Via LLRX – updated guide – Climate and DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed

• March 16, 2025 – March 17, 2025 – Empty Wheel [excerpted] Trump’s Legal Blackballing Effort Against Law Firms Now Includes 20 firms threatened by EEOC demanding information on DEI practices.
• Above the Law – Donald Trump wasn’t lying when he said he was going after Biglaw
• The New York Times, March 15, 2025 – podcast: After engaging in a campaign of retribution against his enemies within the federal government, President Trump is turning to those outside of it. Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains what that retribution has looked like for a single law firm — and the impact it has had on the entire legal profession.
• March 7, 2025 updates – Wired: The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials
• AP, March 6, 2025: War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge.
• March 2, 2025 – Colleges and universities around the country, private and public, have moved to close all programs related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, including freezing and or firing all the staff working on these matters, as well a faculty members. Loans to college and graduate students have been eliminated, as well as funding for college and post graduate students pursuing work in these fields that is based within the science and medical disciplines. “Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under President Trump, it’s total warfare on all aspects of higher education — from student life to hiring to athletics.”
• New Ed. Dept. Guidance on Race and DEI Tells Colleges Which Programs It Might Consider Illegal
• The Chronicle of Higher Education announced its updated DEI Legislation Tracker, which is following 49 bills in 23 states to restrict efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion and prohibiting colleges from a range of DEI initiatives. Republican politicians in early 2023 launched an assault on colleges’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to recruit and retain faculty and students of color.
• Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation. Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation