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That’s Trump’s administration! He’s turned everything upside down!

The Environmental Protection Agency? He’s turned it on its head—and it’s allowing more pollution!

The National Park Service is selling parkland!

The Department of Agriculture is allowing growers to inspect their own produce.

OSHA is letting factories regulate themselves.

The Department of Education is going back to teaching the “Three R’s.”

The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating the latest conspiracy theories, like contrails.

He’s also turned the Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights on its head…

Reshaped civil rights mission at Justice Department transforms its work, workforce

NPR News

Ryan Lucas

October 11, 2026

When Harmeet Dhillon took over as the new chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division last April, the conservative attorney vowed to radically reshape the storied unit and its mission.

Over the past 18 months, Dhillon has moved aggressively to make that goal a reality. She has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many of them with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue President Trump's MAGA agenda, according to four current and former division officials.

Three of the individuals spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.

That last sentence is the most important: There is fear.

But Dhillon, who was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, argues that over the years the division's mission has narrowed to protecting the rights of just one segment of society: people of color.

In her view, that has created a form of "benevolent racism" designed to punish "the descendants of those who may have been responsible for the sins of the past."

"As the logic goes, the white oppressors of years past kept Brown and Black people down, why not give them a taste of their own medicine?" she said last November at an event for the conservative Federalist Society. "That's the thinking really that underlies a lot of our civil rights enforcement work."

Under the Trump administration, if a White employee doesn’t get promoted, it must be discrimination.

In just the past two months, the Civil Rights Division has accused law schools at the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University as well as the medical schools at the University of California, San Francisco and George Washington University of discriminating against white and Asian students in admissions.

They’re all WOKE… yeah, right! You know what else they have in common? They’re bastions of liberalism!

Do you really think these colleges would discriminate? Look at all the attacks Trump’s DOJ has launched against them, accusing them of antisemitism, racism, and discriminating against cisgender students!

They’ve turned civil rights laws on their heads! The Washington Post reported:

The Trump administration has upended civil rights enforcement at K-12 schools and colleges, prioritizing cases that allege transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages, while severe staff cuts have left thousands of other allegations unresolved.

When you stop and think about it for a moment… the Trump administration is following the White Christian nationalist agenda.

Some of these changes will be easy to roll back but others will take a generation to repair.