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Simone Foxman

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Reporter at Bloomberg, covering intersection of $/business with race, gender, religion, nationality, class & all things DEI… Opinions my own. ✉ sfoxman4@bloomberg.net Signal: SimoneFoxman.44

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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Trump administration hasn’t tried to force schools to cut scholarships for women, but they’re doing it on their own accord anyway, @simonefoxman.bsky.social reports. STEM funding is the most heavily affected area. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Schools Are Cutting Women’s Scholarships Even When They Don’t Have To
RPI, Middlebury College and Duke University are among those that have ended or altered programs aimed at supporting female students.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Question!! (1/2): Why haven’t streamers aggressively gone after the late night market? (For all political persuasions!) Whenever I have watched a late show it’s always been the next day on YouTube, because I’m old now and should be asleep by the “live” airing...
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Gregory Korte @gregorykorte.com · 18/09/2025
A deeper look at how the Trump administration is targeting liberal groups, with @caitlinreilly.bsky.social and @simonefoxman.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Readies Tax, Criminal Crackdowns on Liberal Groups After Kirk Killing
The Trump administration is making plans for how to go after left-wing groups it says are fomenting political violence following the killing of Charlie Kirk, while nonprofits prepare to defend themsel...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s Engagement Raised Eyebrows in Saudi Arabia - interesting read, highlighting dual standards of social conduct that apply to expats, something that's overwhelmingly clear when you travel across the Gulf region www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...
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Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s Engagement Raised Eyebrows in Saudi Arabia
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The Department of Justice takes an expansive view of what constitutes DEI under new guidance... Among their targets: - Scholarships only open to people of a certain race (maybe also: gender, religion, etc.) - Diverse slates - Diversity statements More: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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DOJ Memo Questions Laws for Race- and Gender-Based Scholarships
A memo from the US Department of Justice ramps up the pressure on government contractors, universities, nonprofits and other entities doing business with the government to pare back any scholarship pr...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
ICYMI from me: Can Zohran Mamdani Give New York City Families Free Child Care? - I look into the growing 2-K + beyond movement in NYC and the potential costs after the stunning primary result www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Can Zohran Mamdani Give New York City Families Free Child Care?
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary this week has brought his unapologetically ambitious plan one giant step closer to fruition: for the city to become t...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Given all the numbers in this thread, I've been a bit surprised to see just *how* stilted my social media feeds are (mine seem extremely pro-Mamdani). Maybe results will differ from this polling. But if they're anything close... then it's a good reminder to be dubious of social media.
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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How Home Depot Parking Lots Turned Into Deportation Hotspots Undocumented laborers have long gathered at fringes of US's No.1 home-improvement retailer. Federal agents are turning up there, too www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... via @bloomberg.com @emilyflitter.bsky.social @simonefoxman.bsky.social
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How Home Depot Parking Lots Turned Into Deportation Hotspots
Undocumented day laborers have been gathering at the fringes of America’s biggest home-improvement retailer for decades. Federal agents are turning up there, too.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NEW: In the 30-year history of organizing for day laborers’ rights which began in LA, Home Depot has played a key role. Here’s how the retailer interacts with organizers & the laborers themselves, who often wait for work near its stores. W/ @simonefoxman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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How Home Depot Parking Lots Turned Into Deportation Hotspots
Undocumented day laborers have been gathering at the fringes of America’s biggest home-improvement retailer for decades. Federal agents are turning up there, too.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great big take on the potential "death spiral" facing US mass transit - with an ominous warning for the 2026 World Cup www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...
On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ
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Sunday, April 27, 2025, 4:05 PM
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A new court filing reveals the most compelling evidence yet that the government has been spinning a fiction about DOGE in federal court.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her survival.
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After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina the turtle finds the great outdoors
Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two Zuckerberg-financed schools designed for low-income students -- in East Palo Alto and East Bay -- are shutting down. East Palo Alto's Enrollment: 443 students, most Latino. The reason: Zuckerberg's charity won't say. Free link ⤵️ www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Zuckerberg-funded school for low-income families in Silicon Valley to shut down
A Zuckerberg-funded tuition-free school serving low-income families in Silicon Valley is closing at the end of the 2025–26 school year.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A short🧵: The Trump executive order "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" sets out to eliminate liability under federal civil rights laws for disparate impact. It includes a lot of bluster, but its key operative provisions instruct DOJ to begin the process of rescinding regulations.
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Re: MTA v. Duffy, No. 25 Civ. 1413 (S.D.N.Y.)
Dear Erin:
We write with respect to the above-referenced litigation brought by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority ("MTA") against the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"), U.S.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, the Federal Highway Administration ("FHWA"), and Executive Director of the FHWA, Gloria Shepherd, to provide you with information concerning
(1) the litigation risk that DOT faces in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision to terminate the New York City Central Business District Tolling Program ("CBDTP") agreement, and (2) a process for terminating the CBDTP agreement outside of the current litigation for DOT to consider.
