Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
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Citation: Executive Order 9981, July 26, 1948; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
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Executive Order 9981 stated that “there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” It established the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services to recommend revisions to military regulations in order to implement this policy.
The advisory committee examined the rules, practices, and procedures of the armed services and recommend ways to make desegregation a reality. The committee, chaired by Charles Fahy, was terminated upon submission of its final report, entitled “Freedom to Serve,” on May 22, 1950.
There was considerable resistance to the executive order from the military, but by the end of the Korean conflict, almost all of the military was integrated.
1948.
Truman did this in 1948!
Adam Serwer
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Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3mj2shjqqdk2d
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As the Pentagon purges some minorities and women from high-ranking positions, the message being sent to lower-ranking officers is that “they will be assessed on the basis of their gender, race, or politics, rather than their abilities,”
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https://x.com/TheAtlantic/status/2042038069637922983?s=20The United States versus Elon R. Musk
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Colin Powell once said that the US military forged after desegregation in 1948 became the largest & most significant merit-based organization in the US, because modern armed forces cannot rely on institutionalized misogyny & racial segregation. Hegseth has undermined all that.
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2042226053108941141?s=20The United States versus Elon R. Musk
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Decades of successfully convincing otherwise conservative white men of the value of seeing other humans by their abilities & not by their skin color, gender national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity was no easy task, and Hegseth trashed it all in a matter of months.
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2042231329958551865?s=20The United States versus Elon R. Musk
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to the credit of these otherwise conservative white men, they accepted being fired or demoted rather than carry out the Secretary’s bigoted orders, so we can see that some significant social progress has been made in 80 years
8:30 AM · Apr 9, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2042233617041195069?s=20
Amy Coplan
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Yes!!From all that has been reported, the only reason Hegseth has even hinted at (and in most cases he says nothing) for his actions is his conclusion that almost anyone who isn’t a white male must have risen to his/her current position due to DEI.
It then becomes impossible for
anyone other than a white male to be promoted or treated fairly.It was due to conditions exactly like these that DEI programs were instituted. And there is a great deal of empirical evidence showing that the conditions were in no way a reflection of objective reality (that is, white males always being the most deserving of promotion).
It’s remarkable that Hegseth & others who share his clearly racist & sexist views are hubristic enough to believe that their bigotry is justified.
Our military deserves so much more.
10:33 PM · Apr 8, 2026
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The Chinese are sailing through the Straight like they’re delivering DoorDash.
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🧵What do election deniers, conspiracy theorists andnti-voting activists all have in common?
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(2/5) 🌄COLORADO: James Wiley, an election denier and anti-voting activist, is running to be the state’s top elections chief, where, if elected, he plans to get rid of all voting machines.
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(3/5) 🍑GEORGIA: The secretary of state campaign for Vernon Jones, who once dubbed himself the “Black Donald Trump,” includes a push for paper ballots over electronic voting systems, cutting mail-in voting, and stricter voter ID laws.
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(4/5) 🏁INDIANA: Prior to running to be Indiana’s top elections official, Diego Morales wrote an op-ed where he had “deep skepticism regarding the accuracy of the 2020 presidential election” and called the contest “a sham.”
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he was attempting to bother HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Armed masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant
Off-duty sergeant allegedly told officers he planned to let students assault him so they could be arrested
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Moments later, that man, identified as off-duty Phoenix police Sgt. Dusten Mullen, approached students, telling them to “grow up.”
“You could argue that his intent was essentially an incitement to a riot, which is a criminal offense, by the way,” Gennaco said.
Police reports reveal Mullen refused to leave and told officers he had called other armed individuals to come to the scene.
“Because others may have been involved and contacted and agreed to create a situation, that’s essentially conspiracy,” Gennaco said.
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The Trump / Republican messaging theme for the day was supposed to be No Tax on Tips.
Instead, the master strategist 4-D chess player made it about Dr. Jesus Trump from the Red Cross.
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Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe:
“I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran, because I had many, many long hours-long conversations with him and his war cabinet about this.”
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More cracks.
One man was escorted out of the Sunday night town hall after shouting that the GOP is “morally bankrupt” and led by “spineless liars,” while the crowd cheered him on. trib.al/KGNOO7I
“You must impeach. He’s a fraud, he’s corrupt, he’s an incompetent psychopath,”
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Pope Leo XIV responds to Trump’s attack:
“I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out about the message of the Gospel. That’s what I believe I’m here to do and what the Church is here to do. We are not politicians…I do believe in the message of the Gospel as a peacemaker.”
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Breaking:
A federal judge just dismissed Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled Trump hadn’t made a valid legal claim that he was defamed by an article about a letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name.
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