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All federal employees under DEI titles have apparently been dismissed, all DEI programs disbanded, and DEI as a concept reclassified as discrimination so that any associated group, event, etc. can be purged. This again spans multiple EOs and has sweeping effects.

First and foremost, definitions have changed. DEI is not the collection of efforts to remove prejudice and systemic barriers so that individuals can be judged and treated fairly, it's the discriminatory practice of anybody else taking the place of a white man. By defining DEI as discriminatory, existing laws can be repurposed in all manner of perverse ways.

Anecdotally, we've seen gender equity resource groups, AAPI groups, etc. disbanded pretty much instantly, and DEI related messaging -- even things like wearing rainbow lanyards -- is all banned. Any federal employee whose job responsibilities were DEI related isn't going to be reassigned elsewhere either, they're just fired.

And more recently, a huge swath of federal employees were given the option to [begin edit] submit their resignation and work from home for whatever part of the next 8 months the government chooses to keep them. The other "option" is to just acknowledge they could be fired at any moment. [end edit] They're really cleaning house.