As discussed below, there is considerable litigation risk in defending the Secretary's
February 19, 2025 decision against plaintiffs' claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, that the decision was contrary to law, pretextual rocedurally arbitrary and capricious, and violated due process. For the reasons outlined below, it is unlikely that Judge Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that the CBDTP was not a statutorily authorized "value pricing" pilot under the Value Prising Pilot Program (" ar
FHWA may, however, be able to properly terminate the CBDTP value pricing pilot pursuant to established Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") regulations concerning the termination of cooperative agreements. Termination of the CBDTP agreement pursuant to these OMB regulations would still allow FHWA to end the CBDTP for the Secretary's stated reasons, but would do so as a matter of changed agency priorities rather than arguing the CBDTP was not statutorily authorized in the first instance. Importantly, DOT can seek termination of the agreement pursuant to the OMB regulations in addition to, and not in place of, defending the rationale laid out in the Secretary's letter.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 03/04/2025
mitch mcconnell on trump’s tariffs, speaking like a republican no longer seeking reelection “they are a tax on everyday working americans. preserving the long-term prosperity of american industry and workers requires working with our allies, not against them.”
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
ADL appears to pivot somewhat on campus antisemitism crackdown, weighing in critically on arrests of college students: ejewishphilanthropy.com/we-must-figh...
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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Big Law’s Big Lawyer to Fight Trump Is a Conservative Superstar www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @gregstohr.bsky.social David Voreacos, Ava Benny-Morrison @emilyflitter.bsky.social David Gillen @simonefoxman.bsky.social Meghan Tribe.
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Big Law’s Big Lawyer to Fight Trump Is a Conservative Superstar
He is, by most accounts, a LeBron James of lawyers – a master who’s handled more Supreme Court cases than just about anyone else in recent history.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
ICYMI: Big Law has been in uproar as firms consider how to respond to executive orders. We found out more about what's happening behind the scenes - & why many top firms have been hesitant to join a legal effort combatting the orders (Gift link - free for 7 days) www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Inside Big Law’s Tussle to Take on Trump
Simone Foxman is a reporter for Bloomberg News’ Equality team. She covers topics ranging from women in the work place to race and equity initiatives. You can subscribe here, and share feedback here.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Wilmer Hale, also subject to an EO yesterday, is also suing...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Final Consumer Sentiment data from UMich just released. No bueno. - *2/3* of consumers expect unemployment to rise in year ahead. Highest reading since 2009 -long-term inflation expectations hit a *32-yr high* -Expectations index plunged 18%, and has now lost more than *30%* since November 2024
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Jenner & Block Sues Trump Administration Over Executive Order news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A judge dismissed a lawsuit against a Citigroup fee waiver program for minority-owned banks, saying that the plaintiffs -- customers of Chase and BofA who paid higher fees at Citi ATMs -- lacked standing to sue. (my story from July here: bloomberg.com/news/article... )
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New from me, @emilyflitter.bsky.social and @theamarareport.bsky.social - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is walking a tightrope as he tries to keep a popular community-lending initiative, the CDFI Fund, alive even after it was targeted by a Trump EO: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Bessent Resists DOGE Cuts That Put Low-Income Lending Program Under Fire
President Donald Trump’s aggressive government cost-cutting agenda is forcing his Treasury chief to balance support for that mission with efforts to protect a crucial financial lifeline for millions o...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Canadian citizen says she was on a routine visa application visit to San Diego when she ended up in ICE detention for 2 weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Bessent Resists DOGE Cuts That Put Low-Income Lending Program Under Fire www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @emilyflitter.bsky.social @simonefoxman.bsky.social @theamarareport.bsky.social
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Bessent Resists DOGE Cuts That Put Low-Income Lending Program Under Fire
President Donald Trump’s aggressive government cost-cutting agenda is forcing his Treasury chief to balance support for that mission with efforts to protect a crucial financial lifeline for millions o...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New @nbcnews.com poll indicates why DEI is becoming such a salient political issue... www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
That time when Robby Starbuck and McKinsey sounded eerily similar on explaining the gender pay gap... and I posit the best "choice" a woman can really make if she wants to get ahead (ICYMI) www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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McKinsey Urges Women to Make Better Career Choices
Simone Foxman is a reporter for Bloomberg News’ Equality team. She covers how business, money and finance intersect with issues like race, gender and religion. You can subscribe here, and share feedba...
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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 17/03/2025
God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Accessibility rarely gets much attention as part of DEI/DEIA... but *interesting* to see airlines attempt to overturn rules on wheelchairs just as the Trump admin tries to kick the acronyms to the curb... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Airlines seek to overturn Biden rules for travelers with wheelchairs
Airlines are seeking to undo Biden administration rules that required enhanced training for workers and protection for disabled passengers’ wheelchairs and assistive devices.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Like, .. 85% less. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Reporter: What do you need to buy Gaza? Trump: "We're not going to buy anything. We're going to have it. We're going to keep it... and nobody's going to question it."
