#DEI mayor

[b0bthebuilder35]

This man gives more class than these racists deserve.

#DEI #DEI mayor #baltimore #mayor brandon scott #baltimore maryland #Baltimore md #Bmore #racism #racists #diversity equity and inclusion #duly elected incumbent #mayor of Baltimore #class #classy #embarassing #life #reality #America #amerikkka #united states #united states of america #USA #racism still exists #political climate #ideology #race relations #election #elections #election process #proud

[justaholeinmysoul]

I once again Americans to read a book and get out their assess before stating that their issues are universal and attacking people here and there for the fuck ups your own local government does

#how can u be progressive while only looking at ur backyard through ur very self centered and ignorant lenses? #seriously people believing them tho it means you are extremely superficial or young or an idiot #like some posts would be just fine if worded as local #the real issue of this in x state is the mayor #but u can't say x issue worldwide is bc of my mayor and proof is in jane austens books #and some of yall: so true bestie what are u talking about olga pay attention in class ffs #imagine if i came here targeting a group of people bc i cinque stelle sono coglioni ed è colpa dei fan di harry Potter boh

[dostoyevsky-official]

the change in social media is that a few years ago, a ship would get stuck in the suez or something like that, and people would talk about it by recommending an article from new left review or endnotes or perhaps even an academic journal on logistics, counterlogistics, and the communist prospect. now a ship hits a bridge and people are talking about the DEI boat policies, the multicultural bridge support, and the woke mayor of baltimore and so on

#it's becoming unusable

[cock-holliday]

While I do think the internet has the unique opportunity to amplify brain-poisoning, I wish discourse wasn’t so heavily split into “online vs irl” when it’s much more an issue of…exclusionary politics and idpol hierarchy brainrot.

“This doesn’t happen offline” the problem is, it does. Because people who captain themselves the arbiter of validity on tumblr dot org are possibly also going to be a self-righteous dorkass at your DEI training, or when organizing lesbian night at the bar, or being president of a queer org on campus, or running LGBT orgs people rely on for survival. Many of the most exclusionary queer spaces were made offline first. Offline spaces organized by young folks from online spaces with no grasp of offline history are going to be just as rife with “terminally online” takes as any website.

Your local steel mill line is both likely to be violently homophobic out of bigoted ignorance AND supremely immune to microidentity politics because it means absolutely nothing to Joe Factory, who will shrug and go “hey man whatever makes you happy.”

Your liberal arts college is both likely to be aware of the niche politics of queer identity and will have heard of and be welcoming to your set of neopronouns AND will find new and cruel ways to be bigoted while smiling in your face because their flavor of queer is celebrated by the city mayor and so LGBT-phobia (please don’t say q***r) ended with marriage equality.

LGBT community that refuses intersectional lenses will always be rife with bigotry, both directed at minorities within this space and indirectly hitting people they think belong (ie assigning masculinity to Black queer women due to racism but then also exhibiting butchphobia/antimasculism at all masculine women, man-hating directed at cis men to “punch up” being weaponized against trans folks, etc)

Cishet society is still not safe for LGBT people, but has gotten better in some areas and worse in others as visibility has increased. Which means micro-infighting potentially is a non-issue in a space that is tolerant to other (more visible) forms of queerness, AND if there is a problem there with family friendly gays and lesbians then they will absolutely take issue with polyam genderfluid aces.

“In real life” has near nothing to do with it. If your space, online or in real life, is neither radically intentionally inclusive or tolerantly indifferent it’s gonna be bigoted—intentionally or not, queer or not.

#LJsm #‘this doesn’t happen irl’ #elder trans woman at the potluck called herself transsexual and young trans guys pitched a fit #elder trans man at a picnic asked why bother with bottom surgeries that weren’t phallo since #‘everyone’s goal is to look cis’ #he got chewed out by younger trans guys #went to a lesbian night at a bar that flipped shit over bisexuals being there #know a trans woman who speaks at terf events shitting on trans people #also idk if people forgot but you can still very much get murdered irl #like online has so many issues but that doesn’t make offline easy either—especially for folks who cannot even be out as mainstream queers #and none of this is to say ‘oh online is way safer than offline’ #just that the split is misleading because it has less to do with where the space is and more what are the values/goals/tone of the space

[schraubd]

