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Federal employees have been directed to report colleagues in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) roles within 10 days or face unspecified "adverse consequences."

The directive follows a Trump executive order eliminating DEIA programs in federal agencies, which the administration claims "divided Americans by race."

Employees were warned about disguised DEIA roles using "coded or imprecise language.”

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[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago

fuckin make me

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ah I found a mistake

(b) Telegraph

(1) Delay the transmission and delivery of telegrams to enemy destinations.

(2) Garble telegrams to enemy destinations so that another telegram will have to be sent or a long distance call will have to be made. Sometimes it will be possible to do this by changing a single letter in a word—for example, changing “minimum” to “maximum,” so that the person receiving the telegram will not know whether “minimum” or “maximum” is meant.

Surely the intended word is "manimum" because it's one letter from minimum and one letter from maximum.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 61 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This screams illegal to me too. Like hey email to this weird government email the names of ‘collaborators’ so we can punish them. Tell us first and you’re good. Hide it and we’re coming after you.

Sounds like Germany 1939 or something.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's only illegal if they don't have the courts on their side.

The SCOTUS can "interpret" a challenged Jay walking law as "well this clearly says the President can order the killing of all the minorities with abandon" and that's it, no recourse short of physically fighting and dying to them.

And that's where we're at. The Federalist Society that began under Reagan was a slow moving coup.

The framers slept in on Checks on the Judicial day. An impossibly high senate impeachment bar. For that reason and more, our constitution needs to collapse and we need a new one, one that treats practiced greed, ie pursuing many times more than what your fellow citizens live on, as the central threat to society that it is.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Or like the US in the 50s and 60s...

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

True! Wait. This guys a COMMUNIST! Where my list…

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Don't name anyone. Or better, name known fascist placeholders.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

That's what I was thinking. Have them chase each other or some ghost.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 76 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

My favorite part is the US government, with its massive intelligence agencies, is trying to shake down its employees to discover their own org chart.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 68 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You're missing that this is a loyalty test.

It's not about finding out this info. It's about finding out who is willing to be the Reek in all the new House Bolton-style fiefdoms. That's why people only have 10 days to rat out colleagues, they want lists of trustworthy loyalists by the time mid-tier appointees get into the office.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

what the fuck is a deia contract. Do they just want a list of scapegoats they can be racist, sexist, and bigoted to?

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Didn't you get the memo?

Let me print that off for ya real quick.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Says a bit about the potency of those intelligence agencies, maybe? Or the vigor with which these policies will be pursued - or lack thereof. I dunno.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don't be naive and think this is actually about getting information and not a way to find out who's willing to fuck over their coworkers and kiss Der Furher 's ass-ring

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

True, got a point.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 95 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Good ol "communist" tactics. Snitch on your neighbours, snitch on your family. Loyalty to the party.

A certain expression comes to mind: "They hate us cuz they ain't us".

Starting to make sense nowadays...

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They hate you because you’re poor

[–] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

They'll hate me even if I was rich, instead they'll love my money.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago

Well, actually, the Nazis called it "Machtergreifung" and this is exactly the playbook Trump follows.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 92 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Bro, they don't even know who they are angry with. Isn't the whole idea that DEI hires underperform.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago

That's just to cover up their obvious racism. If you interrogate them the right way, they eventually spit it out, although in a less coded way.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Just use it to sign up for as many shit spam newsletters as possible. Maybe considering disabling that adblocker (or maybe spin up a vm) and enter it into all the ad popups you can find.

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 21 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

In unrelated news: if you want to test how good a spamfilter you have set up for your self, you can test it with https://mailbait.info/

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Of course according to their ToS you can only use your own email address, which I'm sure everyone will follow for sure.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 60 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Did you see something? No you didn't.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago

Just tell them you're colorblind

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

apparently there some person named donald trump, whose trying to use DEI policies to turn me into a woman. we should probably report him

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Wrong. U libs always mishear what trump wrote. She didn't turn us all into woman. She signed a executive order that all men are trans men. U have been a women all along. I swear libruls can't read anything anymore.

How'd I do? Convincing as a trump apologist?

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Joke’s on the republican’s because I’m a gay man and use the men’s room all the time. I know what republican men do in there.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He just had a wide stance!

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Heh heh heh. Awww yeah. Memories.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Beautiful .... let's let everyone fight endlessly and be angry, afraid, anxious and distracted by everything and anything but the things that actually matter to people.

By the time four years rolls around, the US will be an organizational mess and completely chaotic as the climate crisis takes over everything and everyone.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

I mean, it kind of already is an organizational mess that's completely chaotic.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm... "My department is fortunate that we didn't need to make any DEI hires" Seems an easy enough response when questioned.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Is this about DEI hires or workers whose jobs are to ensure their hiring practices promote diversity, equality, and inclucivity? I took it to mean that if Susie in HR has a job description that includes anything about diversity in hiring, federal workers are supposed to rat on Susie or face consequences. Not on the folks who maybe arguably were hired because their presence increase diversity, equality, and/or inclucivity.