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.” From our @science.org news team 🧪
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'It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The order requires OMB to tell all grant/aid recipients that the freeze has been blocked. OMB must roll back any steps they had already taken to carry it out. Will Trump's executive branch follow the court's order? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Judge Further Blocks White House Spending Freeze
The restraining order, along with a similar directive by another judge from Friday, amounted to a rebuke of the move as an overreach that likely lacked legitimate authority.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Energy customers in the US Northeast could be on the hook if Canada tariffs come into effect - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Canada Oil Tariffs Seen Adding 8% to US Northeast Heating Bills
The cost to heat a home with oil this winter in the US Northeast would rise 8% if tariffs on Canadian energy products are enacted, an energy nonprofit estimates.
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UChicago Law @uchicagolaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A Trump executive order on combatting antisemitism “seems to simply restate existing law,” Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social told @bloomberg.com’s @simonefoxman.bsky.social.
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Trump’s Anti-‘Woke’ Crusade May Test Ties With Free Speech Backers
Simone Foxman is a reporter for Bloomberg News’ Equality team. She covers the intersection of business, money and finance with issues like race, gender and religion. You can subscribe here, and share…
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
*COMING UP AT NOON* - Join me and my @bloomberg.com colleagues as we answer your pressing questions about DEI -- what it is, what it means, and what attacks on DEI by Donald Trump and others mean for companies, workers and beyond. www.bloomberg.com/sessions/202...
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Live Q&A: The Impact of Trump’s DEI Actions<strong> </strong>
Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about the impact of Trump’s executive actions on diversity, equity and inclusion
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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The USAF has reversed itself "after uproar." We must continue to pay attention. We must continue to preserve & share the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen & the Women Airforce Service Pilots. I promised them I would always tell their stories. You can too. Knowledge is power! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Copy of book "The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II," by Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Ph.D.. The cover is a black and white photo of four women walking between two rows of airplanes while wearing dark blue pants and light blue or white shirts, holding parachutes over their shoulders. The letters of the title are bright blue - representing a bold, sunny sky.A color picture of Katherine Sharp Landdeck, arm and arm with WASP of WWII Mary Regalbutto Jones. They are in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the summer of 1997 and standing in front of a banner made by WASP Shutsy Reynolds saying Oshkosh 1997, having the symbol of the Women Military Aviators, and filled with signatures of everyone who had entered the WASP tent that week. Kate had interviewed Mary, they had become fast friends, and Kate had promised Mary to tell her story and the story of her fellow WASPs far and wide for the rest of her days.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Expert suggests "things like Head Start, which goes to child-care facilities, or things that go to states, like the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program" may be affected www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Anna Kitanaka @onlyanna100.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Several agencies—including the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission—have removed webpages for their DEI programs 🎁Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Wall Street Watchdogs Quietly Scrub DEI Pages After Trump Orders
Federal banking and securities regulators, including several intended to operate independently from the White House, are starting to delete references to internal diversity and inclusion offices from ...
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Vomiting, Changing Jobs: Federal Employees Describe Dark Day As Trump Guts DEI www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Vomiting, Changing Jobs: Federal Employees Describe Dark Day as Trump Guts DEI
Emily Flitter is a reporter for Bloomberg News, focusing on the intersection between finance and race, gender and class. You can subscribe here, and share feedback here.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Happening on that other platform... ADL scolds Elon Musk for "highly offensive jokes"
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Robert Jameson @rhjameson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
JPMorgan, Goldman CEOs Resist Calls to Roll Back DEI Programs -Shareholder proposals on diversity submitted by 2 groups -‘Bring them on,’ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says of activists www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @emilyflitter.bsky.social Jeff Green @simonefoxman.bsky.social
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JPMorgan, Goldman CEOs Resist Calls to Roll Back DEI Programs
JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020, the largest US companies started hiring more black workers. Now, that trend has stalled, and black workers have all but erased earlier gains. That's the top finding of our massive analysis of S&P 100 companies... (1/3) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Corporate America Hired More Black Workers. Then It Stopped.
Black workers are losing share in corporate America as the conservative push for anti-DEI policies gathers steam ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Kelsey Butler @itskelseybutler.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
MY LATEST: Grindr, the LGBTQ dating app, will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy and adoption costs for employees — far more than what the average company offers its workers. (Gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Grindr to Give Staff $300,000 for Fertility Treatments, Adoption
Grindr Inc., the LGBTQ dating app, will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy and adoption costs for employees — far more than what the average company offers its workers.
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Simone Foxman @simonefoxman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
These money managers downplay the threat of Trump’s tariffs - from @bloomberg.com Women, Money & Power event today www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Money Managers Cast Doubt on Economic Impact of Trump’s Tariffs
Some of the world’s most powerful and influential money managers said they’re not convinced that President-Elect Donald Trump’s potentially wide-ranging tariffs are much more than a negotiating tactic...
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