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Daddy, but not your daddy. Antifascist Art at @art.theodinspire.com

Nowhere is punditry wronger than on DEI @salmamousa.bsky.social et al’s in-progress research finds that the backlash to DEI was entirely among high education/SES conservatives, not the working class My own research shows that large companies that kept DEI 2025-onward suffered no financial penalty

Markets Do Not Punish Firms for Maintaining DEI *
Hanna Folsz
Jacob M. Grumbach*
October 20, 2026
Abstract
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that maintained their DEI programs performed as well as compliant firms in terms of abnormal returns and revenue, in both the short and long run. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including based on executives' public statements, interest group ratings, firm financial statements, and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions.
I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d ago

“People liked what Trump did with DEI” is going to be a mantra people repeat with full understanding they mean exactly this, don’t let them lie and say they aren’t.

Already a narrative is emerging that holding this admin & its cronies accountable is revenge, that we have to "forgive and heal." Friends: We can't let the narrative get twisted. Arresting & impeaching people who have committed actual crimes isn't revenge. It's law. It's consequences. It's justice.

This. A thousand times over, this. I think it was Maya Angelou who once observed that wasting your time was a genuine tactic of these people, deployed with the intent to distract, frustrate, and exhaust. Block that shit and commit to sharing only actionable, informative political content.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 2w ago

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Saw someone with a social media bio that said “Slytherin (before JKR was Trash” which is like a 1 for 1 for the “I bought this before I knew Elon was crazy” bumper sticker. Being proven right by the universe in the worst of ways

Brandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman@kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Saw someone putting up Harry Potter decorations for Halloween and realized seeing Harry Potter merchandise and paraphernalia in the real world is the same feeling as seeing a cybertruck in the wild, like 1 for 1