Trump is dismantling our Civil Rights
The Department of Justice is being transformed ... not to protect you!
🧱 Signal > Noise: Dismantling Civil Rights = Dismantling Democracy
“There's something about being told you're worthy from another person that feels better than when you tell yourself in a mirror.” — Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
🧠 Thesis: Civil rights protections are being dismantled by design.
The Department of Justice is being transformed—not to protect you, but to prosecute dissent. The attack is happening quietly through government departments and administrative processes:
Appointing loyalists who won’t enforce civil rights
Rewriting rules to erase legal protections
Abandoning cases that defend the vulnerable
Ignoring abuses like police brutality & housing bias
Turning the DOJ into a political weapon
They’re replacing law—and your rights—with dangerous loyalists.
📚 Proof: Can I have some more pudding, please?
🧩 1. Trump Dismantles DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
➡️ Over 250 career civil rights lawyers have left the DOJ. One insider described it as “taking an axe to the division.” The DOJ is no longer enforcing laws—it’s pushing Trump’s orders targeting “radical indoctrination in schools,” “gender ideology extremism,” and “anti-Christian bias.”
Read→ Justice department civil rights division loses 70% of lawyers (The Guardian)
🧩 2. DOJ Turns Away from Police Accountability
➡️ DOJ leadership halted all new civil rights complaints. Consent decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis—meant to reform violent policing—have been abandoned. Local officials are now free to roll back progress.
Read → (The Marshall Project)
Read→ (Louisville Courier Journal)
🧩 3. Children’s Civil Rights Under Siege
➡️ The Department of Education laid off over 1,300 employees—gutting the Office for Civil Rights. Entire regions now have *no federal staff* handling discrimination complaints. Protections for students—especially queer, trans, and disabled youth—have been obliterated.
Read→ ProPublica
🧩 4. DHS Shuts Down Oversight
➡️ Three major oversight bodies within Homeland Security—closed. Immigrant rights groups warn the agency is now less accountable, less transparent, and more dangerous.
Read→ Bloomberg Government
🧩 5. Trump Targets Lawyers and Nonprofits Who Hurt His Feelings
➡️ Civil rights law firms are barred from federal contracts. Legal infrastructure that protects dissent is being systematically dismantled.
Read→ The Guardian
🔥 Perspective: Ideology over Rights
What’s happening is clear:
Civil rights enforcement is being replaced with ideological enforcement
The DOJ’s independence is gone
Loyalty to Trump’s agenda is the new law
When the government no longer defends civil rights, no one is safe and nothing is sacred—your job, your vote, your child’s school, your right to protest.
Unless we name it, expose it, and resist it, we will lose more than just lawyers. When civil rights offices are defunded, oversight boards shuttered, and legal watchdogs purged, the Constitution becomes a suggestion, not a safeguard.
Their strategy is clear: dismantle the system from the inside while distracting the public with culture-war bait.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was never perfect. But it was essential. Now it’s being turned against the people it was meant to protect. This affects everyone—immigrants, Black and Brown Americans, Asian Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, White Americans. Middle-class families. Your children.
Without civil rights lawyers in the government, you have no shield against discrimination, corruption, and abuse of power.
📣 Action:
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Say it and share it clearly: "The Trump administration is dismantling the Civil Rights Division. This is a threat to democracy itself."
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I say Burn it all down with them all in it 😆