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      It’s such a weirdly unserious email address too. Like apart from the .gov aspect, this sounds like a blog username, not a actual government process. Theoretically if this was just boring government policy now, you don’t need some special email address, you’d just email your supervisor or some sort of general oversight email address like any other violation of policy.

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        It’s such a weirdly unserious email address too.

        Because all the Facebook boomers just took over our government. Expect this kind of “official” language from now on, complete with random capitalizations and unfounded conspiracy theories thrown in.

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    “We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” she wrote. “If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances.”

    Don’t forget to report your colleagues if you suspect them of harboring radical ideologies like not believing in white supremacism.

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    My understanding is that this message went out to all federal employees, not just NASA.

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    I doubt the face of NASA being compliant will reflect the reality. NASA leads diversity in aerospace.

    35% women, 11% black, 2.2% LGBTQ. Keep in mind the diversity of their hiring pool is not 1:1 with the US population’s diversity. 14% of aerospace engineers are women, 5.7% are black, 8% are LGBTQ. NASA ain’t gonna change their hiring habits because they are looking for the best and brightest and DGAF about who they are.

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      My favorite part of these, like his executive orders, are the rambling nonsense explanations they’re giving for them, as if people are supposed to go, “huh, yeah, that makes sense, glad I know that now!” As if it weren’t a pure propaganda plot.

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    I have submitted a DEIA role report to DEIAtruth@opm.gov giving my feelings about how DEIA roles are useful, and I’d encourage everyone to do the same. To help ensure it gets read, pick a subject that makes it hard to tell if it is a report of a person vs your feelings.

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      Better yet, report things that are obscure, no longer exist, or programs that Trump likes, make them waste even more time and piss off the wrong people. Or just report local PD and say they’re you saw government workers at (PD address) recruiting minorities

      Chasing down dead end leads takes time and destroys morale. Government programs live and die on metrics and headcount, and it’s politics all the way down.

      If this program works well, they can just claim they got a tip off and use it to replace people at will. If it’s a trainwreck that is annoying instead of effective, Trump will just claim success and cut them loose

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    It is extremely shitty. I think NASA also agrees it’s shitty. NASA is owned by the government, and thus has to comply with this executive order. So while they may be rolling over, they HAVE to whether we like it or not.

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    It’s good the US is finally leaving the space race to allow more efficient programs to advance humanity forward.