A Bridge Too Far

Immediately after the Key Bridge collapse, I wrote the following: Congress needs to pass $$ for the Key Bridge rebuild ASAP. The longer it waits, the more likely some insane r-w conspiracy develops about how “bridges are DEI” and suddenly the funds are being tied to burning Pride books or something.  Sigh.  This week, Pennsylvania GOP Representative Dan Meuser slammed President Biden for calling on Congress to fully fund the response to the Baltimore collapse. Meuser insisted it’s “outrageous” that Biden wants to fund repairs in their “entirety,” and even demanded that some of this money must be taken from “ridiculous EV expenditures.” [....] Some GOP lawmakers are already treating future funding of the Baltimore response as a future concession on their part. Representative Jeff Duncan says Congress should not spend “one more dime” of additional infrastructure money before a border wall is built, as if the need for disaster relief can be used to extort Democrats into funding MAGA priorities in return. [....] It gets still worse. Some right-wing media personalities are floating whackjob theories blaming the collision on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, on our supposedly open borders, and other MAGA preoccupations. Some “online influencers” and GOP politicians indulged in trivializing nitwit speculation and targeted Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with other assorted hateful smears. Some predictions are too obvious to get credit for nailing. (H/T)  via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/kZ8JNwD

#Baltimore #Dan Meuser #infrastructure #Jeff Duncan #Maryland #Pete Buttigieg #transportation

[seymour-butz-stuff]

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) responded to some of the bizarre criticisms coming from conservatives following the cargo ship-induced collapse of the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning by saying the term DEI—when applied derogatorily to him—means “duly elected incumbent.” On MSNBC’s The Reid Out, host Joy Reid prefaced her interview with Scott, who is Black, by calling attention to a tweet describing Scott as “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.” That post, which references the acronym that stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, has generated more than 25 million views, along with a clarifying community note on X. “I cannot believe I have to say this,” Reid began. “Brandon Scott was elected with 70 percent of the vote in 2020 in a city that is 61 percent Black. So by right-wing logic, a ‘diversity hire’ would have been a white man.” Reid then asked Scott if he wanted to address the “tomfoolery” of those attacking him “for having the nerve to be Black and also a mayor.”

[beardedmrbean]

Before this column ends, we’ll get to the unmissable fact that anti-Israel, often antisemitic, protests are proliferating at what we amusingly choose to call our most “selective” universities—Columbia, Yale, New York University, Stanford, Berkeley. For the moment, add these North Face tent protests on $75,000-a-year campus quads to the sense among the American public that their country is running off the rails.

A list of the phenomena laying us low includes: wokeness, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), defund the police (a depressing subset of wokeness), conspiracy theories, head-in-the-sand isolationism and a self-centered political polarization typified—from left to right—by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

Ironically this time of year is associated with hope, amid spring and college graduations—except at the University of Southern California, which, fearing trouble, canceled its commencement speakers and told honorary-degree recipients not to show up.

Setting silenced USC aside, a hopeful note one hears at college commencements is that the American system is self-correcting, that despite recurrent stress, it always rights itself. Opinion polls suggest few believe this anymore but—happy spring—it looks as if we may be on the brink of a real counter-revolt against the craziness.

Last week in the hopelessly gridlocked House, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, facing threats to his job from the chaos caucus, cast his lot with the enough-is-enough caucus. The House passed bills to sustain allies in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Congress isn’t dead—yet.

Blue states and cities that looked willing to collapse rather than defend their citizens have begun to push back against progressives’ pro-criminal and antipolice movements.

At the urging of Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York’s just-passed state budget includes measures to crack down on shoplifting. Assaulting a retail worker will be a felony. Larceny charges can be based on the total goods stolen from different stores. Progressives in the state’s Legislature opposed the measures. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, elected in January on restoring law and order (yes, it can be a Democratic issue), last week announced a plan to support policing in the most crime- and drug-plagued neighborhoods.

March seemed to be a tipping point. The hyperprogressive Council of the District of Columbia, in a city that had become an embarrassing carjacking hellhole, passed an array of anticrime measures. Oregon’s Legislature voted to reverse the state’s catastrophic three-year experiment with drug decriminalization. San Francisco voters approved two measures proposed by, of all people, Mayor London Breed, to ease restrictions on policing and require drug screening for welfare recipients. The results in Los Angeles County’s primary for district attorney strongly suggest progressive George Gascón will be voted out in November.

In all these places, the reversals by elected officials are driven by the prospect of voters’ turning them out of office. That is the U.S. political system trying to right itself.

In California, a safety coalition has collected about 900,000 signatures to reverse parts of Proposition 47, the state’s now-notorious 2014 decision to reduce some theft felonies to misdemeanors. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared sympathetic to overturning a Ninth Circuit decision that bars cities and towns from enforcing vagrancy laws. Though the case emerged from Grants Pass, Ore., which is trying to ban homeless encampments, about three dozen elected officials and organizations in California filed briefs arguing that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling made cleaning up the streets almost impossible.

News stories since the start of the year have noted that many private companies are rethinking policies on DEI, partly under legal pressure, such as the Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down the use of race in college admissions.

