Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor

Uh, if it helps, I'm going to view this skeet 20k times on my own. Apologies that that is all I have to offer. 😞

What a bunch of transparent, rank hypocrites.

(uh, we don't actually know each other so: that was sarcasm)

But Jake, I peeked at a skeet and stared at a graph for 0.03 seconds and distinctly noticed only two things. 👀

Purposely no, so I would interpret our results as a lower bound?

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

BTW one of my favorite parts of this is that if the foundations object to their empirical portrayal here, they can just speak up loud and clear and say “we love DEI!”

BTW one of my favorite parts of this is that if the foundations object to their empirical portrayal here, they can just speak up loud and clear and say “we love DEI!”

Yeah. TBH I don't know how y'all do it.

Also OBVIOUSLY I will never have a Guadagnini... and/but I have this instrument that I got for practically $0 in 1987 and it will never be worth anything because it has no label BUT MAN DOES IT MAKE A SOUND and i would never let that thing be unprotected.

What my mood actually looks like under my social anxiety

What my feet actually look like under a nice outfit.

BTW leave it to an upper middle class cis white man to advise on breaking the rules! <takes bow>

...I could offer a piece of advice (I didn't want to be unsolicited reply guy) and she was like yes plz and I was like, tell the gate agent sure thing ma'am and then just bring it on the fucking plane and hope the flight attendant won't care.

This is what happened and it was fine. The system sucks.

I was recently in an airport and NOT traveling with my instrument but in the gate there was a young woman (probably high school or early college) with a viola, getting told by the gate agent she couldn't carry it on and would need to gate check it at the end of the jetway. I asked the woman if...

oh FFS

Truly.

As I like to say, IT REEKS OF EFFORT

I'm a gay dude and HARD PASS

p.s. This one goes out to all the nonprofits and individuals who have had their very good justice-focused ideas and initiatives declined by foundations, esp. over the past couple of years.

Gee Anna as any college/university admin will tell you what really matters is what internal BUCKETS the money is arbitrarily placed in by upper level bureaucrats.

Also, this project was "assigned" to me as homework by
@weissmann.substack.com when I gave a talk at NYU a year or two back. For understandable reasons, bro is not emailable, so can anyone help me get this to him? Andrew, this is for you!

that point was some time ago. this is just telling us more of what we already knew. (and yeah, it’s bad.)

I'm the founder of @equalaccesspublicmedia.org. We focus on #accessibility in the field of journalism and public-facing news products.

I've not just been saying this. I've been screaming this.

Now @chadtopaz.bsky.social has the data to show it.

Gah here is working link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Now, what these foundations have changed in their actual funding patterns isn’t something easy to assess because getting that info is very hard if not impossible. Regardless, tho, what big powerful orgs say or don’t say publicly MATTERS, substantively.

p.s. This one goes out to all the nonprofits and individuals who have had their very good justice-focused ideas and initiatives declined by foundations, esp. over the past couple of years.

Also, before economists are all like "*$&%" allow me to point out the phrases "consistent with" and "appears to be." So no, economists, this is not a causal study. Because not all things are answerable with a causal study as they are unfolding. And yet some of those things still should be studied.

Also, this project was "assigned" to me as homework by
@weissmann.substack.com when I gave a talk at NYU a year or two back. For understandable reasons, bro is not emailable, so can anyone help me get this to him? Andrew, this is for you!

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1