Someone inform Hegseth minorities and women are overrepresented in blocked promotions at 50%. That is DEI of a sort.

[applegrove]

Diversity, equity and exclusion Could work

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 senior officers to general and admiral ranks so far this year. About half of those are women or members of minority groups. Read the inside story on the process Hegseth and his team have used to halt their advancements.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-06-19T19:40:02.139198Z

[spooky3]

1. Dear Hegseth: these actions are direct violations of the Civil Rights Act

Of 1964. You cannot legally make decisions on the basis of sex unless it is a BFOQ (such as requiring applicants for a job to model women’s fashions to be female). Race cannot legally be a BFOQ. Unless these officers were demonstrably less qualified than those you are promoting, you should be sued into oblivion.

(Not a lawyer but many non-lawyers have this basic understanding of what managers in the US cannot do legally.)

[dave99]

2. He should refrain from open areas

[Skittles]

3. imagine your military career impacted by a drunken rapist pimping for Cadet Bonespurs