Some in the corporate DEI movement thought they were immune to restraints. No longer. Companies are rediscovering that the constituency most needing inclusion is their customers. The loudest shot across the bow came last week, when Google fired 28 employees after some staged sit-in protests at its New York and California offices over a contract with Israel’s government. Google’s firing statement describes “completely unacceptable behavior.” No one saw that coming.

All this adds up to a nascent counter-revolt against America’s lurch toward self-destruction. The exception is elite U.S. universities. Their leadership has seen itself as answerable to no one and politically immune.

Robert Kraft, a Columbia grad and owner of the New England Patriots, said this week he will no longer give the school money “until corrective action is taken.”

If big donors ever regain control of these so-called selective schools, a suggestion: Firing the president won’t close the barn door. Instead, fire the admissions office. What a tragedy to think how many serious high-school students were rejected by Columbia, Yale and NYU, edged out by nonuseful idiots whose chosen major is the political structure of re-education camps.

Someone has to be a lagging indicator, and these schools are it.

Non-paywall link

#nunyas news

[chewablepebbles]

Day was GREAT 🔨🔨🔨

Speech was awesome, talked with mayor Ron for like 3 min, great news is after his term is over he's aiming for senator and then hopefully president, this is the guy that fights for DEI and women's rights in Texas and actually gets stuff done. Excop govt professor I Loathed was fired 🎉 and everyone is gossiping about him. Apparently he bitched about me on a podcast. Met with some current Dem senators and reps. LA trip for the conference in Spring confirmed 🍆 got approved for my CA license!! My mom went to the farmers market and everyone was asking about me and she brought back a list of questions that I have to answer and send out to my people ❤️ slummed it with my favorite professor. Came home and took my niece, nephew, and a friend on a hike in Jackson. This girl I had written off on tinder texted back ✌️ Cheryl at the museum called and wants me to direct a summer program. Officially dropped out of Ochem and technically college. Gonna return for an english degree. Selena was on the radio today. There's more but I literally can't remember it right now. It's been so wild. I'm tired and happy.

#jabberjos #FUCK YEAHHHJ!!!!!!!!!

[mightyflamethrower]

Compton Business Encounters Social Justice

As local police are marginalized, the “marginalized” become ever more entitled. In the Los Angeles area, liberal utopia has been achieved. Good luck to capitalist oppressors trying to run a business:

A mob of over 100 looters purposefully crashed a Kia into a small bakery in Compton, Calif., before they flooded in and ransacked the store during a night of rampage on the streets earlier this week.

This same means of entry has been used in Chicago, which now has a mayor who sides with mobs of looters openly, instead of implicitly like most Democrats.

The thieves had gathered in the area for an illegal street takeover around 3 a.m. Tuesday before making the mile-long trek to Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food.

This could be why in the olden days the streets were policed rather than left to mobs of lowlife. But that was found to be racist.

Police had received two calls about a car on fire and a street takeover outside the bakery just before the looting occurred.

Maybe they thought better of intervening, lest an officer end up getting the Derek Chauvin treatment. It’s not as if any of the looters would be prosecuted anyway. Los Angeles County DA George Gascon was installed by George Soros, #1 bankroller of the Democratic Party.

No injuries or arrests were reported in Tuesday’s looting.

Of course not. If there were consequences, lawlessness would not be escalating out of control.

Ironically, the Ruben’s storefront prominently features “We Accept EBT” notices. EBT is a government-implemented form of looting, whereby taxpayers and holders of inflated US currency are the ones who get looted.

Welcome to the new Post Modern American Utopia

Thank you DEI

Thank you Democrats.

[azspot]

We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor. Whether it is DEI or clown. They really want to say the N-word. But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors. I am proud of who I am and where I come from.

Brandon Scott

#baltimore #dei

[xmoonfirex]

Wish I was surprised by any of this, but it's not at all surprising. Wishing this man peace and success.

[angrybell]

You really have to admire the Democratic Mayor’s commitment to diversity. She made sure to only allow elected people of color, making sure that none of those white people were allowed to come.

I mean, who wants to have a party where everyone shows up? Because that’s what she could have done when she realized her staffer made a mistake. But no, her staff, presumably with her mayoral approval, disinvited the white council members.

Because after all, isn’t that what the whole DEI plan is about? Instituting segregation and making sure that groups you don’t like get excluded. If it were done by white people, it would be rightly called segregation and heads would roll. But in these enlightened times, if it’s done by someone with a DEI sounding title it’s “woke” and just and if you complain about it you’re a racist.

Had Mayor Menino done this, he would have been crucified and forced to resign. Mayor Wu should, but she absolutely zero shame.

She’s been comfortable with being discriminatory on the basis of race. Her policies favored other groups and seemingly targeted Italian American restaurant owners. Her administration set the fee for outdoor dining in most of Boston at a max of $399. For those in the North End, $7,500. When they complained, she ended outdoor dining in North End.

