NASA quickly shutters its DEI offices
NASA has quickly complied with the executive order issued by Donald Trump right after taking office that demanded all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices within the federal government be shut down by January 22, 2025 at the latest.
In a memo to employees Jan. 22 obtained by SpaceNews, NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro said the agency was working to close offices related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) at the agency and cancel relevant contracts. “These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,” she wrote in the memo.
The steps, she wrote, are intended to implement an executive order issued by President Trump hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration. The order called on federal agencies to terminate DEIA programs and positions related to them, calling such efforts “discriminatory” and an “immense public waste.”
That was followed the next day by a memo to federal agencies by Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), directing them to remove “outward facing media” related to DEIA programs by 5 p.m. Eastern Jan. 22 and to place employees of DEIA offices on paid administrative leave. The memo also requires agencies to provide lists of their DEIA offices and employees, as well as related contracts, by Jan. 23, and submit plans for laying off DEIA employees by the end of the month.
As of today it appears the NASA DEI websites have all been removed. It also appears that NASA is complying completely, unlike some government agencies that have tried to save its DEI programs and employees by changing their job titles. We should also expect the racist quota hiring system NASA instituted during the Biden administration to favor some races over others will now be dismantled. Couldn’t happen sooner.
What I have found interesting is the relatively lack of leftist protests — so far — for these actions. It will happen, of course but it also appears the general public won’t buy into it. The leftist propaganda press will highlight those protests, but since very few people trusts or even pays attention to that propaganda press any longer these protests will carry little weight.
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NASA has quickly complied with the executive order issued by Donald Trump right after taking office that demanded all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices within the federal government be shut down by January 22, 2025 at the latest.
In a memo to employees Jan. 22 obtained by SpaceNews, NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro said the agency was working to close offices related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) at the agency and cancel relevant contracts. “These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,” she wrote in the memo.
The steps, she wrote, are intended to implement an executive order issued by President Trump hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration. The order called on federal agencies to terminate DEIA programs and positions related to them, calling such efforts “discriminatory” and an “immense public waste.”
That was followed the next day by a memo to federal agencies by Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), directing them to remove “outward facing media” related to DEIA programs by 5 p.m. Eastern Jan. 22 and to place employees of DEIA offices on paid administrative leave. The memo also requires agencies to provide lists of their DEIA offices and employees, as well as related contracts, by Jan. 23, and submit plans for laying off DEIA employees by the end of the month.
As of today it appears the NASA DEI websites have all been removed. It also appears that NASA is complying completely, unlike some government agencies that have tried to save its DEI programs and employees by changing their job titles. We should also expect the racist quota hiring system NASA instituted during the Biden administration to favor some races over others will now be dismantled. Couldn’t happen sooner.
What I have found interesting is the relatively lack of leftist protests — so far — for these actions. It will happen, of course but it also appears the general public won’t buy into it. The leftist propaganda press will highlight those protests, but since very few people trusts or even pays attention to that propaganda press any longer these protests will carry little weight.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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UNDERSTANDING THE FIRES AND THEN SOME
“I happened to watch this interview of Michael Shellengerber, on the “Dad Saves America” podcast who is a California resident, a former self-professed radical Leftist and an actual journalist (remember those?). And I found it to be very informative on several levels. From the fires in California and governments incompetence to the Liberal / Leftist / Communist motivations to acquire absolute power and control.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/understanding-the-fires-and-then-some
Lockheed Martin has quietly removed its Floyd-Era “Diversity and Inclusion” page as well. I say “quietly” because they could have kept the page up with an explanation and apology, but they bravely didn’t. Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241101000000*/https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-gb/diversity-inclusion.html
Eric Berger’s take on Ars is mildly and subtly slanted to the left–sort of how mainstreamers wrote back in the 80s.
I have not subjected myself to the nearly 800 comments.
Yeah, as soon as I saw the comment tally underneath, I thought, “it’s a trash fire, and I’ll skip it.”
Great link Coture
Today’s lefties are nothing like the FDR men of old who drained swamps, built dams, etc.
Gavin’s Gulag of California destroyed dams.
Neither Greens nor Libertarians understand infrastructure.
The FAA has deep-sixed (err – sent them to FL800) those DEI changes also. Old procedure:
“In early 2020, FAA staff offices collaborated to achieve two pressing goals — filling mission critical jobs and improving diversity within the air traffic control workforce.
The result is the agency’s Aviation Development Program, an innovative approach to opening doors for people who may otherwise lack access to career opportunities. The initiative offers Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD) the opportunity to gain experience as air traffic controller trainees. Targeted disabilities may include partial and complete paralysis, missing extremities, dwarfism, and other conditions.”
Links showing the actual regulations have been discontinued or unavailable (Page not found; This site can’t be reached). I don’t know if this was initiated months ago, or just in the last 2 days, since I don’t check those FAA pages frequently. At least it’s taking into account that old Chinese saying: “Can never reach finish line if not start.” Seems we may have started.
Don C: See this article. Trump specifically ordered the FAA and the Transportation Department to cease all DEI programs, and to review hires of clearly unqualified people made during the Biden administration.
Now we have to make sure that our military doesn’t pay for sex changes.
It has a hard enough time keeping the real women from getting pregnant we don’t need the new women getting pregnant also.