The FreeDummies have finally turned their beady little eyes to the Land of Enchantment.
According to Alaina Mencinger at The New Mexican, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been “suspending programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion and climate change and scrubbing old issues of the lab’s magazine that discuss these now-disfavored topics.”
LANL employees are federal contractors, not federal employees. Nevertheless, a review has determined that at least two of Dear Leader’s edicts apply to the lab’s DEI and affirmative-action programs, “and the lab is ending such programs as a result,” Mencinger writes.
The New Mexican apparently got its hands on some internal communications — a memo signed by lab director Thom Mason went out Thursday — and bits of this, that, and the other have already begun slip-sliding away down the old memory hole, among them issues of LANL’s National Security Science magazine, focused on anything and everything from climate to diversity, nuclear deterrence to manufacturing.
And it’s not just magazines getting fed into the shredder. According to Mason, LANL has “received guidance” to suspend climate action, sustainability and carbon-neutral energy programs. It goes without saying that LANL is also removing “relevant terminology” from external communications.
But, good news, comrades! “The removal of some content isn’t permanent,” according to the Ministry for Sit the Fuck Down and Shut the Fuck Up.
“To comply with recent direction from the Presidential administration, parts of our website are temporarily unavailable while they’re under construction. We appreciate your patience as we work to update and repost them. … You may notice changes to our website while we reconstruct pages and evaluate language.”
Huh. “Construction” and “update” are not the words I would have chosen for this odious project. As for “evaluating language,” I’d be inclined to leave that sort of thing to the smarties, who are very much not in evidence as the Stalinization of the federal government continues.
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Yeah…. None of this is good or will end well. A friend in Ames Iowa where the USDA has its National Animal Disease Lab says a bunch of folks there are now on the streets. One of the things the lab is doing is studying the pathology of Avian Flu. Not that that is very important at the moment. We are so screwed
We have more on the purges at DoE from Reuters:
There is only one upside to the way things are going in this administration and that is they’ve acted like a pro sports team who traded away all their good players and are left with rookies. These rookies are high fiving it and thinking they got things wired but they are only on the practice field. They haven’t yet reached real game time but by summer, the stats will be piling up, the score will begin to mount and not in their favor.
I figured the Rethuglicans would take things slower and try and keep We The People somewhat sedated as to the what/how of their moves so’s we won’t get riled and cause some midterm shit. Ha! It’s good they are pissing most everyone off who either works for a living, or needs some help to just scrape by in life. And also around the globe all goodwill for tRump is going, going gone. Sure, some world dictators are acting happy but also looking over their shoulder. Rethuglicans are taking a huge risk here and it’s not going over well in my totally red district. Yet I’m STILL seeing tRump signs and flags in some yards around here. Let’s see if they keep rubbing our nose in their “patriotism” after some neighbors lose their houses/jobs and look for a little vengeance. Sadly, it takes real pain before many Americans let go of their idiotic notions and dummy up.
Mebbe we need to redirect some moneys from bird flu to brain flu. Some of our fellow Merkins seem to be shitting in their own skulls.
The thing I wonder about is: Are they doing all this shit at high speed now because they know it will all be forgotten come the midterms?
This is assuming that there will be any midterms, of course.
Herb, I think you are right as rain, and, damn, we wish we had some rain down here in SE Aridzona. Kansas grain farmers are not happy with billion of dollars of grain they can’t sell since ASAAID funding was impounded.
I think the deletion of climate change information and data is especially harmful. Peter Theil’s lap dog telling the European countries they are killing democracy is the ultimate hypocrisy. He works for a guy that tried to steal an election. Every dummy that voted for dumpster needs to feel lots of pain right now. To bad we all have to share it.
Newspeak coming, heh?