Interestingly, since the mayor is attending, she is clearly making a bid to have Asian Americans reclassified as people of color instead of the “white adjacent” that lead, in part, to Harvard discriminating against them.

Boston, home to a bigoted mayor, next to a cesspool of antisemitism and bigotry at Harvard. They deserve each other.

[initiumseries]

Honestly, Wednesday was different from typical Netflix fare. It obviously had a production budget behind it. But there were...issues. Which is like, fine, every show will have issues. 

But to be quite frank, I’m losing my patience with this “DEI” approach to casting, because I have yet to see a take that just doesn’t fall back on such absurd and ridiculous acts of antiblackness playing out on screen that I’m like...you can’t be fucking serious lol. 

The Black kid, THE BLACK KID, the only Black boy we’ve seen in this series, shows up for the first time, in fucking PILGRIM OUTFIT? Make it. Make SENSE. His Black Dad, the mayor, who is bigoted against “outsiders” (walk me through the whole “outsiders thing, because the show goes all the way back to the Mayflower and I’m fucking sorry but Black people were ENSLAVED on that land, so what are the mayor and his son, if not quintessential outsiders?? Anyway...), OWNS Pilgrim World? For what? Racism? 

Bianca, BEAUTIFUL girl, uglified with those hideous contacts. Ofc she’s the bitchy mean girl. I’ve had enough of the return of the Black Antagonist. The inexplicably shitty Black person who is just angry and bitchy for no other reason than to...just be so. You want me to believe a BLACK BOY is going to fuck around with a bunch of white racists like that boy was? Getting his ass consistently beat by Wednesday? Please. Having Morticia Addams talk down to a BLACK MAN in a basically confederate town about not knowing what it would be like to not be believed? 

If these kinds of shows don’t get the fuck off my tv. I’m tired of watching blatant antiblackness play out in my face on my leisure time. I could just go outside for that. 

#antiblackracism #antiblackness #tv: wednesday #netflix #text post

[joseandrestabarnia]

TÍTULO: Virgen y el Niño con coro de Querubines (Madonna dei Cherubini)  AUTOR: Andrea Mantegna  FECHA: 1485 aproximadamente  MATERIAL Y TÉCNICA: Tempera   DIMENSIONES: 88×70 cm  INVENTARIO: 297    La tabla, atribuida a Giovanni Bellini hasta 1885, cuando la restauración de Luigi Cavenaghi permitió reconocer la mano de Mantegna, corresponde probablemente a la donada por el artista a su amigo el abad Matteo Bosso; llegó a Brera en 1808 tras las supresiones napoleónicas de la iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de Venecia. La mencionada atribución a Bellini se justifica por los colores inusualmente brillantes de la composición y la intensa dulzura del rostro de la Virgen. 

Mantegna ya era de edad avanzada cuando pintó esta obra en la que, a pesar del nombre, aparecen tanto querubines (rojos) como serafines (azules), que se distinguen por el color de sus alas. 

Información e imagen de la Pinacoteca de Brera. 

#art #pintura #renacimiento

[ladythatsmyskull]

[jepsoon0903]

La Roma de Bernini y Borromini

La Roma del siglo XVII fue un período de gran florecimiento artístico y arquitectónico, y tanto Borromini como Bernini fueron figuras importantes en la creación de la arquitectura barroca en la ciudad. Sus obras son consideradas como algunas de las más impresionantes y bellas de la época.

Borromini es conocido por su estilo arquitectónico distintivo, que se caracteriza por el uso de formas curvas y la manipulación de la luz y la sombra para crear efectos dramáticos. Entre sus obras más famosas se encuentran la iglesia de San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane y la iglesia de Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza.

Por su parte, Bernini es reconocido por sus esculturas y monumentos, así como por sus trabajos arquitectónicos, como la Piazza Navona y la iglesia de Sant'Andrea al Quirinale. También es conocido por su trabajo en la Basílica de San Pedro, donde diseñó la famosa plaza y la famosa baldachin sobre el altar mayor.

En general, la obra de Borromini y Bernini representa una fusión única de la arquitectura, la escultura y el diseño urbano, y su legado continúa siendo una fuente de inspiración para arquitectos y artistas en todo el mundo.

Algunas de las obras de ellos fueron:

Chiesa di Santa Bibiana:

Iglesia de San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane:

Oratorio dei Filippini:

Sant'ivo Alla Sapienza:

Iglesia de Santa María de la Victoria:

Galería Spada:

Iglesia de San Andrés del Quirinal:

Regia:

Basílica de San Pedro:

A continuación se presenta una ficha del mapa con una ubicación de las obras más destacadas:

@lonuevodenuevo

#bernini #borromini #architecture #arquitectura #arquitecturelovers #curiosidades #sabiasque #barroco