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The New York Times first reported the move, indicating that more than 100 staff members of the office were put on administrative leave for the next 60 days.

In addition to the civil rights office, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman was eliminated, as was the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. The first provides an opportunity for those to bring concerns about the immigration process while the second is a route for the public to flag issues about the problems facing those held in immigration detention.

According to the “special offer for Wisconsin voters” attached to the petition that America PAC posted online, voters who refer others who sign the petition can get a bonus $100, on top of the $100 for their own signatures.

“Judges should interpret laws as written, not rewrite them to fit their personal or political agendas,” the petition reads. “By signing below, I’m rejecting the actions of activist judges who impose their own views and demanding a judiciary that respects its role — interpreting, not legislating.”

The Wisconsin election could have major implications on issues like election laws, abortion rights and other priorities for each party.

Yesterday I noted that when DOGE showed up on Monday at the USIP offices, they came with what appeared to be private security in addition to FBI agents. It turns out that those private security people were USIP’s own security contractors, only they’d switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called “Inter-Con.” Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIP’s head of security had already canceled Inter-Con’s contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged.

This is another thing that was lost in the torrent of executive orders, that I now think it might require some closer attention.

Like Greenland and Canada were initially treated as typical Trump dementia, but we see there is more and more to them, and news keep getting back at these topics.

We see that the anti-Christian bias thing pops up in places. And we can bet it stems from deep places within the Christian Nationalists in the Heritage Foundation Trump team sent questions to international researchers funded by the US, asking (among others), whether they work to combat Christian persecution

Previously, Trump issued an EO to "eradicate" anti-Christian bias. This is also in line with some fundamentalist Christian views that LGBT visibility and acceptance is a personal attack to them and their faith.

There is a plethora of ways this can go wrong, not only in the extreme forms of oppression these fundamentalists are after, but also in overt state sponsored violence against the LGBT and other groups who work within a religious tolerant framework, eg the Unitarians, and constitutional protections of freedom of religion - for non-Christians of course.