Although I am a redeemed Methodist — happily a member of a local church that flies rainbow flags and welomes all comers — I am forced to go totally Old Testament on my fellow citizens (for their own darn good). The human bodies and financial ruin will have to pile up to Everest-like heights before the 48% of mouth-breathing Americans figure out what a big mistake they made. The fever will have to rise until it eventually breaks. Basically, what Old Herb said above. God damn us every one!
Dale in Mizzery
And as is typical with this crowd, the cruelty is at least half the point.
I mean, one day you’re beavering away at the old Puzzle Palace, trying to solve the Riddle of the Bird Flu or keep the Chinese out of the NSA’s servers, and you get a note like this:
Fuck me running. The disrespect — hell, the outright inhumanity! — boggles the mind. Anybody who sends me a note like this best be wearing a catcher’s mask. And I feel certain that there are more than a few people who might escalate the discussion beyond a simple bop in the beezer.
As Old Herb notes, this will not go over well among certain segments of the population.
• Addendum: Here’s a similar Snot-O-Gram® from the Office of Personnel Management, which takes a dump on the probationary employees, good workers or no, getting the heave-ho:
The OPM is the same cluster of fucks whose sloppy security practices led to the Great Chinese Data Heist of 2015. We got a taste of that entitlement up close and personal here at Ye Olde Dogge Haus. I wonder which probationary employee was behind that particular cock-up.
• Addendum the second: Bloomberg reports (in a paywalled item) that “The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
I guess the Tesla mobile techs in Bernalillo told the DOGEbags that the nucular stuff was beyond their pay grade.
Those 20 something techie assholes need to be taken out back for a re-education session.
Yeah… who needs folks with Q clearances to take care of the nukes. I guess the people that showed them the door aren’t exactly rocket scientists
He shoots, he scores! And the folks thinning the herds at CDC and NIH ain’t exactly brain surgeons.
CNN has some deets on the sackings at the National Nuclear Security Administration:
No word on whether any of the political officers involved will be sent to re-education camps.
All this is quite a downer. Saw a survey that 26% of the voting public is “politically disengaged.”. So much for dumpster and his minion’s claims they have a mandate. Assholes barely squeaked in.
But, on a positive note, pun intended, our last song at today’s jam session was “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.” Made me think of Marvin.
Ah. Thinking of Marv’ always makes me smile. A quick wit and plenty of style. The old saloon guitarist was a fine neighbor, and he lived his life until it was over. Not a bit of quit in him.
You beat me to it, posting that video. Damn, he was a fine player and, more importantly, having fun doing it. I would have loved meeting him.
As far as DEI, etc, that article makes it sound like LANL is the culprit. Some of the comments after the story in The People’s Daily are asinine. Bottom line is LANL doesn’t fund itself. We gotta dance with the one that brung us. Acksually, I never saw much evidence of the more toxic aspects of DEI programs in all my years at The Bomb Factory. But now, we can’t even mention it. Talk about Orwellian.
I do recall a couple or so years ago someone leaked a presentation given down at Sandia, where employees were made to do what looked like self-criticism sessions based on DEI ideology. I was able to see some of that before it got taken off the Innertubes. It was pretty…..weird. Thankfully, I never had to do any of that.
Big picture is a bit more ominous. I recall after the great economic meltdown of 2008 we gave banks “stress tests” to see if they would bend or break. I guess this is a stress test for the nation to see if the Trump people can break the nation or just bend it badly.
As far as the NNSA, it was created by Congress in 1999-2000, long after we made countless bombs and rockets that make mushroom clouds. I guess at some point, we did quite well making nukes without NNSA as a subset of the DOE. That said, someone in the Dept. of Energy has to oversee the weapons programs, whether they are a separate subagency or not. I think the bigger question is whether we have a nuclear weapons program we really need, or just a gigantic self-licking ice cream cone. If we need nuclear weapons, then according to Federal law, it is DOE’s job (or NNSA, now), as the successor of the Atomic Energy Agency, to ride herd on the endeavor. If we are firing anyone who knows how the system works, well…that’s an interesting thought experiment.