Nick Confessore
@nickconfessore
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Reporter for @NYTimes, staff writer at @NYTmag, @MSNBC political analyst. Also at @nickconfessore.bsky.social.
Joined February 2011
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The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
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NEW: Trans-rights activists cast a Supreme Court showdown over pediatric gender medicine as the case they had to bring. They lost badly -- and may have set their movement back a generation. For the @nytimes, I spent months reporting on what their gamble reveals about the.
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Great discussion with Jack. Take a listen —>.
The closure of Michigan's DEI office, announced today, is a real and symbolic blow to the entire movement. Many factors led to this, but @nickconfessore's investigation is surely one. You can hear all about it in our conversation on College Matters.
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The Board of Regents signaled in December that changes were likely, arguing that the school’s expansive D.E.I. effort had failed to make it meaningfully more diverse or inclusive. But Thursday’s announcement comes at a more charged moment, as the Trump administration mounts an.
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Out: the central DEI plan and office, diversity statements. In: more financial aid, more programs (some relocated from the DEI office) around student success and culture.
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Michigan, once at the forefront of school diversity efforts, is rapidly changing course amid campus pushback and broad scrutiny by the Trump administration.
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NEW: The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast as a model for American higher education. 1/3.
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Trump's E.O.s doesn't just dial back the sort of latter-day D.E.I. practices that animate the last few years of the culture war. Some arguably undermine early civil rights law that says, e.g., you can't discriminate against job applicants based on race or sex -- basic stuff Trump.
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Smart column from @DavidAFrench -- it helps to be a lawyer -- on Trump admin's anti-D.E.I. push and the subtle ways in which it is at odds with the admin's own rhetorical call for a return to an earlier kind of equal rights doctrine. (link below).
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RT @TheTranscript_: $SNAP CEO back in 2022 on TikTok: . "They spent billions upon billions of dollars acquiring users & buying content to s….
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A really thought-provoking package from the Monthly, examining new approaches to racial justice in higher ed in a post-affirmative action world.
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well. 🧵 (1/5).
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RT @daveweigel: Also, good detail in this @melmason @alexdrnieves story - Bass team didn't quickly refute the "she cut the LAFD budget" sto….
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RT @politicoalex: A mole within Fox sent the Trump camp all questions he would be getting at a Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum town hall in….
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President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in...
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“The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself for the Trump presidency in the weeks before it begins.” @nytimes reports on Facebook dropping fact checking as Trump prepares to enter office.(link ⬇️.
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Well, the pilot program for platform screen doors for just 3 stations cost $100 million.
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RT @lxeagle17: It’s kind of brushed over now but the “mostly apolitical voter” was more Democratic than Republican as late as 2020. This sh….
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RT @CLeonardNews: SCOOP: Tyson Foods has subpoenaed two news organizations, demanding they turn over notes and contacts with local farmers….
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This story was updated Dec. 18, 2024, for clarification and to correct misspellings. DEXTER, Missouri – On an early August morning in 2023, Shawn Hinkle received a call from one of his technicians...
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