abortion, accessible, accessibility, activism, activists, advocacy, advocate, advocates, affirmative action, affirmative action programs, affirming care, affordable home, affordable housing, agricultural water, agrivoltaics, air pollution, all-inclusive, allyship, alternative energy, anti-racism, antiracist, asexual, assigned at birth, assigned female at birth, assigned male at birth, at risk, autism, aviation fuel…

Several news agencies, including but not limited to The New York Times,  Reuters,  The Washington Post,  ProPublica,  Science,  Gizmodo,  404 Media,  Popular Information, Politico’s E&E News and More Perfect Union have published lists of words and materials that the Trump administration has been deleting from government websites and documents.

Government agencies are purging these topics as part of the administration’s efforts to remove all references to anything even hinting at what they consider “woke” or against the MAGA agenda: DEI initiatives, topics of race, climate science, vaccines, LGBTQ+ topics, women’s health, disability rights, and so many other issues.

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The list above represents a miniscule percentage of the dozens of ludicrious banned words. Why “affordable housing” and “autism,” for example? Who knows?

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We’re All Mad Here

“If I had a world of my own,” says Alice’s friend, the Mad Hatter, “everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

Here in Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical upside-down world of Wonderland, right is wrong and good is bad, characters shrink, grow, and disappear quicker than a wink of an eye, the Mad Hatter sings “a happy unbirthday to you,” and the Cheshire Cat correctly reminds us that “We’re all mad here.”

This strange world resounds in the political discourse of the entire Trumpian era as the administration and the Republican Party gaslights its followers into believing its so-called “populist” agenda. We are the mad ones, they would have us believe, if we do not want to live in their upside-down world.

Trump and the MAGA sphere have co-opted and transformed reality into a dystopian novel like The Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Animal Farm, 1984, The Giver, The Hunger Games, The Plague, The Trial, The Plot Against America, and The Lord of the Flies all in one.

Conservatives have metamorphosed concepts of justice and equity into toxic and violent epithets in their patriarchal heteronormative Christian white supremacist project in which they have positioned rich white hetero-cisgender men as the victims of a plot by left-wing socialists to turn the United States into a “nanny state” of feminine men and losers.

Trump and his MAGA sycophants are saturating the airwaves with lies that human-caused climate change is a hoax; that windmills are ugly, cause cancer, and take the lives of millions of birds; and that vaccines weaken the human immune system.

That there are only two genders and transwomen are nothing more than men in skirts; that immigrants are criminals and psychopaths who eat cats and dogs.

That the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will lower taxes and costs on all products and will be great for our healthcare, while Trump’s tariffs will be paid by foreign countries and have already accumulated billions of dollars in reducing our national debt. That countries are waiting in line to make economic agreements because Trump is known worldwide for his art of the deal.

That “I hardly knew Jeffrey Epstein” and Sean Connery “stepped in to allow my new Scottish golf course to go through the approval process.”

That Jerome Powell doesn’t know anything about how to manage interest rates, that Stephen Colbert is a second-rate entertainer, and that Josh Hawley (R-MO) is a second-tier senator for disagreeing with the president, but “I, Donald Trump,” am still a very stable genius.

That “social justice” is very discriminatory and not at all socially just. And that “diversity” stands for “anti-white,” “anti-heterosexual,” “anti-cisgender,” “anti-able-bodied,” “anti-Christian,” “anti-U.S.-born,” “anti-male,” while “equity” is actually “inequity,” and “inclusion” is “exclusion” of white heterosexual cisgender able-bodied U.S.-born Christian males.

But Trump’s “Truth Social”, they’ll have you believe, is both truthful and social.

As the Trump administration continues its relentless assault on speech that in any way contradicts or challenges MAGA’s perception of reality, it is also targeting public and private institutions that receive government funding.

In a recent press release, the U.S. Justice Department outlined its Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination. The document reads as if it were written by the Mad Hatter.

“Today, the Department of Justice… clarifies that federal antidiscrimination laws apply to programs or initiatives that involve discriminatory practices, including those labeled as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (‘DEI’) programs.”

The subtext here is that programs to combat discrimination are themselves discriminatory for alleged biased against white heterosexual able bodied cisgender Christian U.S.-born males.

The release continues, “Entities that receive federal funds, like all other entities subject to federal antidiscrimination laws, must ensure that their programs and activities comply with federal law and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or other protected characteristics—no matter the program’s labels, objectives, or intentions.”

When you click on the document, itself, it emphasizes that using protected characteristics for “employment, program participation, resource allocation, or other similar activities, opportunities, or benefits, is unlawful.” It also describes DEI as a “euphemistic” term and makes clear that trans-inclusive policies are considered unlawful.

As such, what the Trump administration is actually saying here is that it will shutter programs, departments, and entire institutions that stray from its line of what is appropriate to discuss on college and university campuses.

“Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.”

Indeed.

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