The Interior Department has ordered national parks to review and remove gift shop items related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
This directive is part of a broader effort to keep park gift shops as “neutral spaces that serve all visitors.”
The order follows executive actions by Donald Trump targeting DEI programs across the federal government.
National parks have been ordered to check their gift shops for items that support programs like diversity, equity and inclusion – and remove them.
It is, very publicly. Yet still there are people supporting him, proudly. I’ve officially lost faith in my fellow man because of this prick. Like his re-election broke me. I have no love anymore. I have no faith anymore. Just going to spend my time getting comfortably numb, and cooking. This morning is turnip greens and jasmine rice. It smells divine!
How could they vote for him twice? And slowly, partially wake up to what they voted for, a year after the fact, even though the writing was on the wall for almost a decade? Rhetorical questions. I’m pretty sure I heard all answers.
Four years is a long time to fuck up a lot of things, many of them terminally. It is something to despair over.
My empathy.