Evan Poellinger
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Evan Poellinger | May 2, 2024
The principal of a high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico found herself out of a job after a drag show was hosted during the school’s prom. Irene Cisneros was fired from Atrisco Heritage Academy High School, and several other school employees were placed on administrative leave as a result of the incident. A video taken at the prom on April 20 was posted on TikTok, showing “performer in thigh-…
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Evan Poellinger | May 1, 2024
A bill sponsored by Rep. Greg Murphy (R, NC) would withhold federal funding from medical schools which engage in discriminatory practices related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. Rep. Murphy’s bill, the EDUCATE Act, which had its companion bill introduced in the Senate by Sen. John Kennedy (R, LA), establishes a number of different actions that would jeopardize the reception of…
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Evan Poellinger | April 30, 2024
A parental rights organization has bestowed its infamous “Millstone of the Month” award onto a group of South Carolinian librarians who tried to sneak books on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other left-wing-aligned works into school libraries. The U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) highlighted a report from the Daily Signal which revealed that librarians at a South Carolina school…
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Evan Poellinger | April 29, 2024
Iowa’s three major public universities have made the decision to shut down their offices of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and to reduce or dissolve DEI-related positions. On Thursday, the presidents of Iowa State, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa told the state’s Board of Regents of the various changes they would be making to their respective DEI programs on…
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Evan Poellinger | April 26, 2024
A pro-Palestine protest held at the University of Texas, Austin resulted in the postponement of a rally against the university’s dissolution of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office and firing of personnel. On Wednesday, the Texas Student Employees Union intended to hold a rally called Stop the Purge in protest of the firings and dismantling of UT Austin’s DEI office. The rally was…
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Evan Poellinger | April 25, 2024
A Pulitzer Prize winner and the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company have contributed their perspectives to the growing backlash against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. On Sunday, The Los Angeles Times published an interview with Pulitzer award-winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, which included his castigation of DEI ideology. Mamet minced no words concerning his…
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Evan Poellinger | April 24, 2024
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) DEI official Natalie Perry allegedly plagiarized her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Ph.D. dissertation. Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo has reported that large sections of Perry’s dissertation were taken directly from the writings of other authors, without citation, and that she failed to even mention some of the authors…
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Evan Poellinger | April 22, 2024
Planet Fitness has doubled down down on its support of left-wing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology by hiring a new CEO who is known as a proponent of DEI. Colleen Keating, who has been CEO of FirstKey Homes for four years, will be assuming the CEO position at Planet Fitness on June 10. While CEO of FirstKey, Keating made a post on Linkedin, in which she described signing the CEO Action…
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Evan Poellinger | April 19, 2024
In a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court has significantly opened the possibility of increased anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion ideology) lawsuits, thanks to the establishment of a new standard of violations, “that any harm—whether significant or insignificant—satisfies Title VII” of the Civil Rights Act. Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, the case in question, concerned whether…
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Evan Poellinger | April 18, 2024
The state of California is considering creating an office of genealogy that will be used to help determine eligibility for reparations, prompting concerns about the office’s qualification criteria. The California Senate Judiciary Committee approved the creation of a new state agency that would oversee the implementation of reparations in California and setting qualifications for who can receive…