gender</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a></p>
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<p>Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. On this day we remember our trans siblings who are no longer with us due to transphobia and anti-trans violence. We honour their memory and remind ourselves to fight for the living. We will keep working until all trans people can live happy and fulfilled lives free from transphobia. </p><p><a href="/tags/transdayofremembrance/" rel="tag">#TransDayOfRemembrance</a> <a href="/tags/tdor/" rel="tag">#TDOR</a> <a href="/tags/transawareness/" rel="tag">#TransAwareness</a> <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#Trans</a> <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#Transgender</a> <a href="/tags/nonbinary/" rel="tag">#NonBinary</a> <a href="/tags/transrightsarehumanrights/" rel="tag">#TransRightsAreHumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/transrights/" rel="tag">#TransRights</a> <a href="/tags/equality/" rel="tag">#Equality</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/transphobia/" rel="tag">#Transphobia</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqi/" rel="tag">#LGBTQI</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/lgbti/" rel="tag">#LGBTI</a></p>
<p>“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-hud-weakening-enforcement-fair-housing-laws?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a></p>
<p>1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨 </p><p>The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the <a href="/tags/gdpr/" rel="tag">#GDPR</a>, <a href="/tags/eprivacy/" rel="tag">#ePrivacy</a> and the <a href="/tags/aiact/" rel="tag">#AIAct</a>. </p><p>Weakening these safeguards would entrench <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a>, profiling and algorithmic <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#discrimination</a> in every aspect of society 🙅🏾 </p><p>Read our press release for more details: <a href="https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edri.org/our-work/commissions-</span><span class="invisible">digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/</span></a></p>
<p>“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump<br>—</p><p>Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division<br>—</p><p>Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a></p>
<p>Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division<br>—</p><p>The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a></p>
<p>Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over<br>—</p><p>The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.</p><p>Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a></p>
<p>Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.</p><p>“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> loves to preach health eating, as he defines it. But what he won't tell you is that not everyone has the same level of choice in such things, and that lack of choice has a lot to do with <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> and <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#discrimination</a>. My latest: <a href="https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.defendpublichealth.org/opi</span><span class="invisible">nion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0</span></a></p>
<p>A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#Racism</a> <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#Transgender</a> <a href="/tags/transrights/" rel="tag">#TransRights</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/dei/" rel="tag">#DEI</a> <a href="/tags/diversity/" rel="tag">#Diversity</a></p>