Public health officials, advocates, and health workers need to be on guard.
The threats are real. We all need to demand from representatives in government and law enforcement officials that violence based on this wild anti-health campaign be prevented.
We all need to demand from representatives in government and law enforcement officials that violence based on this wild anti-health campaign be prevented.
I have been warning about this, and I've been called alarmist, and had many people throughout 2024 tell me that they had assumed, or insisted still, that Project 2025 was just some "liberal conspiracy theory" so you can imagine how far I've gotten with trying to point out the people planning on thousands of anti-vaxxers getting deputized at the county level to go on "live stream swatting raids" off enemy lists.
But now people are worried, and they should be, because people high up in the MAGAsphere have absolutely been making these plans very publicly. They just don't get covered in the mainstream press, because the mainstream press buys into elite panic.
NBC News - Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets' The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black. Feb. 4, 2025, 8:35 PM EST / Updated Feb. 4, 2025, 10:51 PM EST By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Erika Edwards On Tuesday evening, the site listed photos of employees and linked to further information about them under the headline “Targets.” Later Tuesday night, the headline on each page had been changed to “Dossiers.” The site lists workers’ salaries along with what it describes as “DEI offenses,” including political donations, screenshots of social media posts, snippets from websites describing their work, or being a part of a DEI initiative that has been scrubbed from a federal website. Benjamin suggested the acts of online harassment are criminal. “Law enforcement should look into them.”
I looked at these "dossiers" and the supposedly damning deets on some of the people on their shitlist of public health workers. An executive director in a significant department of a major federal agency and their listed annual salary was listed and it's basically the average regular doctor salary in northeastern Pennsylvania if she was a practicing physician employed by a health system.
They highlighted donating to political campaigns as "partisan political activities", except that even civil servants are allowed to make political campaign donations and put political signs in their yards. Civil servants can't do much else that's partisan besides that and vote. I don't know what else anybody wants from these people. It's not like she had an extremist flag in her front yard while she's deciding cases in court. There’s a thing about it being a free country. I thought these people liked freedoms.
They note that most people never give to a political campaign. That's true, and it's because conservative economic policy has dominated in the U.S. for decades, and the financial situation for the working class is so bad in America that generally, people don't have enough money for a surprise emergency and not a lot of spare cash to donate to political causes. But this is a doctor they’re highlighting, so the fact that this person has, over the course of more than a decade, given a grand total of $1,400 altogether makes it clear that the people behind this website (which says it's a project of the American Accountability Foundation) – they seem pretty pathetic when it comes to presenting oppo research frankly. That amount works out to about $10 a month. A doctor spent $10 per month on political donations and they think that's a big deal? I know low level civil servants who donate at around that amount to political causes. When you can't do anything else, you're more inclined to donate.
They say this public health worker donated to "the radical left". The most left politician in the entire list is literally Joe Biden. But hey, around where I live a church posted a political endorsement for Joe Biden as a Marxist — so people have some odd ideas I guess.
These left donations reported included a donation to Warnock in Georgia who GovTrack ranks as "most politically right" compared to other Senate Democrats, and a donation to Tom Wolf's first campaign over a decade ago — that's the businessman who became governor of Pennsylvania with a lot of votes of conservatives. But ok on another dossier they mention that donations were made to a "radical left-wing group" and by that they mean one single one time donation of $20 to MoveOn.org. (lol)
The whole DEI target list website seems like it was written by some tycoon's flunkie high school intern who spends too much time on reddit and 4chan and not enough time hitting the books. The dossier author(s) have a preoccupation for buzzwords and also mention enough about genetics to reveal themselves as super cringe and having a weird interest in eugenics pseudoscience where they don’t seem to know that they sound science illiterate.
This is all very sad.
But on the whole of course having a target shitlist with mostly women, and most of them Black women, is very disturbing and highly inappropriate to say the least, considering Ivan Raiklin specifically said that there are thousands of angry anti-vaxxers just waiting to do live streamed swatting raids on public health workers. And if some constitutional sheriff doesn't deputize them soon to do state sanctioned atrocities to their neighbors and maybe even kill their own families because some sheriff is on board with that shit — these radicalized mobs may go looking for lists on their own — laboring under the assumption they will be protected by the administration and pardoned, no matter what heinous act they do.
It's egregiously damning that there are not Republicans in positions of leadership condemning this type of behaviour. At a minimum, local public officials ought to be out there condemning violence and violent threats — but they only ever seem to publicly condemn people peacefully protesting war. Targeting public officials, hospitals, and one’s neighbors, for violence because of whacko conspiracy theories goes unmentioned as a problem by most community leaders. I don’t know if it’s because they’re on board with it leading to atrocities, or if they just don’t want to offend the people who will do the atrocities. Whatever the case is — it’s socially dangerous.