Cavernario Galindo

Lindsey Graham’s sister getting tapped to finish his term is the clearest picture yet of what “anti-DEI” conservatives really mean: they’re not against preference, they’re against the “wrong” people being preferred.

When Ketanji Brown Jackson — a Harvard-educated former public defender, federal trial judge, and appellate judge — was nominated to the Supreme Court, Republicans lined up to question whether she was “qualified” and to paint her as some kind of diversity hire. They nitpicked her sentencing, her tone, her “judicial philosophy,” anything they could weaponize to cast doubt on a Black woman’s legitimacy on the highest court. The message was clear: if you’re not white, conservative, and deferential to their worldview, any pathway to power will be framed as unearned.

Fast forward to 2026: Lindsey Graham dies suddenly, and within days South Carolina’s Republican governor announces his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as the interim senator, after open lobbying from Donald Trump. She’s not some long-standing statewide officeholder or policy heavyweight; her chief qualification is being Lindsey’s sister and Trump-approved, and that’s apparently all it takes to sit in the United States Senate for the rest of his term. The same crew that told us “DEI is dangerous” is clapping for literal family succession politics, as long as the family is white, Republican, and loyal.

This is their real DEI:

“D” for Dynastic. If you’re part of the right political family, there’s always a seat waiting

“E” for Entitlement. They say others want “special treatment,” then hand a Senate seat to a grieving sibling like it’s a family heirloom

“I” for Ideological purity. The only “merit” that matters is whether you’ll obey whatever Donald Trump and the MAGA machine demand

They didn’t destroy DEI because it “doesn’t work.” They gutted it because it was finally opening doors for people who don’t look like them, think like them, or bow to their heroes. For MAGA, it’s never been about ending “identity politics”; it’s about protecting their own identity politics — whiteness, conservatism, and unquestioning loyalty — and locking everyone else out.

But the African people were the savages, amirite?

Anthony Longo.

It would give me great pleasure to speak to Pete Hegseth in public about his "combat experience." I would ask him politely if he'd ever been having a normal conversation with a fellow soldier and that within an hour that perfectly healthy young man was being choppered off in a body bag. I would ask him of his combat experiences if he had touched or smelled a dead body. I would ask him if he had witnessed the trooper next to him become an instant amputee? I would like to know if Major Hegseth had ever heard shots fired with intent to kill? I would like to know if he has ever heard the sound of a bullet hitting his own body? Now there is something you DON'T forget! But mostly I would like to know if Hegseth comprehends the meaning of "No quarter? " I would like to ask Mr Hegseth if in all of his vast combat experiences if he had ever extended No Quarter to the enemy? And did he realize that the enemy would probably do the same for him?

- Anthony Longo.

July 9, 2026.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

The Trump administration officially replaced panels at the slavery exhibit at the President’s House in Philadelphia on Wednesday. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk has reactions.

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